Purpose
First, what we all must understand is that the purpose of the Power Rating System is not a means of saying one player is better than another. While a number rating might imply that, the only reason it is being put into place is so that teams can be as balanced as possible in a Tournament situation. A close game is a good game, and we want every match up in the Foam Fortress Cup to be a display of skill and team cohesion. The Admin Team will not tolerate any untoward comparisons between players based solely on their Power Ratings.
Function
The Power Rating System is based on a numbering system. Players will be allocated a number between 1 and 5 based on certain criteria that they have met in previous Foam Fortress: Sydney events. A rating of 1 denotes that a player has very little experience with Foam Fortress at our events, or none at all – as we have said, it is not always a true reflection on you or your skills. A rating of 5 conveys that a player is among the most experienced in the community, and also display great influence over the outcome of a match.
Note: Power Ratings are in half point increments i.e. 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 etc.
Criteria
As mentioned above, Power Ratings will be measured on a criteria basis. The criterion that we hope to use are as follows:
Experience, and Understanding of the rules
Basically know the rules, play Foam Fortress in a number of events, and display some skill with your gear and your classes.
 Gear
They say that it’s the man who maketh the blaster, not the blaster  that maketh the man. Realistically, your gear has a big influence on the level of play that you’re able to attain. The better the gear you have at events, the better your rating will be.
Classes played
The ability to play multiple classes with proficiency is a valuable trait to have. It means you can be more flexible with your team and perhaps even help your teammates improve their play. The more classes you can play proficiently, the higher your rating will be.
Note: some classes will attract higher ratings than others because of how key their abilities can be to the team. The classes that you actually play might have some effect on your rating as well.
When will the ratings be released?
Well the things is, we need your help to do the ratings. What we need is for players who intend to participate in SNW’s competitive wars to rate themselves. We’d like to see what sort of score you give yourself and moderate based on that. The Admin Team feels like it can give the fairest ratings possible this way.
We’re going to use a Facebook Document (Located here) to record everyone’s Power Ratings. So check out the Facebook Document on the Facebook group to rate yourself and be prepared to start getting your team organised!
This is what it should look like when it’s done. Keep in mind that the Conduit is flush with the surface of the plunger tube.
The piece of conduit looks a bit long now, doesn’t it? This would create deadspace and deadspace isn’t good for your blasters. So get your pipe cutters and cut the piece of conduit down to about 3cm. I found this to be the best length to use that balances amount of deadspace and ease of loading and removing the Absolvers.
Be generous with securing the conduit – this piece is going to be pulled and twisted and tugged quite often considering what it’s for. Mine ended up looking like this.
With that done, you can now reassemble your TS (or BBUMB)! Do note, with the TS, I used a 13kg Spring nested in a stock Longshot spring. That will give you the 50ft you want.
To end this guide, here’s a test firing video of my Shotgun. Enjoy!
Wrap one end of the Coupler in Electrical Tape until it fits snugly into the 20mm section of the Reducer. The amount of tape might take some trial and error, but you’ll get it right eventually. Always apply a little extra, then remove what you don’t need from there.
Next, you’ll want to nest the two fittings so that they appear flush like in the picture below.
As you can see, the 20mm conduit Coupler is pretty much flush with the end of the 20mm section of the PVC Reducer.
Take note of that small gap visible in this picture. This is where you’ll be wanting to drip the superglue into.
Now you’ve pretty much completed work on the “Cradle” for now. Next up, the barrels!
Next, we need to tape these barrels together so that they hold their configuration. This way it’ll be much easier to fit all three into the Cradle at once. Apply a couple of wraps of tape at approximately the 7.5cm mark and the 12cm mark of the barrels. Make sure you wrap the tape on the reamed end of the conduit as shown below.
But before you go shoving your barrels into the Cradle, we need to seal an airhole that will render this whole setup useless. Flip the barrels over to the un-reamed end and you’ll see a sort-of-triangular shaped gap. This hole runs all the way through to the other side and if left there, will allow air to escape. This means no shotgun blast.
But this is how it should look once you’ve jammed the parts together.
Once the hotglue cures, you’re done! You now have one Absolver to use with your Tripleshot or BBUMB.
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