Paintball : Style or Substance?

[Tyger]

Fairly self explanatory. Discussion welcome.

-Tyger

[frop]

For me, it's primarily substance, but style doesn't hurt. For many others, style/hype seems to be the driving factor.

[shartley]

[teufelhunden]

As a speedballer, no style will hurt or hinder my game. Therefore, since the substance is down [my gun goes faster than I can, I can shoot my gun where I want it to shoot, etc..] we move on to style.

Unless you mean actually playing, where substance comes first.. but if I'm going for a bunker that I'm confident about, I might make an extra step to make it pretty because chances are I'll get him anyway.

[RRfireblade]

"It is better to look good than to feel good.....and Yooo Looook Mahvelous!"

(To bad you suck at Paintball )

[Lohman446]

Style... my playing ability improves as I play, but I have reached a point that I think, without serious daily dedication to practice, that I am not going to increase it much more. As such that leaves me style, or is it anti-style. I've come to the point that my Dye gear sits in my closet, and I play in jeans and t-shirts (where allowed) or jeans and a dress shirt. The last one on one I played in it was commented, frequently that it looked like I had stepped out of a casual day at a large office building (new jeans, button down short sleeve shirt). Imagine the suprise when I took the snake.

[GT]

its all about the pants pissing fight or flight feeling as the ref counts it down......

[Kaiser Bob]

its all about the pants pissing fight or flight feeling as the ref counts it down......

You know, I was just thinking that ive never heard about someone wetting themselves or puking in their masks at the 10 second call... guess noone has gotten that nervous at a tourney thus far.

[xXHavokXx]

Style, gotta get the honeys.

[JoshK]

style? what style? All i have to do since i dont get to play to often is concentrate on my skill...i wanna get some redz apperal soon though.

[barrel break]

My last two guns were substance, a 98 custom, and an 03 vert cocker with no cosmetic upgrades. this time i think im going for style, with a sonic cocker. as to what i play in, i have a dye jersey and empire pants. I dont play much and wanna look good when i do! actually i wear those for comfort...

[MayAMonkeyBeYourPinata]

I gotta look good, right yo?

[sillypookie]

I totally think style... does anyone buy a marker based on the parts inside? why do people name the color schemes of the markers?? does something being 'ninja' or 'stormtrooper' have ANY bearing whatsoever on making an elimination? Why have tourney players co-opted the 'gangsta' slang? It makes them seem cool... 'We Kill Suckers'?? c'mon... Look at DYE... and I know I'm going to get blasted for this, BUT: Other than the DM4, which incidentally is NOT their gun, I have never heard anything positive said about dye equipment other than 'that looks AWESOME'... I'm just as guilty, I bought a DYE LCD based on it's looks. You won't sell unless you look like you have game... so all the substance in the world doesn't matter if the cool kids aren't using it.

[Duzzy]

I would go substance (assuming I am taking the meaning in the manner intended). I don't care how pretty I look when I get shot out. I really don't care if I looked cool getting shot out, I am still out and no amount of shiny is going to make that different. Form should follow function. For some odd reason no matter how cool of a move you make if it doesn't work, and people are shaking their heads thinking you are a complete and total dummy, then it really isn't that cool.

style? what style? All i have to do since i dont get to play to often is concentrate on my skill...i wanna get some redz apperal soon though.

I love that... It makes it sound like being able to play and work on your skill is a bad thing, although I don't think that was how it was intended... Please forgive my early morning amusement.

[-=Squid=-]

Style.

Blowing heads off comes second.

- Goro