When people think of paintball, they think of a bunch of people dressed up in camouflage clothing, hiding behind trees trying to surprise the opposition. Tournament paintball is a bit different. Speedball, the most common form of tournament paintball, consists of a field slightly smaller than a football field with air-filled bunkers strategically placed throughout the course. Five-man teams try to eliminate each other while attempting to retrieve a flag hung in the middle of the course. Five-minute matches are point-based. Pulling the flag first and hanging it on the opponent’s dead box is worth 75 of the 100 total points that can be earned, but without eradicating the other team beforehand, the chances of that are slim to none.