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A Sport Painted With Controversy Paintball is a rapidly growing sport that began in the nineteen eighties. Farmers used paint markers to shoot their cows and mark them as their own. People soon took the markers and used them to play war like games with each other. Since then paintball markers, or guns, have come a long way. Today, there are hundreds of different types of markers available for purchase. To start playing paintball one needs several things. First of all a person needs a marker, with that he or she also needs paintballs, an air tank, a hopper, and a mask. Paintballs are the ammo for the marker. The hopper acts as the clip would in a firearm; it holds the ammo or paintballs. The air tank is what powers the marker. Paintball games can be played with any number of people on a team and using any scenario imaginable. Often players will get together in someone’s woods and just try to get everyone on the other team out. The game is easily adaptable though and could be played as capture the flag, defend the fort, or even something unusual like pretending to protect the president or some other V.I.P. Another option is to play at a field. Fields are places that are set up for people to come play at for a fee. T