M25....what a waste of time!!!

[Yorkie]

I AM A MARSHALL(HEIDI)

My name is Heidi
You may think that being a marshal would be a fare one with so many players telling you yhe rules that you have spent the last few days swatting up on .
I was on that so called draxus field the female with pink and blonde long hair and i have never witnessed such a flagrent disregard for the first rule of paintbal A LITTLE RESPECT !
I have never marshaled at a torni before and quite frankly i have thrown out of a pub better mannered drunks!
I bothered to turn up because all you fare and amazing marshals cant be bothered.
I do understand that being a player as i have been too! know the tradition of basically blaming the marshals after every tori, but if you will insist on pushing the rule and lets face it guys some times bragging about it why do you then expect us yo go easy on you .
As for fag breaks well being a smoker also!!!!! i had the gran sum of 2 fag breaks one in the morning and one in the afternoon a 15 min lunch break and my God you dont wanna sneek to the loo heaven forbid we hold up your game!
You spend time sitting down having fags whist playing around with your markers and watching other games whilst off field marshaling and drinking your cold drink and eating your pipping hot bacon sarni whilst gobbing out how to instruct us on how to our job!
It was my first time there and the other guys were really kind to me, yes mistakes can be made and im sure that i will improve as a marshall as all of us will, cause there are a lot of us newbies tring to do a fare job i called every decision with the rules in my pocket firm but fare. How many of you had the rule so close to hand?
I can not anwer as to why we were dammed as the worse field but im know that i did the very best i could as im sure all did in the heat of the day, we may not have ran around feverishly after your every beck and call,but i also know the trick of moving marshalls down the other end of the field to reduce close scutiany from the advancing players end of the field.So it not all us is it?
TIT FOR TAT EHH!
We did the best we could with what we had, A little respect goes a long way. The UK marshalls,Tigers,monkeylove and 2 other teams i can't remember the name of were lovely and really nice thanks again guys.

 

[Flash-Bugout]

grr to the mods - I just lost a big post cos you moved the one by Jim from Just while I was typing it (and yes, I knw you're only doing your job - I mod a fomum too, so know what it's like).

Anyways, I just wanted to add my impressions and make a contructive critisism type suggestion.

My first M25 event, only as a spectator, but I'll be back to playing soon, and I'm glad I've got such an awesome looking series to do it in.

Awesome venue - brilliant view of the fields from the balcony outside the bar - easy to find - despite me going past the entrance to the site three times - where was the banner?

On the constructive crit side of things - I know that my suggestion would take money to implement, so I'm not expecting to see it happen.

In places (eg next to the draxxus field) the netting rode up from the ground a few inches - letting paintballs through (not just bouncing from the floor either - the side of my foot got kippered at one point).

My suggestion to remedy this would be to have an extra three or four feet of netting at the bottom, which would form a kinda pile, and stopping any gaps forming at the bottom.

This is a tiny critisism, and one I could make of any tourney I've ever been to - including Campaign Cups (multiple) and Toulouse - like I said - it's a large extra expense, for not a lot of benefit.

Here's looking forward to the day I get back to playing - I can't wait to play an M25 event.

 

[Buddha 3]

Originally posted by Flash-Bugout
grr to the mods

Rest assured. We are shaking in our boots.

 

[Stan]

We did the best we could with what we had, A little respect goes a long way. The UK marshalls,Tigers,monkeylove and 2 other teams i can't remember the name of were lovely and really nice thanks again guys.

Thanks - strange how you remembered our name but not some of the others!

 

[ericostani]

id have to say

this was my first tourny, and it was brilliant. fields looked good, .(well the wdp one was a bi*ch)and netting was perfect. it was a good laugh and good experience, and i'll look forward to the next one with SPOD!!
the weather was wicked, and the standard of paintball was all good, and wicked to watch.
cheers guys for a wicked first touny

 

[Stan]

well the wdp one was a bi*ch

Which one was that?

 

[Greg]

the blue and white one next to the draxxus field

kyle

 

[Stan]

the blue and white one next to the draxxus field

The blue and wight one next to the field that we beat you on?

Sorry---couldn't resist!


Yeah that WDP field was a tricky one. From the chrony station end, the back left didn't seem to give you many options and as soon as the opposition pushed up your right tape you were open to all sorts of angles. We drew our first game on that field but learned from it and won on it the next time round. Hopefully, we'll know for next time.

 

[Godlike player]

I Was there on sunday and at the time thought the marshalling was bad overall but today i have had a little think about it and thought when i was on the field i played got off the field sorted my kit for the next game and rested.
Now the poor marshalls were on those fields all day in the blistering heat doing a job no one wants to do.
The people we should be knocking are the players that cheat and cause the problems in the first place i witnesed some of the worst playing on i have ever seen mostly with no punishment given, why beacuse the players knew that they could get away with it the only way to stop this sort of cheating is not to knock the marshalls but shame the cheats themselves even have some sort of commitie that the players get reported to and punishment given (like the fa in football)
I will give you and instance i watched a game and saw a player get mugged that player shot the mugger at the same time but then got up and ran 10 yards whilst being hit from the player he was trying to mug himself the marshall who had to make a quick decsion pulled the orignal mugger the person playing on and also the player that he shot whilst playing on.
After the game one of the judges gave the team with the player that played on a last warning that they should not do so again well if that player were to be reported to a commitie then a profile would start to build up and like the yellow card system in football maybe that team would have to play a tourney with one player less as a punishment .
This brings at least 3 items that need to be addresed
1
we need a federation that controls paintball we have UKPSF but they concentrate on the site scene and the legalaties of paintball so they dont have much time for the tournment scene so we need to do somthing ourselves

2
A review of the rules themselves is needed as they constiute a lot of grey areas , and also the marshalls dont know them as they change from tournament to tournament we need one set of rules for all of the uk.

3
Properly trained marshalls that are themselves judged by the comitee , IE if they make a judgement based on the rules wrong then they can get reported that way marshals will actualy read the rules and get better with each mistake.
I am not saying that marshalls should get reported because they did not 1:4:1 somone, I am saying they get reported for applying rules wrongly.
We should stop the bitching the same bitching has been going on for years and each time the judges get the blame we need to get off our arses and set up a federation.
UKPSF why dont you guys do somthing about you have system in place use it.

 

[mrpiece]

What the f*ck were they doing!!

i didn't play this sunday but saw alot of the games and i must admit i feel along the same lines as sam, the marshalling was crappy and the major faults of the marshalls were they're lack of experience, lack of knowledge of the rules and restictions and the inability to make a decent on the spot decision that they didn't go back on! nick