Yes, they are.
Rulebooks are getting to thick, and too much left to "discretion", which transalates into inconsistency.
So, here is my own set of rules:-
1. Semi -auto only. No ramping. All guns checked as they enter the field.
2. DQ any players that have a ramping gun or any other manner of gun cheat.
3. Hot guns: -50 for any 3 shots over 910.
4. DQ any players for playing on or wiping.
5. Excessively padded clothing is not permitted to be worn. This does not mean wearing a DYE or Empire jersey whcih is expressly made for paintball, but a puffa jacket that isn't.
6. Points: Flag hang 50
Eliminations 10
(Giving a max of 100)
7. Game time 5 mins.
8. That's it.
Well, that was easy. All I have to do know is find a tournament series that will adopt them.
1. Semi-only? You mean no electronics then right?
2. How is this defined? What about if an o-ring blows out causing full auto (as can happen on some designs) - is that punishable by DQ?
3. 3 shot strings? how dreadfully 1994. Why not keep it even simpler - no shot over 300fps (like it is at present).
4. DQ players for playing on? So you'll make one bad/wrong ref call ruin a players day and possibly a team. Good luck with that.
5. Can't remember the last time I saw a player in a puffa jacket on-field, but whatever.
6. Again, what is with this archaic scoring? Is the 3 pts win 1 pt draw and Elimination difference (a la most "proper" sports) so difficult to understand?
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8 Really? So there are no flags or field boundaries, no defined ref calls, players can punch one another and the refs, take knives and tools on-field, cut holes in the netting and shoot from off-field (whatever happened to Jeremy Salm anyway?), move the bunkers around, walk off-field to gas & pot up and come back on, pass equipment between dead players, dead players can talk and coach etc. etc.
A simple rulebook is a lovely idea in cloud cuckoo land, but let's be honest, the current rulebook (even in it's un-organised state of flux) is for the most part very simple to read and understand by nearly all players - stripping away a lot of the seemingly superfluous rules would just allow those of a more devious mind to run riot.
You complain that the current rulebooks allow too much "discretion", but your rules are even worse in my opinion - the above is five minutes thought, if an event used your "rules", then I promise you that you'd be abandoning it after the first game or two due to all the arguments.
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