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The Bunker Rub - Paintball Rules
The Bunker Rub is an intentional contact with a paintball bunker in order to rub off paint from a direct hit. The Bunker Rub is a creative form of wiping that players can sometimes get away with even if the referee was looking right at them. If caught, the player can just say that it was their momentum that brought them to slide against the bunker and not an intentional act of wiping. Wiping is defined as the active and deliberate removal of paint by a player in order to avoid elimination or a referee's call. Players will try to keep themselves or their teammates in the game by using any number of colorful tricks. Sometimes, players will get hit in the process of moving from one bunker to the next, and then turn their body so that the side of impact makes first contact with the bunker. This can give the player the chance to at least say that the action of rubbing off the paint was inadvertent and that the wiping was not intentional.
In the sport of paintball, most or all tournament circuits state that an elimination shot must come from a direct impact from a paintball fired from another player's paintball gun at the subject player's body or attached gear. Tournament elimination rules usually say that paint transfer from objects like bunkers will not be counted towards eliminations. To take advantage of this rule, players will sometimes try to cover up a real elimination on their body by rubbing against a bunker that has fresh paint on it. Players may attempt this move to cover up an elimination shot with bunker paint. When a referee comes over to inspect, the player can then say that "the paint came from the bunker, look!" Players may use fresh paint from a bunker for this cover-up, or they may shoot the bunker themselves to give themselves a wet target to rub up against.
Some players feel that it's a part of the general paintball culture's attitude that it isn't really cheating if you don't get caught. A move like this is very subtle and difficult for referees to call a player on, especially if the player was already close to a bunker when hit. If he was running when the ref saw a possible elimination shot, it would be difficult to distinguish a blatant foul from a momentum-caused bunker collision.
The NPPL Super 7 posts a publication every year that serves as their official rulebook. The NPPL official rulebook defines how games should be run and lists inappropriate behaviors that will get a team penalized. In section 11 of the rulebook, several guidelines are set about the kinds of markers that can be used in games and the types of barrels that players are allowed to use with them. In the first section it states that players can use stock guns and semi-automatic paintball markers, but may not use fully automatic machines. Some appropriate markers for these league games may include the NYX Matrix from Generation-E and the Mini from Invert. The Invert Mini possesses a cocker threaded barrel and Break Beam Anti-Chop Eyes standard.
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