"Tony Sr." <amargio1@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:E8jRd.3608$VD5.1104@twister.socal.rr.com...
well if you think it is all sweet candy cheating , just read on....lots of> changes...
On the other hand, PGI just described the NPPL event in San Diego as a "cheat fest," and is openly lamenting that NPPL's attempt to toughen up its reffing appears to be falling apart. I know a bunch of guys who put the backbone into NPPL's reffing the past couple of seasons, to say they are discouraged and unlikely to continue would be an understatement. More often than not they know when a player has a gun with a cheater board, but as they are warned and double-warned against pulling players unless they are absolutely 110% sure, and as the players can turn off the cheat mode before the refs can reach them, and as some teams seem immune to penalties that lesser teams can suffer, the result is that ramping guns are commonplace, not rare. I've never seen anyone as welted black-and-blue as those refs after a pro event, through all the pads they wear, across the field, they take hits that look like they got smacked with a pool stick, and they're covered with them, in some cases it is no accident either.
I'd love to be proved wrong on this Tony, but we all know the cheaters are always a step ahead of the rules, and the day computer chips found their way into paintguns, enforcing the rules got way tougher. I heard from a guy from a company that makes the chips, he said, "Sure, we can make it do anything you want, anything, you're only using about five percent of the capacity." Wanna ignore the ROF rules, want to shoot legal at the chrono but hot on the field? No problem, and the odds that the refs or their "robot" will figure out the codes are getting slimmer all the time. And so long as the teams owned by the companies that sell the hardware are tied in with the leagues, I don't hold out much hope for change, although as I said, I'd love to be proved wrong on this.
