Field Designs in Toulouse
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I guess I can't make myself very clear. First of all, I'm not a pball superstar but I've been playing tournament level pball since 1998 and have been in Toulouse every year except last year. I even played in World Cup Orlando and many other major EU tournaments. So if you don't mind I have a little experience to talk about field designs and I can surely compare last weeks field setups to the field designs from the past.
As I said in my first post, they made some changes like crowding the middle with many large obstacles and eliminated tapelines on most fields. These made the games too fast and open to suprises, which I didn't like. Of course this my personal view and I totally respect people's opposite tastes and opinions
let me get this right....
you want to slow the fields by making them
-less aggressive,
-dicouraging movement,
-discouraging bunkering
-and encourging long drawn out gun battles.
I bet you're the life of the party!
things have changed for a reason
you want to slow the fields by making them
-less aggressive,
-dicouraging movement,
-discouraging bunkering
-and encourging long drawn out gun battles.
I bet you're the life of the party!
things have changed for a reason
Not exactly, the fields I was referring to allowed aggresive play, movement and bunkering. Just watch some older videos and see yourself. Now these fields were like a two edged sword, it could cut you or your opponent. They were not designed for strategies or planned attacks. Since things happen so fast, the "Luck" and " Surprise" factors are very high. You can make a very crazy move and turn the game around to your advantage or just the other way around.
I did not play Toulouse this year, but I was impressed with the layout of the Splatch and RPS fields at last years Toulouse tournaments. There were big and small bunkers in the back field, the fields could be played fast or slow and they took quite a bit of thinking and planning to get a good plan setup. Another field that was top notch was the Tomahawk and Xball fields last year in Portugal with the double snakes.... very cool layouts. Some of the better designs in the US this year I think are the System X and NPPL fields. Fields that consistently last only 1 minute would seem to be designed improperly as would fields that can be stalemated consistently... boring in both accounts 