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The Method
You hear the debates all the time in professional sports. Who are the great teams... the
greatest players, the greatest quarterbacks,
pitchers, boxers or race car drivers? And there
have been debates about paintball teams
and players before, mostly centered around
current teams and players. So we thought
we’d give you a larger historical perspective
on what we’ve seen firsthand the past 29
years, as well as a good bit of research and
record-keeping we’ve done throughout the
years. Yes, this Top Ten Greatest Teams of All
Time list is our opinion but we’ve formed these
opinions from not just the “eyeball test,” but
from the actual stats, facts, numbers and research.
When trying to rank sports teams that cross
generations and decades it’s far from a scientific process. Simply counting wins and losses
is not a suitable method as competition levels
ebb and flow, new series’ are founded, rules
and styles change, and other variables make
it impossible to compare “apples to apples.”
That said, if a team dominates its generation
it’s safe to say they are an all-time great.
Equally, if a team has a 15-year run where
they win occasionally at the highest level and
place in the top four perennially, they should
also be considered. Finally a team that wins a
boatload of five-man events where the field of
teams is limited has to be a somewhat lesser
achievement than a team that wins an equal
amount of seven or ten-man events. So it’s
with that backdrop that we give you our ten
greatest paintball teams of all time.
June 2014
February 2014