Sometimes you don't need to be victorious to win. "Winning" is a mindset. A good example happened Halloween day in '98. It's touched on over at Boomer's page, but I wanted to go into detail.

It was just after the lunch break, and we decided to organize a quick game of speedball before going back out to the field. I say 'we', one guy wanted to do a quick game, and it ended up a 5 on 5 match. My team was outgunned massively, but I've come to not care and see what happens in these situations. You never know.

On the break we set up very deep, the other team did the same. Paintball Games has a unique speedball field in which all the bunkers are numbered. I had a stock gun (a KP-2 specifically) so I volunteered to stand in the back and direct traffic. I'm getting good at that skill, so I go with it. The rest of my players had rental Tippmans and the like. I dug in at the central back bunker, a pile of truck tires, and started the call.

To our credit, we held our positions for a good five minutes (boring the referees to tears, actually.) And we lost a player. Then another. We had a good threesome for a while until my left player got eliminated. Instead of pressing their full 5 player advantage they held back. I still don't understand this mentality, actually. They knew our tech, and the other guys never pressed their advantage.

My forward player got eliminated, and I knew they would bum rush me. I slide right and see one rusher, I fire my one shot, he lays a barrage. I feel a face hit and yell it out. Game over, but he had a hit on his leg from me. I decided not to make a big deal out of it, because I had my victory. I knew the truth.

The people watching the game were all amazed. "Dude... If that was me I'da shot myself in the foot." "I wouldn't have faced them all alone..." But that was the point. In that game I not only survived most of it, but I was useful to my teammates and I managed to put paint on a guy. I like to think that people who watched he game learned something from it, or at least got more respect for what a stock gun could do.