[Orange Chicken]

So ever since I have been testing my GoG eNMEy, I have grown a recent liking to it. All the way to the point that I use it for tournaments now. No one has complained on my team, and the coach has not branded me a liability. I take out my eXTCy for when I'm playing back and planning to lane a ton, but I always use my eNMEy under normal circumstances. We normally play against D4 teams, since only two of our members on our D3 team actually have a real amount of tourney experience, and I was on fire last weekend in a local tourney. I am now branded as the Mechanical Stormtrooper on my team and others.

It bothers me, but I have a sense of pride in it. It's a different pride. I like playing pump, but everyone goes to that extreme once in a while to put themselves at that disadvantage. I mean when was the last time you've seen someone play Mech in a nearly all electro tournament. The one pump team that made it eventually got smashed in the finals, but I still held strong with my team. Playing mech is different from playing pump, and more similar to playing a very slow with an electro.

Anyone want to discuss my 'problem'?


EDIT: We did not win the tournament, however, but got a nice 2nd place.

This post has been edited by Orange Chicken: 15 March 2013 - 12:05 AM

[Rotozip2]

I don't understand the problem.

[Orange Chicken]

Rotozip2, on 15 March 2013 - 12:07 AM, said:

I don't understand the problem.

Is playing mech only in Airball tourneys going to hinder me?

[AceComets]

No, but it will make people look at you with a stupid look on their face.....their problem, not yours.

[Antonious]

I don't play tournaments but I handle myself just fine against electros using my mech guns.
Sure your gun doesn't shoot as fast as theirs, but it shoots fast enough to do anything they can do.

[NBTIppy]

I would be insulted since storm troopers don't typically hit anything

This post has been edited by NBTIppy: 15 March 2013 - 09:04 AM

[BurningPlaydoh]

NBTIppy, on 15 March 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:

I would be insulted since storm troopers don't typically hit anything

That made my day

[lovebunny]

is it turney legal? can you cap it?

[Orange Chicken]

Oh yeah in the psp and nppl its totally legal. Rules state you can shoot as fast as you can any way you want it. It just has to be all mechanical, no rs.

[tallsmallboy44]

Quit caring?

[fatalll]

once you reach a certain level, it will be the marker holding you back, if you are placing well with it now, you probably are not yet at that level.

also being known for being different is not something to feel bad about, should wear the name with pride. especially since you beat every other team there but 1.

This post has been edited by fatalll: 15 March 2013 - 11:52 AM

[paintballguy2255]

I say do it,it seems like a fun experience,and it doesn't seem to be holding you back.I probably would(if I could afford anything other than pump tourneys)

[TechPB-Mike]

I've dealt with this in the past. Here is how I handle the situation-

If the "novelty" device you are using (pump gun, mech gun, vintage gun, airow gun, etc) restricts or impeeds your ability to compete in any way, shape or form on the field, I'm going to have a serious problem with it.

I had a player a few years ago (who I still play with), who SWORE up and down that his shocker (a Strange shocker) was the best gun he ever used. The gun was a piece of shit, he spent $200 in parts just with me alone, trying to keep it working. It always had the dreaded "shocker puff" bolt stick, the trigger would stick, shoot down, the gun just had major, major mechanical and electrical problems.

I lent him one of my Axe's for a tournament, he machine gunned people. Yet... he still wanted to use his shocker. People on the team were getting pretty pissed off... he now shoots a Geo 2.1 and he's 100 times better on the field than he was with his shocker

The bottom line is, you better be every inch as good with your "novelty" device as you are with a traditional marker. Your teammates are also going to get really impatient with you, when they see the games going down to a 2 on 2, and you don't have the firepower to stop a run through, or your teammate getting bunkered.

Personally, I think your choice of marker is going to cost the team wins in the tournaments. And I also think your choice of marker is causing your teammates to "Carry" you on the field, by having to make up for your lack of firepower by shooting more paint out of their guns.

You just never know, if that one person you missed, could have been the difference between breaking the game wide open or losing it. This is why you see people still using guns from 2 or 3 years ago in the tournaments. Because they have gotten to know the gun so well, and can place that crucial first shot, or place that perfect lane, that if they switched to another gun (even a newer one), they'd have a 4 month learning curve to get back to where they are currently with their 3 year old gun.

But a mech gun? In a tournament setting against electros? That's a liability in my opinion

[Nobben #44]

TechPB-Mike, on 15 March 2013 - 01:38 PM, said:

I've dealt with this in the past. Here is how I handle the situation-

If the "novelty" device you are using (pump gun, mech gun, vintage gun, airow gun, etc) restricts or impeeds your ability to compete in any way, shape or form on the field, I'm going to have a serious problem with it.

I had a player a few years ago (who I still play with), who SWORE up and down that his shocker (a Strange shocker) was the best gun he ever used. The gun was a piece of shit, he spent $200 in parts just with me alone, trying to keep it working. It always had the dreaded "shocker puff" bolt stick, the trigger would stick, shoot down, the gun just had major, major mechanical and electrical problems.

I lent him one of my Axe's for a tournament, he machine gunned people. Yet... he still wanted to use his shocker. People on the team were getting pretty pissed off... he now shoots a Geo 2.1 and he's 100 times better on the field than he was with his shocker

The bottom line is, you better be every inch as good with your "novelty" device as you are with a traditional marker. Your teammates are also going to get really impatient with you, when they see the games going down to a 2 on 2, and you don't have the firepower to stop a run through, or your teammate getting bunkered.

Personally, I think your choice of marker is going to cost the team wins in the tournaments. And I also think your choice of marker is causing your teammates to "Carry" you on the field, by having to make up for your lack of firepower by shooting more paint out of their guns.

You just never know, if that one person you missed, could have been the difference between breaking the game wide open or losing it. This is why you see people still using guns from 2 or 3 years ago in the tournaments. Because they have gotten to know the gun so well, and can place that crucial first shot, or place that perfect lane, that if they switched to another gun (even a newer one), they'd have a 4 month learning curve to get back to where they are currently with their 3 year old gun.

But a mech gun? In a tournament setting against electros? That's a liability in my opinion

Just along the lines of what I was thinking.
When playing tournaments with a team, you shoot the type of marker your team does.

[TinyBear]

Up till couple years ago all I ever shot was mechs or pumps (didn't even own an electro). I only played competitively for a short time as it was a time when ramping was just starting and just the over all attitude and sportsman ship or lack there of was a put off to me for the sport. I took a short hiatus from the game after that and sold off my "speedball" equipment (AGD MiniMag with X valve with a tuned ULT and Intellie frame). But I never felt my marker or what not was holding me back. In fact at the time I could walk the trigger on that Mini Mag faster than I could any of the electros my friends had.

In today's ramping world I think you are at a slight disadvantage running a Mech in a PSP style format. That being said if I can get back to 100% strength in my legs I do hope to try tournaments another go hopefully with a team all shooting mechs as its what I enjoy to shoot most and have a few friends who share that taste in equipment. I find shooting electros sort of boring myself especially on ramping (hence I don't own a ramping gun) it's like driving a automatic sports car taking away that bit of control cheapening the experience. So personally I will take the disadvantage and take the greater chance of loosing than play a game meant for fun using a gun I don't enjoy.

So basically if your enjoying shooting mech and your teams fine with that all the power too you. This sport is meant to be fun if ya playing with something you don't want to use and not having fun why even play. This sport dont PAY so its all bought the FUN factor.

[Jawz]

"Theres no way to say it nicely but..... My team would destroy you just because you wanted to use a mech which is pretty insulting" is the attitude I would have if you played D2, or rxl/mxl here in Canada or raiders cup etc

[get.lit.up!]

I've heard stories of d1 teams playing hopper ball, and they took names.I see pump teams in my area play against electros. And I was toying with an idea to play with enmeys at local tourneys at some point.

As long as you perform what the hell is the issue?