http://paintballparentsguide.com A Resource for Parents of Paintballers Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://paintballparentsguide.com/?p=343&cpage=1#comment-21 Kevin Donaldson Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:24:13 +0000 http://paintballparentsguide.com/?p=343#comment-21 I just read your 80 things that shaped paintball and cannot believe that you have left out so much history how about the Master Blasters winning the 1989 PMI North American Championship we won that tourny against unbelievable odds a cinderella team wins a Pmi sponsored tourney judged by the PMI Piranhas during that time only PMI teams won tourneys remember or were you just not there?How about the ASO Cup(Action Sports Outfitters)If you remember in 1991 Jim Lively and Jerry Braun were both blacklisted by most paintball teams because of poorly run overpriced poorly judged tournies the tourny gig was all but over until myself, Jim Anderson the Master Blasters and Werewolves presented the ASO Cup the first tourny that allowed bring your own paint /free air Judging provided by the local teams so the west coast could get a fair shake for once if you remember those days you would know that east never wins in west west never won in east we provided 5-7 judges per field all with radios another first(radio zone judging)if you ask any pro player that was in the game at that time today they would probably tell you it was the best tourney in the history of the game it was so good in fact that the NPPL simply copied my rules and format I know ,I was there when the NPPL was born. were you ?the fact that you could leave out these 2 things are just unbelievable unless you just were not involved with paintball at the time.the story should be the 82 things that shaped paintball or the 81 things that shaped paintball and the 1 thing that saved it the ASO cup 1991-------Kevin Donaldson Capt. Master Blasters 1986-1995 owner Action Sports Outfitters I just read your 80 things that shaped paintball and cannot believe that you have left out so much history how about the Master Blasters winning the 1989 PMI North American Championship we won that tourny against unbelievable odds a cinderella team wins a Pmi sponsored tourney judged by the PMI Piranhas during that time only PMI teams won tourneys remember or were you just not there?How about the ASO Cup(Action Sports Outfitters)If you remember in 1991 Jim Lively and Jerry Braun were both blacklisted by most paintball teams because of poorly run overpriced poorly judged tournies the tourny gig was all but over until myself, Jim Anderson the Master Blasters and Werewolves presented the ASO Cup the first tourny that allowed bring your own paint /free air Judging provided by the local teams so the west coast could get a fair shake for once if you remember those days you would know that east never wins in west west never won in east we provided 5-7 judges per field all with radios another first(radio zone judging)if you ask any pro player that was in the game at that time today they would probably tell you it was the best tourney in the history of the game it was so good in fact that the NPPL simply copied my rules and format I know ,I was there when the NPPL was born. were you ?the fact that you could leave out these 2 things are just unbelievable unless you just were not involved with paintball at the time.the story should be the 82 things that shaped paintball or the 81 things that shaped paintball and the 1 thing that saved it the ASO cup 1991——-Kevin Donaldson Capt. Master Blasters 1986-1995 owner Action Sports Outfitters

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