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Field Boundaries | Boundary Tape
Field boundaries and Boundary Tape are used in all types of paintballs games, recreational, scenario, and tournament. It is important for player safety for players to stay within the boundaries. The Field Boundaries are made for players safety to keep anyone firing rounds at a far enough distance away from places where players and not wearing goggles. Players going outside of field boundaries are subject to disqualification from the game. Most field boundaries are composed of a netting, ribbon, or colored tape. Field Boundaries are made of very different configurations, depending on the type of games being played. In games like Speedball or Hyperball, the fields are very ordered and proportional; they are shaped like a football field with two halves of equal size. The boundary tape meets at right angles as the field dimensions make the fields compact enough to keep players close together.
One example of a Speedball Field with tight Field Boundaries is the Paintball Quest Field in Birmingham Alabama. Paintball Quest have a variety of fields to play on, including 4 Speedball fields, and 2 Airball Fields. Since speedball games are supposed to feature quick games and a lot of action, the Boundary Tape around the bunker section of the field is really brought in, as opposed to woodsball games that feature snipers and other players that are hidden from plain view. The airball fields at Paintball Quest have netting for Field Boundaries, protecting anyone else in the area that is not involved in game action. Within its boundaries, the field is made up of a series of inflatable bunkers of various shapes and sizes to add variety to the games. The center of the airball field displays the familiar giant X is a staple of National X-Ball league games. The field boundaries in fields like Quest Airball and Speedball fields are to bring the players close enough to one another, almost close enough so that any one player can hit any other player on the field. The boundary tape keeps the players close enough together so that players can not just run back or to the sides when the enemy advances. All players are close to the action no matter where they are on the fields in speedball and hyperball games.
In other types of paintball games, like woodsball, the field boundaries are much larger. These games are designed to last longer, and defending players at one end of the field can be pretty far from defending players from the other end of the field. At BWR Paintball in Quincy Florida, there are a number of fields actually designed for scenario games and woodsball skirmishes. The BWR woodsball field is set on a rugged, lush green terrain with a number of interesting obstacles that makes this park stand out. Some interesting man-made bunkers at this field include cocker holes, piles of sandbags, and even a cool missile silo fort that players can group together to form an impressive line of defense. Woodsball fields are designed around the environments they inhabit, which include uneven terrain, streams, and rocky obstacles. So the field boundaries and Boundary Tape lines that surround these fields make irregular patterns of lines around the whole field, as opposed to rectangular, nicely proportional boundaries of flat, even speedball fields.
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