You can even hold the laser behind your head, if you wanted to (which is against the rules in Zone).

Play however you want, hold the laser however you want, but just keep two hands on the laser at all times. Play loose, tight, or sloppy, it doesn’t matter. Covering is also easier said than done you may think you’re covering, but you’re always leaving something exposed, making some kind of trade off. The back sensor is also tiny, smaller than one of the chest sensors on a Zone vest. Quasar doesn’t even have shoulder sensors and even with covering 100% allowed, you can tag someone who is covering by getting creative. I’m not trying to be combative, I just still don’t get it. I do distinctly remember being yelled at for “blocking my sensors” when literally the only thing I was doing was holding the laser with two hands in front of me. The last time I played a Zone system was roughly in 1999 or so. My local Q-Zar (Quasar) has recently gone out of business and I’ll be trying out a Zone arena soon. I’m asking this as a general fan of laser tag. Interestingly, if you look at Quasar laser tag, covering up your sensors puts you in a defensive position that puts you at a disadvantage for tagging someone else, so you’re actually making a trade off and it adds another element of strategy to the game. This would completely eliminate judgement calls about rule breaking and add depth to the game. What’s the big deal with shot blocking? Why not just full on allow it, even intentionally? There are a ton of sensors on Zone equipment. It’s simply too easy to unintentionally break the rules in a Zone game. What is “slow?” It sounds like an opinion, not a rule. The rules are even self-contradicting, saying that blocking is okay, but only during movements between a low and high position of your arms and only for the shoulder sensors. Then there are rules that allow for the occasional, unintentional shot block, but the that becomes a judgement call that is clouded by human bias, attention span, and even mood. The reason why this makes absolutely no sense is because if you simply just hold the laser gun with two hands in a normal, relaxed position, you’re automatically obstructing the line of sight to the main front sensors on the vest. With Zone rules, though, you’re not even allowed to block shots unintentionally. You can do it all the time, intentionally or not, and it’s part of the game. It’s widely known that Quasar/Q-Zar allows shot blocking (I think that’s what it’s called in Zone terminology), or what we call covering.

Quasar laser game