I had a conversation recently with a highly respected and influential person in paintball, his identity matters not, only his credentials.
He told me something that shocked me, now maybe I was being naive but I think if what we discussed turns out to be true ( and I believe it is after my talk with him) then perhaps my naivety would be better described as idealism.
He told me that certain teams and at the moment it serves no purpose to reveal their names (though I do know them), have a policy of designer cheating when it comes to setting up their markers.
This cheat comes in two forms; firstly, it allows those predisposed to have their guns fire virtually full auto.
Secondly and in my opinion, much more serious, is the ability to fire above the tournament limit of 300 fps and in some cases, well above.
Now come the time the judge gets his hands on the gun or the player is asked to chronograph, the marker is now not in the same mode, so it is not detected.
I think we all have known that players push boundaries (a euphemism for cheating in my book) in this area but to have teams institutionalise this, is quite another thing.
I know I have been on a field and had paint whizzing in at me like a frikkin steam train from their back guys whereas mine is falling short but I don't think I put this down to (at the time) any thing more serious than a one-off.
Apparently the situation is far more serious than I had thought and one I know that not only Magued (as promoter of a Millennium tournament) is aware of.
I was told by my initial enlightener that steps were going to be taken but to tell the truth, I heard that last year and the resolve of the Millennium to do on-field chronographing was little more than a standing joke.
It seems ironic to me that they make a massive hoo-ha about the no-look rule (since removed) and whack it in the rule-book, enforcing it without delay and yet their stated policy of trying to catch and prevent hot guns is laughable.
If you are gonna try and catch these people or dissuade them from doing this sh#t then have the balls to chronograph them on field when the game is going on as many times as it takes.
No sensible minded paintballer is gonna have a problem with that, in fact, the only players or teams who might have a problem are the very ones who are cheating the **** outa the rest of us !
Over to you Mag
Pete
He told me something that shocked me, now maybe I was being naive but I think if what we discussed turns out to be true ( and I believe it is after my talk with him) then perhaps my naivety would be better described as idealism.
He told me that certain teams and at the moment it serves no purpose to reveal their names (though I do know them), have a policy of designer cheating when it comes to setting up their markers.
This cheat comes in two forms; firstly, it allows those predisposed to have their guns fire virtually full auto.
Secondly and in my opinion, much more serious, is the ability to fire above the tournament limit of 300 fps and in some cases, well above.
Now come the time the judge gets his hands on the gun or the player is asked to chronograph, the marker is now not in the same mode, so it is not detected.
I think we all have known that players push boundaries (a euphemism for cheating in my book) in this area but to have teams institutionalise this, is quite another thing.
I know I have been on a field and had paint whizzing in at me like a frikkin steam train from their back guys whereas mine is falling short but I don't think I put this down to (at the time) any thing more serious than a one-off.
Apparently the situation is far more serious than I had thought and one I know that not only Magued (as promoter of a Millennium tournament) is aware of.
I was told by my initial enlightener that steps were going to be taken but to tell the truth, I heard that last year and the resolve of the Millennium to do on-field chronographing was little more than a standing joke.
It seems ironic to me that they make a massive hoo-ha about the no-look rule (since removed) and whack it in the rule-book, enforcing it without delay and yet their stated policy of trying to catch and prevent hot guns is laughable.
If you are gonna try and catch these people or dissuade them from doing this sh#t then have the balls to chronograph them on field when the game is going on as many times as it takes.
No sensible minded paintballer is gonna have a problem with that, in fact, the only players or teams who might have a problem are the very ones who are cheating the **** outa the rest of us !
Over to you Mag
Pete
