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Aerial view of the tree-lined drive into Palmetto Hills on an event day

The Field's Story

Run by People
Who Lived It

Plenty of fields are somebody's side business. Palmetto Hills is somebody's life. Two somebodies, actually: Pete, whose name is on the field and who lives right here on the property, and Tyler, who runs it day to day and runs a league out of it.

Paintball Pete

The Name on the Field

Before Palmetto Hills, Pete Russell, "Paintball Pete", ran theSuper 7 series in Australia, back when organized paintball was still being invented. He's been a player, a promoter, and an organizer on two continents, and he built this field the way only someone who's seen a hundred fields can: the way he always wished they were.

Pete and his wife Cathy live on the property. She runs the shop counter; he keeps the operation funded and honest. That's not a franchise; that's a home field in the most literal sense.

Pete Russell talking with players in the pits between games
Tyler on the pro shop deck holding a blue catfish, the airball bunkers behind him

Day to Day

Tyler Runs the Field

Pete's name is on the field. Tyler's hands are on it. A part owner and the one running Palmetto Hills day to day, he's behind the schedule, the layouts, the ref crew, and the phone call that turns your group text into a booking. If you've played here, you've dealt with Tyler whether you knew it or not.

He also runs the C3XL, the Carolinas 3-Man X-Ball League, out of this field. That's why the airball field you play on open days is set to a real tournament layout, and why league weekends bring the best players in the Carolinas to Rock Hill.

Home of the C3XL
The Palmetto Hills pro shop counter: markers, masks, and the upgrade bench

Game Day

The Crew

The field runs on a small crew that plays the sport it serves: refs who carry spare markers so a breakdown never ends your day, a bench that fixes what breaks, and afully stocked pro shop that will price-match any advertised price rather than watch you buy it somewhere else.

A muddy player bent down getting a kiss from the field beagle in the pits

Come out on a weekend and you'll meet everyone who makes it run. Probably including the dog.

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