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The Snake Stand-up - Cheating in Paintball
Since 1998, the number of people playing paintball has nearly doubled, among rec & scenario players 10 and over.
- 1998 - 5.9 million
- 1999 - 6.4 million
- 2000 - 7.1 million
- 2001 - 7.7 million
- 2002 - 8.7 million
- 2003 - 9.8 million
- 2004 - 9.6 million
Today, paintball is played at over 10 million players in the USA alone at paintball fields like Norcal Paintball Park in California. The love of the paint game has even expanded to over 100 countries worldwide, including Japan Paintball, with fields like Alpex Paintball Field in Shiga-ken Hikone Japan. All of these paintball statistics illustrate one point, that paintball is a growing sport where the sky is the limit. As the number of players in the game group, so to does the number of competitive professional and non-professional tournament games. The bigger the tournament, the more cash or prizes that are involved. And the greater the incentive to win, the greater the chance that there will be cheating in paintball.
One dubious cheating move would be the Snake Stand-Up. The Snake Stand-up in when a player gets tagged but remains on the field, goading the opposition into bonus-balling him. And when he starts getting bonus balled, he cries to the referee with the hope of getting the other team penalized. The name of this cheating tactic comes from one player who got shot in the back of a snake bunker. Instead of the player leaving the field when he was supposed to, he stuck around hoping to get bonus-balled before the referee could see that he was tagged. The NPPL Official Rulebook says that teams caught bonus-balling should have points deducted or a player disqualified. The rule book also says that once tagged, a player should leave the field and not get in the way of game action. Some players executing the Snake stand-up will initially stand up with their hands any paint gun in the air, but then walk in the way to deliberately get in the way of the oppositions shooting lanes. A frustrated opposing player may then get angry and bonus-ball this unethical athlete. If the referee only saw the final conclusion of this series of events, he may decide that the bonus-baller should be penalized for over-shooting. If you are in game action, and you see a player deliberately get in the way of your line of site instead of leaving the field, resist them temptation to make him pay. Or better yet, point out the snaker to the referee hoping to get his team penalized.
Another example of a player obstructing justice on the field would be the Human Shield. The Human shield is another example of an eliminated player not leaving the field immediately like he was supposed to do. A player acting as a Human Shield is tagged but remains on the field and walks in front of a live teammate to keep him from getting hit. Remember, that though you may be angry, you should refrain from Bonus-balling this cheater, instead, point him out to the referee.
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