Paintball Media Magazine February 2021 February 2021 | Page 72

Mark Stiffler , Reggie Denner - Mark and Reggie were the founders of North American Paintball Referee ’ s Association ( NAPRA ) and paintball safety advocates in the early 1990s , when the game ’ s products , guidelines , rules and referees were not as defined ( or in some cases , followed ) as they are today .
Andy Van Der Plaats - Andy has been in paintball for more than 25 years and he ’ s spent a great deal of those years as a great ambassador for scenario and milsim paintball . Andy has also written for several paintball magazines , he ’ s been a scenario game general , a commander in Oklahoma D-Day games and an all-around excellent ambassador for our game .
Ritchie White - The first multi-player game of paintball was played in the New Hampshire woods in June of 1981 and Ritchie White beat out his 11 opponents , captured all of the flags and won the first recorded game of paintball .
Wolf Critchlow : Wolf has been a paintball player and ambassador for a long , long time , as in longer than almost anyone . Wolf ’ s playing schedule is an extensive one . And when he ’ s not on the field he ’ s creating content for his mega-popular Youtbe channel , as he has for more than 13 years now , covering paintball topics from A to Z . And again promoting the game like few others have in paintball ’ s almost 40 year history . Over the years Wolf has written for Faceful Jungle and APG , he ’ s had a million Tik-Tok views in a single day , he ’ s probably the most photographed player in the game--and early in his career he shot photos for several of the larger paintball websites . Yep , he ’ s literally done it all .
Left to Right : Top : Reggie Denner ( center ), Ritchie White , Bottom : Andy Van Der Plaats , Wolf Critchlow
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