PaintballX3 Magazine August, 2013 Euro | Page 17

ing interestng to share? [email protected]. Thats just the way it is. So I digress, moving back to the basis of this letter, during our game against Aftershock, at the start of the 4th point, we had 4 guns that were shooting hot over the chrono. There is no doubt about it. These are the FACTS and what really happened, and can be verified is on paintballaccess. The first marker to be checked was Loic Voulot’s gun, he was chrono’d between 300 and 310 FPS. He received a minor penalty. The second marker belonged to Axel Gaudin, whose gun chrono’d below 300 FPS. The third marker belonged to Frank Chambon, and he was chrono’d at 317 FPS and he received a major penalty. The fourth gun belongs to Karl Samuelson and was chrono’d at 304 FPS(he received a major in the confusion). As for me, my gun was chrono’d at 307 FPS, and i received a minor penalty. Loic Voulot’s marker was then re-checked and HIS FIRST SHOT ONLY was chrono’d at 323 FPS and later his gun was re-checked again at 352 Fps. This was due to a Drop-Off (an o-ring was torn in his regulator) all the shots fired with Loic’s marker after the first shot were below 300 FPS. We verified our markers pre-game with the pit chrono, and this chrono gave us a totally different read on ALL of our markers.(Below 300 FPS as the rules stipulate).Our mistake was to not verify this with a second chrono. Because any player with a little bit of tournament experience knows that you can get different reads of a chrono, depending on the angle you shoot upon it. This does NOT excuse the fact that we were shooting “hot.” It is 100% our own fault, because we did not double-check our markers. Especially for the marker that shot 352 FPS ON THE FIRST SHOT ONLY, even though all the other shots with this marker were below 300 FPS, there is no excuse. We weren’t paying enough attention, or maybe we were too “involved “ in the game. This is un-excusable at our level. When I read on the internet that we use cheater modes in our markers, that we have “suspicious “ habits of shooting into the grass before games, and that we shoot entire lines of “missiles”, I say: NO. bORED sHORTS The PSP and the referees, brought in a Dye Technician during the gun check, who took apart all markers that were shooting hot. They concluded that: All our DM13 were stock (boards, parts, settings). The DM that was chrono’d at 352 FPS ON THE FIRST SHOT, had a regulator problem, on o-ring used. None of our DM13 guns were ??????????????????????????????????????????????????9??????????4????????????q??????t?5?????]??????????????????1???????????AM@????????????????????????=???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????AL??M??????????????????????????????1=P?!%!H???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????AL????????????????=????????????????????????????????????????AL???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????%????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]??????9=P??a?????d?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]????????????????????????????????????????????????????9???????????Q??????????????????????????????????????????]??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Q???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????]?????A???????????????????A?????????????????????t?Q????? ???????Q??Q??()`?UI