LOL, check this out. PB Fight during X-ball game

[ICOM]

interesting...Refs should of knew better but we dont know the whole story so....

[KornKamp02]

Originally posted by elpimpo


do you know how pissed off the teams would get if you just stopped it. i know i would try and kill the refs

that still doesn't mean you should just let 5 or so guys laying on the field with their masks off so some guys can play 1 game. I know I wouldn't be mad if that happened while I was playing. And, if yopu try and kill osmeone let it be the cameraman, the refs were doin there job. refs don't get enough respect.

[cphilip]

Originally posted by G-Rock


I thought the same thing cphilip the first time i saw it, but then i watched it again and the guy they are retrainging in end is Lane Wright. it is confusing because he is wearing a red shirt like the refs.

chris geiger

But he is not the Photographer? I am confused. Course he had a right to be pissed if the Photographer was swinging at him.

I realize the players would have been pissed but you could have stopped it and started the whole game over. And there is a general stoppage rule that freezes the game in most sets of rules. When goggles come off then the game and all shooting must stop though. If it can be done.

[swat150]

Well at least the refs did somthin right, by covering the 2 guy's faces up so they wouldnt get hit in the eyes or temples

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Hmm the Crowd dosent help either, they just chant fight.

[G-Rock]

Originally posted by cphilip


But he is not the Photographer? I am confused. Course he had a right to be pissed if the Photographer was swinging at him.

Teh guy in teh white was the photographer, and guy they are retraining is Lane. It looks like to me that lane was trying to talk to him more, maybe heatedly, and the refs were restrainging him to let it die down and all.

chris

[Josh2Xtremes]

GO LANE!

It's really pretty simple stuff if you examine the facts. Lane had every right to ask the videographer to leave, Lane was the duly appointed representative of the PSP on the field. While still photography is allowed on all fields at the PSP's events, the rights to videotape the events has been sold to certain companies and certain entities only. All others are not allowed to film games. All the years I've been a photographer attending NPPL, PSP, etc... events I've been asked for a press pass a handful of times total. They simply aren't taken seriously. The referees don't consider it their jobs to check press passes and that's probably true, and most people off the street believe themselves to be paintball photographers who have a right to go anywhere and do anything they like, like this clown, who has given my entire profession and the professionals within it a bad name. If the guy wanted to come up swinging after he was essentially caught doing something he wasn't allowed to be doing, that's his business, but I for one applaud Lane for returning the favor and I hope charges were pressed. Oh and um...go refs!

[cphilip]

I highly agree Mr Silverman.

[elpimpo]

Originally posted by KornKamp02
that still doesn't mean you should just let 5 or so guys laying on the field with their masks off so some guys can play 1 game. I know I wouldn't be mad if that happened while I was playing. And, if yopu try and kill osmeone let it be the cameraman, the refs were doin there job. refs don't get enough respect.

you pay over a grand to play a tourney and we'll see if your thoughts change. if it was down to like a 3 on 1 and your team had three and they stop the game you just lost a point and the next game the other team could go out and smoke you. i think they did the right thing. they made sure noone got hurt.

[Josh2Xtremes]

Rock on

Thank you very much Mr. Awesome moderator type guy.

[yeahthatsme]

Originally posted by elpimpo

you pay over a grand to play a tourney and we'll see if your thoughts change. if it was down to like a 3 on 1 and your team had three and they stop the game you just lost a point and the next game the other team could go out and smoke you. i think they did the right thing. they made sure noone got hurt.

honestly i doubt those teams payed entry, thats what sponsors are for.

honestly, i think its the ref's fault. they should be checking passes and they should know the rules. its a PROFESSIONAL league. if the ref's dont know the rules then they shouldnt be on the field. plus the game should have been over the second the fight broke out.

edited for spelling, i type too fast....

[GT]

Originally posted by yeahthatsme
a few things...
1. if he didnt have a pass why was he let on the field?
2. if filming on the field isnt allowed then why did the refs let him on the field?
3. if goggles came off why was the game allowed to continue?

IMHO they should have stopped the game when they realised the guy shouldnt be on the field.

Like I have said a million times paintball is not even near TV professionalism. Are we really much more than a hobby?

[cphilip]

Re: Rock on

Originally posted by Josh2Xtremes
Thank you very much Mr. Awesome moderator type guy.

Oh and Josh... get your arse down here to AO day SE Nov 22nd. I spring for your dinner and maybe put you up in the camper at the field?

[ubooze]

I agree with G-Rock!!! Those refs did a damn good job of maing sure those two people didn't get their eyes shot out. The question of why and how he got on the field arises..... and why didn't anyone do anything. Also, trying to take the camera from the guy isn't too nice, I think it could have been handeled more appropriately. I was shocked by how well the refs reacted to the situation and all, they did an awesome job.

[KornKamp02]

Originally posted by elpimpo

you pay over a grand to play a tourney and we'll see if your thoughts change. if it was down to like a 3 on 1 and your team had three and they stop the game you just lost a point and the next game the other team could go out and smoke you. i think they did the right thing. they made sure noone got hurt.

i don't think they would end the game I think they would start it over, and the fee is what sponsors are for.