To Tom Kaye..... unleash the HAMMER

[Creative Mayhem]

I'm in... depending on when I can kill the boss and get the time off that is neccessary to drag my canadian behind down there

[Crimson_Turkey]

I would kill to show off my new high end mech gun at this place. .5mm trigger length and 2.5oz weight. Perfect oppertunity to get people to drool again.

[Mr. T!]

too bad mech only tourney would isolate about 95% of the paintball tournament scene. not very smart

[NJPaint]

Originally posted by Mr. T!
too bad mech only tourney would isolate about 95% of the paintball tournament scene. not very smart

not in the mag community... Every mag ever made can shoot in mech mode

[yeahthatsme]

i think big teams would actually be interested in playing, becuase of the tv coverage and whatnot, it think that if this was promoted right it could be HUGE and be great for the sport and for AGD.

[Ronin 23]

Why go MECHS ONLY

One of the reasons that I would love to see this is because I'm so sick and tired of the hypocrisy within the industry. In everyone's Rule Book, competition markers are suppose to shoot ONLY IN SEMI AUTOMATIC MODE. ONE PULL OF THE TRIGGER SHOULD RESULT ONE BALL COMING OUT OF THE BARREL.

But with the advent of the 'Electronic Era' and the evolution the high-end tournament markers, certain "cheater" boards have been produced and distributed for the sole purpose of achieving the physically unachievable.

Enough is enough. Let skill and talent be the determining factor on the field.

Let the young player KNOW THE TRUTH....IT'S NOT THE BPS THAT COUNTS, IT'S GETTING INTO POSITION TO HIT WHAT YOU AIM AT THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT.

[Chojin Man]

Um ya so who is going to host this event(foot the bill), and where is it going to be? No one has yet answered this.

Sounds like a good idea to me. I would support a limited paint tourney as cphil suggested. Could you have both limited paint and unlimited in the same tourney but under different "classes"?

[Tyger]

Originally posted by Mr. T!
too bad mech only tourney would isolate about 95% of the paintball tournament scene. not very smart

That's ok.

the tournament style of play isolates out 95% of the rec-ball scene. So we're all even.

Besides. Two words. "Spyder Cup". Were they hurtin' for players? No. You make something happen, and you let people know it's going to happen with enough forward notice, then people will come and play it.

-Tyger

[Tyger]

Re: One Problem

Originally posted by Josh2Xtremes
I'm not trying to burst any bubbles or shoot anything down, but show me da money.
Josh

Let's get the concepts down first, so we have a base. Then, once we can all agree on what we want, we can do it.

It's like ordering a pizza before you've talked to everyone in the room? "Ok, I got the pizza guy on the phone. What do we want?"

"PEPPERONI!"
"Canadian bacon and pineapple!" "ME TOO EH!"
"VEGGIES!!! I can't eat meat!"
"MEAT!!! I don't like veggies!"
"Get a TACO pizza!"
"Plain cheese!!!"

"Umm, dude? Can I call you back?"

Let's not put the cart before the horse, let's get a 'plan', then make it happen. Things work better if you do things that way.

-Tyger

[kenndogg]

personally I think the key here is prizes. Make the prizes worthwhile and use it as a marketing point. It has to be something that makes people go whoa and not care what type of guns they're using. Take a look at the spyder cup, you had to use spyders but no one cared b/c they have a chance to win vehicles.

[cphilip]

Well again. And I am going to be very adamant on this point. If you want to put the skil back into the game you gotta do limited paint. Seriously. You can throw out enough paint with todays Mechanicals to still kill the whole movement of the game. Lucky balls in the air with no reprecusion to the limit is the death of this game. If we limit it to reasonable thought levels like four or five pods we are not doing anything BUT increase the skill of the game to where it needs to be. In my opinion unlimited paint on the field is the death knell of the sport. What army gets in a battle that has unlimited ammo? What does unlimited indescriminant balls in the air do to movement and all? It kills it! It is the devil of the whole thing. If you limit to four or five pods then people have to think! But yet they still have enough paint to lane shoot when the team is moving. Anyone with a half a lick of skill can play back with five pods. Anyone! If you gotta have more then your just a hacker. A paint thrower. A no skilz paint sloppper. Anyone can do that crap.

Go mechanical but LIMIT PAINT AND RETURN THE SKILL!!!!

I am serious on this Mel. I will be the area guy for you if you want me to be but I gotta have this one thing to get behind it all 100%. It's the key to getting kids and even the old guys back into the tournanment scene and getting skill back into the game along with Mechanical Markers. The two go hand in hand. I am certain of that.

[cphilip]

Example: we practice our teams with one pod and a hopper. So they HAVE to learn to snap shoot and have to learn to communicate their moving. So the back guy KNOWS when to waste his limited paint. This works very well. No kid ends up using more than three pods in a game when they do this. They learn this and they do VERY well after they do. They learn to snap shoot and they learn to communicate. They still flood lanes but they do it on command and when they need too.


You got teams out there now that do not. They just shoot indescriminantly and brag about HOW MANY POD they use! No real purpose to MOST of that paint! No skill. Just throw it. No purpose just flood the entire area for the whole game HOPEING one will hit someone. I find that repuslive. And I find it the primary reason people want these markers the Q shots and spray fast. They got no skill in the cranium! They gotta overcome that with just shear volume. I think its time the smart player be rewarded and given a chance to show what the brain can do with enough paint. This forces those sprayers to think. And learn.

[Toxic Dave]

Some thoughts;

Tyger, Your racing analogy is close, but not accurate. NASCAR(nextel cup more accurately) is the equivelant to the mechanical-only event you guys want to do. The F-1/ IRL guys are running technology in their cars that the hicks in Nascar would kill for. Heck the Supercharger in my Mini is illegal in Nascar. But the 600+ hp that is produced by their normally aspirated cars is still pretty insane.

CPhilip;
It's unusual for Xball players to reload in a game, with the bounciest triggers in all the land, so it wouldn't be really much of a challenge for alot of players to be limited on paint.

The whole concept is cool, I'd be more interested in seeing a IROC type of thing done, where only X type of marker is used, and the player gets to do very little or no work on it before the match.

Seek;
2 Words-Evolution Autococker SP distribution, and one of the finest markers made.

I'm skeptical as to the television coverage, etc. but I think it's a concept worth looking into.

dave

[wyn1370]

I still think this is a pipe dream. Sure it may be a great idea, but it would take a hell of a lot more support than is ever going to come from this board. Yeah sure you say have faith, but if major industry sponsored tourneys can't get majorly televised how is a small time field and store owner going to pull it off?

[Patron God of Pirates]

Well, my RTP is sick of playing second banana to my E-Mag, so I'm down for it. I like cphilips idea of limited paint.

Anyone in the Ocean County area feel like putting a mech team together?