Baca, the calls happen, the arguments happen...whether it's down to ramping or not...and you can't sway a marshal once they've made the call...and marshalls are there to make those calls
It's a "fine" i'd prefer to see played, than the "fine" of allowing ramping, and waiting for that first incident, be it insurance claims denied, claims of negligence after injury, or a government crackdown on "guns" that exceed one pull one shot (the marker floats in a grey area over this, but it's not a grey area we can prove or disprove...and remember, English law is based on precedence, it only has to happen once!)
but to get back to answering the "marshall vs player" argument, We had a helluva ****ty call at the masters at the weekend where we got penalised for essentially shooting lanes...a guy ran through the fifty and caught a lotta paint in the head, he got concussed and the marshal thought that because he got concussed we were playing too aggressive..we had no recourse, zip, zero, nada..cos the ref made that call and he stood by it, even when the opposing team captain agrred with us that it was a bad call......what should we do? Create a rule that allows for a certain amount of aggressive play so it's all level? and then tell the marshalls they can't decide what's aggressive because there's a rule for it?
Just changing the rules, doesn't make the call any different, or take away the ref's decision to call a player out, and it doesn't stop the player whining, we enjoy whining, it's what makes us comptetetive....all the 15bps ramping rule does is pander to new and dubious technology, rather than rooting it out.
I disagree with the "fairer field" call as well...how does it make it fairer? By marginalising a skill? I can't run as fast as the Front Player on a rival team...does that mean he should wear weights so he is as slow as me, making it a fairer field? Should we all hit the field with identical kit? Should larger players be given proportionately sized bunkers, to make the field fairer for them?...I agree with Robbo in that these arguments are used to justify something that's more a whim than a requirement, and they're not solid justifications.
But to me it's not about the skill, it's about the safety, I'm worrying about that day that someone gets drilled to the point of causing injury (imagine my scneario above if we'd been using ramping boards!) and the Home Office *really* take a look at the legality of 1-trigger-pull-5-balls. I've just penned a letter to the Scottish Parliament trying to ensure that when the airgun laws are revised in Scotland because of a spate of recent dickhead shootings in which people have been killed and tried to justify why a Paintball marker should remain out of specific legislation, or at least be considered as a piece of sporting equipment, and I really had to sit there and think what the government would think if I handed them my ION in rebound mode and asked them whether they could consider that as not dangerous......it's a joke.
