Just a reminder, not all tourney players

[Carbon]

are jerks.

Granted, regionally the ratio of knuckleheads to cool tourney players may differ. And in all honesty, the jerkiest tourney players are teenagers who learned from jerky older players.

[SummaryJudgement]

Word!

[mag88888]

word! seripously true. some tourney players just want to be cool, others are just awesome.

[punkncat]

Just curious as to where this came from?

The field I play regularly is frequented my many tourny players/teams. Actually the field is owned by a shop owner/tourney team captain. These guys are super ready to lend a hand, offer some good advice, or just let you hang with them. Probably the best thing to happen to my and many of the local players game. We have all benefitted (sp?) from their presence.

[Lohman446]

are jerks.

Granted, regionally the ratio of knuckleheads to cool tourney players may differ. And in all honesty, the jerkiest tourney players are teenagers who learned from jerky older players.

You are extremely right. Very few of us are the jerks that tournament players are made out to be. Its just those of us that are... are really jerks


I normally don't use the word jerks.. I replace it with a better less forum friendly word - but Im ok with it

[Duzzy]

This really isn't that much of a surprise. Just like all paintballers aren't out on the street shooting little kids in the eyes... (gasp!)

People focus on the negative, it is a fact, albiet a sad fact of life. The only thing to do is point them to cool tourney players and the tourney players to steer clear from, if you do nothing, well... Then you have to live with a problem that you will not help prevent.

[trevorjk]

im a jerk-wad

[BeaverEater]

Whenever I go to the field, I try to help, and coach the younger players. Many of them still come up to me when i go to the field and ask for more advice.

[Carbon]

frealls tho, i'll see a young tourny player, whos really good and i think, "man i hope this kids' classiness and "proffesionalism" grows at the same rate as his skills. Because you look those people and go, wow this person is only gonna get better the more he plays and really the only downfall will be his attitude off and on the field.

Also on a personal note, approachabilty is golden.

[BD_Paintball]

Whenever I go to the field, I try to help, and coach the younger players. Many of them still come up to me when i go to the field and ask for more advice.

i do the same thing when i play woodsball. i try to help out the new kids, not that im the best but im better then other people there and most people who think they are the best player ever wont even talk to the new kids. i have meet alot of cool tourny players but i have also meet some not so cool ones. like ones who talk trash before you play and then when you play them and they get crushed they just make excuses about why they lose. its annoying

[68magOwner]

of the 4 local fields, one is the designated pbn/jerk player field, not fun, so much wiping/cheating in rec ball there, but, i do play a toureny season there (and upset alot of agg kids by winning) it seems that the better players at a feild highly influence how the newer players play, all the rental kids and noobs wipe at that 1 field because they see the tourney kids do it in rec ball there. But, for the most part, not bad.

[CrawforDry]

I teach young players not to wipe early on. If I have an angle and I hit a player and I see him wipe it, thats why my marker does 20 bps, I usually only use a couple shots when I have a good angle, but if I see some agg kid with a lame jersey wipe I'm going to make them wipe a gallon of paint.

[arsonpaintball06]

i've played with most of the guys from AGD pride at PB sams.........i have to say all those guys are great tourney players, willing to chat with the little fish, and offer help. Good bunch of guys

[tony3]

I can say, that most of the guys I know, almost all of which are tourney players aren't jerks at all. They can scream and yell on the field, just because it gets intense, but outside the field they are completely nice.

[gc82000]

There is not a lot of that on Guam. The teams here are pretty much cool with each other and interact with each other alomst every week. And now with the league gon g on there is a lot of comradery btwn the teams, plus a lot of teasing from the sidelines. But it is all in fun and jest.