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tournament in Nashville, Tennessee. In
UK Predators: The first eight
addition to their tangible accomplishyears of tournament paintball
ments, the UK Predators truly put in(1983-1990) were dominated by ternational paintball competition on the
North American teams, mostly
map. Until they came along the “worldbecause in those early days competitive wide” tournament paintball scene was
paintball was played in only a handful
never a threat to U.S. competition as
of countries around the world. And alNorth American teams won every event
though teams like NAM Wrecking Crew, held on its turf. Most that followed the
Bart’s Stud Squad, Turks and others
Pro circuit knew it would only be a matwon many early UK and Euro events
ter of time before the UK Predators
(before the Millennium Series existed)
changed that (1991 Masters mentioned
no team won more overseas than Marabove).
cus Davis and his UK Predators. From
the time the UK Predators won the
Other UK Predators notes of inter1990 Mayhem 15-man European tourest: Although for three years the UK
nament through to 1995, the Predators Predators placed in the top four of the
had racked up 21 major tournament
NPPL virtually every time they played
wins--more than any other European/
here in the US, they never won an
UK team at that time. On a historical
event. Many that watched the Pre