Introduction and overview
The sport of gelsoft is often publicized as one that focuses around players running around wildly, shooting at each other with toy guns. While this style of game play can be enjoyable, the experience can be greatly enhanced when players are able to work within teams and coordinate their actions during their game play. Contained within these articles, is a basic game play guide that may be utilized within gelsoft games.
As in many sports, it is often the case that a team that works together will likely always outperform a team where each player is doing their own thing. As such, it is important for teams to learn methods to work together to maintain competitiveness. For many players, having the capability to work as a team will help them feel included, and enhance their ability to enjoy game play irrespective of whether they win or lose a match. This is especially relevant when new players are present during games, as team players can help guide and tutor the newer players, helping to grow and promote the sport to our next generation of players.
What are tactics and drills?
In a military context, a tactic can be defined as “an action or strategy carefully planned to achieve a specific end.” For us gelsofters, this can be taken, adapted and further elaborated upon to techniques that we can use to help us win during games. But the term tactic is a large scale idea that may be difficult to always implement in practice, due to the different skills and experiences of player in a team. This is where the concept of drills come to use.
In a military context, a drill is “a specific set of actions, that can be practiced to allow for their easy and predictable repetition.” This is a concept that we can utilize and adapt into our sport for the development and refinement of our teamwork during game play. For our applications, drills can be taught, and practiced by players on our team to allow a more seamless integration of teamwork into our games. Once a set of drills are known to players, they may then be called upon for the development and employment for broader scale tactics during games.
This site will aim to demonstrate and teach drills and tactics will be useful for players during the most common game modes run at fields. The intent, is these may function as a supporting framework that these may be freely taken, used and adapted as players feel is required for their team makeup, experiences and personal preferences.
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