Loader mounted paintball game scorekeeper and an associated paintball game playing system

摘要

A paintball game scorekeeper and an associated paintball game playing system. The paintball game scorekeeper includes a switch member having plural control buttons insertably mounted in a recess formed in a front side surface of a housing. A printed circuit board to which the control buttons are electrically connected is inserted in a recess formed in a rear side surface of the housing. Provided on the printed circuit board is a memory subsystem for holding a countdown time and at least one interim time, a processor subsystem for counting down, from the countdown time, time remaining in the on-going game of paintball until time expires and for determining first and second elimination counts, and an LCD display, electrically coupled to the processor subsystem, for displaying the time remaining in the on-going game of paintball, the first elimination count and the second elimination count. By selectively depressing the control buttons, the processor subsystem will start and stop the countdown of time remaining, record the time remaining in the memory subsystem as a flag time and increment or decrement the first and second elimination counts. By mounting the paintball game scorekeeper on a rear side surface of a bulk loader for holding paintballs, the paintball game scorekeeper forms part of a paintball game playing system which includes a paintball gun and the bulk loader and may be readily used by a participant in the on-going game of paintball without significantly disrupting the participant's ability to play.