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paintballimpact.com / Cheating in Paintball / Over Shooting
Over Shooting | Over-Shooting - Cheating in Paintball
Cheating in paintball continues to be a problem that plagues the sport, it can discourage outsiders from getting interested in the games, it can lower a players enthusiasm for the game, and it can scare away television networks or national sponsors interested in supporting teams and leagues. Except for the person that gets away with the cheating, it is a problem for paintball players and tournament promoters who ant to see the game played right. I know that when I watch any competitive sporting event, I want to see to competitive teams playing at the highest level, with the best team winning by the end of the match. Any cheating or other activities that contaminate the game and course disputes to game outcomes greatly hurt the sport. In sports like the 400 meters, the winner of the match is usually very clear, with the fastest runner crossing the finish line first. But in paintball, there are multiple focal points of action, and the referee can not always see everything that takes place on the field at the same time. He may not catch a player wiping paint, or Over-Shooting.
Over-Shooting can have a couple of different paintball meanings, but it generally refers to shooting at a player who has already been eliminated. It only takes one paintball impact to eliminate a player, any Over Shooting at a player who has already been tagged could be painful or it could lower the enthusiasm of that player for the sport. A player's enthusiasm of the game is as important or even more important than winning the match. You play a game, you win-you lose. But when you keep cheating and taking cheap shots at another player, he may decide to leave the field and never come back. This would be a great loss for the game. The more enthusiasts for the sport the better, whether it be recreational paintball, or tournament paintball. While corrugated pipes, trenches, and stacks of tires are always fun, local field owners need a big customer base to build impressive fields like EMR Paintball Park. EMR Paintball Park field designers were not happy to build the ordinary woodsball field with a couple of trenches and a couple of barrels here and there. They decided to spare no experience while building forts like the Castle Conquest, with 15 foot high walls, flag towers, shooting towers, and smoke screen machines. Fields like these are possible with the support of a large audience, and more and more players are attracted to paintball games that are played with high energy but cleanly.
Over-Shooting can mean shooting at a player that has already been tagged. It can also mean using a paintball gun and paintball supply that gives one player an unfair advantage over another. For example a couple of players might decide to walk onto a paintball field against players that they know have inferior firepower to them. A group of players with semi-automatic paint guns that shoot over 20 paintballs per second have a ridiculous advantage over a group of rookies with pump guns that shoot 1 paintballs per second. One fast shooting semi-automatic marker would be the Nemisis from Ariakon. The Ariakon marker retailed for around $800 dollars in January, 2007, shooting over 25 paintballs per second.
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