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Viktor Zemen
Born: 1978
Birth place: Budapest
Playing since: 5 years
Playing for Bullets: 11.2003
Position: Front Player
Favourite bunker: 50 dorito
Favourite tourney: 2004 Dutch Mastrers
Best achievement: 2004 Nordic Challeng X-Ball I. place, 2005 Dutch Masters I. place
Favourite player: Glenn Takemoto
Favourite team: Boston Red Legion
Current gear: DM7 black/red fade, Dye Ultralite .688, Halo B Victory 35 board, Bullets tuning eyes
Teams: La Maffia, Ronin, Defibrillátor,Nitro Express, Bullets
Profession: Bullets Paintball Shop
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paintballbg.org: Hallo Viktor! Congratulations once again for the victory. Against which team was the toughest game for Bullets throughout these series?
Viktor: We had hard times on Saturday with Los Lobos and MRP. Los Lobos were advancing for 3:1 and we turned the result back to 3:4. Against MRP we won in overtime and that was not an easy game as well. For Sunday we played a lot better and had less problem with opponents.
paintballbg.org: There is quite a scandal rising referring the marshaling. Will you make a comment?
Viktor: Personally for Bullets it was not a problem but I think they were way to strict and gave a lot of unnecessary one4one. I understand if other teams are crazy as this one4ones could make major difference in the results. I saw games where the penalties killed a team. Reff’s should have to find better solution like giving penalties plus some of them had no idea about basic rules…
paintballbg.org: The view on your website shows that most of your team prefers to play as front palyers. How do you make the distribution of duties for a particular tournament?
Viktor: It was hard to decide from the beginning. Now everyone has a job and he play the same spots all the time. We got players who play the center of the field, we got players for the snake and for the other side. We use same set up all the time even in the practices.
paintballbg.org: Basically how Bullets chooses its players? Is there some kind of selection or recruit?
Viktor: Bullets invited players from other teams and countries at the beginning. We were watching players at the events and we offered a spot to them in the team. Bullets is an international team now, we have 2 czech, 1 Lithuanian, 2 US and 5 Hungarian players. For the future we founded our second team (Eastern Block) last September and one day they will refill Bullets. They are pretty good now they took first in Bratislava in DIV III.
paintballbg.org: Which are the skills and qualities you find important for a Bullets player to achieve? Is there a certain age when the player should retire?
Viktor: There is no age when you have to retire. We have 3 practices every week when we are not on tournaments. On the practices we have pretty hard physical and technical drills. We have special trainer (Slava Shturmas) who is responsible for personal skills. We make special drills depends on what you play on the field . The snake players practice the snap shooting from the snake and get to the snake. Back players has special drills as well. Usually front players plays against back players on special drills. We try to make our strong abilities stronger not to improve the weak ones. It looks it is working. On the tournaments the team makes the field plans together and we have one coach who makes it work. We use one coach in the pit box one helper on the other side plus we got two more helper in the box for filling pods and help out the players in the breaks.
paintballbg.org: Tell us about how Bullets practice. Dou you have head coach and a special plan for the trainings?
Viktor: See it above 
paintballbg.org: In our country Paintball is just rising. Still we have neither major tournaments nor sponsors. How would you advise our young players to be motivated and not to quit?
Viktor: That is very hard period I know as we hade same problems here in Hungary. Shops and fields have to keep organizing competitions for all kind of paintball level players(rookie, amateur). Try to invite teams and players from countries where paintball is on a higher level. Make clinics and paintball schools and try to go as many international tournaments as you can. I know it is expensive and hard at the beginning but in this way you can find more and more sponsors which will make the life of the paintballers easier. Once you have a strong team they can teach the others and make new players. New players will buy paintball stuff and they will play on tournaments. The paintball will start to grow slowly but the first steps are really hard. Reball is a good and cheap solution for the start…
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