X-Ball: a new game format
- Thread starter Kieran - Thunder
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In all honesty, I'd try it out, but it doesn't appeal to me as much as regular balling. I don't see the way the game is played change that much because of this. A lot of teams would still just dig in and build a house.
It's cos I'm an old cynic, and I've seen and heard these things for the last fifteen years. Format meddling.... it don't do out for me other than complicate a simple game.
Kieran, I can't even be arsed to read the whole blurb. I know some of the others on the mag think it's great, and that's all that matters, cos they have to justify it, not me. I just know that if I've had my arse kicked by the same team ten times in ten minutes, I'm going to start a fight. I wont win the fight, but I'll start it.
Either you can point at me in years to come and say 'there's the nob who thought xball wouldn't work' (in fact, I think you did that in an earlier thread), or it'll have one or two run outs and disappear.
Regards pounds shilling and pence, well I think Nick capped it off a few posts ago.
Idealists in paintball huh? Who needs em?
Kieran, I can't even be arsed to read the whole blurb. I know some of the others on the mag think it's great, and that's all that matters, cos they have to justify it, not me. I just know that if I've had my arse kicked by the same team ten times in ten minutes, I'm going to start a fight. I wont win the fight, but I'll start it.
Either you can point at me in years to come and say 'there's the nob who thought xball wouldn't work' (in fact, I think you did that in an earlier thread), or it'll have one or two run outs and disappear.
Regards pounds shilling and pence, well I think Nick capped it off a few posts ago.
Idealists in paintball huh? Who needs em?
Have to say I hadn't thought about it like that... I'd prolly do the same. It might even make the game a little boring to play for smaller teams. Although it looks like its only aimed at top level pros at the moment, I don't think it could ever catch on at lower levels... I for one like the fact that at most tourneys I get to play a wide variety of different teams in a day.
XBall might be nice to see how it works with the pros but I think it can't catch on as a lower level format.... If it does stick around it'd probably be a couple of times a year tops.
