Paintball exploded into the extreme sports market in the late 1970’s and in the last decade has escalated into an industry that creates billions of dollars of revenue world wide. Its grass routes can be found in Northern America with farmers turning their cattle marking guns on each other to create the foundations of the fastest growing extreme sport in the world today. Currently played in 110 countries, with 15 million players, it is bigger than Snowboarding, Mountain Biking, BMX Bicycling, etc.
According to the National Sporting Goods Association, paintball ranked No. 1 as the fastest-growing participation sport in 2002. Paintball games replaced snowboarding as the fastest growing sport in 2002 among those surveyed by the National Sporting Goods Association (NSGA). With 24.4% growth, paintball games attracted 6.9 million participants in 2002.
According to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association’s Recreation Market Report (2006 Edition), paintball ranked third for largest sporting goods sales with an impressive $330 million dollars in wholesale sales in the US alone. Paintball is now the third ranked most popular extreme sport in the US with its 15 million athletes. The number of athletes that participate in paintball has more then doubled since the year 2000, and has increased 1 million plus athletes each year.
Paintball growth in participation and spending makes this extreme sport an attractive revenue source for many businesses in and outside of the paintball industry. The paintball industry has shown phenomenal growth over the last ten years. The average paintball participant is male, age 12-24, resides in a city of at least 500,000 people. However, the average age of the scenario paintball players is slightly higher and consists of mainly adults. There is also an increasingly amount of female athletes that are now participating in the sport and we now have all female teams.
Ambush Alpha is one of the leading professional scenario teams in the paintball world to date. The team is actively seeking sponsors to enter into a partnership with for the next season. Ambush Alpha is a fully sponsored team that has various relationships or contracts with their current sponsors. Sponsorships consist of but are not limited to; sponsors provide gear or services to the team, sponsors provide financial backing for games and travel, and more. Although Ambush Alpha is pleased with their current sponsors and have built a great relationship with them, the team must keep up with the constant ever changing new trends in the industry and must adapt by inquiring with potential new sponsors. The team can only promote sponsors so far, before they need assistance with promoting their sponsors products or services.
Ambush Alpha would like to be considered an active candidate for a sponsorship with your company. Please review the entire resume to truly understand why Ambush Alpha is one of the best teams in scenario paintball and why Ambush Alpha could be a great marketing and advertising tool. Feel free to contact us for any further information about Ambush Alpha.