{"id":1070,"date":"2025-11-02T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestpaintball.com.au\/?p=754"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T19:15:36","slug":"speedball-is-back-at-valhalla-paintball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/outdoor-paintball\/speedball-is-back-at-valhalla-paintball\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedball is Back at Valhalla Paintball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s been a long time since our last speedball tournament, way back in 2022 and to be honest there was a time when we didn’t there were enough players for speedball to survive in Brisbane! Thanks to a huge influx of younger players, a lot of whom are also active in the gelball competition scene, we hosted our first training session on our sup air field and had over 40 players in attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost of living crisis has hurt almost everyone and if it comes down to choosing to pay for essentials like rent and food or playing paintball on a regular basis well then it really isn’t a choice. Covid had already seen a reduction in the Brisbane paintball player base with over a third of the teams having ceased to exist by the time the pandemic had ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the many recreational paintball players that come through only a small fraction will convert to competition paintball. Due to a number of factors, of those the majority will play for up to 3 years before moving onto something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We plan on running training sessions on a monthly basis and once we have the player base we will work on the format and dates to host a tournament series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time since our last speedball tournament, way back in 2022 and to be honest there was a time when we didn’t think there were enough players for speedball to survive in Brisbane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,86],"tags":[79,75,76,74,87,78],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoor-paintball","category-paintball-events","category-paintball-news","tag-grow-the-sport","tag-paintball-brisbane","tag-paintball-ipswich","tag-paintball-park","tag-paintball-toowoomba","tag-speedball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valhallapaintball.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}