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paintballimpact.com / Cheating in Paintball / Playing On
Playing On
Playing on is when you get hit and continue to play. Playing on is not as blatant game infraction as some other maneuvers like hand wiping, but could compromise the integrity of paintball. Playing on could be a blatant shooting at another player far after they have eliminated. On the infraction could happen when you are running to bunker someone and you get hit a second before you shoot your opponent. Often, the act of playing on is the result of two players shooting at each other in the heat of battle, and the referee will not penalize the individual One act that carries harsher penalties is when a player gets hit, and plays on as if the hit didn't even happen. For example, you may be playing in the game, and get hit in your CO2 tank and play on as if you didn't even notice that the event happened. You continue to play on until the referee sees the splatter.
One especially dubious version of playing on is when a player gets hit and goes out of his way to hide the splatter. The player may deliberately conceal the hit, or rotate his body so that the ref cannot see it. The act of deliberately concealing the splatter is referred to as hiding the hit. Hiding the hit, and the related taking off, are attempts to block the elimination shot from the ref's view. Taking off is when you get hit and deliberately move to a new location to keep shooting or cause a distraction. Hiding the hit and taking off are two moves that are severely penalized in a tournament match.
Shot from a paintball video where a player gets hit by a paintball, yet continues to play on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRn6CVsF4rc
Here are a few additional things referees look out for and dole out penalties for in professional tournaments.
- An event when an eliminated player walks across the field to
act as a shield for their teammates, rather than leaving the field immediately like he was supposed to.
- Covering up your own impact splatter is against the rules. Covering up can be defined as calling on a ref for a paint check, but signaling to the ref a part of your body that has a little paint smudge, but not the real hit, on another body part. Signaling to a ref an area that is not the real site of the hit is also called the cover up. The NPPL Official Rulebook 2006 says that a player must call for his own paintcheck, if no teammate is in close proximity, if he is hit. A player hit must point to the area of the body where he was tagged with the marker.
Remember that the popularity of paintball and the growth of the industry, depends on players and audiences of tournaments feeling good about the games they play in, and the tournaments they watch. How can a newbie or intermediate player working hard to improve their skills and dream of playing in a tournament championship if the winners of these games are just the best at covering up their deceptive behaviors. If the paintball tournament matches feature teams that feature athletes that value playing the game right, and elevating the sport, then more sponsorships and TV contracts will follow. Teams should minimize cheating behaviors and shady tactics like playing on. Take it from Lane Wright, President and CEO of PSP. "I hope this message gets to the teams and players in the vein that it was intended. I would be remis in my duties as head of the world's largest tournament league if I let these type of actions continue unpunished. The result of the misdeeds of players at this past event goes far beyond the scope of most players knowledge. We are losing sponsorship. We are losing respect. We are now losing the ability for teams to stay at hotels of their choice simply because they are related to the sport of paintball. If we decide to host another event in Texas, the PSP will not be able to rent equipment from the most reasonable vendor, making production of the event much more difficult.
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