Pop quiz for Millennium/NPPL judges

[Kevin]

As for it beíng the marshall's duty, that is wrong. We can't see everything. It is the player's responsibility to call her/himself out when known to be hit or to call for a paintcheck under the circumstances described above. That's the way the rules are written and rightly so.

In this case there is not a question whether the guy has been shot, just who went first, that is the marshalls decision.
Also you can`t expect a marshall to see everything but a mugging needs to be seen and a decision made, if he does go in behind a bunker he loses the initiative, if he has been shot before or its too close and both players are gone you pull the player and wipe the guy he shot afterwards.

 

[Red_Merkin]

What about players walking around with gassed markers, with loaders containing paint, but having the barrels removed? Does this violate any rule in the Millenium series (or NPPL)?

I'm only asking because Dynasty were wandering around Campaign Cup with their markers in such fashion, and they didn't seem to understand the safety implications.

 

[Wadidiz]

Originally posted by Red_Merkin
What about players walking around with gassed markers, with loaders containing paint, but having the barrels removed? Does this violate any rule in the Millenium series (or NPPL)?

I'm only asking because Dynasty were wandering around Campaign Cup with their markers in such fashion, and they didn't seem to understand the safety implications.

I tend to like to have all the rules spelled out so that I can point at them and say, "Look, there's the rule." In this case, what is the spirit of the rules? It is safety. Therefore I would tell the players, I don't care who it is, "Guys, please take the hopper off. That just isn't safe and, at the very least, it doesn't look safe." If they just laughed or made some comment about the air not being turned on, I would go to the ultimate and hope to be backed up. Safety is number 1. Period end of discussion.

Steve

 

[Wadidiz]

Here's another one:

A team plays in a 5-player semi-final and realize they can get into the finals if they just manage to grab the center flag.

A player makes a daring move to a bunker 2 meters away from the center flag. With 30 seconds left he makes his run for the flag without his marker (in order to lighten his load) and manages to get back into his bunker unhit with flag in hand.

What next?

 

[manike]

Re: Here we go.......

Originally posted by Wadidiz
4. I would tell the player to make the flag more visible.

Whats more visible than having it strapped to your head?

As long as it is not concealed leave him be.

Originally posted by WeeDave
Well a member of Escarmouche hit his angel off by mistake and as he was turning it back on the ref pulled him for fiddling with his marker....

With a electronic gun you HAVE to ask the judge before pushing any of the buttons. At least in the NPPL rules anyway that I read up on for the WC. It would be a sensible rule for the millennium series also, although to be honest gun cheats are going to achieve the same results less obviously.

manike

 

[manike]

Originally posted by Wadidiz
I tend to like to have all the rules spelled out so that I can point at them and say, "Look, there's the rule." In this case, what is the spirit of the rules? It is safety. Therefore I would tell the players, I don't care who it is, "Guys, please take the hopper off. That just isn't safe and, at the very least, it doesn't look safe." If they just laughed or made some comment about the air not being turned on, I would go to the ultimate and hope to be backed up. Safety is number 1. Period end of discussion.

Even with the hopper it is not safe, most guns can keep a ball in the breech ready to fire with no hopper and even when held upside down. Some guns can keep several balls in them.

Bagging it is the only safe thing, and something which I am happy to see very stringently enforced.

manike

 

[manike]

Originally posted by Wadidiz
A team plays in a 5-player semi-final and realize they can get into the finals if they just manage to grab the center flag.

A player makes a daring move to a bunker 2 meters away from the center flag. With 30 seconds left he makes his run for the flag without his marker (in order to lighten his load) and manages to get back into his bunker unhit with flag in hand.

What next?

Eliminate him.

The bloody idiot forgot to take his gun with him and can't leave it by more than 5 feet. I told Brad not to leave his gun but he did it anyway.

Good job that flag grab didn't cost us the place to the semi finals or he would have been kicking himself even more

So yeah he got the Ironmen's flag without being shot, but he had already eliminated himself by the time he got there

manike

p.s. Say hi to Brad for me on which ever Swedish board you got that from

 

[Wadidiz]

Originally posted by manike


Eliminate him.

The bloody idiot forgot to take his gun with him and can't leave it by more than 5 feet. I told Brad not to leave his gun but he did it anyway.

Good job that flag grab didn't cost us the place to the semi finals or he would have been kicking himself even more

So yeah he got the Ironmen's flag without being shot, but he had already eliminated himself by the time he got there

manike

p.s. Say hi to Brad for me on which ever Swedish board you got that from

Good one! It'll take a while for Brad to live that one down. Interesting that the marshalls were on top of things in that case.

Here's another with some similarity:

A game is about to start, the start warning has not been announced and a player is not able to get her marker in working order to pass a chrono inspection. She hands her marker to a marshall and says, "I choose to play without a marker."

What next?

 

[manike]

Fine as long as they didn't have it at the start of the game.

 

[Wadidiz]

Right. Here's another one:

A player is eliminated and walks off the field. He drops off a couple of tubes of paint next to the bunker of a team-mate on the way off.

Whaddup?