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paintballimpact.com / Cheating in Paintball / Blind Fire
Blind Fire
Blind fire is the practice of shooting around wildly or not shooting with a specific view of an opponent. Paintball safety rules indicate that you must clearly see the target that you are shooting at. One common example of blind fire may be shooting at a rustling in the bushes. Your paintball and survival instincts may tell you to command your area, and eliminate everything in your path. But most field operators consider this practice unsafe, and this practice is generally prohibited. Also, the practice of blind fire increases the chances that you will eliminate your own teammates in a friendly fire accident. In general, to fire, you must have a clear shot at your opponent, and be greater than 15 feet away from them. All of the safety precautions serve to protect the players on the field, and lower the incidence of injury.
Any event that compromises the safety of the game or is clearly cheating in paintball, compromises the integrity. As paintball becomes more popular, more money is pumped into corporate sponsorship, and more business is brought to your local recreational field. As a result, more prizes are available at tournaments, and the local fields that you play on will continue to improve. So as a community, us players must do everything we can to police ourselves and make sure everyone plays within the rules. I personally am more interested in playing games where all involved in playing the game the right way and I know the best team will win, whether it is mine or my opponents.
The following below is a partial list of other maneuvers that will be considered cheating on most paintball fields.
Shooting from the sidelines. A player must only shoot when they are within the boundaries of the paintball field. Running out of bounds and shooting someone in the back is a disgrace to the sport.
Wiping is perhaps the shoddiest maneuver in the sport. Wiping is any attempt to remove the paint impact from your body so that the referee doesn't identify the impact. The most disgraceful is the blatant wipe. The blatant wipe is when you simply wipe off the splatter with your hand. Remember that you should always be playing for your reputation as paintball is not an individual sport. If you get yourself labeled as a cheater or a scumbag, who is going to want you on their team?
Another more subtle form of wiping is the dive off wipe. The dive off wipe is when you get shot while running toward a bunker and dive behind the obstruction onto the splatter to rub it off. This is often very difficult to be noticed by the refs, unless they actually see you get hit before the dive. Another shoddy wipe is the bunker wipe. The bunker wipe is when you rub the part of your body that was hit against the bunker to wipe the paint off.
Bonus Balling is outlawed. Bonus balling is when a player keeps firing on someone that has been eliminated form the game. Bonus balling compromises player safety.
Remember that just because you are able to wipe off a paintball impact in this instant you will not necessarily have put yourself in a better position. Continued bending or breaking of the rules will eventually get yourself a reputation as a cheater in the paintball community and you will have a hard time getting a quality team to play on.
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