The "I hate the King" Syndrome.

[frgood]

A very intelligent analysis...I feel honored to review such a forum. I would like to add that I do notice strong regionalism regarding markers.
On Saturday, I played a Sherwood forest in Vallejo, CA. The number of Autococker was astounding.
On Sunday, I drove out past Sacramento and saw a few very happy timmy owners, angela and mags. A discussion of A/C's got a lot of rolled eyes.
When I played in Long Island Defiants and Angels were the marker du jour.
I have not played at a lot of fields (maybe a half dozen) so this is probably not a well founded thought. But at each field, players seem to match the mantra of what the supporting store owner provides.
I recently heard that timmies were all the rage on the east coast (can someone support that).
Personally, I find the cost of the angel high but not prohibitive. I find more intimidating the level of expectation from players if I were to walk on the field carrying one.

[Butterfingers]

Tox, Lil

I didnt say it applied to everybody :)

[pito189]

Originally posted by frgood
I recently heard that timmies were all the rage on the east coast (can someone support that).

Well I'm in TN, not really the coast, but it's east. I have been to WPF tournaments, and they attract a lot of people from all over. There is more Angels, and Cockers than anything. You will see the occasional impulse, timmy, and shocker.

The break down on my team for example is 2 warped E-Mags, one wapred mag, and 4 cockers of varying types, mini black magic, stock blue, polished stock, and a dark cocker.

The thing I have noticed most (and agree with the most) is that you need to have a hinge on a cocker, some people still don't like them, but I think they were the best upgrade for a cocker since the autococking system.

Warp feeds are also very popular. I saw a few angels with warps at the Sevierville WPF.

[kemikos]

Bunkerhugger:

Regarding the guy who thinks his Illustrator was the best gun...

I know what he's talking about. It's not so much feelings for the gun itself, but I find that a lot of people, including myself, simply have less fun with their spiffy new SuperUltraAutoMegaBlaster than they did with the rusty ol' clunker.

I'm not exactly sure why that is, although I know when I haul out the fancy markers, I feel like I have to play a better game. When I play with the rustbuckets, I'm just out there to have fun and play around. Less pressure = more fun. (Yes, I'm obviously not a tourney player. You hyper-competitive types definitely won't understand what I'm getting at here...)

Incidentally, the most fun single game I've ever played was on a freezing cold day in the snow, on a speedball field, with a rusty Nel-spot. Just goes to show, I guess...

I suppose I don't really have a point, and this certainly doesn't fit the topic of the thread, but thanks for letting me ramble anyway. :)

[Tyril]

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