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Getting Eliminated
There are a number of signals and behaviors associated with paintball referee play and paintball tournament play that involve getting eliminated from the game. In general, a paintball player must give referees and other players a clear signal if they have been eliminated from the paintball game. And a player should not pretend to be eliminated from the game when he has not been hit. While there are variations of paintball rules depending on the playing field, you should always try to stay within the rules and you should play the game with class.
There are a number of universal phrases signaling that a paintballer has been eliminated from the game. There signals tell others that the paintball player has been eliminated from the game, they are no longer a target, and they are no longer to be shot at. And the player that has been hit is no longer to shoot at other players that are still in the game.
Though there are countless variations of games and rules for any given game, any paintball game is distantly related to the game of tag. In paintball, though, the person that is "it" and tagged is out of the contest. The player marked with paintball splats after getting hit by a paintball pellet. To eliminate your opponent, you hit them with paintball shots from a special airgun called a paintball gun. Marker or Paintgun have also been used to describe a paintball gun.
When a player has been eliminated, he or she must exit the paintball field. The more players you tag out, less obstacles you will have to face when going for the other team's flag. If you take a shot at a player that is diving for cover but do not know if you have tagged him, what do you do? If a player is hit by paintball splatter, he or she must give an "elimination signal" and leave the game and field. He must signal to the other players that he has been hit.
Also, if a player has been hit with a paintball that does not explore, he must signal that there was an impact but that they are still in the game. Here are some of the basics of the game.
If a player is tagged, they must signal that they are out of the game. The most obvious verbal signal is "out!". Other versions of elimination are "Dead Man!", "Good Shot", "Coming Out!", "I'm Out!", or "I'm Hit".
Leaving: A player may announce that he is leaving the paintball field or signal "Out!" for a number of other reasons besides getting hit by the paintball. The player may have run out of paintball pellets, or he may be having equipment failure that keeps his gun from firing. The player may simply want to bow out of the game because he has been cornered, and doesn't want to be plugged execution style. Whatever the reason the player has for calling out of the game, you must respect the signal and let the player go quickly and safely. Do onto others as you would have done to you.
Always try to respect the game of paintball, and try to improve your skills rather than work on sneaky ways to pull fast ones. You may not call yourself out and then try to pull off a dead mans walk. Out is out and once you have called yourself out of the game, you're gone.
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