[Magnus55]

When playing outlawball with your friends or even better yet strangers, never pass up an offer to ref. It's a golden oppertunity to watch people play paintball close up and inside the game, without actually having the stresses of being in the game. You can pick up little things from watching first hand how other people play paintball. You can see what stratagies and what styles work, and where as what other methods don't. It makes it easier to map out a strategy for when it's your turn to play. Also, if you're the competitive type, it allowes you to sum up the other guys playing and to see their strengths and weaknesses.