Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine May 2020 Issue | Page 57

It’s more like playing airball in the woods where lanes zones and the volume of paint you shoot win you games: sounds familiar doesn’t it? These greatly reduced field sizes also mean you can be shot and hit on the break out, and also get hit from boundary tape to tape. players to shoot at from start to finish of the game you are continually going to be shooting your guns. Include into this equation the bunkers and barricades are designed in a way that it’s almost impossible to shoot the players out from behind them unless you bunker them or continually have to shoot a constant stream of paint for a lucky ball to eliminate players. Sounds very Familiar doesn’t it? Speedball in the woods? Hence why a lot of the airball players love playing on these small fields - it’s not really too dissimilar to what they play. All we have basically done in some instances, not all, is replace the inflatables with man made barricades and structures. The only way to move is forwards because you no longer have the room to manoeuvre and out flank the other team or play real tactical woodsball which is more reliant on the skill of the team and playing to win a game. So what’s the answer? Well it’s really simple- most of us started back playing again to play Why has this happened? In some cases it can woodsball again, not a watered down version be down to the natural layout of a field, time of airball in the woods. We need to be playing constraints in organizing and in the worst case on bigger fields where you can’t shoot out I have my suspicions that some unscrupulous players on the break out and are big enough event organizers are purposely designing the not to be able to shoot from tape to tape. fields this way to make us shoot more paint to Because if we played on bigger fields once generate more revenue through paint sales! again like we all did years ago the emphasis is then back with the player’s skill and field craft Let me explain why I feel like this. Firstly, if to out maneuver opposing players. when playing on a small field of play you have a higher chance to shoot multiple players on the break out and can clearly see plenty of www.paintball.media 057