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paintballimpact.com / Cheating in Paintball / Prohibited Behavior
Prohibited Behavior | Paintball
It is important for paintball players to minimize prohibited behaviors on the field. Players should play the game with respect to the other athletes on the field. In the long run, athletes that break the rules and employ prohibited behaviors will be subject to suspension or getting the reputation of a cheater in the paintball community. Also cheating in games can damage your reputation and make you an unwelcome teammate if you are trying to step onto a professional team. Most of the rules in the game are pretty obvious, and all the rules serve to make sure that the game is played safely and that the best team wins the game. Below is a list of some prohibited behaviors in the game of paintball.
In this scene, you can see a player that is shot, but continues to play on, which is a prohibited paintball behavior.
scene from a video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRn6CVsF4rc
- Over-shooting. When one player overshoots another, he is firing on another player after he has already been eliminated. The act of overshooting is a prohibited behavior.
- Sometimes, a player will perform a maneuver known as a slide'n'wipe to avoid being eliminated. A slide n' wipe is when a player gets hit while in the process of running towards a bunker, and slides against the bunker to intentionally rub the paint off. Sometimes a player performing a slide n' wipe will act like he didn't even know that he was hit, or that his rub up against the bunker to rub the paint off was not intentional. The official NPPL Official Rulebook 2006 defines wiping as an active and deliberate removal of paint by a player in order to avoid elimination or avoid a referee's call.
- There are a number of prohibited paintball behaviors that involve deliberately affecting game actions after you have been eliminated. In all paintball games that are single elimination, a hit player is supposed to leave the field immediately when hit, and take the most direct path towards the exit as possible. The eliminated player should take a beeline towards the exit unless this path would directly affect game action. One shady method that cheaters sometimes get away with is the snake stand up. With the snake stand-up an out player puts his hands up in the air, but then moves into a position in front of the enemy to block his field of vision or prevent him from hitting one of your teammates. The cheater may also use the snake stand-up trick to egg the opposition into bonus-balling him, and getting him penalized by the enemy. Once the cheater gets bonus-balled, he cries out to the referee as if he is an innocent victim.
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Any behavior that is an attempt to conceal a paintball impact is a cheating behavior. This includes covering up the area of the hit so that the referee doesn't see it. Sometimes, a diabolical player will employ a strategy known as the cover-up. In this case, a hit player will act like he has the best intentions by calling a referee over for his own zone paintcheck. But then the player will point to one part of his body, while covering up the site that has really been hit.
There are some universal prohibited behaviors on most paintball fields. For example, Alienman Paintball enforces the important rules of the game, like the rule to keep barrel plugs in when not in game action.
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