In thinking about the rules of the game and especially the state of cheating in the game today, one needs to look at some other sports to make a comparison. Most times we look at Baseball or Football etc......but I think a more esoteric sport like Tennis is a better match.
Ever see those tantrums by John McEnroe back in the day? Ask yourself why he did all that and the answer you will get is that it benefitted his game to do so. Make no mistake, he knew the majority of the calls he argued were made right, but if he could make line judges question themselves, or better yet, scared of him, he felt he'd get more calls. Switch forward in your mind to today. Watch some tennis and you will notice that behavior is not any better. Still the same old bad attitudes, glaring at judges, cussing, throwing stuff, and cry-baby antics.
Now let's talk Paintball. You should see the parallels already. Players cheat, misbehave........in general act completely terrible because of the reason listed above.........they have a firm belief it benefits them to do so. And frankly, the way things are now it does.
Why hasnt anything been done about it? Why is it unlikely that anything WILL be done about it? In the final analysis, it's the players themselves that will have to make the rules changes because they are the people that will be left to follow them. And though they might exclaim loudly that "something needs to be done", if you could magically put them all in a room to fix this mess they would all drop whatever team hatred for each other they had and band together to say that "nothings wrong with the rules...it's just the refs". They would band together to keep things the same because all believe secretly that they benefit more from the bad behaviour, loose rules, and silly crap than they ever would from a rigidly controlled fair game.
It all comes down the Human Element. And the game will only get fairer the closer we come to removing the human element from the judging and playing of it. All Pro tennis could be judged using cameras instead of line judges. Why isnt it that way? The players dont want it and the powers that be see too much human element removed in a game with no one to cuss. The same can be said for paintball.
I think a discussion needs to be started about how we can use technology to fairly judge the game and take the Human Element, and human error, out. That's the key..... that's where the answer lies. A system that puts the minimum amount of pressure on the minimum amount of judges per game that can electronically, or otherwise, render a player out of the game with no one to blame but himself/herself and the other team.
So, who is Bill Cookston? Well, he's just a guy that is easy to blame things on! I mean come on people......you know you lost because of him... right?.......Ray Charles could have seen you shoot that guy! I hit that guy ref.......check him!!! You're out Dude......what are these people doing!!!!!!!.......and on and on and on it goes.................LOL.
Get the picture?
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Ever see those tantrums by John McEnroe back in the day? Ask yourself why he did all that and the answer you will get is that it benefitted his game to do so. Make no mistake, he knew the majority of the calls he argued were made right, but if he could make line judges question themselves, or better yet, scared of him, he felt he'd get more calls. Switch forward in your mind to today. Watch some tennis and you will notice that behavior is not any better. Still the same old bad attitudes, glaring at judges, cussing, throwing stuff, and cry-baby antics.
Now let's talk Paintball. You should see the parallels already. Players cheat, misbehave........in general act completely terrible because of the reason listed above.........they have a firm belief it benefits them to do so. And frankly, the way things are now it does.
Why hasnt anything been done about it? Why is it unlikely that anything WILL be done about it? In the final analysis, it's the players themselves that will have to make the rules changes because they are the people that will be left to follow them. And though they might exclaim loudly that "something needs to be done", if you could magically put them all in a room to fix this mess they would all drop whatever team hatred for each other they had and band together to say that "nothings wrong with the rules...it's just the refs". They would band together to keep things the same because all believe secretly that they benefit more from the bad behaviour, loose rules, and silly crap than they ever would from a rigidly controlled fair game.
It all comes down the Human Element. And the game will only get fairer the closer we come to removing the human element from the judging and playing of it. All Pro tennis could be judged using cameras instead of line judges. Why isnt it that way? The players dont want it and the powers that be see too much human element removed in a game with no one to cuss. The same can be said for paintball.
I think a discussion needs to be started about how we can use technology to fairly judge the game and take the Human Element, and human error, out. That's the key..... that's where the answer lies. A system that puts the minimum amount of pressure on the minimum amount of judges per game that can electronically, or otherwise, render a player out of the game with no one to blame but himself/herself and the other team.
So, who is Bill Cookston? Well, he's just a guy that is easy to blame things on! I mean come on people......you know you lost because of him... right?.......Ray Charles could have seen you shoot that guy! I hit that guy ref.......check him!!! You're out Dude......what are these people doing!!!!!!!.......and on and on and on it goes.................LOL.
Get the picture?
P
That's my bad. I still believe that Refs shoudl get some of the FAT cut that the industry is getting. 
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