How Many of you all Wipe?

[BlueMagRT]

the only time i have ever wiped was in a woodsball game. i was standing back where all the paint from the longballers was falling on the ground one came a little further than the rest and broke on my shoe. I wiped it, while it may be wrong, had it hit me anywhere else higher up i would have called myself out.

is it wrong or should i have called myself out on a no skill lucky shot that barely hit me?

[DeFAuLt]

ive never technicly wiped but once it was the end of the day and my first time at a real feild and i had paint all over me and i got shot on the break and kept playing.

[HoppysMag]

ya BlueMagRT reminded me of sumthing... i once wiped one off my shoe... i decided it broke on the ground and sprayed on my shoe...

[chrisj]

I still feel bad about wiping the splatter from where I snap-shot my own bunker.

That's mostly because of the volume of the splatter, I shot my bunker lots.

Chris

[Cliffio]

anytime i get big splatters i always have a ref check it cause you just never know what might happen, if its big enough people will think that you are wiping a hit and not splatter, its always best if the refs check you before you wipe anything

Cliff

[Mag89]

I wipe after a game and that's all.

[einhander619]

Oh yeah, I wipe all the time. I hate getting out, so I wipe whenever I get hit. All the little kids think I'm good and the field owner doesn't say anything cuz I spend so much money at his store.

NOT!!!(in my best Wayne's World impression)

I think I wiped once the very first time I played, but I felt really bad about it. That was liek 7 years ago, though. If I'm out, I'm out. As soon as I get out, I'll put down my RT, grab a ref shield and ref the rest of the game. Even when someone hits me after they know they have been hit, I'll still go out.(tourney's are different, though) That doesn't mean I let it slide though. Revenge is a dish best served cold, 280 fps and 5 feet from them, if ya get my drift!

[FooTemps]

I've never wiped unless it was after the game and I was cleaning up

[drx975]

One time I wiped a shot off my pinky-knuckle. Technically though, its NOT a hit because it isnt the size of a quarter (it was like smaller than a penny) so I didnt count that. It barely hit me. But I still feel as if I should have called myself because it just makes me feel like a sorry loser and any1 who wipes should too. It happened to me once, once when I shot a kid in the last 30 secs and it was clearly a hit, and also an obvious as hell wipe. It wouldnt have made any difference in the game because if that kid was out, it would be one on my team (me) and 2 of them. I choose not to say anything because the kid was a newb and if he needed to cheat he probably sucks and need extra practice. But I was pissed on the inside.

Also if you guys who are wiping continue to wipe, it will definetly make you worse. Think about it. You get hit, wipe it and continue to play. Yet you made a mistake, and your going to make the same mistake if you dont pay the consequences of the hit. Learn from your mistakes, dont hide from them.

[FutureMagOwner]

well one time i whiped on accident(seriously) i was prone and was on a hill and kept sliding down so everytime i got a chance to see who i was shooting i shot and ended sliding down again and ended up technically blindfiring(also not a good thing but i knew where i was shooting)

when i saw the guy start to walk off the field i began to get up(because there was only one guy left and noone knew where the flag was because i shot it by accidentwhoops ) any way it turned out my hopper got shot and when getting up where it was hit got rubbed in the dirt and i only noticed it after when i was cleaning up after the game when there was a kinda paint drag mark and realized what happened, i asked the guy if he noticed if i got shot earlier(this guy is real good so he would know).

the only other time i whiped was getting little splatter(wasnt big enough to count) off my gun because i didnt have a detent on(it was broke) and didnt wanna get paint build up in my gun(i suppose i had enough to begin with since i was chopping about one outta every 20 balls)

i voted never because i never intentionally whiped anything that could be counted as a hit

[DeepFrz97]

For those that said "I wipe only when I see someone wiping that I hit," I would like to ask how you feel about things like people using performance enhancing drugs in other sports, corked bats, etc. Any of these are cheating. Just because you saw someone else cheating and felt slighted by that action it actually makes you (well in my opinion) the lesser person. The reason I say this is because you personally feel (or at least say you feel) that wiping is cheating and you would not do it. Now you have compromised your personal beliefs because of them.
I have personally never wiped, and it is the biggest rule on my local tourny and scenario team. (South Carolina Roadkill) The first thing that you are told, and more than that it is upheld always, is to never cheat, and if there is any doubt, call yourself out, or ask for a ref's decision. I know what some tourny players are going to say. (That isn't how you win.) The way I look at it, the most important thing in life is to be able to look yourself in the mirror and have respect for yourself.
I have actually apologized to another player when after getting a paintcheck from a ref and being called clean, I later realized the player eliminated me. Maybe that is one of the reasons I love stock class play. The name says it all...."Class." You won't find too many stock class players trying to cheat. If someone put's one out of their available 10-20 shots on you then you tip your hat to them and have a good chat about it later.....preferably over a cold beverage.....;-)

[lillfroboy]

Usually i don't wipe i only wipe if im playing on of the fewe people that i hate with a passion so i can light the **** out of em

[MrMag]

well i have had three occasions when i have asked the person next to me if it broke (visor,pack, back of shoulder) and they all said no, later in the game, right when i would have a perfect shot a bunch, i would be pulled. IF SOMEONE IS HIT, TELL THEM!

[xmetal2001]

I dont wipe. I never will wipe. If i wipe and some little newb by me see's me, hes going to think its ok.

If somebody gets a lucky shot on me off break, good for them. I should have moved faster. It bugs me when people wipe, and if i see them wipe i will continue to shoot until they stop. If i feel a hit on my back I'll call for a ref, even in a tournament. I wont stop playing, and if the ref misses it its his fault, but i'm not going to cheat. If the other team hit me, Good shot.

I still dont see why people wipe, its not like its a big deal, I'll just wait until the next game, or the next tournament. Wiping wont make me a better player, there is no point.

If I wipe I might get a few more minutes out of the game. Allright! 5 more minutes! But its not worth it.

Paintball has a bad enough name already. People cheating will only make it worse. People that cheat, ignore hits, conviently "forget" they were hit shouldn't be playing paintball. I pay money and work hard to have fun, and it isn't fun when people cheat.

[HoppysMag]

DeepFrz97
but the thing is if i hit him, hes dead and dead men cant kill anyone... so i hit him and then he shot me, how can that be... ( im not talking my ball going at him wile his is at me.. i mean i shot, he got hit, he kept playing for a a few seconds knowing he was hit and then he shot me and walked off)... i aint going down becuase some one wants to cheat...