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| Originally Posted by VVulfe While it is true that you have made allowances for "exceptions," to pigeon-hole an entire subsection of players in our sport, or the manner in which they enjoy this mad game of ours is rather unbecoming.  |
I'll take my flogging
but I just call it like I see it.
woodsball seems to me to be a pretty laid back (competitively) affair, you go out, search and destroy for a while. and when the time limit is over or the flag gets captured... do we really care which team "won"? not really. the game was played, you took a few guys out and good fun was had by all - scenario play is slightly different, but it's still woodsball. Woodsball is where the game started, and for those of use who started plyaing in the 80's - woodsball is what we started on. (my first game was in 88' playing renegade style with a splatmaster, just out of 5th grade I was.) Speedball (Ie: tournament style paintball on a short mirrored course) IMHO, introduces a level of competition to the game I dislike - it breeds arrogance, it cuts down on fun factor, too often egos clash and arguments follow. it becomes a question of... who is your "sponsor", what kind of gun you have and weather or not you can win at tournament.
and lets face it... most tournament ball players who wear the silly pants and jerseys (they probably think my cammies are silly too - but I'm a woodsballer and I can care less... - I'll go pound a pint and laugh at them instead
) and pack the 1500 dollar spaceguns - are mid to late teenage males. and we know what that means - throw in some competition, a bit of ego and blend with a distinct lack of brains to testosterone. and what you get is someone you don't really want to hang out with until they are 25 or so... with a gun... If I met myself at 17 now, I'd probably want to kick my own young butt.
really - I'm not knocking mirrored short course style play (with the right crowd and mindset it can be very fun) but getting bunkered (it happens no matter how good you are sometimes), bonus balled, and "pwned" by an angel toting 16 year old kid who thinks that is what the game is about (and this is what tournament ball breeds) is NOT fun. which is why I don't play tournement style ball on airball type fields - the environment is not what would consider fun, and it would bring out the worst in me - so I just don't do it.
