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Gary Baum
Randy Baxter
Dave Bell
James Grundy
Paul Bollenbach
August 2014
Gary Baum
Everyone that plays paintball eagerly awaits the next
magazine release, event
photo galleries, or scenario
event photos. The game of
paintball and its action and
color provides an amazing
platform for photography.
And no one has ever done
it better, more consistently
or longer than Gary Baum.
Gary is one of the very few
that has ever captured scenario and tournament paintball equally well, equally
creatively and equally artistically.
Randy Baxter
One of paintball’s must-attend events as the sport
grew in the early 90s was
the Splat-1 Indoor Championships, produced for several years by Randy Baxter
and promoted at the East
Tennessee Agricultural Expo
Center near Knoxville. For
years, the Splat-1 indoor
was on the list of every serious tournament paintball
player, right up there with
the Masters, World Cup and
Amateur Open. Randy was
also a serious player and
field owner.
paintball guns, they all had
one thing in common, the
loader on top, the VL-2000
and Revolution. Dave has
also worked designing products for KEE, Empire Paintball and Valken.
Paul “PGP” Bollenbach
Paul is another on this list
that is known both as a
player and an influential
member of the paintball
industry. As captain of the
Jax Warriors Paul played for
many years at the highest
level of the sport. Paul has
spent more than 15 years in
the paintball industry working for companies like Diablo
Direct and now KEE.
Bourke Grundy, James
Grundy, Dianne King These three are the brains,
brawn and engineering behind MacDev in Australia,
who in the mid 90’s designed and manufactured
the world’s first all aluminum bodied paintball air
system. MacDev continues
to make quality paintball
products with their Cyborg,
Droid and Clone markers.
Jerry Braun
Involved in paintball since
Dave Bell
the very early days, Jerry
Not many people in paintball Braun became a major part
are more creative when it
of paintball’s history when,
comes to designing paintball in the early days of tournaproducts than Dave Bell, and ment paintball, he decided
his VL-2000 electronic hopthat paintball, like any other
per changed the way people sport, should have a World
could design paintguns after Cup. First promoted at his
that point. For many years,
field, Survival New York, bethough teams and players
fore moving south to Florida
used a variety of different
where it continues to make