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Frozen in Time - Paintball Games
Frozen in Time is a paintball game where players are able to make a comeback into the game after getting eliminated. If player is marked, he is frozen in place he stops in his tracks, and stays motionless, and waits to be tagged in. The player who is frozen comes is unfrozen when a teammate taps him on the head, and he can come back into the game again. If a frozen player is hit again, he shatters, and is eliminated from the game. A frozen player must remain motionless, and he cannot perform evasive maneuvers like laying down, or devising to evade enemy fire. But a frozen player can kneel down if in the crossfire. A shattered frozen player must proceed to the staging area, out of game action. Other than the unique player eliminations, the other elements of the game include 2 flag stations, and classical capture the flag rules.
The Game Rules/Procedures. The setup of the game is in traditional capture the flag style, with two flag stations next to two equally sized teams. 30 minutes is a typical time limit for frozen in time paintball games. When a player is marked with a paintball, he freezes in place, and puts up a hand to indicate that he has been tagged. If a teammate taps the frozen player on the head, then he is back in the game. If a player is hit again by the opposing team while frozen, then he is eliminated from the game. The player can get frozen, and then brought back in multiple times as long a he doesn't get marked a second time while frozen. The other components of the game follow the traditional capture the flag format.
Frozen in time is one of the more unique paintball games as it is a game that can feature a player getting hit 5-6 times but still be standing at the end of the game. This game highlights the importance of team play, and one teammate protecting the other. Two players that protect one another can keep taking hits and tagging each other back in, saving one another and improving the team's chances back in, saving one another and improving the team's chances of winning. Team oriented paintball games are popular at fields like Paintball Sports Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Paintball Sports Inc. has a number of unique fields that will give players a lot of different gaming options. Some of the fields at Paintball Sports Inc. include a tire fort, fort field, a field called the city, assassins, and a field called the Alamo. The Alamo is a large, heavily wooded field, with two creeks running along the sides and a beautifully constructed fort in the middle for one team to defend and the other to lay under siege. The Paintball Sports inc. website provides information on a wide variety of subjects, such as an introduction to the game for the new players, an electronic publication about upcoming events that they will be hosting. Their website psipaintball.com has a contact page to inquire about upcoming events, and to see if paintball games like frozen in time are available on their fields.
Other games that are similar to frozen in time include Gettysburg and down but not out. In the game Gettysburg, the objective is also to capture the other teams flag and return it to the home base. But the difference is that in Gettysburg, the game follows rules of single elimination, while frozen in time rules state that a tagged player can be reanimated and brought back into the game. Down but not out is a game that also her tagged players that can be secured and brought back into the game by teammates.
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