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Dead Man's Walk
Regardless of what type of paintball game you are playing, you must know who your opponent is, and who has been eliminated from the game. In any type of paintball game that you are playing, you should tag out so many players as your can, and identify your opponent verses those who have been eliminated from the game. The sport of paintball has a number of established rules understood by paintball veterans to easily determine who is in the game, and who has been eliminated. These rules allow paintball players to leave the game safely, without being bombarded with paintball pellets.
In this article, we will discuss good sportsmanship, and conduct that involves getting eliminated from the game. Most of the rules are pretty black and white and not open to rules changes of interpretation. For instance, if you're hit, you say you're hit and if you're out, you say you're out. There are, however, some grey areas that include playing possum and pretending to be out, when in fact you are still very much in the game. This is a tactic know as Dead Man's Walk.
During Dead Man's Walk, a player may try to convey that he is out of the game through his/her body language. They may walk towards the outside of the paintball field with their head down or with his gun to his side. The player will walk around with this paintball gun that is still armed and dangerous (without putting in their barrel plug). This is a sneaky maneuver but legal in most paintball games. Beware the Dead Man's Walk maneuver.
The walk, if discovered too late, could cause doom to the opposing paintball team. The "Dead Man" may walk through the opponents skirmish line until they get behind them. The sneaky player may then launch an ambush from behind, or even capture the flag. While some paintball fields strictly prohibit this strategy, most games consider Dead Man's Walk within the rules.
While Dead Man's is a legal move in most paintball circles, any move that is openly deceptive is illegal. By openly deceptive, we mean that you can't call yourself verbally out and then try to slide behind enemy lines that way. Any signal, verbal or non-verbal that you use to call yourself out is binding. If you put, the barrel plug in the gun and signal that your hit, you are eliminated whether you have been tagged or not.
Someone is also, breaking game rules when they walk with eliminated players to pretend she is hit but isn't. It is un-sportsmanlike to use an eliminated player as a shield or to interact with players that are out of the game action.
The use of a deceptive elimination signal is considered un-sportsmanlike conduct from a number of reasons. First, it creates an unsafe situation for the players involved. It is always a safety issue to continue to shoot at a layer out of the game. A player walking off the field may have their guard down, and may get hurt if blindsided by a barrage of paintball fire. Also, the paintball player may be leaving the field in the first place because they many have an equipment failure that compromises their safety.
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