A Frenchman wiping

[Troy]

-To the people who are saying the Nexus guy overshot.

How do you know it is just that dude's paint on him? It could be a combination of the back guy paint and this dude's paint(the ball about to hit frenchie's gun is not from either player in the pic). Without being there or seeing a video it is imposible to tell if this is overshooting.

As fas as the Nexus guy having his barrel right in the other dude's face, well maybe, he shouldn't have ran right into it.

[LongDuckDong]

Holy out of context batman!

Originally posted by 845

Its an issue when someone pulls a knife out on someone but when u start a fist fight its ok.

The player pulled a knife on another player because of a bad call. They both started arguing and it escalated to a pocket knife being pulled. It was broken up before anything serious happened but to me that was the final straw because there were so many fights on the field and no one was having fun. Paintball is about having fun.

If someone inflicts pain on me I WILL inflict pain on them. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. But I wouldn't inflict or attempt to inflict pain on someone because of a bad call in a game. That is part of the game, causing pain to your opponent is NOT. Once someone assaults another player it is no longer paintball, it is assault and battery. In Hockey when someone checks another player they go to the penalty box, when someone bashes another players head in with a stick the police are called and the player is arrested for assault and battery. It has happened before.

If someone bunkers you.. it's part of the game.. when someone shoots you in the head 20 times at point blank range, that is no different than using a hockey stick and beating someone with it.

The player in the above pic didn't do that, but damn I would have apologized to the other guy and try to not do the same thing again. Who knows... maybe he did do that. I'm talking about pieces of crap like Laysoya that nails someone in the back of the head 30 times and knocks them out and his only apology is "Go play golf if you can't take the pain".

Originally posted by 845

So if you bunker someone and it does not break after the first shot you stop shooting and just call yourself out?

I guess so, because I consider that a TECHNICAL ISSUE, if my paint bounced on someone at point blank range traveling at 280fps... yeah, that's MY problem, not the other players. If it is in a tournament I use Evil paint and that stuff breaks on anything, if it is a rec game I don't worry about one elimination.

Keyword: "Sportsmanship"

The whole point of my post was Paintball is taking a bad turn with all this "owning" crap. It's good to see sportsmanship on the field and I do see it today and it should be encouraged. Assaulting someone shouldn't be rewarded by having a gun named after you.

[LongDuckDong]

Originally posted by Troy

As fas as the Nexus guy having his barrel right in the other dude's face, well maybe, he shouldn't have ran right into it.

That argument goes both ways fella.

"Well he shouldn't have ran his forehead into my carbon fiber wrapped tank 11 times. "

[50 cal]

Stickin' your barrel that close to someones face is waaaay outta line.
All the "heat of the moment" players will chime in, I know. But still that's uncalled for. And we wonder why fights break out at p-ball games?

[p8ntballsnowman]

Bad things happen when u use SP

[LongDuckDong]

Exactly 50 cal, and it does happen.. maybe I will do it someday on accident, and if I do you can bet I will make sure the guy is ok and fall over my self apologizing to him/her. That's just good sportsmanship.

My most cherished trophies are my sportsmanship trophies. Two reasons, only 1 person gets it and it says out of everyone, I played the most honorably. I love paintball.. I have played it since it first started here in Northern California with my Nel-Spot 007. If I saw other people playing like they do today I don't think I would still be playing. I am 25 now and was very young when I first started playing, what kept me coming back for more was everyone had fun.

Seriously... isn't that why we all play? I know we aren't playing for the "huge" cash prizes, lol

Maybe it's because back then we were all such a small and close group... to everyone else we were a bunch of wackos dressed in camo shooting "fake guns" at eachother in the woods, hehe. I don't know how many times we had the police called on us when we would all meet in front of the local McDonalds for breakfast before a game.

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

from that angle it kinda looks like the barrel was against the tank

[Johnny_Reb]

from that angle it kinda looks like the barrel was against the tank

Looks that way to me too, he may have taken one or two in the head but I think most of the paint hit the tank, hence him dropping the gun.

[goat]

I got it all figured out

here is my Perry mason response.....It looks to me like the player from the Ton Tons was coming to do the Nexus player and got pounded on by a back player as well as the guy he going to do....if you look in the background you can see an upright beer can that has loads of paint on it, if you have played enough sup air than you know that its tough to get paint to break on the curved parts of the bunker and easier on the side that is facing you (now note the paint on the bunker), Also the Ton Ton player is standing (falling into the bunker)and the Nexus player is on a knee (this points towards the ton ton coming to do the other guy)...also noticed that alot of the paint is on the left side of the guys head and body...from the position of the laydown beer can and the ton ton in the pic he (the ton ton) would have had to run at the nexus guy basically sideway which also points to the theory of a Nexus back (or mid) player chewing him up just before he got nailed by the Nexus guy who is kneeling.
In my opinion....they are called high risk moves for a reason.

Great picture.
Perry "goat" Mason

[SIGSays]

dude that;s not cool.. once i got hit in the back of the head from 2 feet and i was out.... had a headache for 5 days...

[xXHavokXx]

Yeah i think the Ton Ton got hit coming in and a prolly caught one or two from the guy he came to do. maybe didnt think hed be on that side.

also
the brit's gun is on the frenchie's tank, the shot that just exploded on the hand is probably from a back player either that or he moved his hand to cover his head and the splatter is from the brits shots to the tank

[AlabamaMan]

Originally posted by Troy
-To the people who are saying the Nexus guy overshot.

How do you know it is just that dude's paint on him? It could be a combination of the back guy paint and this dude's paint(the ball about to hit frenchie's gun is not from either player in the pic). Without being there or seeing a video it is imposible to tell if this is overshooting.

This is exactley what i've been thinking the whole time. It's not like this was a one on one game. I know my backmen won't let up on a guy thats trying to bunker me until he stops and turns around. One of my teammates put 8 on me from less than 2 feet away in practice. It hurt, but whateve. It's the way the game is played.

[unknownguy]

complete and total ownage

[unknownguy]

sig pic for me

[Albinonewt]

That picture is great. I would guess that the firer got a little suprised by this guy showing up there very close and very fast, but maybe next time a little more control is in order.