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What Kind of Player Are You?
What kind of player are you? Do you long for the life of a professional and the record for sponsorships and prized events. Are you satisfied playing pickup games in your local recreational paintball field? There are three main groups of players who compete in games, the tournament player, the serious recreational player, and the casual player. In this article we will discuss the most publicized but least played games and players, the tournaments and the tournament players.
Tournament games are highly organized events where players must register days before participating. Here's the major difference over casual games, these games are for money prizes and other industry product prizes. In addition to the money and sponsored products prizes, these games are sometimes televised on stations like ESPN2 and the Superstation. While TV contracts and cash prizes are both great benefits to tournament games, it also brings with it the incentive to cover up things like the players tournament experience and ranking. In leagues like the APL Tournament Series, players are classified as professional, amateur, novice, and rookie. In some tournament matches, players and teams will even try to drop down a ranking, to play a lesser opponent and, to increase their chances of winning. This practice is called sandbagging, and this is a highly prohibited practice. To combat this shady maneuver, all players registered in the APL games have their tournament results recorded, and these records go back years. All players must register for each APL tournament, and their results in any games are recorded. The records are made to make sure that plays is fair and all players have an opportunity to play competitive games.
There are three basic types of tournament players, front players, cover players, and utility players. Front players barrel down the field right out of the game on signal they try to head as far down the field they can before running into the opposition, and they take the furthest bunkers as they can towards the enemy base. The front players run first, and ask questions later, and they are supported by the cover players, who lay down a lot of paint for them. The next group of players are the utility players. The utility players do not man any specific sections of the field, but they back up both the front players and the cover players. With the paint flying around, players are always on the move, and players are always being eliminated. Utility players must be quick and well conditioned, as they may need to move quickly to take up the position of a fallen teammate.
After the players competing for prize money and right now in Splat Magazine, you have the serious recreational players and the casual players. Serious recreational players usually play more than 20 times per year, and they usually own their own equipment. Serious recreational players really understand how to maintain and operate a paintball gun. Some popular fields for recreational players include Proshop Paintball in Howell, New Jersey.
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