just thought i would share with ya what a spectator (my wife) said at world cup..as i stated before, my team is just now returning to paintball after a long time out (almost 7 years) and lot of things have changed..so we decided to pacjk things up and go to world cup to see it first hand before we have another go next year (and yes, we are older and slower).. anyway, after a few games i noticed something very disheartening.. very few players would willingly leave the game and would make a consciense effort to eliminate (play on) the other team player while it was quite obvious to himself and all the spectators that he had been eliminated..what made it worse was the lack of penalties addressed in that regard.. it seems like , once you marked your player, you better get the hell out of there because he was gonna take you with him..and with no adverse effect towards him in regards to penalties..i did not say anything for awhile but my wife (who was always with me in the tourneys back in the mid to early 90's) turned to me and said "boy, remember when cheating was not so obvious??" i laughed but, it got me thinking..why is this not addressed..?? i watched on the oln network the "02 world cup and the playing on was very obvious.. even while spectators are no more than 10 feet away..a buddy of mine who does not play anymore even said to me that it was so "in your face" obvious that he thought the rules might have changed... surely, with the spectators right there and more open fileds, the refs should have a better hand on this and penalties should be addressed...lord knows, when i was playing, we were penalized worse for less...also, the only team i saw (pro) that willingly left the field on a consistant basis was russian legion..i commend them for that.. but, how long can they continue to play straight and by the rules when clearly that is not the case for their opponents?? 
