Have any of you quit tourneyball to go back to rec play?

[afultz075]

I've been on a pretty well-off tournament team for about 5 months now. We practice several times a month at an indoor field about two hours away. I love the field and people there, but the traveling and the fact that our practices never seem definate until last minute have do get on my nerves a little bit. I have a blast when I play with these guys, but planning my entire weekend around all of this is something I've grown to not like. That and it seems like I just never have money to do anything else (Paintball is my major interest, but there's other things I like too).

Anyway, i've been thinking back to last year when I just played at my leisure with my friends and did a little bit of scenario as well and how much of a blast it was. So i've been seriously considering selling off all my tournament equipment (I don't even want to think how much it's all worth) and buying a real nice Palmer gun and a pump or something with a good chunk of cash to save and do whatever I want with and going back to what I did last year.

I'm just curious if anyone here has ever been through a situation like this and if you regretted it or not?

[Fatjon]

I thought about doing it for a while, but tourny season picked back up and i cant get away from it. I work at a proshop, so i work every saturday, and I have not played recball in over 7 months. Nothing but practice and tournys. I love it though. Wouldnt know what to do without my team.

[Tunaman]

We always had so much more fun in the woods. Nothing really matters. Have a good time...laugh your butt off...can't wait to go again real soon.

[teufelhunden]

Yeah. It got to the point where I wasn't playing paintball to have fun, I was playing paintball to win. Like, I still enjoyed playing with my old team and stuff, but paintball became a chore that I had to do every week instead of a good time with buds when we feel like it. So I got a Phantom. And played in the woods a couple of times. Actually haven't played more than.. uhm, 3 or 4 times since June. Kinda miss it, but I don't miss having that large of a time and financial committment.

[afultz075]

Yeah. It got to the point where I wasn't playing paintball to have fun, I was playing paintball to win. Like, I still enjoyed playing with my old team and stuff, but paintball became a chore that I had to do every week instead of a good time with buds when we feel like it. So I got a Phantom. And played in the woods a couple of times. Actually haven't played more than.. uhm, 3 or 4 times since June. Kinda miss it, but I don't miss having that large of a time and financial committment.

Yea, that's how i'm afraid it's going to become for me. EVERY other sport i've been involved in throughout my life I ended up quitting after a season or two because it got to the point where it wasn't something I necessarily wanted to do, it was something I had to do. And it's even worse when it costs $50 for a practice, unlike baseball.

[evilhomer]

I played tournies for a while, though not a lot. Money and time is what drew me back toward playing for pleasure in recball. I also got a Phantom about a year ago before the Phantom craze hit and I would never sell my Phantom. It is so much fun playing with it and taking out the kids decked out in Empire or Dye, shooting lanes... The weird thing is, I've gotten back into the tourny scene again... only this time my team is playing with Phantoms.

[Glickman]

yeppers.


hurt knee, out for ~6 months, never really like tournies from the start.

havent regretted it really.

its not like you really have to choose one or the other. i like the (dont laugh) "fashionability" of the tourny clothes, but i like playing rec and senario.


sooo, eat both cakes

[REDRT]

When I took over as the team Capt. My first order was to have fun. If it feels like a job it isn't fun. We really didn't have a Capt. last year, but a guy who thought he was. Though he was a good player he pushed and demanded alot. Players either left the team or were forced out. He looked out only for himself and thankfully moved on to something else. I worked really hard all winter to set up contacts, sponcers, working deals and so forth. Along with getting the whole team back. Other than that one guy we all get along well and play hard. I do the legistics because I like it. All the guys got to worry about is getting the pull and winning. Stepping back into rec/senerio is good sometimes to vent. This year we all might just take some R&R time between tournaments. Skipping tournaments all together isn't in the cards for us though. I don't think any of them would or could do that just yet.

[50 cal]

All I play anymore is rec/scenario. Always have a lot more fun. Tourney ball got to where it wasn't fun anymore so I gave it up.

[joez]

Yup, combination of a back injury and me just getting sick of dealing with the PBN crowd on the field. I sold off all my high end expensive stuff and now shoot a warp-fed slide frame cocker and play recball. Its more relaxing when you are just playing for fun.

[gc82000]

rec ball out there must be different from here. Rec ball on Guam is crowded and a tedious. Imagine having kids you only met on the feild coming up to you and asking to play with your $1.5k set up. Andafter telling them no and having to deal with a dad who thinks you are just trying to put his kid down. Kids out here start as young as 10 years old I have seen some as young as 7.

There are the parents who come to the feilds just to drink. We call them designatd dads. Punk men who would spend more money on beer, then too give attention to their kids needs.

I don't play rec any more it is more fun to practice and scrimage for me. Then to play a 15v15 game on a feild meant for 7 man.

[atcer]

Im just getting back into it after taking a break from the tourny scene... The whole AGG PBN attitudes these days with these damn kids with all their cheating ramping "semi atuos" (still dont get why a mech rt is banned, but ramping up to 250 bps is fine, but thats another discussion.)
I just got tired of dealing with all the blatant cheating and crap attitudes.

I still remember those first days out on my home feild, with the rented tippmanns. It was always more fun, sure speedball became my love after awhile, but now I really want to get back to my paintball roots. I sold all my tourny crap and bought a Tippmann a5. Im going to do woodsball and scenario stuff from now on. Just had more fun in the long-run doing that.

[Rinaldo]

Im just getting back into it after taking a break from the tourny scene... The whole AGG PBN attitudes these days with these damn kids with all their cheating ramping "semi atuos" (still dont get why a mech rt is banned, but ramping up to 250 bps is fine, but thats another discussion.)
I just got tired of dealing with all the blatant cheating and crap attitudes.

I still remember those first days out on my home feild, with the rented tippmanns. It was always more fun, sure speedball became my love after awhile, but now I really want to get back to my paintball roots. I sold all my tourny crap and bought a Tippmann a5. Im going to do woodsball and scenario stuff from now on. Just had more fun in the long-run doing that.

I still rememeber my first paintballing experience at Paintball world back in 91 ( I think ) and my first outing in the everglades playing pump in 89 (I was 8 and had no idea what I was doing) I miss what paintball was. In my heart, sitting in my nice office making the money I make, I often think about how much fun it was then to play. Now I would kill to start playing saturdays and sundays again... but IN miami the kids all have this "My parents are rich and bought me this gun" attitude, they didn't grow up feeling priveledged to play like I did and so many of us did back then. It was like secret society you were invited to join.
I miss meeting guys like Tom or Bob Long at the World Cup and winning it two times in a row and having them come and congratulate you.

I miss the feeling of a community which is why I'm happy I accidentally found this forum. It's still pure and it's great to see that people still appreciate the game.

If there's any of you that are interested in getting together on weekends and just playing... I will buy some land if you want and it'll be open to those of us that really want to play becuase we love it not becuase we eventually want to be paid to do it.

[Creative Mayhem]

I am in Rec mode right now, I still use all my guns(Xmag, minimag, Illusion, etc) It depends on my mood at the time. I also like to do a couple tournies a year, as well as a few big games/scenarios. I consider myself well rounded... and no, not the beer belly as some would have everyone believe. Besides, it's not a beer belly, it's a fuel tank for a sex machine

[Deep Sixx]

Due to a damaged MCL (knee ligament), I'm taking the season (at least) off of tournament play. I'll still be playing rec though. It's less intense and not as hard on my knee. Maybe next year I'll go back.

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