I was thinking about this today.
It doesn't really make any sense to me!
Sticker rule:
You are allowed to anodise your gun any way you want, you are allowed to wear any colour clothing (both except orange ofcourse) - but when it comes to stickers on loader and gun, the MS suddenly becomes completely anal, and decree only one sticker on each side of your entire setup, and even of a fairly small size.
I honestly don't see the purpose of the rule.
Problem USED to be, that players covered their guns and loaders in orange/yellow stickers, to hide hits.... so instead of saying "no yellow/orange stickers" - the MS decided to take this drastic step.
We all want to promote our sponsors best possible, and the best way to do so, to ensure exposure for sponsors in pictures and videos, is putting stickers on our gear..... it's part of being professional.
What would be the problem with just saying stickers could not be yellow or orange.... and then allowing anything else?
Neck protection rule:
We are allowed to wear thick knee/shin protection, padded pants, thick elbow/forearm protection, ANY head protection.... but when it comes to the neck, the one place where a player can REALLY get hurt when hit multiple times.... the MS suddenly thinks that ONLY neoprene should be allowed (BTW the most "bouncy" material in paintball - which makes the rule even dumber).... and if you do not have a neoprene neck protector, your are **** out of luck, and the MS prefer you play without protection.
I do not see any good reason why the rule should be restricted to one type of fabric only..... especially as that fabric is then curiously disallowed in most other equipment (or would a full body neoprene suit be allowed ?
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"Leaving equipment behind" rule:
This rule is the same as in the NPPL, where in HB I saw a team lose a game, because one of their players happened to drop a shoe by accident during the breakout... which ended up costing the team a 141 after the game when they only had 1 player left alive, which in turn swung the game to a win for the other team, and cost the penalised team a spot in the semi-finals.
With the current MS rules, that call could very well be made by a MS ref, and it would in fact be in accordance with the rules..... pure stupidity.
Come to think of it... what IS the problem with a player dropping equipment during a game?
Originally the rule was conceived, because someone thought it "unfair" that you could put down equipment to run the flag back faster.... I never understood why that was a problem?....... if everyone is allowed to do it, it will have no real significance at all... and also be something that is very rarely seen anyway.
(yes, obviously the flag hanger needs to bring his gun, to be chronographed... but anything else is not really that important)
Changing this rule to saying that THE GUN cannot be dropped (and allowing anything else), would mean players no longer got eliminated for dropping their loader or other equipment by accident, which happens all too often (it's not like players drop equipment on purpose during a game under the current rules.... then they wouldn't have brought the equipment in the first place!).
Out of bounds rule:
Here is another "stellar" example of a rule that traces its history back to the good old woodland days, where it had real significance.
But - today - where every MS field is nettet.... why on earth do we need field boundries other than the netting?.... is it REALLY that big of a problem to our sport, if a player happens to cross some line of the floor that has no real significance for the game?
I don't think so!
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I think sometimes the people writing the rules are overthinking them to a very large degree, and are envisioning worst case scenarios that have no basis in reality.
- Or maybe they just like complicating matters, that need not be complicated at all?
Let's get rid of all the stupid rules, that have no other purpose than giving refs weird reason for eliminating players, and that have absolutely no game altering significance.
Nick
It doesn't really make any sense to me!
Sticker rule:
You are allowed to anodise your gun any way you want, you are allowed to wear any colour clothing (both except orange ofcourse) - but when it comes to stickers on loader and gun, the MS suddenly becomes completely anal, and decree only one sticker on each side of your entire setup, and even of a fairly small size.
I honestly don't see the purpose of the rule.
Problem USED to be, that players covered their guns and loaders in orange/yellow stickers, to hide hits.... so instead of saying "no yellow/orange stickers" - the MS decided to take this drastic step.
We all want to promote our sponsors best possible, and the best way to do so, to ensure exposure for sponsors in pictures and videos, is putting stickers on our gear..... it's part of being professional.
What would be the problem with just saying stickers could not be yellow or orange.... and then allowing anything else?
Neck protection rule:
We are allowed to wear thick knee/shin protection, padded pants, thick elbow/forearm protection, ANY head protection.... but when it comes to the neck, the one place where a player can REALLY get hurt when hit multiple times.... the MS suddenly thinks that ONLY neoprene should be allowed (BTW the most "bouncy" material in paintball - which makes the rule even dumber).... and if you do not have a neoprene neck protector, your are **** out of luck, and the MS prefer you play without protection.
I do not see any good reason why the rule should be restricted to one type of fabric only..... especially as that fabric is then curiously disallowed in most other equipment (or would a full body neoprene suit be allowed ?
)."Leaving equipment behind" rule:
This rule is the same as in the NPPL, where in HB I saw a team lose a game, because one of their players happened to drop a shoe by accident during the breakout... which ended up costing the team a 141 after the game when they only had 1 player left alive, which in turn swung the game to a win for the other team, and cost the penalised team a spot in the semi-finals.
With the current MS rules, that call could very well be made by a MS ref, and it would in fact be in accordance with the rules..... pure stupidity.
Come to think of it... what IS the problem with a player dropping equipment during a game?
Originally the rule was conceived, because someone thought it "unfair" that you could put down equipment to run the flag back faster.... I never understood why that was a problem?....... if everyone is allowed to do it, it will have no real significance at all... and also be something that is very rarely seen anyway.
(yes, obviously the flag hanger needs to bring his gun, to be chronographed... but anything else is not really that important)
Changing this rule to saying that THE GUN cannot be dropped (and allowing anything else), would mean players no longer got eliminated for dropping their loader or other equipment by accident, which happens all too often (it's not like players drop equipment on purpose during a game under the current rules.... then they wouldn't have brought the equipment in the first place!).
Out of bounds rule:
Here is another "stellar" example of a rule that traces its history back to the good old woodland days, where it had real significance.
But - today - where every MS field is nettet.... why on earth do we need field boundries other than the netting?.... is it REALLY that big of a problem to our sport, if a player happens to cross some line of the floor that has no real significance for the game?
I don't think so!
+ + +
I think sometimes the people writing the rules are overthinking them to a very large degree, and are envisioning worst case scenarios that have no basis in reality.
- Or maybe they just like complicating matters, that need not be complicated at all?
Let's get rid of all the stupid rules, that have no other purpose than giving refs weird reason for eliminating players, and that have absolutely no game altering significance.
Nick
