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Paintball Statistics
From Paintball 2Xtremes Magazine's January 2001 Issue
Paintball Business News
According to American Sports
Data Inc., paintball has recently moved ahead of snowboarding as the fourth
largest alternative sport in the United States. Their study concluded that more
than 8,700,000 people played paintball at least one time in 2002, and that
793,000 play at least fifteen times per year. The results of a recent Paintball
2Xtremes poll of paintball field operators in the U.S. shows that the average
player spends around $44 each time out to the paintball field. Simple math
indicates that those 8,700,000 people spent approximately $259,600,000 in 2002,
and that number does not account for people that played more than one time in
2002. We do know that almost 1,100,000 people played paintball fifteen times in
2002.
How big is paintball getting? We've been working on this for
several months and have come up with data to support the following figures. Try
these industry numbers on for size.
Major Magazines 16 — approximate circulation 420,000 copies
Paintball stores in the U.S. Approximately 1,160
Paintball fields in the U.S. Approximately 950
Number of players worldwide More than 11,600,000
Number of competing teams in the U.S. 5,500
Paintball products carried by K-Mart 176
Number of paintball web sites 1,827
Countries where paintball is played 104
Number of paintball items listed on Ebay 3,267
In a one week period in October of 2001, paintball was the sixth most popular search term on eBay
Number of series' or league events in U.S. 220
Paintguns sold in the U.S. per month Approximately 67,000
Universities with paintball clubs/programs 105