Wipers Suck.

[Team Demonic]

What is the point in wiping? We all play paintball to have fun and to meet new people and socialise. Right. If you wipe then your pi55ing off the people you want to have a good time with and it is bad sportsmanship. If it is bad sportsmanship it will hinder our sport progressing.

If you look at professional football in the early days it was all gentlemen playing for fun, now when you get paid £50,000 a week like roy keane or other top players they seem to shout swear and cry ( Nicky Butt ) to change the ref decision now in my eyes this is bad for the sport but because it is already at the level it is it won't hinder it. We need to stop people wiping and causing incidents to our sport looks good.

 

[Liz]

Lovely sentiments Demonic, but it's now getting to the stage where to some people winning at all costs is worth it.
Scenario - Top pro team needs to win a game just on body count to make the finals of a Millennium or NPPL event. Are they really going to worry that much about bad sportsmanship, or will they be tempted to wipe?
At the other end of the scale - Novice or low ranked Am team desperately want some help with their paint bill. They know if they get a really good result at a decent level tourney they can get a 1 year deal with a paint company. A single wipe could in this case make the difference between no help with paint, or 3-4 free boxes a tournament & the rest discounted for a year.

So there's 2 reasons why people wipe. Sadly, wiping used to happen way back in the old days when the only thing a tournament win was worth, was the glory. Now there's prizes & sponsorship involved too.

 

[Team Demonic]

i know it has got to that stage and that the " reward " for wiping a hit could be a fat cheque from the nppl or 10 brand spanking new jetski's but it is a shame that it has got to that stage.

 

[Liz]

As I said before it's not "got to that stage", wiping has been going on since the first days of tourneys. the only difference nowadays is that it seems to be even more prevalent at the lower levels (novices never used to bother much with cheating), & the advent of videos & DVDs from major tourneys means that it's been caught on camera.

Anyone remember a video brought out some years ago by Vinnie Jones about how to foul? (For our non-UK members, Vinnie Jones was renowned as the dirtiest soccer player of his time before he retired & went into films.) So when will there be something similar about how to play on & wipe from some US pro who shall remain unidentified except for the long hair & nickname of Glory Boy?

 

[Team Demonic]

yeah and now its gonna be caught on camera do you reckon that marshalls will look at the footage after a game and penalise wipers??

 

[Reaver]

mabey we need

NEW marshals?