Why College Paintball Made Me Respect Video Games
Video games are lame. This has been a long maintained opinion of mine. Lame because people talk about the sports they virtually play without specifying that they’re not actually playing baseball or soccer or even standing up for that matter.
Recently, I’ve come to realize that these games do have value however, and those who play them are not all useless. In fact, it seems to require some skill, or at minimum superior hand-eye coordination. I guess what inspired this change of perception was the realization that it could be a lot worse. If video games and online Texas hold ‘em weren’t already driving forces behind the declining birth rate, we now have a new source of birth control: College National Paintball. 
With apparently not enough Simpsons episodes to re-run, FOX College Sports has announced plans to air the 2009 College National Paintball Tournament. The National Collegiate Paintball Association hosted the 2009 National Championships at Central Florida Paintball in April. Believe it or not, teams from all over the US flew across the country, paid for by their colleges to play for free.
Paintball may just be the only televised sport where you can neither see the tiny balls or people being hit. And the commentary irreplaceable: describing play-by-plays for the 50 virgin college students who actually know paintball regulations. Favorite commentator comment from the clip: “Its gonna come down to raw talent”. What else is it coming down to when you’re hiding behind a giant blow-up pyramid that those in the sport refer to as a Dorito? Athletic endurance? Check out the first point in the 2009 NCPA College Paintball Championship matchup between Purdue and Ohio State.
Either Fox College Sports needs to stop existing or they need to find something better to put on TV. Is it really more fun to watch this than women’s sports? How bad is women’s softball that college paintball- utterly incomprehensible -can usurp its TV spot?
Paintball’s really fun to play. You know that saying, that some things are way more fun to play, and just plain boring to watch?(It’s a quote that I just said). Anyways, paintball is one those things. Like video games and watching people play video games. It’s just one of those things that way more fun to participate in than to watch. Anyway, shout out to Fox for giving me another reason to cancel my cable.
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