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Dead Zone - Time Out Location
The Dead Zone is a place where a player must reside in during non-single elimination paintball matches. The dead zone is a temporary location a player must go to if he or she has been tagged by enemy fire. This dead zone is often employed for The Big Game, also known as the large paintball game. The Big Game and other types of scenario games like these often take place over the course of 24 hours and can have over 100 players on EACH side. As you could imagine, games like these don't take place very weekend and in every other city. Some paintball players jazzed up to play in a huge scenario game could travel 100+ miles to get there and be ready to camp out there over the weekend. Just imagine how boring it would be to get eliminated in the first five minutes of a 24 hour Big Game.
By employing a dead zone in large paintball games, you have a match where elimination still means something but where a player does not have to watch from the sidelines for hours and hours. When a player has been hit by an exploded paintball, they must go to a time out location, or "dead zone". When a player is in the dead zone he is no longer allowed to shoot, and he is totally eliminated from game competition. In most big scenario games, the buzzer goes off every half an hour, or once an hour.
While getting sent to the dead zone, even temporarily can be a bruise to your ego, it can also be a blessing in disguise. On such a long game, a trip to the Dead Zone can give you an opportunity to rest up, and recharge a little. A temporary trip to the Dead Zone will allot you with a little time to clean your paintball gun, do some goggle cleaning, and some gun squeegee-ing. You will also have a little time to fully reload the hopper. When that buzzer sounds, you will snap out of the Dead Zone fully recharged and ready for some intense action.
There are also a number of other unique and interesting aspects to The Big Game that make it so intriguing and exciting.
- While traditional paintball games rely on the referee to signal player elimination, large paintball games rely on an Honor System. This means that if a player is eliminated, he should call himself out. It is simply not practical for the referees to make accurate judgment when there can be hundreds of players involved in a game.
- FREE STUFF. Usually big scenario games attract national paintball suppliers who wish to make an appearance at these events. And the field owners of these large events often have hundreds to thousands of paintball related products to give away.
- Usually, breakfast and dinner are provided during breaks in the game by the field owners. Also, there are drawings and raffles for free stuff like markers, game uniforms and paintball gear.
- There are some increased costs for the Big Game. Usually a day of Big Game play will cost twice as much as a day of recreational play or rec play paintball.
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