Kerry Rosenberry played regularly at Wayne ' s field from 1989 to 1996, despite moving from Florida to Houston, Texas, in 1991. He was a regular at many of Wayne ' s early games. After the move to Texas, he began working as manager at a paintball field called Brazos Survival Games that was owned by another person who would become a key figure in early scenario paintball, Patrick‘ Pacman’ McKinnon. Pacman and Viper traveled to Florida often to play at Wayne ' s events. Joint Fury, featuring Spiro Mamaligas, another future scenario game producer, also attended Wayne ' s Mid-90s events. More on Spiro and Blackcat Productions later.
It was at one of those later games in 1996 that Kerry asked Dollack for his blessing to run scenario games of his own.
“ I sat down to dinner with Wayne, after playing his event, and asked him what he thought of me producing scenarios out west,“ Rosenberry explained.“ He got a big smile and told me that he thought that was great. And with that and a few test events, Viper Enterprises was born,
and I became the world ' s second professional [ traveling ] scenario paintball producer.”
With Wayne ' s blessing, Viper ran his first event in Houston, Texas, in 1997 called Texas Revolution II.
“ The first event was never really intended to be a launch of my career,” Viper said.“ It was planned as a one-off to‘ prime the pump’ for Wayne to come out.”
The original Texas Revolution, the real one known as“ The Alamo,” happened in 1835 you may remember. According to Lawrence“ TB” Wright, who would later become a lead scenario writer for both Viper and MXS, a territorial agreement was made between the two largest producers.
“[ Kerry and Wayne ] discussed using the Mississippi as a dividing line, and Viper would still promote and attend Wayne’ s games in Florida,” he said.
And that ' s exactly what happened.
Viper, Erich Garbers and Sean Scott at the 2011 Tippmann World Challenge
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