[dps093]

As a referee for 5 years, and player for 8 years, I've encountered lots of bad situations. I'll just start off with one for now.

I had to ref a group of 20 some very ghetto people (aged 19-30). They were already giving me trouble in the safety briefing, so I knew it was going to be a long day. First game, two people lift up their mask in the middle of the game, I yell as loud as I can "Mask down!" as the mask will muffle my voice, and people around me are shooting in the game, so I shouted it as loud as I could. Immediately, 2 guys got right up to my face that I could feel their breath on me, and were like "You don't need to be talking to us like that. You don't know who you're messing with. We're just trying to have a good time. You watch your tone," and then the one guy says "I'm 19, I'm probably older than you, so watch your mouth." All I say is "Oh cool, we're the same age!" Then just ignore them. I got them under control after that. At the very end of the day, the group is coming back up to the staging area, with some players from other groups and refs hanging out at the tables in the staging area. A couple of the people in my group decide to take off their barrel covers and shoot around. The one ref reacted before me (most likely because one shot went right by his eye) and yelled that they need to put their barrel covers on, and safetys. The cocky-eyed 19 year old responded "What, you scared?" I had a pleasure throwing them out

[HeatedNubbycake]

As a player/ref. The scariest situation iv been a part of what getting shot in the mask and my lens cracking, enough for some paint to trickle through when i let it sit. It had been sitting in my car for a few months (i wasnt really thinking), so im assuming the intense heat everyday weakened the lens over time. Another situation was when a buddy of mine got shot right above the eye, (i wasnt there for that one, but he got hit right where your skull starts your eye cavity). He texted me a picture that night and it looked like he had a baseball growing on his forehead.

[dps093]

Originally Posted by HeatedNubbycake

As a player/ref. The scariest situation iv been a part of what getting shot in the mask and my lens cracking, enough for some paint to trickle through when i let it sit. It had been sitting in my car for a few months (i wasnt really thinking), so im assuming the intense heat everyday weakened the lens over time. Another situation was when a buddy of mine got shot right above the eye, (i wasnt there for that one, but he got hit right where your skull starts your eye cavity). He texted me a picture that night and it looked like he had a baseball growing on his forehead.

I always warn the people in the safety briefing that they will lose their eye if they lift their mask, and get shot in the eye, and it amazes me how so much of them don't even care and will do it anyways. Survival of the fittest I guess.

[HeatedNubbycake]

Originally Posted by dps093

I always warn the people in the safety briefing that they will lose their eye if they lift their mask, and get shot in the eye, and it amazes me how so much of them don't even care and will do it anyways. Survival of the fittest I guess.

In his defense, it was not even on a field, he wasnt expecting it, it was completely by accident. one of his brothers friends bought a little $30 pistol from walmart or something. walked out the door. and just held it up and shot without looking. by pure chance it hit him in the eye. none the less. there is no excuse.

And i agree, it doesnt matter how many times you tell them to keep their masks down and barrel plugs on. there is always those couple of guys who dont want to listen. And did you ever notice its usually the older guys who should know better? the little kits (8-12) are really good at following rules.

[dps093]

Originally Posted by HeatedNubbycake

In his defense, it was not even on a field, he wasnt expecting it, it was completely by accident. one of his brothers friends bought a little $30 pistol from walmart or something. walked out the door. and just held it up and shot without looking. by pure chance it hit him in the eye. none the less. there is no excuse.

And i agree, it doesnt matter how many times you tell them to keep their masks down and barrel plugs on. there is always those couple of guys who dont want to listen. And did you ever notice its usually the older guys who should know better? the little kits (8-12) are really good at following rules.

Yeah, it usually is the older guys I have to tell to keep their masks down. That's why I like reffing speedball so much better. For one, it's more exciting to watch lol. Secondly, I don't have to worry about safety with them, they already know what will happen if they were to lift there masks. This also applies to the experienced woodsball players too though, they know not to lift their masks as well.

[Pirhana1992]

One time I was playing and we were walking up to the staging area. Masks
Still had to be down and we saw a group without their masks on and we yelled several times for them to put them down and they didn't listen. As we got closer we saw one guy on he ground and he wasn't responding. Was pretty scary.

Another time at a team tryout My team was hosting and we were all having a great time when this guy (probably mid 20's) got up in this kids face and started screaming at him and accusing him of stealing his lock lid full of paint. He raised his fist and I ran over and pushed him back and told him to leave our group.

He kept starting crap all day until one of the refs kicked him out. Everytime I see him at the field he always starts crap.

[Kbug]

What happened to the guy on the ground?

[thepaintballkidd]

At my local field there was a group of chinese people, kids and adults. Every single game they would lift up their masks and the refs/other players would yell at them, but they didnt speak english. At one point the ref just tackled one to the ground and kept his face in his chest. The chinese guy got up and started screaming at the refs and everyone at the field.

[ultranoobify]

I feel like I have had nothing but good experiences reffing. I usually brought Oreos and a gallon of sweet tea with me on to the field. It made for a pretty chill Sunday.

[r90t]

SC Village, kid put one right above his eye and was ambulanced away. This was at the chrono/target range.

Tournament-kid shot out his prescription glasses lens and went to the ER with no vision in eye.

[Subterfuge]

Some camper shot me 480 fps 20 feet away 3 times.

010 years ago I was running off the break. A pine tree hooked my mask and yanked it off my face. At the time I wore glasses. I crushed them looking for my mask. Now I use contacts for every action sport.

Twisted my ankle.

I don't know what I did to my shoulder after I fell on it, but I couldn't lift it above my head.

Cut my hand open like a zipper superman diving for the snake. I didn't know there was big rocks, rooted into the ground, waiting to stop me.

I was falsely called a cheater a number of times. Sometimes it's because the other team doesn't believe I can cover that much distance without being noticed. They think that I started beyond the 50 for all they know. In all cases it almost ends up in a fistfight. Sometimes it's because the rookie tourney team or ref team wants to save face. The other team saving face is the worst situation to happen, because it ruins the rest of the day. I hate having bitter sideways glances and death stares from people I don't even know.

A backman was given death threats for shooting this player three-five times. After being told to calm down; the country mil-sim player said that if the backman ever came back to the field, he would break his hands. The ignorant player was eliminated over 100 feet away with the highest quality brittle paint. The 50 year old backman left that field, never to return again. I never quite understood why the milsim player was so butthurt to be raging killer mad, it was not like he was hotboxed or bonusballed.

[inferno2inferno]

Worst situation I have encountered was this kid who collided with the barrel of one of his friends as he was trying to bunker him. The kids mask slid up with the impact and took the barrel to the lip. He then walks up to me as part of the staff an says "my lip hurts". I check the damage; the kid had given himself a lip piercing as the collision sent the lip into and through his tooth. I first aided the kid but he was freaking out and he had to leave with his parents to ER. Never forgetting that one.

[paintballoliver]

Probably the biggest for me is being called a cheater almost every time I play at a certain field. I play with a phantom almost exclusively at a certain field, and I excel among everyone else, so a lot who don't know me think I am a cheater. Their mindset just will not except that they just got out gunned by someone with a phantom when they have a geo 3.

Another one is just the constant not wearing masks that the newer, especially older newer, players do.

[dps093]

Originally Posted by Pirhana1992

One time I was playing and we were walking up to the staging area. Masks
Still had to be down and we saw a group without their masks on and we yelled several times for them to put them down and they didn't listen. As we got closer we saw one guy on he ground and he wasn't responding. Was pretty scary.

Another time at a team tryout My team was hosting and we were all having a great time when this guy (probably mid 20's) got up in this kids face and started screaming at him and accusing him of stealing his lock lid full of paint. He raised his fist and I ran over and pushed him back and told him to leave our group.

He kept starting crap all day until one of the refs kicked him out. Everytime I see him at the field he always starts crap.

Can't stand people with bad attitudes, been there, done that.

Originally Posted by Kbug

What happened to the guy on the ground?

Yea really lol

Originally Posted by thepaintballkidd

At my local field there was a group of chinese people, kids and adults. Every single game they would lift up their masks and the refs/other players would yell at them, but they didnt speak english. At one point the ref just tackled one to the ground and kept his face in his chest. The chinese guy got up and started screaming at the refs and everyone at the field.

I've had that same problem with some foreigners. Group of Hispanics came to play, I tried to tell this one guy he was out from getting shot, but he just stayed in the entire team, with shots all over him. He didn't speak a lick of english. It was just there group playing, so I just let them play it as is, as long as everyone was safe haha

Originally Posted by ultranoobify

I feel like I have had nothing but good experiences reffing. I usually brought Oreos and a gallon of sweet tea with me on to the field. It made for a pretty chill Sunday.

Most of the time I do, but occasionally we always get that one bad group, or person. Even had a gang of Bloods come to our field. scary ****.

Originally Posted by r90t

SC Village, kid put one right above his eye and was ambulanced away. This was at the chrono/target range.

Tournament-kid shot out his prescription glasses lens and went to the ER with no vision in eye.

Damn, and then that discourages people from playing too.

Originally Posted by Subterfuge

Some camper shot me 480 fps 20 feet away 3 times.

010 years ago I was running off the break. A pine tree hooked my mask and yanked it off my face. At the time I wore glasses. I crushed them looking for my mask. Now I use contacts for every action sport.

Twisted my ankle.

I don't know what I did to my shoulder after I fell on it, but I couldn't lift it above my head.

Cut my hand open like a zipper superman diving for the snake. I didn't know there was big rocks, rooted into the ground, waiting to stop me.

I was falsely called a cheater a number of times. Sometimes it's because the other team doesn't believe I can cover that much distance without being noticed. They think that I started beyond the 50 for all they know. In all cases it almost ends up in a fistfight. Sometimes it's because the rookie tourney team or ref team wants to save face. The other team saving face is the worst situation to happen, because it ruins the rest of the day. I hate having bitter sideways glances and death stares from people I don't even know.

A backman was given death threats for shooting this player three-five times. After being told to calm down; the country mil-sim player said that if the backman ever came back to the field, he would break his hands. The ignorant player was eliminated over 100 feet away with the highest quality brittle paint. The 50 year old backman left that field, never to return again. I never quite understood why the milsim player was so butthurt to be raging killer mad, it was not like he was hotboxed or bonusballed.

Some people don't understand how electronic markers work. You're not going to get hit just once. I had a teammate of mine get shot with a 365 fps paintball in his arm. Tore through his padded jersey and padded elbow pad, and ripped his skin off. It was a tourney, and the person who shot him was found to have alan wrenches hidden in his pocket, secretly turning up his gun after he chronoed so that his shots would reach quicker to eliminate someone. Crazy people.

Originally Posted by inferno2inferno

Worst situation I have encountered was this kid who collided with the barrel of one of his friends as he was trying to bunker him. The kids mask slid up with the impact and took the barrel to the lip. He then walks up to me as part of the staff an says "my lip hurts". I check the damage; the kid had given himself a lip piercing as the collision sent the lip into and through his tooth. I first aided the kid but he was freaking out and he had to leave with his parents to ER. Never forgetting that one.

That's terrible man.

Originally Posted by paintballoliver

Probably the biggest for me is being called a cheater almost every time I play at a certain field. I play with a phantom almost exclusively at a certain field, and I excel among everyone else, so a lot who don't know me think I am a cheater. Their mindset just will not except that they just got out gunned by someone with a phantom when they have a geo 3.

Another one is just the constant not wearing masks that the newer, especially older newer, players do.

I can't stand the people who lift their masks constantly. It's like they don't care about their eyes. Yea, we have some pump players at our field, and most of them dominate people with electronic guns, etc, but luckily none of them have ever been accused of cheating, or anything like that

[PistolPaul2]

Originally Posted by ultranoobify

I feel like I have had nothing but good experiences reffing. I usually brought Oreos and a gallon of sweet tea with me on to the field. It made for a pretty chill Sunday.

I might have to do that one day. Knowing me some hooligans would steal them all.

[Pirhana1992]

Not sure what happened to him. He got rushed away in an ambulance.

[cckynv]

Originally Posted by Subterfuge

I don't know what I did to my shoulder after I fell on it, but I couldn't lift it above my head.

I've done that before, but it was from playing basketball. Collided with another player mid-block and he impacted/came down on my shoulder. It was just a bruised muscle, but damn did that hurt. Couldn't lift my arm more than 90 degrees for a while. You probably just came down on it wrong while falling.

[dps093]

Another incident I had was an actual gang came to the field to play, the Bloods. They were a hispanic "family" wearing all red decked head to toe in all red gear, were from Philly, and very, very dangerous. But hey, they are paying customers, got to ensure them a good time. They were crazy at first, but eventually got them under control. Then at the end of the day, a fight broke out. One of the Bloods bonused balled one of our refs who wasn't scheduled to work and hopped in a game with them from 5 feet away. Like sat there and overshot him on purpose with a rental. Our ref, knowing better, yelled at him to stop. The Blood didn't like that, and shoved our ref. Immediately, all the Bloods (about 25 of them) surrounded the 2 guys. It was just me and one other ref at the field. I ran to the shop, and got the manager, and warned everyone else about the situation (I was only 14 at the time mind you). This Blood was easily 200 pounds muscle, huge, and was trying to beat the crap out of this ref. Our ref just walked away, and this dude was chasing the ref down to the parking lot. Only thing separating this guy from the ref was the blood's 90 pound blonde girlfriend. We told the guy several times to leave the premises, or else we would call the cops. It took us a half hour to get him to leave and his gang. I was afraid they were going to come back and shoot up the place. Never saw them again though thankfully :3

[loneassassin]

I've never had anything real bad ever happen on a paintball field, at least to me.

Was called a cheater only once or twice that I can remember -- and it was a guy who thought he was God's gift to paintball but had made a critical mistake in not watching me sneak around his entire team. (I've been playing woodsball for a VERY long time, and my old team and I prided ourselves in NEVER being beat. We surprised A LOT of people, including highly ranked speedball teams -- a lot of feelings were hurt, lol.) Anyway, there were some heated words, but in the end he realized he had been outplayed and apologized. So it was all good in the end.

Another time, I had flanked the other team on a large woodsball field and was coming in from the side to mop-up opponents that were engaging my front guys. So I pull up and I see this 55+ year old, guillie-suit clad commando (guy was outfitted for World War III) shooting up a hill at one of my teammates. He was about 200 feet away from me. Thinking to distract him more than anything else, I aimed high and shot about 6 balls in his direction. Well, 3 of them happened to hit him in the head, lol. After the game, he marched up to me and proceeded to bawl me out for "lighting him up -- in the head." I explained that I had been a considerable distance away and didn't really have that much control over exactly where my shots were going to land. (I'm an excellent shot, but most of us realize that at long range, it's good enough just to hit somebody, let alone aiming for a specific spot.) Anyway, the guy continued to be a d-bag for the rest of the day -- ignoring 1,2, sometimes even 5 solid hits from various people. Later in the day I just started lighting him up for real every time I saw him, because that was what it took to get him to go out.

And finally, here's what turned me off to playing with modern tourney guys:

We were playing pickup games one day in January (a real, REAL crappy day). The most well-known tourney players in the state were out, and I was just there to play some paintball. Anyway, in one game, I went to the center 50 right off the break and caught one of the more well-known and highly-regarded players from the area running to a dorito just forward and to the left of my position. I planted NO LESS than five shots onto his thighs (saw the paint appear EVERYWHERE). He slid into his bunker and disappeared. I called out a few times (this was a self-reffed game), but heard nothing. He was only about 20 feet away. About 30 seconds later, he came out "clean" and proceeded to engage my teammates. I shot one other guy, but then got bunkered out. His team "won" the game, as he did a trademark runthrough down the sidelines.

I confronted him about it after the game, but he just shrugged it off and ignored me (apparently if you're a "nobody" in the tourney scene, your questions are not worthy of being addressed). I could see bits of shell and remnants of my paint on his pants -- freshly wiped. That kind of thing really turns my stomach. So I don't play with those guys anymore.

[gopb1005]

As a player, shot a guy with his mask up when he was on the field. (Didnt see his mask was up) He was dumb, but I was just thankful I didn't shoot him in his eye.

[paintballoliver]

New one after today, the surrender rule. There is someone on the other side of my bunker and the ref sees my bout to take her out. So they tell me to surrender her. Her and I make eye contact I say surrender and she starts shooting. So I put one in between her eyes The ref Calls both of us out, and then I feel five more paintballs hit the back of my head. In between the spinal cord and skull. I have never been so angry in my life of paintball.
I feel like if my barrel is touching you, and I yell surrender, you have to call yourself out, especially in rec ball.