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Paintball
Speak
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And In
English?
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1 - 4 -1 Rule
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A elimination-based penalty rule
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Accuracy By Volume
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Firing off many rounds in the hope of a hit
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Airsmith
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A tinkerer/Someone with too much time on their hands.
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Am (Amateur)
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Division 2 Level Player
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Angel
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Type of marker
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Autococker
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Type of marker
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Automag
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Type of marker
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Back
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Back – Player furthest away from tape player (covers moves
from behind)
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Back Player
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Long-balling support player
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Balls-To-The-Wall
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Aggressive paintball
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Barrel Bung
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Plastic safety device placed in the end of a paintball marker
to make it safe.
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Battlepack
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Harness for carrying pots of spare paintballs
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Bolt
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The device which pushes the ball away from the breech.
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Bore Size/Index
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The internal diameter bore size of a barrel
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Bounce
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When a paintball impacts but fails to burst
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Break
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When a paintball impacts and bursts
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Breakout
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Running out of your flag station from the Game-On.
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Brix
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Little used name for the Belsales Inferno range of markers
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Bunker
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Playing-Field Obstacle
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Bunkering
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To sneak up on, or to run down and eliminate a player behind
a bunker
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Burn Off
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This is the first 10-30 seconds where players are usually
lost early in the game
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Camo
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Clothing with a pattern to disguise or break up your pattern.
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Chop
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When a mistimed paintball is cut in half by the bolt
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Chronograph
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Device for measuring paintball velocities
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Chrono-Judge
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Official that monitors the velocity of markers
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| Cleats |
American Football/Baseball Shoe/Boot.
For some reason very well suited to paintball |
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Co2
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Carbon Dioxide. Propellant used to shoot paintball with.
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Coke Can
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a coke can(usually red),
useful for identification purpose
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Concept Field
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A modern playing field
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Cover-Fire
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Firing in support to protect another
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Crawler
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Sneaky bastard who attempts to make forward ground by crawling.
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Cylinder/Gas Bottle
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The part of a marker holding the propellant gas
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Dead Man Walk
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‘Doing a dead man walk’ – Pretending to be a dead player
in order to gain a positional advantage.
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Digging-In
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Defensive paintball
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E.P.P.L.
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European Professional Paintball League
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E.P.S.F.
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European Paintball Sports Federation
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Elbow
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The piece of plastic which links your paintball marker with
your hopper.
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End Game
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The last phase of a game of paintball where one team will
mop up the last few opposition players and win the game.
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F.P.S.
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Feet Per Second
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Field Ultimate
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Senior Judge/Marshall on field
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Fill
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- The liquid contents of a paintball
- To gas up a cylinder
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Flag
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The objective of the game is to recover or move a flag to
either your own base or the base of your opposition.
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Flag-Station
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Each Teams ‘base’ where they break-out from
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Gogged
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To be shot in the lens of your mask
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Goggles
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Safety device which shields your head. MOST IMPORTANT PIECE
OF EQUIPMENT
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Goggles
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Eye-protection system/Paintball mask
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Guppy
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See ‘Pot’
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H.C.L.
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UK Home Counties League (7-Man)
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Hopper
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The part of a marker holding the paintballs
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HPA
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High Pressure Air. Propellant used to shoot paintballs with
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Hyperball
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A type of concept-field based game
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Inferno
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Type of marker.
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Kippered/Mullered
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Being lit up by someone who cant control their trigger finger.
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Lefty Shooting
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Right handed players who can shoot using their left hand.
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Light Up
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Shooting repeatedly to turn an object the colour of your
paint
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Long Balling.
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Shooting at someone from a distance using the complex use
of mathematics and gravity.
The reliance of luck over skill.
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Marker
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The correct term for a paintball ‘gun’
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Marshall
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Watches the games and pulls people out if they have been
shot.
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Marshall
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Paintball Referee
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Max-Out
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To win the game with maximum points
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Mid
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Mid – Usually starts off as a back player but can move forward
or back as circumstances demand
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Mugging
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See ‘Bunkering’
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N.A.A.P.S.A
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North American Amateur Paintball Sports Association
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N.P.L.
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UK National Paintball League (5-Man)
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N.P.P.L.
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US National Professional Paintball Series (10 Man)
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N.P.P.S.
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UK National Professional Paintball League (10-Man)
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Newbie
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Inexperienced Player
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| Nick-Name |
Some tourneys won't allow you to
enter without a nick-name ;-D |
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Non-Camo
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Bright colourful clothing - without any disruptive patterning.
Hard to hide while wearing this.
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Nov (Novice)
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A Division 3 Level Player
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P.S.I.
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Pounds Per Square Inch (unit of gas pressure)
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Phantom
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Type of marker
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Pot
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50, 100, 140 or 150 Round capacity Device for holding spare
Paintballs
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Pro (Professional)
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A Division 1 Level Player
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Pump
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A slide action marker
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R.O.F.
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Rate of Fire
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Rec-Ball
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Recreational (hobby) Paintball
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Remote-Setup
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Harness and connectors for carrying cylinder on back
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Revolution/Rev
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VL-Revolution motorised hopper (most popular agitator hopper)
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Rocket
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a rocket (usually red),
useful for identification purpose
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| Safe Area |
The ONLY place you should take off
your goggles (where you go between games) |
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Sand Bagging
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A team not playing to their level so that they can play easier
to beat teams
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Semi
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Semi-Automatic paintball marker
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Shell
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The outer-casing of a paintball
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Shocker 4x4
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Type of marker. More expensive variant with firing smoothing
circuit is called the Turbo Shocker.
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Smeg
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When a paintball chops or breaks in the barrel or breech
requiring cleaning
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Snake
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a snake (usually white/blue),
useful for identification purpose
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Snap Shooting
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Appearing from your bunker and ‘snapping off’ between 2 to
8 rounds of paint before disappearing back behind your bunker.
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Speedball
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Paintball on an open field
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Spray
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Paint that lands on a player after the ball bursts elsewhere
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Spray And Pray
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Indiscriminate Firing
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Squeegie
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Two types –
Pullthrough – length of cord with rubber circles and polishing
cloth attatched. Used to clean the barrel of your marker.
Straight Shot – rubber disc attached to plastic tubing. Used
to clean your barrel quicker and to unjam your bolt.
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Sterling
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Type of marker
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Sup-Air Ball
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A form of inflatable concept field
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Sweetspotting
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Predicting where an opposition player will run to and laying
a stream of paint there.
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Taco/Teabag
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a 3D Taco or PG Tips
Pyramid teabag (usually yellow or yellow/black), useful for
identification purpose
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Tape
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Tape – furthest forward player (attempting to break other
teams tape)
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Technoball
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Technical skills based paintball
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| "The Daddy" |
Looking good. As in "You look
the daddy out there!" |
| Tourney-Ball |
The Adrenaline sport side of paintball
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Transit
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A game 'times-out' whilst a team
is in possesion of the opponents flag but have not made it back
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U.K.P.S.F.
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United Kingdom Paintball Sports Federation
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Ultimate Judge
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Senior Tournament Marshall
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W.P.F.
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World Paintball Federation
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Waddler
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Back player making a move
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Walk-On
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Player at a Rec-Ball event who brings their own equipment
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Wing Nut
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a wingnut (usually yellow),
useful for identification purpose
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Witches Hat
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Sup’Airball bunker which looks like a witches hat (usually
purple), useful for identification purpose
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