I must of wiped.

[Infiltrator]

I was playing a centerflag game. All the other team was eliminated except one person with a nice impulse unloading on anyone and anything. I grabbed the centerflag and ran to the back of the field. Since this was an outlaw field, there was no place to hang the flag. While I was running like someone was trying to kill me, the last guy unloaded his paint as fast as his finger would pull the trigger. When I got to the back of the field, I slowed down and couldn't find anywhere to hang the flag. That is when I got nailed in back with one paintball. It felt like it bounced. I put my hand where the hit was located to see if there was paint on my back so I could call myself out. But then this ref yelled, "Hold on, let me check him!" I thought to myself that I should just let the ref decide. So I raised my arms and told him to check the exact spot where he hit me. He said, "Player is clean!". The game was over, but as I walked out I noticed a yellow shell on the hand that I was using to check myself. Are hits that easy to wipe? If so then I got to tell the guy that got me that I wiped or something. Wouldn't there still be enough of the hit for him to check? I checked in the mirror when I got home and it was totally clean. Either that or the sweat all voer my back masked the hit? He must of hit me with a hollow paintball or something.

[Infiltrator]

Ok I checked my shirt. There is a tiny grease spot, not even the size of a quarter and VERY hard to see on the back where he hit me. I bet if I didn't touch the hit I would of been out. I don't know. It would be up to the ref.

[Rugrat]

No its not that easy to wipe off a hit. I wipe off any hit I get at the end of the game so there will be no confussion on a hit in the next game I play. Even then you can tell that a ball has hit and broke where I have wiped it off from the previous game.

More than likely you put your hand some splatter on a bunker or something and picked up shell fragments. So you are in the clear.

My advise,
If any doubt have a ref check, that's what they are there for.

If you don't have a ref to check you, call yourself out. Better to be a "stand up" kind of player who calls himself out even if he finds out later that he isn't than a player who continues to play when he is out.

[Magnus55]

Maybe the shell didn't fully break, which could be because you were running away, or because of the distance between you an him? Either way, if the ref called you clean you were probably clean. But if you're ever not sure but you felt the hit, you might as well give the other player the benefit of the doubt and call yourself out. :)

[cocker kid 2k2]

Originally posted by Magnus55
Maybe the shell didn't fully break,

Either the paint breaks, or it doesn't break, there isn't really any inbetween.

[Raptorz922]

Sometimes a ball hits a twig or something and you feel the shell hitting you and you get a little paint/shell with it. You can really only feel it if you have just a t-shirt on, though.

[Infiltrator]

Thanks guys, I wasn't quite sure.

[cocker kid 2k2]

Originally posted by Raptorz922
Sometimes a ball hits a twig or something and you feel the shell hitting you and you get a little paint/shell with it. You can really only feel it if you have just a t-shirt on, though.

That my friend, is splatter.

[chibissj]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2


Either the paint breaks, or it doesn't break, there isn't really any inbetween.

tonty no i got hit once this weekend and the ball didn't bounce NOR break, it just split open a litte bit and the paint ball fell down on the ground with abig crack and it just oozed out.

[Raptorz922]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2


That my friend, is splatter.

No kidding? :rolleyes:

[Magnus55]

Originally posted by cocker kid 2k2
Either the paint breaks, or it doesn't break, there isn't really any inbetween.

Well some of the cheaper paintball's fills split only slightly along the seams when they hit at long range or on loose clothing, and never fully break enough to leak the quarter sized mark required for it to actually be a "hit". :)

[chibissj]

Originally posted by Magnus55


Well some of the cheaper paintball's fills split only slightly along the seams when they hit at long range or on loose clothing, and never fully break enough to leak the quarter sized mark required for it to actually be a "hit". :)


exaclty this seems to happen a lot with zap tork balls. not just once in a while but like every few shots, and on the field i would find hundres of scattered shells that were just cracked

[VeNoM]

I have seen paint spilt open all the time, I don't know what you are talking about kid but it happens all the time. Dropping paint has split, paint that bounces off of something and hits the ground splits.... Go look around on the ground on the field, you will see a lot of balls that are split with the paint gone and the shell still together.


And BTW thanks for pointing that out to us because with out you no one would have known what splatter is :rolleyes: ...