Rumored latest NPPL response to gun cheats

[Missy Q]

It may surprise you to know that there will be new checks in place at the Denver NPPL event for gun cheats.
Word is they intend to monitor the ROF of players (lets take LaSoya as an example), and lets say he shoots 25bps. The gun will be put over the chrono after the game, and then the player will be asked to replicate the fire rate within 3bps. if the player is unable to do so there is a penalty assessed.

This does not seem to be a particularly scientific control mechanism, but I do believe it is going to happen. So if you are on one of the many teams who fully intend to cheat yourselves through the Denver event, please be warned. If you don't think its a technical enough test that won't stop the refs from being able to penalise you if it is blatantly obvious your gun is illegal.

How do I know this?
Thats not important. But if you don't believe it, and you intend to ramp it up anyway, book your flight home for Friday.

 

[Missy Q]

ps - think it's a skill yet?

 

[Nick Brockdorff]

Missy

Lots of things on this planet are skills..... but whether they are relevant to the development of our sport - and how - is an entirely different matter.

Nick

 

[Missy Q]

what is it with you guys? Is it because I am a black woman that you don't think I can have anything useful to say. I told you suckers what the NPPL are planning to do and you dismiss me as some kind of cleaning lady, well listen here you bunch of white-ass momma's boys, if you stopped trying to sound important, and making sweeping un-enforceable statements, and looked at what this strong beautiful Afro-Carribean woman already told you 2 pages ago, you would have something tangible to discuss, rather than just doing the penis-envy thing with each other in your wordsmithing oneupmanship.

We may not be able to drive as well as you, and sure, we can't tell jokes or throw/catch very well, and yeah, our machine-gun noises suck, but in the 'voice of reason' area we outshine you guys every time.

Oh, and remember your manners. We are not all testosterone fueled school-children on here you know.

 

[Mario]

missy q rocks

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by Missy Q
what is it with you guys? Is it because I am a black woman that you don't think I can have anything useful to say. I told you suckers what the NPPL are planning to do and you dismiss me as some kind of cleaning lady, well listen here you bunch of white-ass momma's boys, if you stopped trying to sound important, and making sweeping un-enforceable statements, and looked at what this strong beautiful Afro-Carribean woman already told you 2 pages ago, you would have something tangible to discuss, rather than just doing the penis-envy thing with each other in your wordsmithing oneupmanship.

We may not be able to drive as well as you, and sure, we can't tell jokes or throw/catch very well, and yeah, our machine-gun noises suck, but in the 'voice of reason' area we outshine you guys every time.

Oh, and remember your manners. We are not all testosterone fueled school-children on here you know.

Owen, last time I saw you, you were neither black nor female nor unintelligent, I told ya what that crack would do to ya man !!!

 

[Missy Q]

I don't know who you think I am young man, but if you disrespect me again I may have to suffocate you with my Springer-guest-style mammoth woman-chest - then you'll see what crack can do to YOU. (sucks teeth)

Now as I believe the NPPL have done what you yourself suggested (or am I wrong), I suggest you discuss that issue rather than some guy you seem to fancy, who I am sure is gorgeous.

 

[Magued]

Owen?

Is that you? Are you a black women from Harlem now???
What happend?

Damn you are so funny !!

Magued

 

[Missy Q]

Don't think I won't kick yo ass too you swedish pretty boy. You think I will take it easy on you because you're black? Hell no! I ain't nobodies sister on here!
My Momma gave me a name, its Missy Q, if Gwen Staefani can sing about me in her no-good white-girl punk-ass records, I can get some respect from a bunch of guys posting on the internet on a friday night because they ain't got no woman.

(sucks teeth loudly) mmmmm-mmmmm

 

[Baca Loco]

Originally posted by Missy Q
It may surprise you to know that there will be new checks in place at the Denver NPPL event for gun cheats.
Word is they intend to monitor the ROF of players (lets take LaSoya as an example), and lets say he shoots 25bps. The gun will be put over the chrono after the game, and then the player will be asked to replicate the fire rate within 3bps. if the player is unable to do so there is a penalty assessed.

This does not seem to be a particularly scientific control mechanism, but I do believe it is going to happen. So if you are on one of the many teams who fully intend to cheat yourselves through the Denver event, please be warned. If you don't think its a technical enough test that won't stop the refs from being able to penalise you if it is blatantly obvious your gun is illegal.

How do I know this?
Thats not important. But if you don't believe it, and you intend to ramp it up anyway, book your flight home for Friday.

OK, Missy, I'll humor you. And just for the record you might have better luck if you weren't so obviously having a go and your pronouncement might be met with more interest if it were to come from some "official" source. But even so--

The methodology assumes that under scrutiny the player and or gun can't operate as it did on the field, if it was operating illegally. In many instances that will probably prove correct but won't remain so. And for anyone who has a sufficiently sophisticated cheat there isn't any reason they can't cheat right in front of the scrutineer as the NPPL will simply be trying to replicate ROF.

And what of the brazen cheaters, and there will be some, who insist the original reading on the field was in error, either the operator or the device, and if the NPPL insists on issuing a tourney killing penalty on him or his team they will be done with the NPPL and be sure to make it crystal clear why. One team claims to have been targeted by the NPPL most won't listen, if 10 teams do, it's another story. Don't get me wrong--I'm not suggesting the effort is doomed or shouldn't be made but I am suggesting it still leaves lots of room for doubt, error and failure because you aren't really proving the gun was operating illegally, only that under whatever the control situation is, it isn't operating quite the same.

Are the refs gonna be able to check guns off the break?

Oh, and that last bit about going home on Friday--does that mean the NPPL won't be checking The 18 since they don't start until Saturday?