first tourney...need advice and drills

[Cliffio]

ok heres all about lanes:

first thing is to scout the field before you play, look at both ends of the field, the lanes are where you can see the other end of the field, where there is no bunker blocking your view, thats a lane
you wanna shoot these llanes of the break, any other time and its pretty useless
but mainly back people will shoot lanes but if the front people want to do it thats prolly ok as well, BECAUSE if you think about it, there is always that number of seconds when everyone is at their bunker and getting ready to pop back up, it happens before every game, and sometimes it can be to your advantage, so shoot lanes then run as far as you can

thats all i got for now, questions? just ask

[SkElL~ObIsSiS]

lol, srry im laughin man. U are in the same position my team was in last year....going into a tournament totaly unprepared, lets just say we got killed and it wasn't pretty. Practice, know ur teamated play style in and out , and throw alot of paint. just from experience enter at the lowest level available and prepare to get killed, good luck.

[soilent green]

yea excpect to die my team got 8 out of 9 teams in our division and by the looks of your guns you aren't as experienced as we were but have fun and sweet spot off the break or "shoot the lanes" carry plenty of paint the back player should stay alive as long as possible they are key

[KOP_jedi_master]

ok for the guy who said that we are going to get killed...first of all you dont know how we play or how good we are....i have alot of speedball experience(from rec ball)


and the tourney is only lettig ppl that have been into tournements for less than a year in....ITS A ROOKIE TOURNEMENT.......or novice........the lowest it goes...
well i think we have a damn good chance.....we are still preparing and stuff and its not for like 3 weeks...we are going to the field that is going to host it in a week.....


thanks for the info on shooting the lanes....its just wehre there are no bunkers in your line of fire

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think that hte above little lines are bunkers.... and the period is the back man......he just shoots forward(he is supposed to be in a spot where there are no bunkers in front of him)


derek

[Cliffio]

ok here is the best i can do

red blotches are bunkers black dot is the back player

pretend that this field is only made out of the bunkers shown.

you can see where the people will run to because they all cant stay in the back bunker
so youll want to shoot where the people will be running

and if it works out you have a huge mental and player advantage, cause nothing gets to a team more than losing a player of the break

hmm too big to attach
post your email and ill send it to you

later
CLiff

[Cliffio]

Originally posted by KOP_jedi_master
its just wehre there are no bunkers in your line of fire

exactly!
but youll need to make predictions on where you THINK they will go, so dont pick a lane that you think no one will be in, obviously

anyways, ill send you the pic i made if you post your email
Cliff

[RiceRocket]

thoughts on shooting lanes/sweetspotting

What has worked well for us shooting the lane that the opponent is going to run through. We choose the lane by finding out what the most important bunker will be for the other team. They will either try to get it off the break or try to fill it some time during the course of the game. Get one of your guys to sweetspot this lane off the break.

If the field has bunkers that are too easy to move between you may want to sweetspot the back guy. By keeping him in behind a bunker and he won't be able to cover the guys moving.

I'm not that experienced playing 3-man ball. Last time was down in KY a couple years ago. What I noticed is that most teams ran two guys and one shoots from the back. We did too and it worked well. I didn't send both guys out really far. Since the games are typically short(time limits) I tried to get them into good tape bunkers where they could be up and shooting. Once we determined where the opponents were we started making for the key bunkers or the flag (If there is high points for flag pull).

Other bits of advice:

Try to stay on your feet if you can, 3-man was fast and intense. Although crawling a snake bunker may be important on certain fields.

The team that moves more usually wins.

Always have someone watching the field, don't let them keep all of you behind your bunker.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

[KOP_jedi_master]

my e-mail is [email protected] ..............i think that we are going to have a good practice this weekend.....we are doing like 5 or 6 vs us three.... and then some 3 on 3 scrimages....after we do out drills.....going to work on running shooting drills....bunkering drils...snap shooting....and more.....but i am only going to waste 200 paintballs on all these drills...... then we are going down to the scrimages........so here is what i am going to do.....


have the back man shoot the lanes while the two front men hit the tapes hard to get good angles on the enemy.....while moving up our tape runners(2) to overwhelm the enemy and hopefully getting some good chances for a bunker move....... but i have a question.....whats a good way to cover all the guys for a bunker move....like what should each player do...i know they should cover but who...should they all just shoot at a guy(one a peice) to keep everyone down.....and then say i run up and bunker someone while my teamates are keeping me covered from other enemy shots.....should i pelt his bunker a couple of times to keep him in his seat...then come over the top...after i shoot him i duck down on his bunker and try to get a better angle on the others........and then i could give the signal for my other guys to move up and maybe bunker a guy....


at our practice this weekend should i scrimage 3 on 3 or 5 on 3 to get used to all te heat and get better at what we need to do...so it will be harder than 3 on 3......




e-mail again is [email protected]



Derek

[PowerFedMag]

hmmm

my advice, hit hard, and hit fast. dont bother with any technical stuff especially if its yer first tourney...plz trust me when I say this, cuz I just went through my 1st tourney, with 2 newbies no less .
I realized our plans had no chance, especially with the newbie experience on my team...so I got wiggy and flipped out, runs to the 50 are unexpected.

*shrug* just put all yer heart and game into it...afterwards, ask yerself what you did wrong, and work with it.

[Cliffio]

Re: hmmm

Originally posted by PowerFedMag
my advice, hit hard, and hit fast. dont bother with any technical stuff especially if its yer first tourney...plz trust me when I say this, cuz I just went through my 1st tourney, with 2 newbies no less .
I realized our plans had no chance, especially with the newbie experience on my team...so I got wiggy and flipped out, runs to the 50 are unexpected.

*shrug* just put all yer heart and game into it...afterwards, ask yerself what you did wrong, and work with it.

thats pretty good stuff too, you cant be intimidated(sp) cause then your already beat yourselves

also, never leave the field thinking "what if..." if u wanna do it do it if you dont wanna risk it, dont
mainly play smart

[KOP_jedi_master]

did you send me the e-mail about shooting lanes? well ill check it right now ok......and btw i just want to thank you all once again you have really helped me out.....i was thinking if my team feels intimidated im just going to talk some smack just so i can get them hyped up....i want my team to know that ill do whatever it takes to lead them to victory......and im not scared of anything...no matter the gun....the gear......the skill....(even though i might be scared a little :P ) im gonna flip out at this tourney....



Derek

[KOP_jedi_master]

like this...shoot down the lanes...

[KOP_jedi_master]

i am sending you an e-mail that is mroe descriptive...i still dont quite understand?