Most Important kind of Player

[PartsMart]

My friends and I are conducting a poll on what the most important player is.

Floater-a person who kind of floats around his teams lines to help anybody who is in need of help. Helps support flanks.

Sniper-I think we know what this is

Kamikaze-A player who tends to rush up and fight very aggresivly.

Flankman-A player who covers his teams flank and keeps people from coming around beside or behind his teamates.

Camper-Person who sits behind his teams lines and provides over the head cover,not aggresive.

Midman-Person who just stays at the middle and keeps enemy from advancing.


Note: Please don't vote for what you are just because you want to be the most important player.

[Paint Bulley]

Isn't every position important like in every sport? equally?

[EvilAngel2001]

As long as everyone does their fair share, who cares.

[jrr112]

all of these are inportant except snipers. unless they play front and auctually take people out. if they sit in the back lines then they are useless. the mosat important people are the ones that support the front lines.

[~*DarkAngel69*~]

the most important player is the player who can step up in a game when they are down 8-2 men and can say we can win this we can pull through. an important player is the player who leads the team never pa nics in a situation and knows what to do all the time. he can answer your any questions and most of all never wipes or cheats in an anyway. I know you are all just at your knees now aplauding me and kissing my feet hey even I have a tear running down :confused: ,my cheak. :rolleyes:

[Creek]

Originally posted by ~*DarkAngel69*~
the most important player is the player who can step up in a game when they are down 8-2 men and can say we can win this we can pull through. an important player is the player who leads the team never pa nics in a situation and knows what to do all the time. he can answer your any questions and most of all never wipes or cheats in an anyway. I know you are all just at your knees now aplauding me and kissing my feet hey even I have a tear running down :confused: ,my cheak. :rolleyes:

I don't think so :)

[BOBO2]

Every thing is important, even a good base gaured sniper. We have sniper that took out 7 men trying to steal our flar. I voted for kamikasie cause the way you describe it thats what I do, I'm very agressive and like to get right up front and fight.

[Pookister569]

i'd say the most important play is the one with the most balls. i have played pb for awhile and i see ppl wussing out because they are scared of getting shot. u need to have guts in this game.

[Super Nick]

There is no "most important kind of player". One part of a team will not do well without the other. A good team is like a well-oiled machine. All of the parts move together smoothly.

[Super Nick]

Originally posted by jrr112
all of these are inportant except snipers. unless they play front and auctually take people out. if they sit in the back lines then they are useless. the mosat important people are the ones that support the front lines.

It seems that you don't know what a sniper is. A sniper is usually behind the enemy's lines, not behind your own. A good sniper can take out several enemies without ever even being detected. If you are talking about speed ball, then yyou must be saying that back players aren't important. Try telling Bob Long that.

[Ded]

as in many sports the best player is the one that can play all the positions and thus no ONE position is better than another. for instance, soccer, a small group of people are in charge of scoring the goals and the rest of the team is in charge of setting it up so those few CAN score the goals

[AzNHxC]

Your saying back players aren't worth it. Yea Super Nick is right tell Bob Long that or maybe Bud Orr. Back Players are extremely important. I would have to go with if everyone does what there supposed to then all players are important if they do there job the way there supposed to.

[Letchworth40]

well in soccer i dont think back players pin the other guys down...

[Ded]

they do if they have paintball guns WHOA!! PAINTBALL SOCCER!!! I am SO gonna invent that!

[Letchworth40]

ther should be a game like smear the queer. there is one ball on a field and whoever has the ball gets shot at by all the other guys. fun fun

[Ace]

Well, I didn't vote becasue I feel every player is equally important. A good team is like a well-oiled machine; it won't work if you remove parts from it becasue they all work in unison, each piece doing it's task to help the entire machine do it's job.

I can't even think of just one position I would rank more important than another, I'm racking my brain but in the end I don't think it's possible to honestly say one is better than another. You need them all at one point or another.

I think the "floater" most accurately describes what I feel is the ideal player...but EVERYONE on the team should be a floater in the sense that you need to adapt and perform whatever task is necessary at the moment to help your team win...be it front, flank, snipe, what have you. Each player needs to know how to play every position well so they can adapt and move into a different type of play when needed.

[AzNHxC]

Fat B@stard left a Floater:D

[Ace]

DED...

You're right. That would be fun! :D

[Letchworth40]

ded and i are going to try that game out tomorrow

[Landon]

Kamakazi is the most important! They have the most guts and usually take the most people out in the least amount of time!

[toadman7b22]

back players work hand in hand with the front guys to make the team work

[BOBO2]

Are back players suck:( They just sit there, there really campers(which I hate:mad: ) they just call themselfs back players so we don't give them so much crap.

[Letchworth40]

my team has good back guys. they shoot 3 cases a tourny and give awsome cover. Good Front players can cover themself. just gotta run and shoot accurate and you dont need the back guys "as much"

[Super Nick]

Originally posted by BOBO2
Are back players suck:( They just sit there, there really campers(which I hate:mad: ) they just call themselfs back players so we don't give them so much crap.

That's a very stupid thing to say. Have you ever played speedball? If you had, you would know that back players are very important to the team. I think that you should tell Bob Long that he sucks. I'm sure that you will like his response.

[BOBO2]

Did you even read that. I said that are (which is suposed to be our) back players suck, as in my team. I didn't mean that in general. The back players on my team sit there and shoot about 5 balls in a whole game. Next time read befor you flame.

[BOBO2]

Originally posted by Dedagain
Good Front players can cover themself. just gotta run and shoot accurate and you dont need the back guys "as much"

Thats what I have to do my reason is in the post above.

[Magadeth]

how could anyone vote for camper? We instituted time limits on games so that if someone wants to spend the whole game quaking in the woods and missing out on all the action, it doesn't interfere with our good time.

[2D]

IM a flankman. I protect the right side if the field, and we (our team) do in fact have a sniper. a very good one too. never underestimate the power of one shot kills.

[Super Nick]

Originally posted by BOBO2
Did you even read that. I said that are (which is suposed to be our) back players suck, as in my team. I didn't mean that in general. The back players on my team sit there and shoot about 5 balls in a whole game. Next time read befor you flame.

Yes I read it. If you don't want to get flamed, take the time to type correctly.

[BOBO2]

Saying are is still not a general statment though. And I wish we had good back players cuz then my life would be much easyer.

[Super Nick]

I know. I read it too fast, and thought that it said all back players suck. Sorry BOB. I'm sure that it does suck to have bad back players.

[BOBO2]

It's BOBO, but thats alright I miss readsome times to.

[Super Nick]

Okay. I was thinking that the O was the number, not the letter.

[BOBO2]

No but alot of people think than. HMMM I wish I could put a space there but it's to late now.

[Super Nick]

I know that some people e-mail Andrew to have him change their name, but I always thought that he was kind of busy and didn't need to worry about that kind of stuff.

[magilicous]

There is no MOST important person or position. All are good in different ways.

[lazysnowboarder]

I agree that to have a winning team you need front and back players, floaters, tape runners, etc to all play there parts. (i'm not including sniper or flankman roles cause i'm thinking more a typical speedball game since that's all i play) But if you where playing a top gun tourney or just a 1 on 1 game and you had to chose someone from your team to play my vote would "probably" go to the best back player. I see it all the time where the back player is the last one left against 2 or 3 and shoots the rest out and goes to pull and hang the flag. That's just my opinion though.......

[high adjucator]

im gunna be honest sombody who calls themslevs a sniper usually sits back and thinks hes camoed
in speedball theyd make perfect back player bait!

ok i think that not neccesarily kamikaze men but front men noentheless are the most inportant
i got up behind sombody once and elimated HALF OF THERE FORCE! now all the back players did was get shot and flanked they ende up abandoning our base and following me and get me shot at! :mad:

also i think them guys u call floaters are improtant as long as they can play all roles well!
if its capture the flag, in woods, then back players honestly have no purpose excpet to prevent us other from getting shot at! :|

ok im not flaming back players but im sayin MINE suck! and that what ive seen all other players do

[Jackel]

A sniper is the tip of the spear. So therefore, if the so called 'sniper' camps out behind the lines, they are not a sniper. It's kinda funny to watch. I personally think that the most important players are the level-headed, not too aggresive, not passive players who pick their fights carefully and then know when to quit. I don't like Rambos who shoot at everything that moves. I don't like sniper who campo out and wait for a target that might or might not come. I don't like kamikazis b/c they just get taken out of play.

[high adjucator]

im not kamikaze im a guy who flanks up and backs off if they spot me.

this thread took a long time to get a reply back

[jcross]

Posted by Landon
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Kamakazi is the most important! They have the most guts and usually take the most people out in the least amount of time!
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You forgot no brains.

Front players are smart, get people, and do care if they get shot but kamakazi are just people that want to be front players but just don't now jack about tactics.

[Ruffneck142000]

The Most Important
Type of Player is someone who will take 20 minutes to crawl half the field to flank the other team, of course this only works in the woods but if done correctly it gives that players team a huge advantage...

[Ebonclaw]

Most important kind of player: The ones not in the dead zone.

[Cloud-VII]

I think you are getting "Sniper" and "Camper" confused.

Someone who sits back and hides behind their lines are considered Campers, not Snipers.

Snipers are very important. They cause chaos in the enemy camp.

Guy1, 2, and 3 are standing by flag, guy 1 gets hit.
Guy 1: "What the??"
Guy 2 and 3 run for cover and try to sneek to where they think sniper is.

Sniper's teamates come in from otherside, get Guy 1 and 2 out.

haha, thats what happed 2 weeks ago in a game that we were playing. It caused great laughter.
Then we broke bread.

[HiddenDanger]

I agree with many of the people here, that a team needs to know who is who, and distribute jobs according to what they need in the certain scenario. If I had to choose one though, it would be the floater. This floater should know how to do almost any job (to a certain extent), sniper, asaultman, defender, etc. Therefore, they should practice different roles when playing. If you have a lot of floaters on a team then everyone will know what is needed in the present situation.

[Killer Kat]

Now I didn't read every post cause they all started out the same, I truly believe it takes alittle of everyone listed to make for a winning team However it is of the most importance that all of these players play as a team with this being the first and of the most importance...
SAFE!
Any one gets hurt! on either side! makes for a bad bad day for all!

[tryggerhappy]

This will probably be one of the biggest debates in paintball (ge, spyders or tippmans,Why does be have such a bad name, etc...) but of anyone wants my oppinion,yeah right, it would be that there is no most important player, it needs to be equal. you'll never win at speedball when all the players are camped out in back, or the other way around. I'm kinda long winded arent I. :drop:

Oh and by the way Ebonclaw, amen brother :wave:

[Chandler]

Well maybe if you spelled "our" right he might have understood. But anyways.......i agree with everyone about everyonme being important. Remeber there is no "I" in team. thats why it is called a team.

[DontKillWhitey]

Theres no "I" in team but theres a "M" and a "E", put those together and it makes ME, the best paintballer to ever live. J/K. All positions are equal and important.

[Chandler]

Hey BOBO sorry about that last post i didnt realize there was a second page to this and i didnt know the whole " are" thing had already been resolved. Sorry about that.

[TheZephyr]

Having good support from the back is pretty important. Back players may not have the lightning speed or fearlessness of us frontplayers :laugh: , but they do provide the foundation of a good attack, and on a good team, they work hard to keep everyone informed about what is going on. Most positions are equally important. Backplayers provide support for front, front gets the eliminations and grab the flag. Snipers shoot out the stragglers, but get overrun without the help of other teammates.

[high adjucator]

my team has good backplayers so i dont know. but i guess if a sniper is one that goes behind enemy lines and causes chaos then im a sniper :D . i guess my friend (who plays back) is just a lousy camper but he does have good aim.

no one metioned anyhting about the kind of person who stays in the center of the field watching evrything but trying not to get shot. i guess youd cal them a taction?
in speed ball backplayers are definately the best. then front then mid. at least on my team i dont know about evryone elses

[Peter A.]

the way you name the posistions it sounds like a woods game posistion.On speed ball there is no single important player.
gimme a good reason if u think else.:eyes: think what would happen if A front player had no good back...he'd eventualy get bunkered.now if the team had a bad front the other team would advancxe and eventually take out the backs.the best posistion is none however a good front and back player combo is essential for victory.

[slapcornpoopfac]

I think the most important part in paintball are tape runners(flankers.)
they get the angles to shoot and get into the enemey lins to take them out from the un expected you can do this even withonly 2 people. one flank and the other one cover.or they both flank each sides of the field and the enimies will have it comming from them, at both sides.

[spyder2001]

I have found a new respect for campers/snipers/back players, whatever you want to call them. I was playing last weekend and this one player would spend a good portion of the game in the farthest back, left hand bunker. From this position, he could command the whole field, and did not move until there was only one person left. Every time i stuck my head out, i would find 5-10 balls flying from this player, and he was definately in charge of the field. Even on a team of newbies, this player took the whole other team out. I think all players are equally important, but i have a new respect for back/campers/snipers.

[Sks Skating Inc]

Im A Back But Every Player Is Important

[FlyBoyNZ]

i am a sniper, which is not a camper by the way.

i say all players are important, even the crazy kamakazie guys cause they can creat a diversion and get a play in defensive mode who is in deep sh*t out of deep sh*t by allowing the player in deep sh*t a chance to run.