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Scars

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I dont know if anyone else feels like this but after meeting up with a few old team mates for a few beers last night we naturally talked about the team and events we'd played etc and it frightened me how much paintball has changed in such a short space of time...

Team i met up with were the original Perception guys from back in the 2004 season, which was a pretty good season.. PA had just started, series was still going, Think it was Wendys first year running the masters, only boo boo that year was Campaigns venue :(

Now some might call it progression of the sport but i aint so sure.

It was nice to know that where ever you went your gun would be compatible as all events were semi only, formats was either 5 or 7 man, nothing else unless you played NXL

Even equipment seemed simpler than it is now...

I dunno call me an old git but i prefere the good old days
 
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Scars said:
It was nice to know that where ever you went your gun would be compatible as all events were semi only, formats was either 5 or 7 man, nothing else unless you played NXL

I dunno call me an old git but i prefere the good old days
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Strangely, Piper and me were out on the beers last night and a similar converstaion came to pass over the strong lager and noncing of tasty ho's (oh and abusing Mario on the phone).

I'm quoting the above as I agree in principle, but do you really think the guns were Semi only? The last year I played "competative" paintball was 2004 EXL, but I was getting more help from my gun than an asylum seeker gets from a Labour government.

There was obviously a need for better regulation / rules, but there's just too many these days and it ruins the game and cash money to "grin" ratio. I mean why spend the best part of a monkey (and then some) playing a Millennium event to get 20 mins game time (if your lucky), spending the rest of the time in the deadbox due to infractions? I may as well take the monkey and throw it at lapdances (i.e. the Lesbian Bonanza) or offshore powerboat racing.

In my humble opinion (or not so cos I have a red user title), the rush to legitimise Paintball actually destroyed a lot of the fun and flow. Tournament paintball now sucks the big one. If you want a laugh and joke play scenario, but tournament disappeared up it's own arse.

Anyway, aren't you about 12???
 
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Kitch said:
I started going down hill when Piper stopped playing
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True, I think Piper's problem was jerseys didn't come big enough.









Too be fair he's now a bit more svelte. I actually thought he'd pulled last night, but she was just asking him to get out the way to get too me.
 
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the good old days dont just stop with paintball. think back to school and all your friends you no longer see. either cause you fell outta touch, you/they moved or their dead. lifes a bitch. sad but true.
 
Scars

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stongle said:
Anyway, aren't you about 12???
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lmao, try doubling it mate..




Granted semi guns, and especially an intimidators idea of semi was not exactly semi. And normally the guy that called your gun for a check for bounce was only calling your gun for a check to draw attention from his Cocker bouncing like a philipino with a 20 stuffed down her thong.

half the time you couldnt control it and if you were caught you'd take the flack... i guess it was accepted back then. But instead we all run assisted modes which killed movement especially in lower divisions where they just trade paint at the best o times

Im not exactly against ramping but it took the fun outta the game for me so I reluctantly adapted to stay playing competative paintball. I would trade all advances in the sport today to have the leniancy we used to have back then!...i wish all i had to worry about now is if my gun was gonna bounce whilst being chronied onto a field

But im seeing now that ramping creeping into Woodsball... so you cant get away from it either way

Granted 4 years ago i would have enjoyed the game more as i was still a teenager so was younger more agile, had my wits about me and most importantly i had more freedom.. but neverthe less the game just doesnt resemble what it used to... and if its less appealing to me f**k know what its to new players.

I run a works team/club and im trying to encourage the guys to play some of the domestic events, it aint easy!
 
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