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Freight Training
Freight Training is any attempt by a tagged player to linger in the game with the goal of affecting the outcome of the game. Section 5 of the NPPL Official Rulebook deals specifically with freight training and how it can be grounds for a team penalty. In all major tournament rulebooks there are sections covering rules and regulations for player conduct once eliminated. When a player has been hit with a shattered paintball they are expected to put their barrel plug in and make a swift exit towards the closest dead box. If the closest dead box lies close to some of the meat of the action, then they are expected to choose an alternative dead box so that they won't interfere with the game. Any attempt to block an opposing player from taking a shot at one of their own teammates would be considered freight training.
Rule 36.01 of the NPPL rulebook describes freight training as the act of utilizing multiple players who move and act in such a manner that the lead players, after being marked and eliminated, impede or prevent the timely elimination of other players in the train. In this same section the rulebook lists the appropriate action to be taken by referees if they see this behavior. Referees will remove one player for each instance of continued play by any of the freight-training players. Players who led the freight train are often expelled from the tournament event. Some other tournament circuits that discourage this paintball tactic include the Interior Paintball League, the Nordic Series, the Finnish Paintball Federation, the CSPO, and the XPSL.
Freight training is not the only thing that players can do to interfere in game events once eliminated. Sometimes, players will get in front of opposing players with the purpose of getting deliberately bonus balled. Bonus balling is the act of continuing to hit someone even though you know he has been eliminated. Sometimes, an eliminated player might jump out on the field to get the enemy to shoot them in anger. As soon as they get bonus balled, they start crying out that they are being picked on. The referee, not seeing the first part of this action sequence, will be likely to call a penalty on the opposing team if he sees more than just a few paint marks on a player. This move by the tagged player is sometimes called the Snake Stand-Up. The Snake Stand-Up is a move that specifically refers to players coming up in the Snake Bunker and goading them into Bonus Balling, but this shady tactic could also be attempted on any section of the paintball field. Anyone attempting the Snake Stand-Up will be penalized. Rules like these concerning conduct after eliminations apply at major tournament events as well as paintball fields such as Fort Detrick Paintball in Frederick Maryland, and Executive Paintball in Blandford Massachusetts.
In NPPL Super Seven contests, the rulebook says that no coaches, sideline players, or audience participants should do or say anything that could affect the outcome of the game. If any fan or other person associated with a particular team does anything to aid them, they will be removed from the sporting complex and cause one or more players to be removed from the game. Other actions that could get a team penalized include making physical contact with an opposing player.
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