Campaign - Worst field for marshalls??

[Dougal]

I have never had cause previously to complain about marshalling at an event before. Sure, we had some bad calls before, but I personally believe that the overall standard of marshalling at this event was the worst I have ever encountered. And in particular the standard on the Toahawk and Evil fields are worthy of particular mention.

I have no grudge or issue with any teams or nationality, indeed I don't even know who were on these fields - but really, for marshalls to call players out when they "thought" they saw a hit is totally unacceptable, and this happened to us on at least 3 occasions on these fields.

The ultimate on 1 of these fields tried to explain to me that he had some marshalls with limited experience', to justify a wrong call that may have cost us a game.
With respect, that is totally unacceptable. The basics of good marshalling surely is to be sure that a player has been hit, before you call him 'out'.

When will the MS folow the example of NPPL and bring in dedicated reffing crews, in order to try to minimise the number of errors and the claims of favouritism and , let's face it, racism that prevail at these events.

Dougal
Escarmouche

 

[brian]

right on!!

Dougal,right with you on that one,tomahawk field deffo the worst field there,even though a quality team were supposedly judging!We all had some bad calls over the w.end buts thats p.ball,but the t.hawk field were havin a freekin giraaaaffe,spesh with players getting lit up then running through,claiming they got em on a mugging spree! ticks me right off,cus if i,d have carried on shooting said players,i myself would have got done for over aggresive play!!! ....C all in spain......Frenchie...."we likes hobbitses..."

 

[brian]

P.s

Do know who were judging on t.hawk field as spoke to the ultimate at the end of game,but wont name them as everybody makes mistakes,just let him know that i wasn,t v.happy

 

[Half-Pint]

thanks for your appreciation and support guys....

i'll definately be up for marshallin the cup next year....

and the rest of us who gave up our own time for you.... cheers!!!!

sorry, whats that? no refs no tourney?

i understand you have gripes... but be a bit more tactful in your approach ya?

 

[L J]

we had bad calls all over the show.

weve had players being wiped down. we had one guy get shot going into a teabag so we figured he was out and switched, to find we get shot in the back and lose the game as a marked player played on, and they got no penalty for it, he should have been 2-4-1'd

definetly the worst marshalling ive come across. a few marshalls couldnt speak coherent english like , even tho they should be as stated in the rules.


in fact, as we arrived on site on friday morning (bout 8 am) we found 2 teams playing and saw 2 players get marked going into a snake, and they are allowed to play on with 2 marshalls next to them and then at the end of the game they get wiped down.

we had another team hugging and laughing with the marshalls before and after a game which doesnt exactly say to me that they arent biased, especially as they had players wiped down, and then at the end of the game, 2 out of the 3 players left shot our last guy out, then walked to the dead box as they had been hit ages before

 

[Mario]

x-ball marshalls ruled. fair, helpful and real soulful guys. thank you guys!

 

[LiQUiD]

i didnt think the marshalling was too bad, and like half-pint said, we need marshalls for paintball. If everytime they do it, they get critisised (sp) theyre not going to want to do it again.

I did though see one bad call in the day which was one of the tigers young guns games. One of the marshalls called a 1-4-1 after a guy was shot, making a run from a lay down to a t bag and getting shot in between. The marshall went on to say he played on. I mean, they guy did not play on, he was running from one place to another when he got shot, and you dont stop in the middle of a run to check wether you got hit. you wait till you get to where you intended to go. The marhsall didnt give this guy a chance though.

Apart from this incident the marshalling didnt seem too bad to me. Just my 2 pence.
Dan

 

[L J]

Originally posted by LiQUiD
i didnt think the marshalling was too bad, and like half-pint said, we need marshalls for paintball. If everytime they do it, they get critisised (sp) theyre not going to want to do it again.

I did though see one bad call in the day which was one of the tigers young guns games. One of the marshalls called a 1-4-1 after a guy was shot, making a run from a lay down to a t bag and getting shot in between. The marshall went on to say he played on. I mean, they guy did not play on, he was running from one place to another when he got shot, and you dont stop in the middle of a run to check wether you got hit. you wait till you get to where you intended to go. The marhsall didnt give this guy a chance though.

Apart from this incident the marshalling didnt seem too bad to me. Just my 2 pence.
Dan

that depends on where he is hit, if its a self check area then the rules say you are meant to stop, if you dont then its playing on,

 

[Parksy]

Originally posted by L J
that depends on where he is hit, if its a self check area then the rules say you are meant to stop, if you dont then its playing on,

Stop in no mans land? Since when? I always thought you got to your next bunker and checked yourself?

EDIT: As long as your not firing after the hit, then it could be classed as playing on

 

[L J]

"players who are hit in obvious locations which are easily verifiable by suck players may not call for a paintcheck. calling for a paintcheck under such circumstances can constitute continuing to play on"

"players who are in motion while hit in obvious locations which are easily verifiable for themselves will immediately turn their motion away from the opposition, and stop otherwise they are playing on"