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Tagged | When You Get Hit by a Paintball
When a player is "tagged", that means that he has been hit with a paintball that has broke open on him, leaving a mark of paint on them. In most paintball games, a player is not tagged by just getting hit with the paintball, but he must get hit with a ball that has left a paintball mark on him. If a paintball that does not break hits him, his is usually not labeled as tagged, and he's still in the game. Those are games where a player is eliminated just by getting hit with a paintball these are usually games where players complete in close proximity to each other, and they require players to lower the velocities on their markers. In games with lowed velocities, the paintballs are less likely to break on there targets. In these games, a player only needs to hit their opponent with a paintball for him to be labeled as tagged. Some of these games include snap shooter games, indoor paintball, and night paintball.
Paintball games rules like what to do when being tagged are important to all players, on all fields. These are a series of games rule that are universal on almost all playing field across the U.S. On fields like Dragon Man Paintball, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the game rules are respected on all of there 5 action packed fields, and all of these players go home at the end of the day in one piece. Dragon Man's Paintball has a number of fields over 35 acres of natural hills and valleys with additional bunkers like cars, wire spools, and forts. One of the rules that is well enforced is the rule that all players must keep their head protection system on in any position on the field where a player could possibly get hit by a paintball. To protect players, Dragon's Paintball Park in Colorado has built an enclosed picnic area that gives players a safe place to eat and drink refreshments. Dragon's has a number of big fields and a number of unique fields that will provide players with hours of memorable game action. Some highlights of these fields are huge bunkers made of stacked heavy construction tires, deep trenches for hiding and shooting from, and tens of yards of man made bunkers built of wire spools 9 feet high wooden walls, and tire mounds spanning across the entire field. In all the fields at Dragon's Paintball Park, a player is eliminated from game action once he has been tagged, or hit with a paintball that has left a clearly visible mark on him. On all of their fields, players must have their safety switch on their marker if they are not participating in game action. When not directly involved in a game, a player should have a barrel plug over their marker from firing accidentally and causing an accident.
In most paintball games, a player is labeled as tagged, or eliminated from the game, if they have been hit with a paintball that has broken, and left paint splatter on them. This is precisely where the quality of paintball can come into play. To possess good quality ammo, a player must have paintballs that are strong enough to not break in the marker barrel, but with a soft enough shell to break on its target. Competition Paintballs by 32 Degrees rarely ever break inside a players paint gun but almost always break and leave a clear mark on their intended targets or your opponents.
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