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Paintball Splatter
The rules on paintball splatter vary depending on whether you are competing in tournament style play or depending on field rules. In competition, if you or your gun are hit with a paintball that does not splatter, are you still out? In most fields and tournament play, you're not. Usually, the player or gun must take a direct hit from a paintball that has exploded to be eliminated from the game. This means that if you are covered with paintball splatter caused by its impact with an object near you, you are still alive for game competition.
Paintball splatter in the case of gun hits is another matter that depends on field rules. In some competitive play, a hit on your paintball gun does not eliminate you from the game. In this case, sustaining paintball splatter on your person does not eliminate you from the game if the initial impact came from the paintgun.
If you as the shooter or you as the eliminated player have a dispute, call on the referee for a paintcheck. If you are covered with paintball splatter that ricocheted off a rock, tree, or wall, then point this out to the referee. If the paintball splatter is caused by its impact with your paintgun, try to show that the paint on you is from a gun hit. Call on the referee if you have an objection to elimination. A good and experienced referee can tell if your body was the primary source of impact.
The thing about paintball splatter is that a lot of liquid paint can project out of a ball that has exploded on your gun or a rock near you. You may have survived a number of close calls and have enough paint on you for it to look like you took some direct hits. If you sustain to much damage, you may be called out on splatter even if you have no primary marks. In order to avoid being called out on paintball splatter, call a referee over to show him marks caused by indirect hits. Show the referee where the ball h it before it broke and causing the collateral damage o n your clothing. Be proactive and call a referee over: Ref, I'm taking a lot of splatter. This way the ref can see the damage on your, and be able to make a determination that you were not the paintballs primary impact. Most of the time, a preemptive response and signal to the ref of a non-direct impact will keep you in the game. There will probably be a time in your paintball career where you will be called out on splatter, but it is something every player will go through eventually. If you are a referee, do research on splatter patterns so that you do not make the mistake of unjustly calling a person out.
If you need to make a tough decision, try to analyze the splatter pattern on the player's body. If the paintball splatter appears to radiate out from a single origin, then the primary impact was likely the player in question. If splatter is scattered randomly around the body, then it was likely a ricochet off of a rock or wall. When you are a ref, remember what it feels like to get called out on splatter before you make that judgment call.
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