Competitive paintball from inside the game.
Play The Game tracks competitive paintball from the field and the community around it. Recent episodes move between NXL Tampa reactions, rookie performances, documentary creators, tactical discipline, World Cup energy, and the work of building teams.
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Play The Game is a paintball show built from inside the competitive circuit. It sounds close to the field. Recent episodes return again and again to the lived rhythm of the sport: event travel, early-season results, finals runs, young players breaking through, and the pressure of making paintball look as big as it feels to the people already invested in it. NXL Tampa becomes more than a recap. It becomes a way to talk about Red Legion winning the first event of the season, Ty making a finals appearance, and Thomas Hara turning into the story of the weekend. The show is also interested in how paintball gets remembered. Nick Cucuzza and Arthur Dolzhansky are framed as top creatives in the game, with credits around the Reckoning series, Road to a Championship, and the Immortal documentary with Tampa Bay Damage. That media conversation gives the show a wider lens than scores and rosters alone. Still, tactics remain central. In the Mike Hinman episode, the discussion gets granular about discipline, cross-field shots, letting opponents fill to the corner, repeatable checklists, and why playing every weekend can become a real competitive advantage. The team-building talk is equally specific, with references to a second premier line, young players in Southern California, and prospects coming through Rainey’s camp or Sicario. Other episodes focus on the health of the scene itself. Nate Kesteleyn and Gunther Stumpf’s episode pushes attendance, livestream sharing, and support for Thursday games involving teams such as Damage, Impact, X Factor, Heat, the Fems, Vibe, Paintball Fit, Uprising, the Heroines, and High Rollers. The Josh Taylor episode reaches backward into a player’s path through regional play, college, England, Boston paintball circles, and NYX. Across these conversations, Play The Game treats paintball as a serious community with its own memory, arguments, ladder, and language. It is enthusiastic, sometimes raw in pace, and aimed at people who already care about the game enough to track both the scoreboard and the story behind it.
Made for: Play The Game suits serious paintball fans, players, team builders, and media-followers who want event context, tactical talk, and community news from inside the scene.
What sets it apart: The show blends competitive immediacy with practical field detail and paintball media culture, moving from Tampa results to documentary creators to point-by-point discipline without flattening the sport into generic sports talk.
A paintball driven podcast that dives into the lives of two of the games most successful athletes. This podcast meant to inspire the current and future generation of players. All things paintball, culture, and personal development. Hosted by Tyler Harmon & Marcello Margott.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical paintball conversation about discipline, roster depth, and the small field decisions that swing pro points.
Play The Game's 330th episode gives Mike Hinman's paintball thinking a close, practical look, moving from his roles as a league owner and pro coach into the ideas behind LA Collision.
A Thursday paintball schedule turns into a call to attend, watch and support the event.
Nate Kestelin and Gunther join Play the Game to talk through a newly released schedule for Thursday's paintball event. Games start at seven, and the speakers make a direct appeal for people to come to the stadium. Anyone who cannot attend can watch the free YouTube stream.
A grounded look at how local access, free paint, and lasting relationships carried Josh Taylor into national competition.
Josh Taylor's route into national paintball comes through as loose, local, and earned. A field 15 minutes from home gave Yukon Paintball players access to stronger competition, while Ken Rusterholz's invitation turned extra field time and free paint into something closer to an…
Comedy at the edge of the cosmic panic.
Fast BMX talk from inside the circuit.
Practical rope-access talk from the training floor.
Trail-running conversations from a back deck in the Sierra foothills.
Hosts Tyler Harmon and Marcello Margott interview Josh Taylor, a pro player for New York Extreme, ahead of the NXL World Cup.
Leo Smotrov of Red Legion joins hosts Marcelo Margot and Tyler on Play the Game episode #356, recorded from Moscow a week after the team's second-place finish at the Texas NXL event.
Recap of the NXL Tampa paintball event and introduction to rookie sensation Thomas Hara.
An interview with top paintball creatives about their documentary work and the sport's culture.
Hinman argues that glow ball at SC Village and Capital Edge can make paintball "double revenue" for fields.
Nate Kestelin and Gunther Stumpf explain how Wildside Distortion formed from a Chicago-area gap between divisional paintball and the pro ranks after the Outlaws sold in 2021.
Play The Game interviews Brad, creator of Paintball Ruined My Life, a YouTube channel with more than 90,000 subscribers focused on paintball history and commentary.
Play The Game interviews Houston Heat player and creator Ronnie Dizon about cold-weather paintball preparation, including dry-fit layers, toe warmers, alpaca wool socks, and larger cleats.
Play The Game hosts interview Tom Cole, president of NXL and Major League Paintball, about 2026 changes to professional paintball events.