Left to Right : Ken “ Hollywood ” Gilder , Ken Kelsch , Matty Marshall , Randy Kamiya
Hollywood ( Ken Gilder ) - Hollywood played his first game of paintball at Sgt . Yorks in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania in 1989 and almost immediately began shooting photos and writing for the various paintball magazines . Over the year he wrote for Paintcheck magazine , APG , Paintball News , Paintball Sports , Paintball 2Xtremes and others . Many of the older historic paintball photos we see today in various places on the internet were taken by Hollywood .
Randy Kamiya - Randy was a member of the first great paintball team , the Guns of Navarone ( later shortened to “ Navarone ”), but he was best known and most influential as the editor of Action Pursuit Magazine ( APG ). For many years APG was the biggest , most published , most read magazine in paintball and that in itself makes Randy one of the influential people in our game ’ s history .
Ken Kelsch – Ken was the original OG paintball journalist . From the mid-80s and for about a decade Ken put faces to names in the game , covering all of the major tournaments and big games for Paintball Sports and Paintcheck Magazines . He also wrote teach article and general interest articles and did it better than anyone for a time .
Matty Marshall – The voice of paintball , Matty was a long-time member of the Ironmen , who when he retired became the best paintball broadcaster the game has ever known . Matty has called paintball events around the world but probably has been seen and heard most often doing the PSP and now Gosports NXL webcasts over the years . He ’ s also done hundreds of interviews and various other paintball video productions over the years .
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