For those that do not know,
Behind the Bunker is one of the many ways we get the
word out about our sport. This webcast has been going
on for quite some time now, and has been growing more
and more popular with time. This show is put on by a
team of great guys that love what they do every single
week. The hosts of the show are Todd Ancich, Josh
“Zuby” Zubrickas, Joe Kimpson, and Gavin Sharma. The
Show Producer is Matt Ancich, the Research Department
is ran by Dustin Holst and Brody Ball. Finally, the Sounds
Engineer is Sebastien Meunier. These guys all have fulltime jobs outside of the show, and still manage to make an
awesome webcast/podcast every Monday night.
Todd used to work at a nightclub years ago. Joe
Kimpson was a regular there back before he was married
and would talk about paintball. Joe then invited Todd to
go play with him, and so the story goes. Todd fell in love
with the sport, as well as Joe’s sister who he eventually
married. Now he has Behind the Bunker, multiple stores,
as well as Flag Raiders Paintball Park. Flag Raiders
Paintball Park is around 40 acres of pure fun. They are the
host of Canadian Carnage, the Canadian Xball League,
and Shoreline Paintball will also hold an event there.
Todd retired from playing paintball a year and a half ago,
but he led a very exciting paintball career. He played in the
highest level of the CXBL for years. Behind the Bunker all
started at an indoor tournament at Flag Raiders. They put
a camera on the field for the people who could not make it
to the tournament in person. After it was over, they looked
at how many viewers they had for that tournament and
were astonished. So they decided to make it bigger and
better. They got 4 cameras, a switcher, and a couch. Todd
and the guys then started commentating the games for
6 1/2 hours at a time. Their views started skyrocketing, so
they got even more excited. “If we weren’t sitting around
on camera talking about the games, we would be doing
it anyways”, said Todd. So they began upgrading their
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Words By: Alicia Bane