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Mike Cassidy
Arthur Chang
Tom Cole
Guy Cooper
Dan Colby
August 2014
Mike Cassidy
In the mid to late 1980s the
Bushmaster pump gun was
only rivaled in popularity by
the Component Concepts
Phantom. And the brains
behind the company and the
gun is Mike Cassidy. Mike
has been in the game since
the early 1980s and even
today holds a prominent
position in the game and
industry.
Arthur Chang
When Kingman (now called
Spyder) introduced the Spyder it forced all paintgun
makers to rethink their pricing and that was great for
the player. The man behind
the Spyder of course is Arthur Chang. The Spyder line
has sold literally thousands
of affordable paintball guns
since, diversifying by adding .43 caliber and .50 caliber markers to their line, as
well as scenario and milsim
markers. Kingman/Spyder
was recently acquired by
KEE and Arthur has not been
heard from since.
Tom Cole
Tom Cole played paintball at
the highest level for more
than 15 years and yet he’s
played on only one team-the one he founded and
captained, Bad Company
of Maryland. Tom’s been a
paintball store owner (The
Company Store), an executive at Kingman/Spyder, a
key person in the day to day
operations of the PSP and
owner and founder of the
UWL (Ultimate Woodsball
League).
Guy Cooper
You may have never heard
the name before, but Guy
Cooper has been influencing paintball for more than
25 years. He’s been a field
owner, a products distributor, a published author, a
store owner, a political activist for the game, and his
book, The Paintball Field
Operators Guide has been
used by many for more than
20 years.
Dan Colby
Dan Colby started out as
a Chicagolands field owner, gun tinkerer, and player, eventually becoming
the founder of Air America,
one of the pioneers in early
C02, high pressure air and
regulator technology. Dan
was part of Guerrilla Air in
the late 2000s and has now
formed a new company, Immortal Air where he continues to improve, create and
develop air-related products
for paintball.
DeWayne Convirs
Scenario paintball is the
single most popular format
of the game of paintball.
No matter how great you
think you look in bright blue,
yellow or red, the vast majority of the people playing
right now are still wearing
some combination of green,
brown and black and when
they get together, they do it
in numbers bigger than any
tournament. Living proof is
the event put together each