PAINTBALL GOES MAINSTREAM HUNDREDS FLOCK TO PLAYING FIELDS AS SPORT'S POPULARITY SOARS.Paintball paintball Sports medicine A sport in which marble-sized gelatin capsules filled with a nontoxic dye are shot at speeds of 300 kph/200 mph Warning: , once dismissed as a mock war game played deep in the backwoods by military wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week. dressed in camouflage, has gone mainstream. With nearly 10 million players nationwide, it's one of the most popular alternative sports played today. Hundreds, if not thousands, of players from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. flock to fields in and around the Valley each weekend. Edwin Dolgopyat, 16, of Canoga Park, plays with Jon-Paul Fortunati's Critical Paintball team, which recently won first place in the amateur division at a recent NPPL NPPL - Network Picture Processing Language. An interactive language for manipulation of digraphs. ["A Graph Manipulator for On-line Network Picture Processing", H.A. DiGiulio, Proc FJCC 35 (1969)]. tournament in Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. . For Dolgopyat and the players he knows, paintball has been a positive experience. ``What really kills the sport is people driving around shooting people from cars,'' Dolgopyat said. ``It's a safe sport if you don't misuse it.'' Complete story on Page 8 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Jon-Paul Fortunati and Edwin Dolgopyat of the Critical Paintball team based out of the San Fernando Valley is one of the top amateur teams in the nation. Rick Coca/Valley News |
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