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Michael Whybrew
Michael Whybrew is Australian paintball. He’s the Alpha,
the Omega, the beginning
and the end Down Under.
Michael has done it all and
continues to. His brands
include Action Paintball
Games, Super 7s Tournament Series, Killer Paintballs
(his new brand of balls),
Sydney Swat, as well as his
stores and fields. If it’s happening in Australia, he’s
involved.
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.
Lane Wright
After a rise through the
ranks in the heyday of tenman amateur and professional woodsball that saw
Lane Wright, one of the fastest people to ever play professional paintball, become
a top player on teams like
Xtreme, Image and Ground
Zero, he took on what might
be the most stressful job in
paintball; running the PSP
professional tournament
series. As the man in charge
of the PSP since its split with
the NPPL, Lane shouldered
the burden of captaining the
PSP ship through all sorts of
rough weather, from day-today operations and the promotion of its events through
numerous format and rule
changes to being answerable
to the league’s ownership
on one end, and its players
on the other. A thoroughly
thankless and stress-ridden
position, Lane has handled
leadership of the PSP with
a mix of southern logic and
genuine regard for what is
best for the long-term future
of paintball, earning him the
respect of those in the know.
Dave Youngblood
One of the earliest superstars of professional paintball, Dave Youngblood made
his name by playing in a
business suit and shooting
flashy, shiny markers while
everyone else was trying to
hide in the woods. After a
successful career with the
legendary Ironmen, winning
ten-man tournaments left
and right, Youngblood created what would become
one of the most successful
and influential companies
in paintball’s history, Dye.
Youngblood still captains the
ship at Dye and Proto, making wildly successful barrels
like the Boomstick and Ultralite, trend-setting clothing, goggles, DM and NT
paintball guns and the amazing Rotor loader, as well as
flexing his muscles as one of
the major voices behind the
PSP professional paintball
league.
Sean Walker
Michael Whybrew
Ritchie White
Lane Wright
Dave Youngblood
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