X Ball

[garycarrot]

mate.

We play at least one tourny a month, plus a practice.

What i want to know is. Will it be more expensive if the team plays X ball?

Looks to me that it would be. And therefore the cost would exclude most teams from playing.
This true or not???????

 

[raehl]

That depends.

What kind of tournaments do you play now? Do you expect NPPL/PSP quality tournaments? How many other teams are going to be playing X Ball at the same location when you have a tournament?


If you just play local tournaments on existing fields, for the same price, you'll just be able to play X Ball on local fields - meaning you probably won't have an X Ball scoreboard or anything. If you usually play tournaments that cost your 10-man team $1750 to enter, you can probably play X Ball in a manner pretty similar to the way the pro/college teams do.


You're not asking a good question. X Ball can be more, or less, expensive than what you play now, depending on how you play it. 3-man? 5-man? 40 minute games? 60? Scoreboard? No scoreboard? Existing field, one-time-event field? What?


You're acting like all non-X Ball tournaments have one price and all X Ball tournaments have another price, and that's just not even close to true. Some ways to play X Ball are more expensive than what you're playing now, and some are less. Some regular tournaments are more expensive than what you're playing now.


The best answer I can give you is that yes, you can play X Ball without spending more money.


- Chris

 

[Micah]

Originally posted by jnr/shockwave3
so basically their trying to make it more spectator friendly for when paintball replaces baseball on tv??

Is Baseball still on TV? I hadden't noticed.

Who won the "world" Series?

 

[Davo at work]

So

If a player is shot out during the first period does he have to wait for the 2nd period to come back into the game or until after the next flag hang? I'm guessing until after the next flag hang! Am I right?

 

[Rabies]

Correct. After every play (wither a flag hang or the end of a period) 5 players go back onto the field (remember the team can be up to 10 men, so the coach can alternate teams if he wants), unless a player is serving a penalty. It's like a dozen or more games compressed into one match.

 

[Bobvannes]

I'm not a big guy and x-ball isn't my dream version of paintball.

I've also played many tournaments that allowed coaching and audience participation and I don't care for it. It makes cool bunker runs turn into pathetic trade outs too often. Especially on that wire. X-ball coaching wasn't allowed at the IAO so there was one tape that was free from these trade outs.

Since I like the idea of an audience that doesn't have to stay silent, maybe pushing them back and up a little would turn the noise into a little bit more of a dull roar.

The Naughty Dogs alternated entire 5 man squads but I'm not sure of anyone else that has done it. And before Chris jumps in and says Ohio Cow College of the Performing Arts did, I'm not counting the college teams that I did not watch or care to watch play.

 

[raehl]

Indeed...

I think UofI was switching whole 5-man squads until they fell behind against Drexel and then switched it up so their top-5 were playing most of the time together, wasn't enough though.

As for spectators, yes, they need to be moved back, and there needs to be more of them. I don't know if you played Skyball one of the years with coaching from the stands, but that's almost impossible, even if the only two people there are your coaches, since the place is just so big and there's enough distance in between that you just can't hear what people are saying.


- Chris

 

[Baca Loco]

Go, cow, go

Originally posted by Bobvannes
And before Chris jumps in and says Ohio Cow College of the Performing Arts did, I'm not counting the college teams that I did not watch or care to watch play.

But they had such attractive jerseys! Or was that Guernseys?

 

[chico]

ok mayb its just mi but y would u let ppl who are in the deadbox if u can call it that in x-ball if u go bak in it seems to me that that would be deafeting the purpose of paintball once ur hit ur out and u should stay out. and coaching thats like leting the defence in american football no the ofences plays thats not only cheating football wouldnt b called football and thats what would happen to paintball if we let ppl just go bak in and let the coaches give away the postions their would b no excietment in our great sport

ok just another question has anybody no anything bout the 2k3 cocker lookin forward to buyin it if i could find out anthing about it

 

[knobbs]

In X-Ball, if you are hit you are out for the rest of that point. The only time someone would come back in the middle of a point is if they were in the penalty box and the penalty time ran out.

Once a point is scored, all 5 players, minus any penalties being served, can come back on the field.

And coaching was one of the coolest things there. It allows your players to build up a strategy and attack, rather than sit and shoot. It's what allows points to be scored in X-Ball quicker than a full length paintball game.