Types of Games

Capture the Flag

The classic schoolyard game, with a paintball twist. Teams start on opposing sides and attempt to acquire the opponents' flag while protecting their own. Victory is achieved by being the first team to hang the opponents' flag on the designated location at or near their own starting location.

In tournament play, a team successfully eliminating all opposing players, losing none of their own players and successfully hanging the opponents flag within the alotted game time is said to have "maxed" the other team (that is, they have achieved the maximum points possible in the game).

Centre Flag

Similar to the above, except there is only one flag hung at the centre of the field - both teams are trying to acquire the flag and hang it on the designated location at the opposing team's base.

Elimination

Teams play until one team is entirely eliminated.

Predator

Game play begins with a single player, known as the predator, versus a group of players known as the humans (typically 5-20 players). The predator player can only be eliminated by two hits to their torso. The predator, however, "converts" the humans to his team via any normal eliminating hit (not limited to the torso). Upon being hit, the converted human announces "Hit!", and then has 10 seconds in which they must find appropriate cover, as they are now a predator and, thus, the enemy of their former teammates. They must also wipe off their "conversion hit" (one of the very rare times a 'wipe' is not only ethical, but necessary). Converted players require only one torso hit to be eliminated from the game.

The game is won when the predators have converted all the opposing players (which gets easier as more predators are "created"). The game is won by the "humans" by eliminating the predators.