One hopper game?

[xmetal2001]

If I'm too lazy to get out my pack I'll play hopperball.

Frankly the little kids whose mommy buys them cases of paint everyday don't bother me. I dont care how much paint they shoot at me, if they aren't any good they aren't gonna hit me, if they good, then they might...
Are they having fun? Good. Thats what its about.

As for hopper ball in tournaments, No i dont think so. Its just not enough! Too much would be put into wasting the other teams paint.

[WARPED1]

Pan/Am 5 man is hopperball, only 200 rounds per player per game.

[xen_100]

I'll one up ya. our club plays 30 round limited paint games. try to play a whole game with only 30 rounds. makes you think and work together alot more, when you can't spray.

[shartley]

[pbguy888]

I have never seen somebody carry a pack out on a saturday ( open play) at my field. Only time anybody uses them is on sunday aka team practice day.

[Evil Bob]

Hopperball is a great way to discipline yourself and work on movement and tactics.

We used to play several rounds of hopperball on the local speedball field to warm up for team practice, got everyone on the same sheet of music when it came time to work on team movement drills.

When I play recball, I usually don't carry more then 300 rounds onto the field unless it's a attack and defend round and our team is defending, nothing discourages the attacking team more then long strings of paint raining down on them.

-Evil Bob

[Torbo]

heres anohter good reason: Im too poor to shoot that much anyway.

[Recon by Fire]

A whole hopper full? Try sticking to a 10-15 round tube and a 12 gram CO2

[FalconGuy016]

I have used a pod in a speedball game three times in my whole paintball career

[Corbet]

I rarely use more then 200 rounds in 1 game. For example, I went to TAG 3 weeks ago, and I used about 1000 paintballs the entire day. Only once did I run out of paint (and barrowed some paint from other players). Basically in speedball, if I dont see the person popping out, whats the point in wasting paint? Unless of course I'm covering someone or trying to keep him pinned down. Woods is a little different though.

[einhander619]

I used to be really conservative, then I got a nice electro. Although I suppose I still don't shoot as much as some, 300 a game seems right if I stay in til the end. In tournies I usually shoot less, because my flying squirrel frontman tactics usually allow no more than two eliminations before I get rocked.

[LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

It's the way that my group plays all the time. It allows for a lot of movement, but still enough paint for suppression. We used to play 50 ball.

[krafty]

Originally posted by Recon by Fire
A whole hopper full? Try sticking to a 10-15 round tube and a 12 gram CO2

My kinda guy!

Seriously, when playing a field full of renters, I like to stick to a hopper. If I do carry pods, usually they're for the guy I'm stuck in a bunker with. I really don't mind giving a noob or 2 a pod every now and then... it just helps them to enjoy the game a bit more.

When playing the field regulars, however, it's one pod/elimination time!

[cody_wild]

i think it is a good idea, but it would never work, becuz fields/tourny hosts make alot of their money in paint sales, so thats like them limiting how much money they make. just my opinion

[Big_M]

wow, didn't expect so many positive responses, I was expecting "back players" to flame away (thats what happened when I asked one guy why he plays with 5 pods) anywho I didn't know about the panam, how often/where are the tournies at usually? (sorry, not big into following tourny circuts)