An affiliation of paintball enthusiasts from all over the world. We film, photograph and write about paintball.
We publish here, Facebook, Twitter, and put films on our Youtube account, SPBTV.
We try to cover as many games as possible, inspire hardwork and sportsmanship, and above all, have fun.
See you on the field!
The Viper MOFO: Possibly the most unbiased award in Scenario Paintball. It happens because you kick so much ass that even the other team has to give you some acknowledgement... It's like a reach-around... for winners.
'Battle of Serenity Valley', Viper Extravaganza, EMR, August 2010
Nothing to brighten your Wednesday like big shiny pics of other ppl getting gogged. From the satisfying thwak a paintball makes when you hit someone in the mask, to secretly (or not secretly) wanting to scream out "HEADSHOT" in your deepest, most-baritone, Unreal-Tournament-mimicked voice, there is nothing not to love about headshots.
So smile!
The week is half over and you haven't been shot in the face!
Gogged... by a 50 year old woman, no less.
Have a pic of you or your friends getting gogged? Want to see it on our blog? Email it to us at scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com, subject: Headshot or Gogged, and we'll post it up! (include your name, game and description!)
Ricky operates the Megan Fox HMG, somewhere on the beach at Invasion of Normandy 2009, Skirmish, PA.
Pic by Assistant Gunner, BennyT
"Sure people had their games. Baseball, football, fucking tennis. But our game was different. 'It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country—but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.You didn't need to look hard for it either, standing in those gawdawful deathtrap landingcraft, hearing the steady chant rise to a crescendo in your ears.
Even football was over in a few hours. This was the first 15 minutes of the next 48 hours, and sure, no 300lb mother uhcker was gonna plant you in the ground when that gate dropped, but there were 2000 amped up freaks in the woods with all manner of weaponry zoned in on your boat. And as soon as that ramp went down, you knew you were in for it. And you still checked your gear and went for it. That was grit. And maybe, if you were lucky, when you were pinned down behind your machinegun 30 minutes later, you'd have a chance to capture that feeling in a picture, while the white rounds snapped over your head and there was just enough room behind the ammo/extra airtank bag to get off a photo. A photo that said, This sucks, This hurts, but it f***ing rocks. - Fear & Loathing in the 518
Spring 2011 paintball vid by Toochman with footage from games held all over the northeast.
Enjoy!
Have question about a specific game or field? Email us at scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com with the name of the video, the time-stamp and your question and we'll get back to you asap.
Have a picture of you or your friends and a paintball tank? Want to see it here? Email it to us at scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com with your name, the game, and a description and I'll post it up!
Email subject: Tank Tuesdays
Let's face it, Monday is the worst day of the week. Yea, Sunday can feel stunted and boring, but that is only because Monday is coming right around the corner, lurking like some bully waiting to steal all the fun you amassed over the weekend. And Tuesday can feel empty and lifeless... but that's only because you're still recovering from the damage Monday dealt out to you...
In such times of trouble, people react in different ways.
Some people cower, crushed under the pressure, submissive.
Some people are quietly professional... soldiering on under duress... accepting, resigned and tolerant...
And some people say "To Hell with it!" and fire from the hip, defiant to the bitter end.
So Monday's are for you, hip-firers...
because when Life gives you lemons, you fire back wildly without regard for your safety or that of others. And we like that about you.
Suppressive fire? Ja, vi har det. A member of The Rock blowing off some steam (doubtless from Monday) @ AC Paintball, Sweden
Do you have a picture of you or someone you know unleashing hell from their hip? Send it over to scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com with a name, game and description and we'll post you up Pronto.
I went home for Christmas a few weeks later. Tigerstripe wanted to put on a winter scenario. I figured I would take a shot at it. The EMR game had been the first game I’d ever played that was more complicated than Capture the Flag. But I can be creative and did my best for them.
I wrote up a scenario based on the Battle of The Bulge during WWII. The American team would start with a small group of players in the main fort, (Bastogne). They could each be shot and respawn at the fort three times before they would have to respawn with the rest of the Allies on the other side of the field. The real catch was that they only got 100 rounds of paint per person. The Allies on the other side of the field were given the rest of their pods, but could only carry one pod at a time to Bastogne. They also had 10 50-gallon drums. Every drum that made it into Bastogne scored points. I had a bunch of WWII props from a movie I had filmed a few years earlier. Those were scattered across the field and also worth points. The Germans started in between. If the Germans took Bastogne, they scored points. If they collected props, they scored points. If they intercepted barrels, they scored points.
Zee Germanz iz Comingz!!!
Mendaka and Quentin were up from West Point. We drank late the night before. Josh got sick and threw up on his computer and bed. HHH and I took the rap, cleaned it all up, fixed his computer, and racked out around 3am. We woke up promptly at 7. Josh was hurting. Hungover. He didn't want to come. We chastised his manhood until he got out of bed. The inability of him to wake up and get ready for paintball has become a joke in the years since, but at the time it was a pain in the ass. He felt hungover all the way to the field and a mile from the entrance, he asked us to pull the car over. He got down on his knees in the ditch and began throwing up. Over and over and over, his arms out and away from him so they wouldnt get splattered. He looked like that scene from Platoon. I nearly died laughing. He got back in the car.
"I am death." he said.
If you get me out of this Jungle, Lord, I'll never drink again... I promise.
The game went well. We held out in Bastogne as long as we could. As ammunition began to run low Josh came sliding into the back of the fort, still wearing his blue winter ski jacket. "HERE!", he gasped and dropped us pods. Then he was off again.
He had apparently come upon the Germans from behind, shot half their team and opened a corridor to Bastogne. Soon the Allies began to pour barrels and paint into the Fort, racking up points. The Germans didn't seem interested in taking Bastogne and instead just scoured the field for props.
Josh wavered between heroic and vomiting, running back and forth to the Allied base to supply Bastogne, trying to stay ahead of the Germans and his hangover. At one point he got so sick he just sat down next to a tree. Three Germans walked by and waved at him as he lay against the tree. He waved back... let them pass... and then shot them all in the back. They complained he was cheating. He reminded them that he hadn't pretended to be dead. He just looked like death and they hadn't bothered to check.
Later in the day, the Allied force in Bastogne began to dwindle. Mendaka and QT found themselves holding off the entire German army from the fort, running from window to window, sharing paint until they were down to less than 10 rounds apiece. It was pure epicness when they held out until the horn blew with German soldiers stacking on the doors of the fort. At midday I reset the field and we switched teams and replayed the scenario.
It was good hard day. Everyone had fun. I learned that creating a game can be as much fun as playing in one, that there are lots of factors and twists that need to be accounted for to keep things balanced.
So if you've followed SPbTV long enough or hung out with us at any games in the U.S., there is a good chance you know about our deep, abiding love of all things Megan Fox, and our pet mod-project, the Megan Fox Box-fed HMG. The original goal was to create a box-fed machine-gun type marker that would both look awesome AND work. Two criteria that have been elusive to bring together at the same time. While she consistently looks great, underneath the facade of awesomeness there's a lot of damaged goods and often you only find out about her breakdowns, weaknesses and true issues at the worst possible time. Nevertheless, we still love her.
For a full video history of the MFer, we've created the following picture/video gallery
Megan Fox 1.0
So I had the inspiration to attempt to build a hopper-free HMG. I looked up several versions of box-mag feed systems and finally settled on one I found on Underground Mod Shop.
The following was the result.
Megan debuts at Russian Front, Strategy Plus, winter 2009
It was an excellent field test...
And if nothing else, she looked badass.
The original box-mag attempt (take from my old youtube channel). Megan Fox 1.0
And after some more field testing, a new video of Megan 1.0
Megan Fox 2.0
Problems with the original tubing and box mag prompted me to buy a real military ammo cannister and mount it on the side of the marker, feeding it sideways. We contrived a tripod and a resupply bag, essentially making Megan a crew-served marker. She debuted in the summer of 2009 and toured the north-east. Her most epic moment came during the Final Battle at ION, Skimirsh Paintball's 3000+ player game. After using her to fight our way across the beach on day one, we were tasked with base-defense for the final hour. The German Army made a massive push with hundreds of players, trying to overrun our location. Armed with multiple air tanks, over 2.5 cases of paint, 6 grenades and an assistant gunner, Megan poured on the pain for nearly 10 minutes non-stop, burning through all the air and ammunition but laying down a steady stream of paint to hold the enemy back and rally the troops in the vicinity. Two vids were taken by a referee and can be found below.
Megan 2.0 at Albany Scenario Club
Megan 2.0 on her tripod at ION 2009
Megan 2.0 providing suppressive fire during the final battle, ION 2009
Video with links to Megan in action at ION, Skirmish, PA, 2009
Megan 3.0
The latest re-envisionings have included mounting the ammo box underneath the shroud again and developing a reliable feed. We tried her out at Viper's Extravaganza at EMR in the summer of 2010. she had some feed problems, but the efforts of three people were enough to keep her running.
Since then she's been back in the shop as we search for a better mechanism. There are many excellent examples on the internet, the issue for us has been time and money. But with luck, we'll get her up and running again soon.
Pics of 3.0 in action:
She was being finicky.
But they got her working all the same.
How many people will it take to keep her running
Adam Misfit Fowler (G) and Brendan Quackenbush (AG) debate the best tactics with Benny while a panda looks on.
Adam laying down fire while Quacks takes care of the ammo bag.
More tinkering
Teamwork.
Quacks gets Megan all for himself for awhile.
Megan 4.0? coming soon.
She has been through many versions over the years and we still haven't finalized her. She can be quite finicky, but when she's hot, boy is she hot.
Paintball pictures are generally pretty cool... but here at SPbTV we know that everything is better with a little smoke... smoked turkey.... smoked salmon... why not smoked PB pics?! Everythings better with smoke!
So... welcome to a new series we're calling the Saturday Smokefest.
Check back every Saturday for awesome paintball pictures with just a little of that extra special smokey-ness.
Players advance through smoke, @ WP CC F11, pic by J.T.
Players advancing through smoke, West Point Combat Classic Spring 2011, pic by Jaime Tucci
Do you have a cool pic of paintball with smoke? Send it to scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com with a description and we'll put it up here! Email subject: Smoke!
The last two weeks have seen a lot of non-paintballing women in the paintball media. Now we at SPBTV love a girl in a Bikini as much as the next person, and yes, as Social Paintball, Wolf and many others have noted, Sex does sell... and big time.
but on the other hand, there's been a lot of people saying someone should acknowledge the women who actually play... and no one has been doing that.
So we did a lot of thinking and realized that in our 1000's of photos, there are actually quite a few pics of girls getting dirty on the paintball field. So we've decided to put them up, cause girls don't just make paintball events look good, they play 'good' too!!!
So stay tuned to our girl pballer of the week every Friday, starting today.
This is Hlin. She's Swedish. She and her friends had never ever played paintball. The day after Valborg, which is pretty much the most alcohol drenched event in Sweden (you can wikipedia it), she and several of her friends still managed to crawl out of bed, beat their hangovers and have a blast at AC Paintball, in Uppsala. Hats of to Hlin & all her Swedish compatriots.
Hlin, A real live girl who played paintball! Valborg, AC Paintball, Uppsala, 2010
Laying down fire @AC Paintball, Uppsala, Sweden 2010
Gearup @ AC Paintball, Uppsala, Sweden 2010
If you are a girl or know a girl who plays paintball who wants to be Friday's Paintball Girl of the Week, email a pic, name, game description etc to scenariopaintballtv@gmail.com, subject: PBGirl
They can be as hardcore, racy or average as you want. No full-frontal nudity, can't post that. And you gotta include paintball in there somehow.
So I set out to hunt done some POSITIVE examples of paintball in 'non-paintball' related media. I found some awful examples, some good examples and some generically awesome paintball vids. I'll include anything that falls under good or awesome in the following list.
We're gonna skip RIGHT OVER the disaster that was the 7-11 TV spot featuring paintball.
One could argue that it shows a mainstreaming of paintball, but the flagrant disregard of safety keeps it off our list of cool paintball commercials. It sends the wrong message and its too soon to be advertising paintball that way (i doubt it will ever be soon enough) since it sends the wrong and extremely unsafe message.
Instead, I selected a different criteria. I looked for 1. sheer awesomeness, 2. minimal safety violations and 3. the use of paintball by a serious/established NON-paintball industry/organization.
Here are some that made the cut. They don't necessarily meet ALL my criteria, but they're fun to watch.
Check em out!
The freshest is Saman Keshavaraz's 'Video Game Style Paintball Match'...
It wasn't really an add for anything except the kickassery of paintball and his skillz of filming/editing and getting people to rehearse a paintball battle for a single take. And despite one painfully obvious missing hopper (you'll know), this staged paintball match plays out the way we all wish paintball happened in real life... with lots of action, video-game effects, and slow-mowing of faces.
Running a close second is Powerade's promo from 2010. Although it features an oversized bazooka and an impossibly large caliber paintball tank, these elements are, in the end, quite humorous... and the one mask violation is not extreme, (the guy does it before and after the match... he's still on the field... but we'll give it to him... did you see that Tank-paintball-balloon?) demonstrating a balance and compromise between whichever paintball conscientious advisor they hired to help out and the need to have someone drinking Powerade at the opportune moment. And Powerade is a major beverage company, so for paintball to make the cut and be listed as a Sport is a great plus.
Third, with some far-fetched actiony scenes and only a few mask violations, this video from the Euromillions lottery does have some shortcomings... but the over-the-topness fits... I'd argue pushes it straight into the Awesome category, because who want wouldn't blow a few millions of their hard-won lottery earnings on an epic scenario match replete with Helo-inserts, jet-skis and humor. Well done, EuroMillions!
Who doesn't love a beer now and then? Budlight's take on paintball includes an epic airstrike.
This spot by the U.S. adoption agency features dad making a terrible on-field mask violation... but we think the overall message, humor and use of paintball by such an organization buys them some slack. Plus he gets nailed as soon as he puts his mask back on. Phones on silent, please.
Hane's puts an amusing twist on the Boxer vs Briefs debate in this Speedball-on-Ice, tongue-in-cheeck advertisement.
Last but not least, this epic Russian vid has been circling youtube for years... and that's just because it continues to be one of the most epic staged paintball vids of all time. It has nothing to do with anything but an extreme mil-simulation of paintball. But it does a kickass job of that.
Do you have a favorite paintball add/video we didn't list? Let us know in the comment section!
SPbTV Member Scott Hayes emerges from smoke at the Fall Combat Classic 2011, West Point Click to Enlarge, pic by Jaime Tucci
"It was the stale smell of fishoil and gun grease, the smell of sweat and the Earth through the mask. Sometimes blood. It was the rush of running through the forest, swamps, fields... through sunlight, rain or snow... adrenaline quivering in the limbs, exhaustion draining the body, resolve hardening the mind. It was turning down the volume on school, work, womenz, life, if even for a few short blessed hours, everything wiped clean and rejuvenated as the body and mind were broken down and rebuilt again, stronger. There was no sport like it on the planet, and I had played it a hundred times, but every time I crawled out of bed, or a tent or from sleeping under my car, I knew it had its hooks in me and would never let go.... and for that I was eternally grateful." -Fear & Loathing in the 518, circa 2010
SPbTV had the rare opportunity this summer to interview the man who started paintball... Bob Gurnsey.
He attended the Black Market War: Forgotten War, held at Paintball Sports Inc. in Plattekill, NY, USA. After the match, Benny and Misfit sat down with him for nearly an hour and discussed the history of paintball, Bob's involvement, the personal costs of pioneering the sport and also the joys it has brought him to see it grow.
Most of SPbTV with Bob Gurnsey, August 2011.
It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and a great honor to be able to have an hour of Bob's time and really sit down and have an honest (sometimes painfully so) Q&A about paintball.
Thank you to Bob, from all of us at SPbTV and the viewers whose questions you tackled.
Adam has condensed the interview into two Youtube clips which are available below.
With 25 minutes left, Freebird and the Ducks were pressing hard across the field on us. If they took the castle it would give them a 1000 point bonus... We were down to 9 people and we had maybe 100 paintballs between the lot of us. We divvied them up carefully. "Make'em count." "And what do we do when we run out?" someone asked.... "Do we just leave the field?"
"No. Fix bayonets... and barrel tag."
SPbTV member BennyT after a brutal final battle at Red Dawn, Hornet's Nest, NY.
