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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Extreme play

Team Girl On Girl, above, from Fremont battles team Dark Image from Tulare, in a move called "off the break" at the start of a seven-minute paintball competition.

The Xtreme Paintball Sports League tournament takes place over three days at the Regional Sports Complex in southwest Fresno with more than 100 seven-person teams competing from across the nation.

A Dark Image team member, left, positions himself behind a bunker and returns fire with his marker, while he is being fired at. In paintball, the gun is called a marker. The paintball must break and leave a mark for the hit to count.

A referee, below, crawls on the ground to keep a close eye on the match between the two teams. Team Dark Image won this preliminary match. Dark Image team members are photographed behind the bunkers.

The tournament features four divisions. The object of each team is to eliminate the opposing team and capture its flag in just seven minutes.