The Make-up of the Breakout

Your heart races... you look from side to side to see nothing but your friends and teammates squished in next to you, making sure your barrel is touching the net. Your eyes are dialed down the field, staring at the only thing stopping you from winning the game. The ref starts the countdown... your heart races even more, then before you know it... One of the most important components to a great teams success has just begun... "The Breakout"

The Breakout is the portion of the game in which the game just starts and players are scrambling to get set up into their positions. This opening 10 seconds can be the most important part of a paintball teams success. During this time, there are various different things occuring that make this of the most importance. To start, a large majority of teams use their backmen off the break in order to stop the other teams frontmen from getting to their set up areas on the field. This is done effectively by having the backmen shoot in the direction in which they predict the opponents will run, so that they are not able to reach their set up positions. Also at this time, your teams frontmen are trying to get into set up position, while dodging the fire of the opponents backmen. This can cause for a very hectic situation, which is why the team that can keep their cool, and effectively do their job, is the team that will 9 times out of 10 come out on top.

As you can see, this is why the "Breakout" is one part of your teams game that should not be broken!