To Cheat or Not to Cheat?

[hAppy]

There's a thread on Pbnation that has players insisting that cheating is normal and the correct thing to do

Just wanted to hear your opinions on cheating. Is it acceptable and agreeable? Would you cheer on a "good whipe"?

[SuiciDal Sn Y p ER]

cheating has sadly become a normal part of paintball in most areas now. The refs don't enforce the rules, they just want to get the day over with and get paid and players find more unique ways of cheating.

[warthog2t0]

sad but true!

solution bounces ball the refs!

[TheTramp]

If paint breaks on me I leave the field. It's as simple as that.

[shatter_storm]

Cheating ruins the game. Anyone I see cheating will be called on it and reported to the refs. If I ever ref, anyone I see cheating will be pulled from the game and DQ'd.

I keep the pure attitute that we play pball to have fun, not to win. Anybody that feels they need to cheat to win shouldn't be playing the game.

[usmc8892]

Very disturbing. It's always that 10% that want to ruin it for the rest of us. Cheaters have no skill, and no honor.

[Chris42050]

It's crazy how bad it has gotten. When my friends and I used to play in High School we would even count the bounces.

[GotMag?]

i have never once cheated in a game of paintball, im glad i can say that, i believe that most pro teams cheat, so other pro teams have to cheat to beat them. I believe that as bad as that is, its now a part of the game, but i think under NO circumstances should cheating become part of rec ball, thats why i like it, if people start to always cheat, then i think i will be done with pball

[pointm@n]

There's a thread on Pbnation that has players insisting that cheating is normal and the correct thing to do

Just wanted to hear your opinions on cheating. Is it acceptable and agreeable? Would you cheer on a "good whipe"?

Why is there even a thread for it. There should only be one answer, NO CHEATING!

[paint magnet]

Why does anyone even bother with PBNation anymore? (or to begin with, for that matter)

Anyway, as it has been said, cheating is, unfortunately, present, in tournaments. That's no different than what you will find in other professional sport. And, just as with any other sport, cheating ruins it for the honest players. To cheat or not to cheat? I think it's sad that we've come to a point where anyone would need to ask a question like that.

[trains are bad]

In my ethics I draw a strict distinction between tourney ball and recball. When I play recball, woodsball, or scenario games, I call myself out-sometimes it turns out they bounced. This is the honor system. Any person who cannot hold themselves to the honor system has no moral character.

In tourney ball, I don't cheat...no, not me. That is, I never get caught. I play tourney ball to win. In any sport, (whether it be racing, golf, bass fishing, basketball...) it is the player's job to get away with as much as he can. It is the mark of the thourough player to run the letter of the rules. That said, I never wipe or play on...no, not me

It distresses me that there are not MUCH harsher penalties for cheating, considering how game-changing it can be. Paintball's organizing bodies are a joke.

[Destructo6]

Flame baiting. Don't feed the trolls.

[Stix]

I was thinkin' about joining a pb team a friend was starting up. I decided to play on pratice day w/ his team to see what it's like. Everyone was getting ready for IAO, so I figured it would be a good way to see how tourney ball is. So I'm covering the tape, and I see this guy run up, and thusly I shoot the crap outta him. I have no idea why, he sees me covering tape, and he's literally running up 40 feet from his previous bunker wide in the open. I figure he's out, so I start trying to shoot at other targets... And then I get clocked in the head by the same guy I shot out! As I pull in my bunker to check for a hit a ref comes over and says, "That guy you shot out, that other ref wiped his hits, so I'm wiping your hit". And all the while I'm aruging w/ the ref, they run right up to me and bunker the hell outta me, including people I KNOW our team has already shot out!

I walk off the field pissed as all hell, and I complain to the ref's... and this is what they told me, "This is how paintball is, deal. You can't play competitive ball if you don't cheat." I figure it's one thing for players to cheat... but ref's assisting players in wiping?! How the heck do they get better if that's the case? Or do they pay off the ref's during tourney time too? That's ridiculous. If that's how tourney ball is... screw that, I'm just going to play bandit ball from now on.

[trains are bad]

The problem isn't paintball. But yeah I feel your pain. It's a joke.

[tony3]

Cheating in paintball is something you just got to turn your shoulder to when you see it I guess. It is here to stay, and there is really nothing you can do about it.