Paintball Teams - Experience needed?

[weefek]

please help me in this argument against my friend (and team mate). i've been paintballing for right around a year, and don't know how many times ive gone... he's gone paintballing four times. We've been a team for two months. He thinks this summer we should enter all the tournaments in Ontario (canadian province, for all u ppl who dont know, eh?). And he thinks we should enter the whole tournament series as well. I keep telling him stuff like maybe in 10 years. please help me against him, (forgive him as well his brain is lacking cells).

[UTLadiesMan]

Well, if you want experience, subjecting yourself to the worst *** kicking of your life would do it. Playing against the toughest competition you can find is probably the most efficient way to learn. Sure you will be humiliated in several tournaments, but after a few months you will notice how much improved you are when you can play against people who have played just as long as you, but not at the same level. Take two teams who are even, sick one on a bunch of newbies every weekend, and the let the other one be fodder for some pro teams, and then pit them against each other after a few months. The one that hasn't won a game in months will destroy the one that just expects to win, because all they play are newbies.

[pbgod68cal]

yea going up agenst tougher teams and gtting your butt handed to u on a silver plater will make u better as a team but no matteroh fast u enter tourneys in the summer your still gonna get ripped to peaces at times u cant just start out winning unless there absolutly no compation agenst you. but id say do some tourneys this smme like he says and ge that xperiance i mean dont go out and enter every tourney that comes up butchoose them wisely and go to ones where u will do ok at and notget smoked at. so likejoin rokie and novice tourneys and not open class like we did for the first time but we still did good 4th place bu it was uposed to be newbiee but it was open

[weefek]

yes i know , i would do it for the practice if i had the money. but my problem is, he thinks we should do it so we can win. LOL i just laughed in his face, but i still can't talk sense into him.

[slapcornpoopfac]

hey me and my team just went to a touney... with some really good ametures. cuzwe thought it was a rookie tourney but t was open. when we got there we wre scared. 3 of my 5 man only have played for about 10 months , 2 only about 5 months, we have cockers timmys and an angel.
so this was our first touneyand our first game.... perfect score
then our next games we sucked, i only got out the other people on the other team, my temates dint get anyone out. out of 6 games i got out about 5 people. 2 of my tteamtes got out 0.... so all i have to say is that we learned alot. we want to go to a rookie tourny at the same place when they have one but it might be a while. i know in rookie we will do pretty good

[UTLadiesMan]

Yeah, it can't hurt to go to a tournament. (unless you think being bunkered hurts, but then you shouldn't be playing tournys :))
Just don't go expecting to win. Set reasonable goals. Like, if there are 5 games for a possible 300 points, set your goal to like 125 points. The next time you can readjust higher, or leave it the same. Again, it can only help. If you go to 4 open tournaments in the summer, aim for a 50 point increase in team total or something throughout the summer. A 50 point increase in an open tournament translates to the rec ball field very well. Leave with everyone doing a 2:1, then increase your tournament points by 50, then come back and be at a 5:1.

Anyway, there is no reason you shouldn't go to a tournament if you want to. Just set your goals differently. Don't go to win, go to improve.