Two very worthy candidates and my props to both of them. With all the forums Tyger is on, I'm surprised he gets any time to dedicate to any of them.

EDIT: And out of curiosity, who's Crash Test Dummy?

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How about Wayne Dollack and Viper? Or the owners of EMR or Sherwood Forest?

I wholeheartedly second Tyger, Craig, and FL/\ - but how 'bout the promoters and field owners who give us our stoming grounds? How many 'greats' have they had a hand in by having a plce to run ?

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Crash Test Dummy is our test account for debugging the forum software.

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Ahh, I was thinking it was something like that, but you never know.

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Thanks a bunch.. It means a lot.


My internet time has been reduced since my boys arrived but I do what I can. I'll tend to post if someting it is brought to my attention.

Thanks again

Then if they have to be members of the forum to be MVP, is there a way to recognize and give props to others who also contribute to paintball but are not members of this forum? Maybe a "Hall of Fame" or "Roll of Honor" - there are people outside of the OG who deserve lots of love and gratitude from us....

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I agree and ofcourse we can. One step at a time though my good friend.

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Hey cool ideal guys!!! Palmer who is a true legend and Tyger who when he types, everyone reads, both are well deserving.

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"I find your lack of faith disturbing."

This was written by Tyger, I'm sure many of you have read it. If not I posted it for those who haven't. This manifesto motivates me and makes me proud to be a woodsball player. With all due respect I hope it was OK if not please remove.

Woodsball Manifesto By: Tyger of Webdogradio We are Woodsball players. We are the core of paintball. Over 90% of the players play paintball in the woods, and yet 90% of all in-paintball media coverage ignores us. We play not for prizes or money or fame, but for the passion of the game. We play because the challenge is there; every weekend, all around the world. We just need to show up and accept it. We are not the pretty-boys of speedball. We are the anti-heroes of the mainstream. You won't see us on posters or in videos sliding into bunkers with names like "cans" or "snakes", and that's fine by us. The real game isn't spit shined, groomed and polished or made for TV. It's down and dirty, in the literal trenches. Our fields are not well maintained lawns; it's terrain that both teams overcome. We don't complain about sand or dirt or uneven fields, its part of the world we play in. Scratches and dings in our equipment are displayed with pride, and we can tell you where they happened, and how deep in the crud we were when we got it. We are the roots of the game that have been abandoned by much of the mainstream industry. We don't throw aside where we've come from to make the game more palatable for an audience. If nobody sees what we do, it does not make the effort or result worth less. We drive through back roads to fields that nobody knows about but ourselves. We know we're there when we lose our favorite radio station and the cell phones won't work anymore. We play under the media radar with no reward other than bragging rights because we want to play. There are no prizes, no million dollar checks, but that makes neither our tenacity to win no less fierce nor our games less meaningful for us. Our chosen uniform is camouflage, not because we want to be militaristic but because it works. We use our clothing as a part of our game, something that escapes many of the "firefight specialists" that play only arena games. The paintgun is only one tool of a well rounded player, not the only tool. We know this; as we use all the skills and tools we have every weekend. Based only on our clothing, our gear, and our chosen locations of play, we are looked at as inferior players. We are told we would never stand a chance in a "real game" of paintball. We understand your arena game; yet you refuse to understand our woods game? We are not throwbacks to a long dead game. Yes, we are living history, but we have evolved. We honor our roots, but we do not abandon them to follow the next "promise" in paintball. Long after the "flavor of the month" arena game has worn out, we will be playing in the woods. To know the past is to control our future, and we embrace both. We are told that we should abandon the woods, for the better good of "the future of the game". Our presence threatens those who never have, and probably never will, understand what the origins of paintball are. They think we will scare away the media by looking like "militia members". Not that fist fights and blatant cheating will attract any better media attention in their games. Not that terms like "Bounce Engineered" or "Ramping Technology" mean anything to the true roots of what paintball started as; what paintball should be. Are the arena players scared of us or ashamed because we remind them what they should be? We are woodsball.. players. Any given weekend we'll be playing our game with a grasp on the past and an eye on our future. Players that don't understand will come and go, we know this. They can play under the bright lights in front of audiences and pretend to be rock stars all they want. We'll be in the woods years after you retire, playing the game of paintball the way it always had been played; with honor, with integrity, and with friends. All 90% of us.
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