Is that a drumbeat I hear?
Originally posted by Baca Loco
My objection has been and remains that the mag elevates players without regard to how they play if they have a certain rep or if they have friends among the journalists. While I don't think it's a terribly constructive policy to pick out negative incidents and name names for the reasons TJ mentions and others I think a useful option remains--simply NEVER mention by name any player the editors and staff consider to be a non-clean player.
As it stands now the mag routinely gives it's imprimatur to plenty of "stars" who have questionable standards of play and that's one of the ways this sort of conduct is passed on to the next generation of player. "X is a superstar and I saw him wiping..."
At a minimum it's counterproductive for the mag to give tacit approval (by recognizing) certain unethical players while Robbo is busy leading the RL bandwagon. Can you say mixed message?
Robbo--are you suggesting the rule should be A) changed, or B) the refs given discretion in enforcement?
I can't believe you would advocate either one as A) you yourself have made an issue of the potential for abusing electro markers and B) there isn't a distinction to be made--either a marker is compliant with the rules or it isn't.
Moo
In life, we come up against many types of people, pragmatists and dogmatists to name but two.
I have always been of the opinion, that without rules, people are prone to anarchy and as such, rules are an undeniable necessity governing the way we live and also how we play.
But there comes a time when the notion of common sense is so often sacrificed cuz some dick says this is the rule and that's it.
But who determines the rule and who determines the dick ?
Hmmmm, and herein lies the rub (no pun intended)
I'll say this much with regard to full auto and a judges present determination thereof.
As Manike explained on another thread, the strict interpretation is any gun that fires more than the number of trigger pulls is deemed to be illegal and as such, full auto.
If you hold your finger down on the trigger and keep it held, and a constant stream of paint pisses out the end of your barrel, this is deemed and I would also agree, to be full auto.
But taking the letter of the law, we can extend this definition to any gun that has the trigger pulled 100 times and 101 balls issue forth, now Manike would argue this can and is, similarly classified as full auto but hey, where's the common sense?
I don't give two ****s what the government says with regard to this matter, we are not talking legality here, we are talking about adjudication at a tournament where a penalty is to be assessed.
There is no way anybody exhibiting such a malfunction should be judged as harshly as someone who is firing full, and I mean full auto !!
It's frikkin ludicrous and so was the penalty suffered by the RL.
We all know the RL never meant for it to happen, we know they never exhibited full-auto characteristics and yet, they lost two players for the rest of the tournament and why ?
Because the Millennium rules committee had written this rule in without any recourse to any players or common sense and I gotta say, they have no real idea what the f##k they are doing.
To lose two players as the Legion did for this offence, well, I can't believe it, it makes me so angry that we could treat paying customers like this when the judges must have known the RL did not intentionally set up their guns to fire full auto.
If someone can prove they did, then yes, slam them into hell, but there was no way they did and this proof could never have been forthcoming.
But what do the Millennium rules committee do?
Instead of trying to fix a rule that is obviously unfair and impractical, they just go ahead and ban the players from the RL, easy ain't it ?
And if you knew some of the other ideas being mooted now with regard to rule changes then you would have a fit too, I spoke to Jean Manuel and he told me some of his thinking, well, all I gotta say is, hmmmm, somebody needs to do something before they get formalised or there is gonna be a frikkin riot !!!!!
As for answering the first part of the question, hmmm, Baca, me and you both well know, this game of ours, including every top American team has cheats (in an absolute sense) riddling thru them.
I have seen every one of them cheat at one time or another and just because they do, do we ignore the great parts of their game ?
Nah, course we don't if we ignored those who do cheat (and r u gonna draw the line?) the pages, of nigh on every mag would just have me and the RL in them and believe me, you don't want that
Nah, that was a stupid question as I'm sure you know, it doesn't reveal any contradictory policy from me or the magazine is just shows the pragmatism we adopt when reporting.
Does boxing news ignore Tyson cuz he's an animal ?
Did it stop his licence being issued to fight again in your country ?
Do we ignore Michael Jordan because he used to commit fouls ?
The list goes on and your suggestion gets more ludicrous by the minute….
Nah, cheating is everywhere, it is part of human nature just as much as human excellence of endeavour and play, ignore one and you have to ignore the others.
You would have a sport devoid of character, passion and personality and if you want that Baca, start up a Dominican Monk paintball league and see how just how many buy the magazine that concentrates their coverage on it.
Baca, you are intelligent guy that's for sure, but you knew the answers (or should have done ) to this long before you put finger to keyboard.
Robbo
