What would you consider overshooting?

[White_Noise]

just figured id share a lil story about making sure the person is out. while playing a 5 man tourney a few weeks agowe had it down to like a 4 on 3 in our favor and i was sitting at the 50. one bunker had a great lane on me that stopped me from getting the flag. the guy in the bunker however didnt see me and was shooting at my teammate and was hanging out of his bunker. i put about 5 balls in the air at him, as i was pulling in i saw a break on him. i pop out again, and see the ref checking him, but dont see the shot that i know broke on his chest. needless to say, as the ref was standing right next to him, the guy took 5 more balls to his side so there was no questions on whether or not he was out.

i do this whenever a ref is checking someone, if the person isnt smart enough to pull in while a ref is checking them theyre getting atleast 5 balls put on them to make sure theyre out.

[frop]

just figured id share a lil story about making sure the person is out. while playing a 5 man tourney a few weeks agowe had it down to like a 4 on 3 in our favor and i was sitting at the 50. one bunker had a great lane on me that stopped me from getting the flag. the guy in the bunker however didnt see me and was shooting at my teammate and was hanging out of his bunker. i put about 5 balls in the air at him, as i was pulling in i saw a break on him. i pop out again, and see the ref checking him, but dont see the shot that i know broke on his chest. needless to say, as the ref was standing right next to him, the guy took 5 more balls to his side so there was no questions on whether or not he was out.

i do this whenever a ref is checking someone, if the person isnt smart enough to pull in while a ref is checking them theyre getting atleast 5 balls put on them to make sure theyre out.

some would call that overshooting, but like you said, its their fault for not getting behind cover. now if the ref calls them neutral, thats another story

[White_Noise]

true, if a ref calls someone neutral than that is different. but for all the tourneys that ive been to/ played in ive never seen a player called neutral. theyre either in or out. if theyre still in, theyre gettin hit again, if theyre out but not showing it good enough, not going fast enough, theyre getting hit again too.

[madmolly]

Story

Ok a couple weeks ago at a tourney my mid guy got lit up. He was shot probably 8 times and called himself out. He got up with his marker raised then took another 5 or 6. Then the ref came over to protect him and they both took at least a dozen more. At least a dozen. Then when they got to the deadbox before they could get in they each took 5 or 6 more from this team. Granted most of the team was still in and it was multiple players shooting him but come on. I being the team captain hollered out that should be a 1 for 1 and was promptly told to shut up. Nice eh. I don't even know why we have rules meetings anymore. No one we play against cares about them. Just pisses me off.

[White_Noise]

dedicated tourney?

[madmolly]

Won't say

I won't say where becuase I don't want to bring bad press to anyone.

[madmolly]

hey

Mag/cocker lover what team do you play for?

[hitech]

The biggest cause of over shooting is over inflated egos. So many people playing paintball (all kinds of paintball, not just tournaments) have huge egos. They can't bring themselves to properly signal their elimination and just walk off the field. Is it any wonder that they get shot numerous times on their way out? And it's not just the eliminated player's ego that is a problem. You have those who think they must have hit you and you wiped so they are going to get a little payback. I'll never forget hearing this conversation (after a rec. ball game); "He had to have wiped, I'm a better shot than that.". With so many people who think they MUST have hit their opponent when they haven't and so many players refusing to properly signal their elimination it's a wonder that everyone isn't overshot every time they are eliminated.

[wanna-b-ballin']

5 in bunkering. 6-7 In runs. 15 off the break. Off the break the back guys are mowing, if you cross into a lane youre asking for it.

Rec ball;

3 if they own a spyder
3 for a mag
3 for a tippy
95 for a Dragun gun.

i'd say over 5 for rec ball. hey havok. u saying i should be shoot 95 times for having a TES????

[JRingold]

Rec, Im gonna be slightly nicer mind you... and will generally go for the pack/gun shots... and the volume of paint isnt going to be nearly as high to begin with...

I'd rather take two or three in the bare chest than one in the gun.

The problem with overshooting in recball is that the noob that usually ends up getting overshot is trying to figure out if it broke or not and thinking about yelling "paint check" so you give him a few more just to make certain and he becomes upset.

The worst overshoot I've ever seen was where the dude put up his hand and the opponent decided to play target practice aiming for his hand over the bunker... That was a day ender...

[-Tab]

i really don't get to freaked out if i get overshot - yea, i'm not gonna be happy if i get shot 14 times, but i'm not gonna make a big deal of it

now - if the player's close and it was intentional; he's probably got somethin comin from me

[xXHavokXx]

i'd say over 5 for rec ball. hey havok. u saying i should be shoot 95 times for having a TES????

Yes.

[firebanex]

3 is fine for rec ball but the "rec ball" i get to play every one has timmys so it doesn't matter cause your gonna get hit atleast once and then when you stand up you'll get at least 6 more then you sprint for the dead box and hope you doen't get hit any more.

[codeman35]

That's funny, when you left on saturday I got in trouble when we went to fort for shooting too fast. Yet, the guy that was shooting at me had his impulse shooting just as fast as I was and nobody said anything to him. Now I know why you thought it was a bunch of crap when you got yelled at last weekend. Sorry if this was off topic.

Cody

[Kallahan]

Funny I was playing rec once, I'm in a snake on a speedball field, he's sitting in the back and we are snaping at each other, well I nail him in the hopper and yell at him to check his hopper. He ducks back into the bunker for a bit so I post up on him, he then comes out of the bunker with his marker pointed at me, so I lite him up with 3 or 4 shots. He goes ballistic, screaming and cussing at me for shooting him when he was allready out, I was not at all sure I hit his hooper BTW, thats why I posted up on him. Well anyway he heads out the other side of the bunker and a newbie nails him right in the back of the head on his way to the dead box (Which btw was on the other side of the bunker he poped out of when I lit him up). The ref comes over to the newbie (who is maybe 10 yrs old) and says "He deserved it that time for being an idiot, but don't do it again."

I almost collasped at that time in laughter.

anyway, back to the subject matter, when people are shooting 15+ bps, you're going to get lit up, it's after the player has identified himself as dead when overshooting starts.