12
From the Prez
issue 69
06/2014
The Beauty of Record Keeping
Welcome
One of the things that make sports
so popular is the never-ending discussions about on-the-field team
and individual records and what
they mean in the historical perspective. Who is the best football
team of all time? Is it the undefeated ‘72 Dolphins or the 15-1 Chicago Bears of ‘85? Would the Lakers
with Kobe and Shaq beat the Bulls
with Jordan and Pippen? Where
would Lawrence Taylor rank
among today’s athletic and huge
linebackers? Does five Stanley Cup
wins in seven years make the Edmonton Oilers the greatest hockey
team of all time? All fun topics for
debate.
While the cross-generational debates have no right and wrong
answers for the most part, fans of
baseball, football, basketball, hockey can point to video recordings of
the games and detailed records that
have been kept in these sports for
decades.
But we do have records and firsthand accounts of many of the early tournament paintball games.
We (PaintballX3 and Paintball
2Xtremes before it) have been
keeping detailed records of every
major team and every major event
or series since the beginning of the
game’s competitive side in 1983.
We know who won every NSG
tournament from as far back as
the first one held in 1983. We have
records of every NPPL event dating
back to its first game in 1993. We
have all of the Lively Series scores
and each of the Millennium Series
yearly rankings. And thanks to the
APPA most paintball events and
league’s records are available to the
public.
So with that I welcome you to read
our Ten Greatest Paintball Teams
Of All Time article in this issue.
Please let us know what you think.
Enjoy that and the rest of this jampacked issue. We’ve enjoyed putting it together.
Fans of the game of paintball are
not quite so lucky. There are virThanks for reading!
tually no videos of teams like Navarone, a paintball dynasty in their
time or even the Ironmen or all
Americans in their early days of the John Amodea
late 1980s and early 90s.
June 2014