Honest question, and I want HONEST ANSWERS!!!

[Duncster]

You are at your 50, biding your time.... all of a sudden, you're captain/back-man tells you to get your arse up and mug the bloke at his opposite....you immdiately get off your behind and start running at a hundred miles per hour down the right tape. You make it 80% of the way there and feel the unmistakable hit of a paintball catch you on your left shin...do you:

a) stop and check yourself mid-run to make sure the ball that hit you hasn't broken, or...

b) carry on going, and let the judges decide the outcome, rather than waste a perfectly good oppurtunity to waste a key member of the oposition.....

I wonder how many HONEST replies I'll get to this one.....

d.

 

[SYTRAXZ]

my answer

a) stop and check yourself mid-run to make sure the ball that hit you hasn't broken.

i dont like to cheat in paintball makes the game unfair. what would you do?

 

[UnFadabLe]

Depends just how far away that next 20% is. If it is like 5 ft or less I say ya should finish the move and let the refs sort it out. If its over that ya should stop at the closest bunker to you and check yourself. But generally any time you are making a bunker run the refs should be watching and would be in position to make the right call.

 

[Duncster]

If you are very close to the end of a blindingly quick move, just about to mug the geezer (not the geezer that has just shot you, and you don't know if that shot has broken...).......you would stop mid run and check yourself?

Even if the shot didn't break on you before, you would DEFINITELY be lit up like a chrimbo tree now....

...what if the judge checked you over AFTER the mugging, and called you clean?? If you stopped to check yourself, you would have been eliminated for sure....

 

[rockon_1]

depending on how much time i had i might look down and look for a break but most liekly i'd just finish the move and let the refs sort it out . stopping in the middle of the run is completely loco in a tourney unless you can get into a different bunker halfway .

 

[OhhhNooo]

Id get to a near bunker duck down inside and than make sure im hit or not. It actually happend to me before luckily it bounced. JT shin guards rule.



-Im going of the rails on a crazy train-

 

[Baca Loco]

Where do you guys come from?

If I'm the guy who told you to go you damn well better finish the play unless you take one in the goggles or so many hits you know you're done. (And if that happens chances are its my fault.) Otherwise its the refs job to be in the correct place to make the appropriate call.
This sort of situation generates a lot of debate mostly because the refs are either out of position or unwilling to make a definitive decision when the play goes down. Or else they get browbeat by some aggressive player and take it instead of dropping the hammer.
For all you guys who are gonna pull and drop into a closer bunker the ref is just gonna figure you know you're hit and you're trying to hide it or wipe it on the slide. Don't sweat it, do your job and if the ref pulls your armband take the walk knowing you did what you were supposed to the best you could.

Moo

 

[CROOKED-POPO]

Well now, and this is just me, I like to think that I am responsible for my actions. Not the referee, who, contrary to some people's beliefs, is not omnipresent and all-seeing. If we adopt a style of play that calls for eliminating as many people as you can while refusing to check yourself until a ref pulls you, then I have a new product. It's the ref-pack. Yeah, a neoprene harness that carries a midget or very intelligent child to monitor you since you can't do it yourself. Who wants one?

 

[Manning26]

Here's my honest answer, Dunc, I'd finish the move if that's the only hit I took before getting there. If I knew and liked the guy I'd just bunkered, I'd tell the ref that I was hit first, and to leave the player in. Outside of that, I'd have to let the ref make the call. There's no way I could stop mid-move, that's just screwing yourself. Let me say though, if I heard the ref calling me eliminated, I would stop. You can still finish the move and argue for a double-elimination at the least, but I would probably have to kick my own ass at that point.

C'mon, Duncster, what's your answer?

 

[Baca Loco]

Wasting my time

Originally posted by CROOKED-POPO
I am responsible for my actions. Not the referee, who, contrary to some people's beliefs, is not omnipresent and all-seeing.

And if you play on in a manner the ref thinks is a violation you take the penalty. However, a ref doesn't need to be either omnipresent and/or all-seeing; he or she just needs to be in the right place and prepared to make a call. It ain't rocket science.

Originally posted by CROOKED-POPO
If we adopt a style of play that calls for eliminating as many people as you can while refusing to check yourself until a ref pulls you, then I have a new product.

Please re-read the situation Duncster set up in the original post if you can manage to see down to it from your moral high horse.

Moo