Organized Play
The first organized paintball game in record was held by Charles Gaines, Bob Gurnsey and friends in New Hampshire in 1981, with the first paintball field opening approximately a year later in Sutton, NH (opened by founder Bob Gurnsey) In 1983 the first National Survival Game (NSG) national championship was held, with a $14,000 cash award for the winning team. As of 2010, tournaments are largely organized by paintball leagues.
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“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
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