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ries, Europe’s professional
paintball series. Laurent was
also the founder of famed
French paintball team Ton
ton Flinguers and publisher/
founder of Facefull Magazine.
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Greg Hastings
Everyone knows Greg Hastings is the name and driving force behind the whole
best-selling paintball video
game thing, something that
brought paintball to a completely new audience and
further legitimized our sport.
However, that’s not all Greg
has done for our game. Beyond that, he was also an
accomplished and successful
professional player for teams
like Ground Zero Gold and
XSV, and that whole comfortable paintball pack thing?
Yeah, he invented that back
in nineties when he sewed a
harness onto a back belt.
Forest and Tracy Hatcher
Forest and Tracy, owners and
founders of Pro Team Products, have managed to stay
in paintball for nearly 20
years. Back in the early 90s
you may have seen or used
the MicroMag, or the Pro
Team Products Armson spiral rifled barrels. During the
early 90s Pro Team, Tracy
and Forest were a company
for the players, sponsoring
many events and teams.
While they are still operating
today, they’ve taken a more
behind the scenes position
in paintball the last decade.
A little know fact about Pro
Team Products is they were
making MilSim marker bodies about a decade before
the term MilSim was used in
paintball - 1993.
Chuck Hendsch
Chuck Hendsch has done it
all in paintball. He worked
for RP Scherer, he’s played
on some of the best teams in
the world, he was president
of the NPPL and he’s done
two stints with JT Paintball.
But in 2003 when Hendsch
took his player base and left
the PSP, he put the NPPL
back in the limelight with the
Huntington Beach tournament. Of course that story
is still being written as the
league is now in a holding
pattern.
Richmond Italia
X-Ball made its debut in
2002, and for its creator,
Richmond Italia, this is just
one of the many contributions he’s made to the game.
Richmond was the mind
behind the Matrix paintball
gun, which soldiers on today as the DM and PM line
as manufactured by Dye,
and the man behind Procaps,
manufacturers of Diablo and
Draxxus paintballs over the
years. Richmond is now the
owner of GI Sportz.
Laurent Hamet
Greg Hastings
Forest Hatcher
Chuch Hendsch
Richmond Italia
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