Jeremy Salm...Captain Team Aftershock

[UltimatePaintballer]

what happened to jeremy salm, anything like the ed poorman incident

[fire1811]

ahh all very good points cphilip
but it doesnt change the fact he IS back and nothing we say here will change it.


i really do hope that if something as drastic as that incident happens again that they will have a better punishment. can they make him quit paintball completly and get all the leagues to ban him. i truly doubt it.
it would be nice if they could all come to an agreement like that but there is always the "good ole boy" system where they will take care of the ppl they like

[Sir_Brass]

Originally posted by tony3
Well salm is a great paintballer, and made a mistake, you guys are acting like he shot the president.

p.s. the announcer during chicago open was ripping on salm so much, it was so funny

He didn't make a 'mistake'. He MEANT to cheat. It was deliberate and intentional and he knew it was cheating. He's a professional and should've been held to professional standards. As the standards go up in expectations (not on skill or whatever, but rather in character and ethical behavior), the harsher the consequences should be. A one year ban is fine for an amature who does something like that, but Salm was a professional. He should be banned. Like I said, a professional who violates his profession's ethics should no longer be allowed into that profession ever again, let alone be let back in and allowed to captain a team.

Salm was given a slap on the wrist and some of you seem to think that he was treated appropriately.

Appropriate punishment would've been public condemnation of Salm's actions by the entire team, and to ban Salm from playing professional paintball for the rest of his life.

As others have pointed out, players in other professional sports have been appropriately banned for life from their sport for so-called 'lesser' violations.

If it were up to me, a pro paintballer would be indefinately suspended from all leagues for simply wiping, and immediately banned from playing paintball if he ever did something like what Salm did.

[UltimatePaintballer]

but what did he do?!?!?!?!?

[pito189]

I just thought that it's pretty interesting that Aftershock still has all it's sponsors after that decision.

[GT]

Originally posted by krafty

Who knows how many games Salm tarnished on that day?

ISnt that the scary part. I really wish that someday we could have true proffesionalism in paintball, BTW that all starts with the manufactures. One big reason why you dont see more Pros using AKA rigs

There is a complete lack of proffesional skills in paintball. This is only one of many reasons paintball is not ready for TV.

[UltimatePaintballer]

omg, what happened to salm and the aka regs/rigs

[Python14]

At the 2k2 NPPL World Cup, he called sick one morning and thus did not play. Ed filled his place on the field, whilst Jeremy "The Sniper" Salm did other things....
Before the Avalanche .vs. GZ Black game(or was it gold?), Jeremy borrowed a matrix from I believe Lockout, and put on a bunch of black clothes. During the game, jeremy sat in the woods behind the field and shot out several Groundzero players. Well, Mr. U(Pete Utshing of GZ) noticed some movement in the woods and took off running. Jeremy saw Pete and began to run for his life(LOL...Mr. U eats kindergardeners for brunch he's so powerful). Jeremy got caught pretty quickly and admitted to everything.

The game was called and everyone who had played avalanche before that game recieve 96 points and everyone after got a By-game.

Avalanche was thrown from the tournament....to much shame I might add.

And Jeremy was banned from the NPPL for two years.

Short and skinny...Jeremy Salm shot players from off the field like a Vietnamese Sniper in Nam. He cheated like you've never seen cheating before..Jeremy Salm is a douche.

[Automaggot68]

I couldn't have said it any better, Python. Amen.

[UltimatePaintballer]

lol oh i heard about that, i thought ed poorman did the shooting, thats why chris lasoya quick avalanche

[deadeye9]

For those, like me, who didn't know the story:

http://www.palmer-pursuit.com/paintball-terrorists.htm

[Jack & Coke]

It would not surprize me if the majority of successful tournament ballers are chronic expert cheaters.

I wonder if the skills and abilities to not get caught cheating rank just as high as snap shooting, superman dives, and extremely animated hissy fits.

[Python14]

LOL....Ole Gloryboy quit after the event, along with most of 'lanche because well, the team was done for.

I think Lasoya was a little jealous, someone had cheated worse and gotten more attention than he usually does.

[abaez]

Uhh if that story is true about him in the woods he should not play at the pro level anymore period.

[SyntaxError]

Originally posted by cphilip
BS! NO ONE HAS EVER BEFORE CHEATED TO ALTER THE GAME WHILE NOT EVEN IN THE GAME!!!!

LOL!

Whatever dude, look at Dynasty having every event rigged for them, I'd seriously love someone to try and defend their last fiasco where the Naughty Dogs shot em and hung the flag only to be told that the game never started? What is this, like 1984? I don't think so.

I've had spectators coach me during games, thats altering the game without being in.

Refs cheat for teams all the time. PRO reffing is an absolute joke, its funded by WDP and guess what, they sponsor Dynasty. Also more than half of the NPPL refs aren't PRO refs, I knew more than half of the refs at NPPL NJ and I doubt they took any reffing course.

And finally, considering Ed Poorman is a whiney stoner punk who orchestrated the whole incident cuz he was fed up with Salm and Lasoya and realized that they would leave to start what is now Miami Effect, I say good luck Salm, cap some punks.

EDIT: And yes I realize that I'm talking about a PSP event in terms of the Dynasty/Dogs game, and PRO refs arent involved, but it isn't hard to influence reffing, hell I've had refs wipe me off during games, I won't lie.