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Tagged
Getting tagged means getting hit by a paintball that has shattered and left paint splatter on a player. I decided to add the term tagged as a paintball definition because it was the most easy to understand and descriptive term I could think of to describe a player getting hit and either knocked out of the game, or forced to change his role in the game. To be considered tagged, a player must sustain a direct hit from a paintball that has broken and left a mark of paint on them. There is more than one way for a player to get paint on his uniform. A player can sustain paintball splatter from a non-direct impact with the ground or a bunker that the player was standing next to. Sometimes it can be hard to tell if the paint or a player's uniform came from a direct hit or from paintball splatter that came from a hit from a nearby bunker. There are a couple of non-perfect ways to tell if a player was tagged by a direct hit. One method is the quarter rule, in which the player or referee inspects the area that may have been hit to see it the paint splatter has left a mark that is at least the size of a quarter. If the splatter is at least the size of a quarter, then the impact usually came from a direct hit. If the splatter is not the size of a quarter, then the hit probably came from a player rubbing up against some wet paint on a bunker, or from a non-direct hit.
The paintball term tagged can also be used interchangeably with other terms. Some players also use the term eliminated, but I like the term tagged better because getting struck by a paintball that splatters on them does not always mean that a player is knocked out of a game. In The Big Game or other type of scenario games, the games are very long, and it would not make sense for tagged players to be out of the entire event. Some Big Games may last for more than 24 hours, making for a very negative player experience to the people hit in the first 20 minutes if they had to sit out the rest of the event. Instead of single paintball objective events or elimination formats, scenario games are broken into multiple objectives and 30 minute segments. This means that every 30 minutes, a whistle or bell will sound, and they player who was tagged is now allowed back into the event. The time interval between whistles may vary based on the type of scenario games being played or by who is hosting the Big Game. Some of the most high profile Big Games have included Giant Big Game XII, played at Splat Tag Inc., and The West Point Big Game, hosted by the United States Military Academy.
There are other types of paintball games where a tagged player may continue in a game, or come back into a game. In the paintball game reinforcements, players who have been tagged must go back to their flag station, but they can be brought back into the game later. In the game reinforcements, there are several players on each team, with one player who wears a special armband. The players with the special armband can go back to the team flag station and tag eliminated players back into the game. Players who think that they have tagged another player call a paint check.
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