Ending Games Early

player and their team did in the game. If a player is slow getting to the Debriefing, the TAG MASTER can temporarily skip over him by pressing OK to move on to the next Player TAGGER to be debriefed. The TAG MASTER will eventually come back to the skipped TAGGER automatically and debrief it. If a player has quit the game, reset their TAGGER or put their TAGGER to sleep (so that their data cannot be gathered), the TAG MASTER can press CANCEL to drop that player from the game. This should only be done as a last resort, because all tags which that player landed on the other players will count against the other players, but those same other players will not get credit for any tags they landed on the missing player.

When the Debriefing is complete, the TAG MASTER will upload the rankings for each player and team to all the TAGGER units automatically. All player LCD screens will display three different options (press DISPLAY to switch between them):

•RANK – How you and your team placed in the game

•ID – What your player and team numbers are

•VS – Shows a head-to-head comparison of how you did against each of the other players in the game. Use the INC. and DEC. buttons to select which opposing player you want to see data for. Each other player in the game is shown as “TxPy” (Team X, Player Y on that team), or just “P: xx” (Player XX) if there were

no teams. Below this are two numbers which show how many times you TAGGED THEM and how many times they TAGGED YOU. If “??” is displayed in the TAGGED THEM section, press OK to request this data from the other player’s TAGGER.

In addition to these three screens, the Host has an additional screen in which he/she can call up the RANK screen for any player in the game.

All Hosted games will normally end at the programmed time limit. However, the TAG MASTER can declare an early end to the game by holding 2ndF and pressing OK. The TAG MASTER will then immediately end its own game and begin debriefing any players nearby. All players must then be called to come to the TAG MASTER within 2 minutes, or the TAG MASTER will count them out of the game and they will receive no score – so make sure everybody knows that you are calling an early end to the game before you actually call it.

Any player who was not yet tagged out at the time the game was called early will be considered to have not been tagged out in the game. In Zone games, such players receive full credit as if they had spent the entire rest of the originally-programmed game time in the zone.