It's official, the paintball world has gone mad.
I found this out a week ago, I ran into an employee at "Gauner Electronic Solutions" at an indoor field a while ago who told me to enjoy my E-Mag "While you can." When I asked him what he was talking about, he told me some of the details. I waited 'till I got my E-mag back before I said anything, because I wanted to see how it worked. But it SUCKS, so I'm exposing the plans.
In an effort to curb the "Cheater board" phenomenon both the PSP and Super 7 are going to require players to use "official" boards in all electronic guns. "GES" boards will be mandatory as of May 1. If your gun doesn't have one, you can't play. Period.
You gotta send your gun to the event site at least 72 hours BEFORE the tournament so they can swap boards. If you mess with the board, you're thrown out of the event and your team play a man down. On the good side, they won't be charging the players for the new hardware. But if you have a WAS or whatever board in there already, you surrender your board when you send it in.
That all sounds good, except that the ROF is locked at 8 BPS for some BS "Insurance" reason. If you wipe, play on, or cheat, they unlock your board and turn your ROF DOWN for the tournament. I also heard a rumor that some of the more "Tournament" styled fields will require the "Gauner Board" to play walk on! They were gonna spring this on the players a week or two from now, but this made me angry, so screw 'em, I'm leaking it.
I already got one in my E-Mag, they did it for free. I've got it as .wmv AND .mov files on my site. Sorry for the absolute junk video quality, I did it kinda fast to show you all how the new boards perform.
55 second videos, pretty small file sizes. http://www.webdogradio.us/news/104tlboard/ No fools, the videos are really there.
NOT a happy camper here...
-Tyger
I found this out a week ago, I ran into an employee at "Gauner Electronic Solutions" at an indoor field a while ago who told me to enjoy my E-Mag "While you can." When I asked him what he was talking about, he told me some of the details. I waited 'till I got my E-mag back before I said anything, because I wanted to see how it worked. But it SUCKS, so I'm exposing the plans.
In an effort to curb the "Cheater board" phenomenon both the PSP and Super 7 are going to require players to use "official" boards in all electronic guns. "GES" boards will be mandatory as of May 1. If your gun doesn't have one, you can't play. Period.
You gotta send your gun to the event site at least 72 hours BEFORE the tournament so they can swap boards. If you mess with the board, you're thrown out of the event and your team play a man down. On the good side, they won't be charging the players for the new hardware. But if you have a WAS or whatever board in there already, you surrender your board when you send it in.
That all sounds good, except that the ROF is locked at 8 BPS for some BS "Insurance" reason. If you wipe, play on, or cheat, they unlock your board and turn your ROF DOWN for the tournament. I also heard a rumor that some of the more "Tournament" styled fields will require the "Gauner Board" to play walk on! They were gonna spring this on the players a week or two from now, but this made me angry, so screw 'em, I'm leaking it.
I already got one in my E-Mag, they did it for free. I've got it as .wmv AND .mov files on my site. Sorry for the absolute junk video quality, I did it kinda fast to show you all how the new boards perform.
55 second videos, pretty small file sizes. http://www.webdogradio.us/news/104tlboard/ No fools, the videos are really there.
NOT a happy camper here...
-Tyger
