Strange Occurrences or pure BS

[Athius]

Well yesterday a guy just turn on his tank and the vertical asa of his intimidator blew off.

[StygShore]

bouncin

I have been the victim of the bounce at Atomix and T.I.P. - Usually they say at Atomix that shooting the cieling is not allowed, but it still happens to me at least once a day out there. T.I.P. was an almost every game ocurrence when I was down there last year.

Sitting deep behind a bunker watching a stream of paint hit the cieling and deflect down 10 inches in front of me slpattering and pooling up - tell me that guy hadn't done that before!!!


Styg

[athomas]

I just remembered a funny occurance. We were playing a big game. About 100 on 100. Our team cleaned out one of the towns and most of our team moved on to another part of the field. Three or four of us went to get the last guy in the corner behind a large horizontal stack of pallets before we moved on as well. A couple of guys layed down a stream of paint to hold the guy in and I went around the pallet about 10 feet out to the side. As I moved past the pallet, I yelled "Surrender!". To my surprise, about 10 guys put their hands up and walked off. Our guys had a big laugh. They probably would have had a bigger laugh if the opposition had lit me up. That could have been bad. Imagine 10 guys each putting 3 or 4 balls on you. Ouch.

[RoadDawg]

Originally posted by athomas
I just remembered a funny occurance. We were playing a big game. About 100 on 100. Our team cleaned out one of the towns and most of our team moved on to another part of the field. Three or four of us went to get the last guy in the corner behind a large horizontal stack of pallets before we moved on as well. A couple of guys layed down a stream of paint to hold the guy in and I went around the pallet about 10 feet out to the side. As I moved past the pallet, I yelled "Surrender!". To my surprise, about 10 guys put their hands up and walked off. Our guys had a big laugh. They probably would have had a bigger laugh if the opposition had lit me up. That could have been bad. Imagine 10 guys each putting 3 or 4 balls on you. Ouch.

I had something similar to this happen. Except it was like a 25 vs 25 game. Me and 2 others went down a hall and 1 snap shots at me and hits several inches away from me and I snapped a couple back and just barely missed. Well me and the other 2 slowly start moving up and we hear "we surrender!" So we let them come out and there was at least 7 of the 25 to our 3 come out with their arms up. It was funny.

[The Deacon]

At a local scenario/big game, this kid was shooting down at myself and this guy I knew. We were just dodging his balls (it was a distance of probably 175 yards and an uphill shot with the wind in our faces) for a few miunutes, and my gun was chronoed in low, so I couldn't hit him. The guy I know looks at me and says, "I'm gonig to try something," and rips off a string on his Angel, tilted high. The kid pops out from behind the tree and gets hit by EVERY SINGLE BALL. Couldn't stop laughing after that one. And yes, he was chronoed in to a legal speed.

[Tyril]

My first rec-airball game I went two on three with a couple of friends, armed only with my purdy blue phantom and a bandolier of ten-round-tubes.

I ran to our 40 off the break, and started ducking out into the fire of the semi-toting opposition, trying to see what they were up to. I was extremely suprised, having not played airball before, at the utter lack of visibility one has when tucked in behind those booming airbags.

When I located the source of the oncoming fire - a can bunker housing two enemies, I popped out to fire... only to hear 'pop-hissss', the dreaded sound of a 12 gram running out of gas. A bit scared of being bunkered, I kept my head popping in and out while I was reloading, as if looking for a good shot. Suddenly, I saw one of my friends moving up, presumably on me.

As the 'thump-thump-thump' of his fire rained down on me, I tightened on the quick-seal, hoped for the best, and popped
up over the bunker, pumping off two quick rounds.

Much to my suprise, my first round collided with one of the incoming projectiles, bursting both in a mist of gelatin. Even more suprising, the second managed to tag my running friend, center mass.


Maybe not the most impressive occurance ever, but sure-as-hell impressive for a newbie pumper playing airball for the first time.

(BTW, that game ended with me sneaking around the snake and eleminating both remaining confused enemies.)


-mike

[Ov3rmind]

I was watching a 1 on 1 at a local field about two years ago. Both guys popped out to snap shoot at the same time and several of their shots collided in mid-air. It was the coolest looking thing ever. Everyone just paused for a few seconds (even the guys playing), then they started to play again.

[Hamster Huey]

I was playing some speedball 2 summers ago at Triangle Paintball in Raleigh, NC. It was a 5 on 5 game, give or take. Our team had lost one guy but managed to score a couple eliminations on the left side, leaving the flank weak. I ran up the tape and got completely behind the other team without being spotted. The nearest opponent was about 50 ft. away from me, and I had a completely open shot at his back. I didn't want to light up the guy too badly so I fired off two shots. The first one sailed over his head. The second one hit the lid of his hopper and bounced, causing the lid to flip open. The guy didn't notice at all and kept on playing. I was about to let loose another couple rounds when he got shot and eliminated by one of my teammates. Of course, the guy raises his gun to walk off the field and whoosh - out come all his paintballs, adding insult to injury. I felt a little bad, but I must admit I got nice little chuckle out of the whole thing.

[Enigma4you]

I got hit in the hand at Gold dragon, the ref saw me get hit in the hand and called me out, I didnt say a word, just opened my hand and was holding an unbroken ball, I was surprised and stunned, the ref motioned that I was still in, I did the deadman walk up to the guy that shot me and barrel tagged him. then gave him his paintball back

[WicKeD_WaYz]

Once I was driving off the field for lunch in my truck, there was still a game being played and I drove right past it with my windows down. A ball came through my driver window, out my passenger window right in front of my and my buddy, and hit some dude walking by right in the goggles. I thought it was pretty tight.

[Wes Janson]

Was playing at my field, in a heavily mismatched game. 11 versus 26, we had the stronger side of the field but were badly outgunned and outnumbered. As I started to advance up the side, my mag suddenly stops functioning...shooting an effective shot only 1/2 or 1/3 of the time. I snuck up the side and opened fire on a group of people at long range, but only got bounces because of the low velocity. As I was moving forward to attempt a closer attack, some guy in the brush near me opened up. As I dove for cover I took easily 3-4 shots, and continued taking bounces and hits as I stood up, until finally he figured out that I was dead and stopped bonus balling. The refs had yelled at him to stop firing, my dad had yelled at him to stop, and I had shouted at him. I stand up, and look at my right shoulder, where he had hit me once or twice on the same spot. A ball had hit, broke, and stuck onto it's own paint. It was almost completely intact, an empty shell. I just plucked it off and threw it at him, then walked away.

[Gabriel]

one time at a recgame it was down to my best bud and I, and he was hiding behind a bunker that I was just laying paint down on, untill I ran out of paint. I looked around real quick and saw ONE ball that had rolled to me, so I hurried up and shoved that in. By now he was snap-shooting back and I decided to make a run. As I was running I ACCIDENTALLY shot (had just got a trig. job done and wasnt used to the light pull) and the ball hit right at the base of the pallett-bunker. I thought I was screwed untill he jumped up using every word he knew to basically saw 'how the heck did that happen' pointing to a big splat on his knee. The ball found its way through a small hole where the bunker rested on the ground (kind of like a dog digs under a fence, but really, really small). I played it off like a 'dead-eye' shot, but it was pure luck. Never had anything like that happen ever again.

Gabe

[68magOwner]

i was in the deadbox when i saw that as one of my team mates was reloading, he pulled a pod out of his pack, and a ball went inyo the loop that he had just pulled his pack out of and stayed there (horizontal pods) i went an pulled out the ball after the game to make shure my eyes wernt fooling me. also, i got shot at, and a ball wedged itself in-between two of the fingers that i was grabbing my foregrip with, it didnt break, but just stuck in between the 2 fingers, lucky me

edit (Reading posts above me)- i also shot a guy in his hopper causing it to open and spill out all his paint.

[Mag Master 04]

i have herd of balls coliding inthe air but its nuts when it happens multiple times in a few seconds, maybe 3 or 4 shots hit each other in mid air and created a paint mist and rained down on the taco, it was nuts, i have also experienced the ball down the barrel, and i was on good end but my favorite is boucing the balls off air ball bunkers and hitting yur opposition, haha i love it, but it sucks when the ref is close and u either hit him or he sees you do it and pulls yur arm band, haha

[xXHavokXx]

I saw a guy open his revvy to reload and a single shot blow the lid off.

I watched as a paintball deflect off my lens and gog a ref.