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[Paintball]PSP Phoenix Open 19-22nd (Free Live Stream)
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It’s a new PSP season with some new rules, new gear, guns and gadgets and of course new matches to watch!
Now, I realize that most of you here don’t know that much about paintball and even less about tournament paintball specifically. So this thread is going to serve somewhat as a primer in addition to being a place to discuss the phoenix open and paintball in general.
Of course, the main reason I’m making this thread is this:
The Phoenix Open is going to be streamed LIVE over the internet for FREE.
I figure even if someone has a passing interest in paintball they can hop in the thread, watch the stream and ask questions or just talk in general in this thread.
Schedule: http://www.paintball-players.org/scores/L1/
Note: Paintball is still small enough of a sport that all the divisions play the same event. So, over the course of these 4 days you will see matches that range from entry level to the top tier teams.
The Field Layout:
A relatively standard layout. New this season is middle bunker is no longer a huge X but just the bottom half of one. But I doubt it will really have any impact on the game. PSP purposefully designs the field to push play out to the tape lines, for both strategic reasons and so the fans in the sidelines can get a good view of the game. Speaking of the fans, they get to yell anything they want at the players, such as where someone is hiding, of course, they don’t have to be honest about it either.
Field Terminology: The pieces of cover are called bunkers. Each of the bunker styles has a different name. Tall cylindrical bunkers are called cans. Tall bunkers with four flat sides and a flat top are called temples. Triangular bunkers that end in a point are called doritos. The long pieces of low cover are called the snake and players have to crawl to use it as cover.
One side of the field has a snake and the other side has a lot of doritos, and they are called snake side and dorito side respectively. The middle bunkers are said to be on the 50, with bunkers from there being on the 40 and so on. Bunkers in the back are often called back bunkers, ie, the back can. This should help you keep up with the announcers somewhat.
Rules:
Games consist of two 15 minute halves. The first team to 9 points wins, or the team with the highest score at the end of the second half. The clock counts down the entire time, until there are only 5 minutes left, and then the clock only counts down during a point. Teams get one time out per half.
Each time has five players on the field at the start. If a paintball hits and breaks (this is important) on a player (on any part of them, gun, pack, whatever) they are out. If it hits and bounces they are still in.
Your team wins the point by hanging the flag in the middle of the field on the enemies starting box. This is almost impossible to do while the other team still has players in the game, so this is usually done after the other team is eliminated. A team can also concede a point at any time, and this can be useful if the game is starting to run low on time.
Fouls are handled similarly to hockey. Where a player on your team must sit in a penalty box for a certain duration of time. There are major and minor penalties, which determine how long the penalty is. Penalties can be earned for continuing to play after a ball broke on you, having your gun shooting too fast and other such things.
Note: These are the rules for the highest division of play, lower divisions use slightly different rules but the announcers usually mention these differences.
Pro Teams:
Boston Red Legion
Bushwackers
Chicago Aftershock
DYNASTY
Edmonton Impact
Hurricanes
LA Infamous
Los Angeles Ironmen
Philly Americans
San Diego Aftermath
Seattle Naughty Dogs
Tampa Bay Damage
X-Factor
Speedball Strategy in a Nutshell:
Players have to start with their barrel touching the dead box. When the buzzer sounds they can begin play. Some members of the team will walk to a bunker near the back of the field while constantly shooting their gun down a firing lane. This is called laning and either denies players access to certain bunkers or gets an early eliminations. Other players on the team will either run and shoot to a further out bunker or try to make a really aggressive play and just flat out run to a bunker far up the field. After this initial chaos called the breakout, things settle down a little but the tempo for that point has been set.
Players at this point play their bunkers tight and engage in snap shooting (popping in and out of cover and shooting quickly) to try to get out enemies, or they will continue to lay down streams of paint to keep the enemy from advancing or to let their own team advance up a part of the field. Once one team has an advantage they will try to send people up the sides of the fields to get angle shots on the opposing team and eliminate them.
If a team is ahead by enough bodies on the field they may attempt a run through, which is where a player runs up and runs right by a player, shooting at them (this is called bunkering). A player doing a run through usually gets eliminated, but sometimes they can take one or two people with them, which is a good trade if you were already up bodies.
So, there you go. Hope you guys enjoy watching some free paintball this weekend.
Stream: The stream will be hosted at http://www.pspevents.com
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It's been a while since I kept up with the who's who, but does Dynasty still sweep things by a large margin? And does my local team (Edmonton Impact) have a chance in hell?
Thank you for making this thread.
EDIT: Shamless spoiler of pictures of my team (Warning, huge)
EDITEDIT: video from a day of practice from the Division 1 team, Palm Beach Vipers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0VpoYjb0I
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
No, speedball only uses Airball bunkers, and Hyperball tubing a long time ago
Recreational paintball had big buildings, and scenarios and such a lot of times however, and is played for fun.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Round 1 team A gets 10 minutes or so to position themselves on the playing field and in buildings etc. Then Team B has to head in.
Round 2 they switch roles.
Best 3 out of 5 or something.
(edit: I guess that's not really the point of paintball though.)
Dynasty is still good but they aren't the best team around anymore. Ollie Lang went to the Ironmen, and so did Johnny Perchack. Speaking of the Ironmen they won the last world cup, so, they are definitely a team to keep your eyes on.
As for Impact, well, I'm just getting into speedball seriously myself so, I've don't have all the info but I think they've been playing pretty solid paintball, so, I'd say there is a chance.
DUE: You can find paintball that does what you want actually. It's called scenario ball. They generally don't do the switching the sides thing though. They'll basically take a huge area of play, areas that can span miles, sometimes. There will be objectives that need to be captured spread around the area, and one team will basically have from sun up to sun down, or maybe even through the night, to get these objectives while the other team defends. The teams will be rather huge in number as well.
What state do you live in DUE? I'm sure I could find something in your area.
Of course, keep in mind that paintball ballistic physics will never be like that of a real gun but, it's still a hell of a lot better experience than even the most realistic FPS games.
As for a video that shows all the action on the field, lemme see what I can dig up. It's hard to find quality clips on youtubes as most of the people who mix them are kinda clueless, but... oh hey here's a pretty decent one, a lot of close ups but still gives a good idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNMiLcvaXk
I'm in Ohio but I don't have the time to devote to the pursuit of the sport. I would be a fanatic for about three months before quitting.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
me and my friends used to play paintball this way a few times. One guy had a sweet backyard in the forest, with a hill, down to a ravine and then up to another hill. The second hill had a partial cliff into the ravine. There are also fallen logs by the ravine. And a trail up the back of the second hill.
Basically, one team would get 10 minutes to go set up on the hill and then the other team would attack. Then we would switch.
but they're listening to every word I say
That was a practice game, however. No refs.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
My college is forming a paintball club right now. We are still trying to figure out what leagues we'll be able to play in. but we'll definitely play in some college league, and maybe more. We're still trying to figure out how many members we will have and what kind of financial backing the school will give us.
JAEF: Yeah, as Toxin said, if someone gets hit and keeps playing its a penalty. Now, it's normal if someone is shooting and they get hit that they will shoot a couple more rounds or whatever while they realize they've been hit, and generally the ref will just yank them without calling a penalty.
When bunkering someone (which is when you basically run up right on top of someone and shoot) it's pretty common for both players to be shooting at each other and hit each other and nearly the same time, and in that case the ref generally pulls both players off of the field.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
I've been shot in the nuts.
Why someone would ever request that to be done I can not fathom.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Gloves help with that some, but yeah, those places just listed (groin, neck, ear, hand) are pretty much the worst places to get shot.
Also, it looks like they might only be doing a live stream for the 21st and the 22nd?
They have a bunch of games up from last years world cup though here:
http://webcast.pspevents.com/flash/player/
Anyone in the Bay Area can recommend a place? Hopefully a field somewhere that doesn't have it's own "team" that are all buddies with the ref and act like dicks to someone who's not a regular?
My Angel has been sitting in my closet for about two years now. Still works great though, just need a new macro line.
That's actually really awesome, Joy Division is a top team in Europe.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
Our first game is now available for free on Google Play: Frontier: Isle of the Seven Gods
Play in a woodsball league and it's a much more tactical game. Not saying it's better (because it would make an unexciting spectators sport) but I find it more fun to play.
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
http://www.paintball-players.org/scores/L1/scores874_255_0_Scores.html
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
And yeah, Red Legion is nuts, they have such good off the break shooting.
Edit: or maybe they just have the sign ups for it, hurm.