Through My Lenses: Overshooting

in·tent (ĭn-těnt') - Intent. to or for all intents and purposes, for all practical purposes; practically speaking; virtually: The book is, to all intents and purposes, a duplication of earlier efforts.

I start this article by asking you guys a question. What is your intention of playing paintball? For fun? As a weekend exercise? A pastime? To hurt? To make people feel pain?

A paintball "hit" is defined as a hit or a mark made by a paintball which leaves a(singular) paint mark on a player to define the player as "dead" or "out". Yes. You only need to hit a player once for him to be dead or out. Paintball is not brutal. Its a professionally played game worldwide. It brings up back to the point of this write-up. Why overshoot?

Every weekend, countless players, regulars and newbies alike comes to me to complain. "I out already they still shoot me." Some players keep quiet but the effects of overshooting can be clearly seen on their clothing. It is further reinforced by the bruises on their body. Overshooting makes the sport of paintball brutal. Newbies who get overshot, do you think they would ever come back? Do you think their friends would tryout paintball after seeing the bruises?

Put your self in a scenario like this, this has just happened to one of my close friends who played paintball twice and playing the first time with his own marker. He's laying in a fox hole in Viet-Cong. He's the last man standing. A group of 15 regulars surrounds him and marked him "firing squad" style. He got bathed in paint with at least 20 shots to his body, marker, mask and head. What am i supposed to tell him to expect? As usual, the only thing i can say to him and the countless people who have been overshot, "Suck it up, it comes with the sport" but for how long more do i have to use the suck-it-up line? If you guys would just look at the playing style of really professional players. Go YouTube- PaintBorg. Look at his quake cams and learn because that how paintball should be played.

I do admit that the overshooting comes because of certain players who wipes and plays on. But if a guy, any guy. And that guy could be you yourself. If that guy were to be the last man standing, and he's one against 15, what's the point of shooting the poor guy? Can he wipe if there's 15 barrels pointed to his face? Can you? Again i come back to the word intent. What is your intent?

I know its fun and its reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyyyyyyy tempting to give that guy 1 or 2 more shots "just to make sure" but come on guys. 20 shots? That's a bit over already la. Play like an adult because "most" of you are. Play fair, and if you don't want overshooting to happen to you, do not overshoot in the first place. Its karma. What goes around comes around.

If you wanna hurt people and bruise people real bad, quit paintball and take up boxing, so that you can go back whining to your ugly girlfriend saying people hurt you. =(

Tanamera D-Day 2009

Tanamera will be hosting an event forever be remembered in Malaysia, The D Day Malaysia is here in Tanamera Paintball Park starting on the 12th to the 13th of December 2009.

It's so big it will blow the top of Tanamera paintball park. It will be held together with Graduan 1Malaysia, Skirmish Paintball Asia, Kementerian Belia dan Sukan and Tanamera Paintball Club.

All registration and announcement will be held at WCA. Do look out for us near Skirmish Booth.


Rates of D-Day 2009 are as follows,
Rm200 for own marker registration, with a box of paint free.
Rm220 for house markers starter pack, with a box of paint free.
Any additional paint will be charged at Rm150nett per box.

Date 12th - 13th December 2009
Time Start 12th - 1000hours - Ends 13th - 1530hours
Officiated by VIP maybe VVIP


ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE?????

LET'S MAKE THIS THE LARGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR!!!

Through My Lenses: Wiping

Arguably, wiping has long since been a problem in Paintball. "Wiping" as the name implies, is when a player attempts to remove or "wipe" a mark made by a broken paintball on themselves in order to hide the hits and thus play on. Paintballs are designed and made to leave a visible, clear mark on a hit player to "mark" them out. It is an effective system, but it is not a fool proof system.

In Tanamera Paintball Park, wipers are a common sight. I ain't pointing no fingers here, but c'mon guys, do you think i'm blind or what? The way that you guys play weekend games, with no Rm5000 for the winning team reflects on how you lead your personal life. In my humble opinion, if you cheat in Paintball, you will and have been cheating your self on your life. You're not cheating me. Nor you're cheating Abu, the one you're lying to is your self.

Marshals
To be honest, marshals in a rec-ball game are not there to call you out. Not that we bother, as if we could stop you guys (again, i ain't mentioning names here) from wiping? What's the point to give penalties to enforce those rules? I mentioned earlier, it is not that the games pay Rm5000 to the winning team right? Our job on the field is to give a fair game to all the players standing there on that day. All we can do is split up an even team, and make sure the game is safe and enjoyable for everyone, newbies and regulars alike. We can't be next to every player on the field at one go, again, we're not god. And as much as me loving to imagine having eyeballs that can zoom, i don't have them, and no i can't look and see what's happening on the far side of Lake Placid.

Bitching
Every weekend, players come to me and complain, "That guy kena shoot then dowan go out!, Like that play mat lan oh?" Wipers, and honest players alike. Sometimes i do wonder, you sendiri wipe, i've seen you doing it countless times, and now you're here bitching to me that the opposing players are wiping? Honest players, c'mon guys. Now look me in the eyes and tell me you have not wiped even one single shoot from the first day that you took up a paintball marker. Who cares if you have a 50 foot banner saying that you're against wiping? I surely don't, and don't come bitching to me at Tanamera saying "Wah lan eh, everyone also you tembak, i know you damn good you don't wipe one..." If you're thinking to do that or considering that at this point, read the post again. No where in this post mentions that i do not cheat and wipe. Am i a honest player or a wiper, i'll leave that to your consideration. Those who played with me and against me knows.

Advices
Wiping is an art, if you wanna be dishonest with yourself and wipe, please do it without me seeing it or the opposing players seeing it. If you wanna wipe also, you do it more professionally right? Watching those players in the US-PL wipe(in replayed YouTube Videos, with a red circle indicating when they wiped) You guys are a total useless noobs in wiping. Of course, if you're not a paintball noob in the first place you won't be the one wiping as you'll be the one shooting people out.
Can't take losing playing Paintball? Go play bowling. Or get a Nintendo Wii and play Cooking Mama with your ugly girlfriend at home with cheat codes and quit Paintball.


-Tanamera Marshal Taggy

PS: This is the first of my "Through My Lenses" write ups. If i rajin then the next write ups will have pictures and stuff.

PS2: If this write up offended anyone, or made anyone ter-rasa, or you think what i've said is wrong, feel free to leave a comment.

GAME ON GUYS!