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How to Keep Paintball Interesting at Your Arena

Q: Being a Marshall I'm always looking for ways to improve our games and arenas, can you give me any ideas and feedback? ~ Richie Rich Thornton, Paintball Marshall, Southhampton, UK

A: Our ebook has a list of games you can offer at your arena. You can also visit the paintball forums and ask for ideas there. We have a long list of forums in one of the bonuses that comes with our ebook. Military manouevers, secret agents (FBI, CIA, MI5, Interpol, CSIS, etc.), police drama (NYPD, RCMP, Interpol, etc.) and scenario games are always popular. Try a fun game where everyone has to wear a clown suit!

Try a new twist on an old theme:

Instead of two flags, have only one, so one team attacks and one team defends. For variety, the attacking team must hold the flag for a certain length of time without getting marked.

Other ideas:

Allow walkie-talkies on the field to make a game more life-like.
Pit women/girls against men/boys. (Hype this up in the media!)
Pit pros against newbies. (Hype this up in the media, too.)
Change the size of the teams.
Limit the number of paint balls players can use, e.g., Dirty Dozen = 12 shots, Blackjack = 21 shots.

As for improving your arena, here are some tips:

Talk to local business people who might want to advertise by donating bunker material (oil drums, spools, lumber, giant truck tires, etc.). That way you can get interesting new bunkers free. Just put up a sign that says the bunkers were "Donated by Smythe and Sons Lumberyard," for example.
Got lots of lumber? Have a bunker-building event. Get local businesses to show up and help build bunkers on a Saturday morning. Divide them into teams and supply them with plans for their bunker(s).

Provide coffee, tea, soft drinks and hot dogs or other inexpensive lunch. People love a free lunch! A local eatery might even sponsor the lunch as a community event (free advertising for them). Get the local radio involved; they're ALWAYS looking for material. You'd be surprised how hard it is to fill every radio slot. They might even show up to the event.
Now that you've got lots of new bunkers, change them and move them around often so the locals don't get to know the arena and therefore always find a challenge. That will keep them coming back to YOUR arena.

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