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The Bunker Rub - Cheating in Paintball
The Bunker Rub is one of the foulest violations in paintball, especially since it is so difficult to detect as flagrant cheating. The Bunker Rub is when a player rubs a hit on some existing paint on a bunker, in order to pass it off as if they just rubbed up against the bunker. A Bunker Rub, or any type of attempt to rub paint off or to get rid of a paint spot before a referee can come over for inspection, is known as wiping. Wiping is defined as the active or deliberate removal of paint by a player in order to avoid elimination or a referee's call. To keep a cheating move like the Bunker Rub from happening, players who observe another player getting hit should immediately call for a paint check, before the tagged player has the chance to do something sneaky. The Bunker Rub sometimes refers to the unintentional transfer of paint onto a player's uniform as a result of rubbing up against a bunker with wet paint on it. Most rulebooks say that a player must get a spot of paint on them as a result of a direct impact from a fired paintball in order to be eliminated. So a legitimate Bunker Rub, as a paintball definition, means a transfer of paint that should not be counted as an eliminating hit. A Bunker Rub, as a form of cheating, is an attempt to cover up paint from a direct impact with paint that is already splattered on a bunker. The faster referees and players go for paint-checks, the less likely that these things will happen.
Player getting caught shot and continuing to play
shot from the paintball video, direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJegSxCL6vA&feature=related
Most of us have seen it in major tournaments, when a player gets hit and makes his way to the closest bunker to rub against it. By the time the referee reaches him, the new paint has been smeared under old bunker paint and the player says that "it came off the bunker ref, look!" While it may be the inclination to give the player the benefit of the doubt, the referees must be ever vigilant against moves such as these. Sometimes the player is honest and there never was a direct hit, but some players will blatantly lie and they must be dealt with accordingly.
The bunker rub trick comes in two forms. In the first form, a player may get hit and play on, running into the nearest bunker that still has paint wet enough to transfer onto their uniform. The second form is much more clever and cunning. In this form, a player may get tagged and run through and shoot the bunker himself to give himself some wet paint to rub up against. Some players operate under the assumption that if the referee doesn't see the hit or the Bunker Rub, then they won't get eliminated. This concept also is part of the culture in many sports, the theory that it isn't cheating if you don't get caught. One of the best examples of this idea is the holding call in professional football. It is often said that players commit holding violations on almost every play; the only difference is who gets caught and who doesn't. Remember, if you attempt this move you may get away with it, but you may also get the cheater label slapped onto your reputation, and bad reputations are harder to wipe off than paint. And if you have the reputation of being a wiper, keep in mind that your opponents will probably attempt to shoot you in the face rather than the body, as it'll be a lot harder for you to rub the paint off.
The NPPL's official rulebook states that players caught wiping are penalized by the immediate removal of the player from the game as well as the removal of three other players from the same team.
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