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Kirk,” said yes to JJ Brookshire’s request to hold a Star
Trek themed big game. The
event brought tons of publicity to paintball from the
“outside” world, including
another celebrity who played
the game with him, “Mancow.”
Josh Silverman
Josh has been involved in
virtually every aspect of
paintball since 1993. In addition to playing paintball
for 17 years, Josh has managed paintball pro-shops
and fields, he’s taken some
of the best and most wellknown photographs in the
game, written for practically
every magazine in paintball,
was the Assistant Editor at
Paintball 2Xtremes, the Associate Editor of Paintball
Games International and
now holds the Associate Editor position at Paintball X3
in addition to being a feature writer for the Paintball
Business Journal. For several
years Josh helped promote
the largest and most famous
regional tournament series
in the world, the CFOA, with
founder Larry Motes. He
co-authored the Field Owner’s Survival Guide with John
Amodea, has consulted for
several paintball companies
and he continues to be a
very influential insider in the
game of paintball today.
John Sosta, Jackie Sosta,
and John Bonich
John Sosta has been credited by many as engineering
the first electronic paintball
marker in 1991, when he
designed a gun for his then
teammate (UK Predators)
who had a broken wrist and
couldn’t pump the gun. Both
Sosta and Bonich did a lot
with the Automag in the
early 90s as well in Europe.
And they introduced the new
Formula 5 format to tournament paintball. Jackie was
the business manager for
John Sosta and Bonich and
she went on to run NPS Europe which developed into
KEE Europe. She is a very
influential business woman
in European paintball.
Jessica Sparks
One of the great women of
paintball, Jessica Sparks has
devoted her life to the game,
contributed to it and helped
it grow in many ways. From
her time with the NRA to her
tenure as the editor of what
was, at the time, the most
popular and best-known
magazine of paintball sports
in the world, Action Pursuit
Games, Sparks helped put a
respectable and legitimate
face on the entire paintball
world in the eyes of the larger, non-playing public and
influenced how countless
thousands learned the game
of paintball through her time
at APG, all while proving that
paintball is a game men and
women can enjoy equally.
Jessica’s pink VM-68 Magnum paintball gun was, at
last report, housed in the
National Firearms Museum.
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