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Coming Through!
Coming Through is a paintball term that means an eliminated player is passing through an area towards the exit sign. When a player is coming through, his path is supposed to be unimpeded and he is not supposed to be shot at. In games, players try not to get eliminated by staying out of frequent lanes of fire, running, diving and bunker hugging. Bunker hugging is when players try to keep their profile as small as they can by keeping their markers close to their body and staying as close as they can to the bunker. Beware, that shooting at an eliminated player is considered cheating in paintball. Cheating in the game can affect you and your team in a number of ways. Cheating can get you removed from the game, and suspended for future tournament games. Cheating can cause your team to be disqualified from the tournament series. Cheating can also permanently affect your reputation, casting you and your team in a negative light at future tournaments like the 2007 NPSL Bakersfield Event.
Cheating is as old as the game of paintball or any sport where there is a lot of money involved. With the prize money and sponsorship deals as high as it is today, there will always be players who will try to bend or break the rules to gain an edge. Shooting at someone who is clearly marked up with paint is an obvious game infraction. But there are instances where a player may shoot at a player that is coming through, claiming that they didn't know that the player was eliminated. In speedball tournament games, the paintballs are flying at high rates of speed, and people can sometimes get hit, whether or not they were just "Coming Through!".
Shooting at players who have been eliminated is one of the most obvious methods of cheating in the game. The most important rules concern the way players should conduct themselves once they are eliminated from games, and how they should be treated once eliminated. If a player is eliminated he must be honest and open about it, and leave the game immediately. Players who are hit by a paintball that splatters are prohibited from intentionally wiping the paint off their uniform or their paintball gun. One cheating maneuver that is sometimes hard to detect is the slide n wipe. The slide n' wipe is when a player takes a hit on the paintball shoes, at the knee, or in the lower leg and sliding intentionally in order to wipe the paint off. Wiping is defined as the active and deliberate removal of paint by a player in order to avoid elimination or avoid a referee's call. Referees at paintball fields like Herbies paintball Field in Fernley Nevada are ever vigilant at catching players in the act of slide n' wipe.
Players that are coming through are supposed to make a quick exit from the field, and are not supposed to interfere with the game in anyway. Please make a note, however, that it is not always the live layers who are cheating when an eliminated player is hit again. Sometimes, the hit player can disrupt the game by getting in the way of an opposing player. The Human Shield is when an eliminated player walks in front of a teammate to shield him from enemy fire.
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