Post your Reffing Experience / Experiences with refs

[Lohman446]

Im playing the other day, just fooling around its 3 on 3 and I take a spot in the back stand up. Im normally a front player and know the other team will be looking for me, so I post out and get good aim down one tape, just waiting. A ref walks out and I get him. Now I yell to me team. I got (ref's name) I got... over and over. A moment later I snap shoot out the other side and accidently gog another ref. I gogged (ref) I gogged... Now Im moving up the field and in a bunker near the first ref I shot. I've lost count so I call back to my team. How many left how many left. I'm told 1 so Im like alright. The ref I shot first looks at me laughing. He tells me hes counting refs I shot... theres still all three left...

[Loud Tim]

ok heres one
reffing division 1 xball at the northeast open. nicki vegas from excessive gets shot and proceeds to play on and pull a run through. my buddy sees the paint break, jumps in frot of him and spears him to the ground before he can play on it was awsome

[LittlePaintballBoy]

Now how many people can say they sacked Nicki Vegas in the name of reffing?

[Flip]

cool

I've been reffing since the early 90's, luckily it's been mostly smaller woods-games with plenty of Noobs & younger players who actually have some respect for the "Zebra-shirt"

Been the "Head-Ref" at our little rec field since day-one, mostly corporate groups and B-day parties so pretty easy-going crowds. After the owner is done with his rules schpeal all I normally have to say is "The Refs are here for safety reasons foremost, play honorable and the game will work itself out".

I've been lit up so many times it's not even funny Crusing throught the brush doing the "Ref Walking" every foot, they still seem to like to jump out and shoot the crap outa me... they are always real appologetic and I know it's not on purpose... but some people's kids... I don't know

I can't even begin to account for how many times I've "Fixed" the marker by pulling the bolt back. (Old-School)Pump players stacking 15 rounds down the barrel forgetting to pull the trigger. The "this gun don't work" and you open the hopper and see grass, gravel, sticks, stones... plus 20 broken balls all jammed in. The "every ball breaks" so I twist the barrel 1/16 to seat it back in. "This doesn't shoot straight" as paint dripps from every port and out the end of the barrel. Players saying the paint is Crap, then they confess they "picked up some off the ground" which happened to be from a month ago. "The paint keeps breaking" and there is grass and dirt hanging out the muzzle. "How much time left ref", ahhh time for you to buy a watch. "Hey Ref, who's side is that guy on" All I can do is laugh.... It goes on and on!

Reffing Scenario:

"Hey ref, where's our objective?" me: Have you read your mission card? "Card... there's a card?"
"Hey Ref, how much time left in this mission" (same answer as above) Time for you to buy a watch.
Demo player arguing that his "blast radius" from his LAW took out a Helo.... Ahhhhh sorry sir but the Helo is in the AIR, you hit the ground 10' short... you kinda need to at least put it through the players on the craft or better yet hit one.
Another Helo story, Demo runs out and throws a satchel into the pilots arms... Sorry man, the helo is in the AIR, unless you can throw a satchel to 3000 feet or so, it's still flying


One nasty night:
Night game, we had the village lit up (using a generator) with a few street style lights and some motion detector lights. One team in the Vil defending, the other attacking. Game barely begins and a ref starts screaming to stop the game, the field owner (Rich) was reffing and dropped... other ref thought he was having a heart attack! Turns out some kid in one of the buildings point-blanked him in the jewels as he walked by (no way the "enemy" could have been in the area yet). I NEVER have reffed since without the soft-cup in place!

Now on to the "flip" side... me playing.

Went to play a field before we were going to play our first tourney there to check it out. (waaay before sup-air/hyper-ball fields) Ended up playing rec but at least they let my team stick together, only after we agreed to let everyone else play against the 7 of us. Playing a woods field we split 2 high 3 middle and 2 low with me and a mate going low. My wingman gets hit so I hang tight. Happen to be slightly below the playing field along a river bank. I start the old-school crawl trying for a back-door. I get to about what nowdays is considered the "50" and take a peek. Even with the oppositon but as I do the "peek", a Ref is nice enough to POINT ME OUT to my adversarys! I tuck in tight expecting to get rolled, a few rounds fly in my direction and nothing.... Hmmmm I crawl a few more yards down the bank and peek again, now I'm behind the opposition. Same kindly ref says "Guys, he's right there" pointing me out again! This must have been the biggest crowd of newbies ever cuz luckily for me they ignore the Ref for the most part. I'm getting a bit PO'd by this time. Another bonus for me is my mates are pouring it on in a frontal assualt and keeping the opposition occupied. I get almost to the back tape and do another peek, the Ref is laughing and pointing but the newbs aren't paying attention thanks to my bros coming in strong head-on. I get the ultimate "back-door", I occupy the huge dirt bunker that the opposition started from and they ALL are right in front of me, spread out in a skirmish line. I start screaming "surrender", again they don't react... finaly one turns around and the "Oh-SHT" gets the others attention. I surrender about 15, had to shoot the last 3 because they wouldnt "take the hit" and tried to run up the hillside (into my 2 top guys anyway).

I spoke with the ref, his excuse was "you guys are kicking A anyway" ?

[tony3]

I'm sure Mark remembers this one.
Game begins, Mark, Dustin, Colin, and I hang back, watch walk ons shoot at each other.
I offer my services for a dead man's walk.
Colin, Dustin, Mark agree, and ecourage idea.
I slumped my shoulders, lower head, and both arms, never calling myself out, or holding my marker up
I walk 150 behind the other team, while encountering a ref, I tell her that I am exercising a Dead man's walk. She does not interfere, and nods.
I have no arm band on, signifying that I am the opposing team.
I mingle with the other team's members (two of them, I give them each a,'Hey, Sup dude?')
I turn, Shoot ten people
Only nine are eliminated, as one bounced. The guy asked if it broke, I was honest and said no, he continued playing.
The Remaining nie players are pretty pissed off at me.
Keep in in mind I sent only ONE ball to each player, and all in the back.
They protest, claim that I am cheating.
The Ref, being new, Panics, pulls me off the field.
I walk back down to Colin, Dustin, Mark.
They cheer, I explain the Ref said I was cheating.
Sorrow insues.
Minutes later, Colin, Dustin, Mark, etc are bunkered.
Bunkering is against the Field rules in Walk-on play.
A Dead man's walk is not against the rules.
Ref does nothing after I alert her.
I am mad.
Blah

The real question, why did you do a dead mans walk in rec ball....

[Automaggot68]

The real question, why did you do a dead mans walk in rec ball....

Because it was fun. What do you care?

[Enemy]

ive found a way that works well with younger players on the masks... i tell them that the ball can push their eyeball up into their head and then they are dead, thats it dead. they still dont listen. i remember i had one kid i hear one of my refs yell get your mask on as my brother pops up and shoots this kid. the same kid we were yelling out he hits the ground. i go running with a fractured wrist jump over a dug out bunker maybe clearing 8-10 feet since it sat on hill slam my wrist into the ground get up to the kid out of breath hes crying and says i got shot ontop my head. then he exclaims that he never had his mask off i guess we were seeing things but i was po'd!! and hurting.

another fun one was im reffing a night game standing on hill with some kids. all the time i yelling ref!! ref!! i look at these kids i was up there to make sure if they got hit i would see it.. i remember seeing his eyes light up like he saw a ghost, and thinking this is going to hurt blam he shots me right in my side. it knocked me back a few feet and i feel to the ground all the while helling im a ref god dang it. the next game i end up killing their side. only to have a kid from my team shooting at me at the end.. i ran up to him shoved my barrel in his face said im on your team and your dead anyway.. he looks at me and says "there is no way i didnt hit you!" i polietly look over and said your out of paint and were shooting blanks at me!

theres more but those were the best.

[Rather]

ive found a way that works well with younger players on the masks... i tell them that the ball can push their eyeball up into their head and then they are dead, thats it dead. they still dont listen. i remember i had one kid i hear one of my refs yell get your mask on as my brother pops up and shoots this kid. the same kid we were yelling out he hits the ground. i go running with a fractured wrist jump over a dug out bunker maybe clearing 8-10 feet since it sat on hill slam my wrist into the ground get up to the kid out of breath hes crying and says i got shot ontop my head. then he exclaims that he never had his mask off i guess we were seeing things but i was po'd!! and hurting.

Hmm. i'll remember that... would only use it for the kids that are no taller than 4 feet and/or have runny noses.

Also, while its a thread about reffing. Anyone have any ideas or things they do that make the workplace fun? like playing with the other refs with squirt guns or water bottles on field, 'hacking' a ball off of masks, and my favorite eating paint outa the bag.

[tony3]

Because it was fun. What do you care?

Maybe because they are very stupid in rec ball? Dead mans walk ruins the game in rec ball where everyone is having fun and trying to play as most as possible, and if you need to do a dead mans walk in rec ball to win...just says something about your playing skills.

[Night$tryker]

ok i have one really good story to tell about me refing in the woods one day. so this girl shows up at the begining of the day and it is her first time and i asked her why she was in this group with all this expirenced player and she said that one is my boyfriend. i am like darn at least i tryed. so i watch her troughout the day and the most she ever fires is about 10 rounds a game. then we get to the last game in the woods and she was tired to she decided that she would sit in back and wait for them to come to her. two very good players that i know came around me and stuff looking for her so i walked away not making it obvious. then she knew they were there so she got up and shot them both in the back and it was just great. that just made her day.

then i have had so many kid call me over and ask me why there gun doesn't work so i alway take the gun and check the bolt and then the hopper. this time the kid was picking up balls that have been laying around and had obsorbed water and where like the size of .987 it was just so funny to poor them out

[Thunder Bunny]

My brother and I just started going to a new field a few months ago, and so far we like it. However, about two weeks ago, we had an unfavorable incident with a ref. [we were down to 2v2 at this point in the game] Chemical X was on the other team, and the other side of the field. He comes walking out of the little office thing, kinda like a dead mans walk. I see him an am like WTF? till he starts running. I begin to shoot, so does my teammate. Chem drops and slides across the floor, calling for a paintcheck. He was clean, but the ref called him out anyway. His reason was that Chem had nowhere to go [not true] and was going to get shot anyway. Jeeze, if you're going to call people out bcause they're "going to get shot" then why not flip a coin and see who wins that way?

[Rallog]

My favorites are people who watch the refs go for paint checks. Our head ref knows one of the guys is watching us really close to see where we are going to do paint checks. We run a hybrid field and get some players that are really good at staying hidden. So the head ref walks over to the one bunker makeing sure the guys watching him and does the "semicircle walk" of a paintcheck, crouching low and makeing it look really good. Anyway, no more than 10 seconds later the guys lighting up a empty bunker and we're all standing around laughing while the enemy team lights him up.