Is Paintball a Sport?

With a large variety of people who are aware of paintball as an activity, normally majority wouldn't consider this a sport due to its stigma of being a pass time activity, however, for most sports, there is an objective goal, to either score a tri, or to shoot a basketball into a hoop, the same can be said for paintball in either touching the buzzer or eliminating the opposing team. To add to this tournament paintball is sport structured, comparable to long-standing sports with referees, penalty points, and rules for players to abide by.