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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 5,900,000 people played paintball at least one time in
1999, 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 5,900,000 people spent approximately
$259,600,000 in 1999, and that number does not account for people that played
more than one time in 1999. We do know that almost 800,000 people played
paintball fifteen times in 1999.
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
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