X-Ball

[Team Demonic]

Now that X-ball has completely transformed how the game is played, i was thinking deeply about new or untried methods of playing ball. This was prompted by my monthly ritual of reading pgi front to back within an hour of it landing on my doormat.
After reading robbo's article on " Origins of Symmetry " it set me off into a meditative state while think about all i have read and experienced in paintball.

From this i thought about a similar article (also written my robbo) where the idea of using game plays similar to pro american football was played with.
I now think with the adaptability and fluctuation of player posistions on X-ball fields this method of playing could be mastered and used to dominated the game.

Just imagine sitting tight behind your bunker where ever you may be on the field, and seeing every member on the other team move simaltaniously to pre-selected bunkers while x No. of players run down the field and obliterate your key posistions.

I think that this new way of paintball if tried will help to improve our sport, certainly from a tactical and view and hopefully even more from a media perspective.

Thank you for listening to me go on i hope it made sense and please give your views on my incoherent mumblings.

 

[Bird]

I was going to be the first to go

But after re-reading the above, I kinda got the hang of what you were on about. It is good to have some kind of 'set play' but it depends on whether you base your game plays on the way other teams play or on how you and your own team play. Do some things work better in X-ball than in a normal game?

I think that this new way of paintball if tried will help to improve our sport, certainly from a tactical and view and hopefully even more from a media perspective.

How so?

 

[Robbo]

Originally posted by Bird
I was going to be the first to go

But after re-reading the above, I kinda got the hang of what you were on about. It is good to have some kind of 'set play' but it depends on whether you base your game plays on the way other teams play or on how you and your own team play.

Bird, if u r gonna run set plays, to a certain extent, you have to ignore the style of the opposition.
The set play in this sense is independant of any style consideration of the opponent.
The set-play is all about the acquistion of angles, eliminations and bunkers adhereing to a pre game strategem.

The whole point of this is to impose control on the game, once you have established this, then the direction of the game becomes predictable, to you at least