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== Game format ==

Paintball's Grand Finale follows Wayne Dollack's established 24-hour role-playing scenario format.

Unlike conventional elimination-based paintball games, participants compete within a fictional storyline featuring multiple objectives, characters and specialist roles.

The principal opposing forces are typically led by generals and executive officers who receive missions from the scenario director.

Points are accumulated through completing assigned objectives, capturing locations, recovering props and carrying out specialist operations.

Players may be assigned roles including spies, intelligence agents, medics, engineers and demolition specialists.

The format incorporates mission cards, character identities and interactive props that influence the outcome of the scenario.[9]

Although described as a 24-hour event, historical editions have included scheduled breaks for meals and other activities, with night-time gameplay subject to separate safety rules.[1][3]