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  • Smiles2480
    Registered User
    • May 2001
    • 65

    #1

    Who is better, the marker or the player

    Hey I know that everyone like to say that their marker is so great and that isnt it. The only thing the marker can do is fire and how efficent it is with the barrel and paintball size. The abilties of the player is what makes the marker what it is. I have seen turnamates won with Spyders and tipmans. It is all in how you play the marker is just the tool of how you do it. All a marker is to most people is a status symbol. It not wht you ise to play the game, it is how you played it to the points. That is how you win.
  • FooTemps
    HURRRR
    • Sep 2001
    • 6702

    #2
    Yesh! That's so right! Someone could even win a game using a paintbrush!

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    • Snooky
      Dictator
      • Dec 2001
      • 1653

      #3
      Very well put and i completely agree with this. People with skill will conquer people with better equipment and no skill. I see it all the time at the field.
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      • ArthurDent
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        • Dec 2001
        • 270

        #4
        lol foo hahahah you just made me remember this guy who strapped a paintbrush on his gun like a bayonet and I laughed so hard when a guy came off the field with a fat stripe on his back ......

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        • FooTemps
          HURRRR
          • Sep 2001
          • 6702

          #5
          Originally posted by ArthurDent
          lol foo hahahah you just made me remember this guy who strapped a paintbrush on his gun like a bayonet and I laughed so hard when a guy came off the field with a fat stripe on his back ......
          LOL! THAT IS SOO COOL! I want to make my own paintball blade actually. It's gonna be a rod with a trigger frame... I want to install a 12 gram on it with a clip of 10 paintballs so when I pull the trigger it covers the brush in paint... Easy painting... lol...

          edit: I know it's silly but I want to do it just for the heck of it...
          Last edited by FooTemps; 03-13-2002, 10:32 PM.

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          • ThePatriot

            #6
            I think the marker only matters, if there is a DRASTIC difference. For example, on a speedball field, an electro vs a pump, we all know whos going to win. An electro vs a spyder isnt THAT bad, but from mid level guns up, it really doesnt matter. Mags and cockers i consider the base level for tournaments now(i mean like stock cockers, not all souped up ones)

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            • clanger
              Registered User
              • Jan 2002
              • 153

              #7
              I think this argument can go either way. I'm a very good front man player with the mag, so the marker doesn't matter as long as I can get up in close. However, when you want to play long ball or speed ball, I think the marker makes the player. Look at how many fat people(not to be offensive) there are that play tournaments. So many at the NPPL LA OPEN saturday. They barely run and they are panting for air, in this case its mostly the marker that makes them good. And it really depends on how much money you have to blow on paint a game. Some people will blow 600 rounds just to get 1 person out without using strategy. Ohwell!


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              • LaW
                Why play?
                • Oct 2000
                • 3124

                #8
                Well when your playing on a team that has an unlimited budget to win then you can sling that much paint. That's where some teams fall short because they can't afford to sling the ammount of paint some of these other teams are slinging. It's mainly the player, i've always stood by 90 percent player 5 percent marker 5 percent balls.... lets look at a 5man indoor i played recently, our team had 4 tracer pumps and like a ptextreme. We entered low tech for the fun of it. We also had to play every team in the high tech division... in a couple games we got clsoe to eliminating the opposition (4 out of 5 players tagged) and some of these guys wheeling angels and sfl's couldn't believe it so fun, so fun... btw we got 1st place low tech baby !!!!!!!!


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                • legion
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                  • Jan 2002
                  • 117

                  #9
                  LaW, we rocked their world with those pumps! Heck yah! Shoutz to the Indoor World Champions!

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                  • wimag
                    BEZERKERS
                    • Aug 2001
                    • 1334

                    #10
                    yeah law and how many teams were in low tech (2) and they were a bunch of kids with rental MAGS.
                    Yes yes you guys did do good against V-3 but we wailed on ya!! after that tournie i am gonna ask the guys i play with to go to pumps next year just to have some more fun at it. Great time for all
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                    • wimag
                      BEZERKERS
                      • Aug 2001
                      • 1334

                      #11
                      one thing i thought was very cool though was when the game i was watching started all i heard was bip bip bip and seen a few guys flying up to midfield. very very fast breaks on the starts
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                      • tysonmachado
                        Chrome Psycho
                        • Jun 2001
                        • 336

                        #12
                        Personally, my minimag is a LOT better than I am. I think my team would do better if I let it play without me...
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                        • SlipknotX556
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                          • Nov 2001
                          • 5054

                          #13
                          its the player not the marker. although it does help to have a reliable marker.

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                          • Panzerr
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                            • Sep 2001
                            • 683

                            #14
                            The player, because without the player the marker will just lie there and look pretty like some girls I know.
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                            • Gup44
                              Diehard's cutest owner
                              • Jan 2002
                              • 109

                              #15
                              Orignally posted by panzerr
                              ...without the player the marker will just lie there and look pretty like some girls I know.
                              LOL funny Panzerr! [shakes head and wonders]
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