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Part Two - PaintballX3 Magazine, January 2015
• 1997: WDP introduces the Angel V6
electronic marker.
• 1997: The Brass Eagle Rainmaker
electronic paintgun debuts at the
1997 Amateur Open.
• 1998: Shocker Sport (2nd generation Shocker).
tion of woodsball fields and Hyperball
fields in their events for two seasons.
WDP, manufacturers of the Angel and
one-time owners of Pure Promotions,
producers of the National Professional
Paintball League Super Seven Series,
conceptualized, created and launched
the Hyperball concept at the first-ever
Hyperball tournament, the 1996 Hyperball World Championships, held in the
United Kingdom. Teams from across
Europe and even the United States attended the event, which WDP also used
as the venue to launch their revolutionary Angel V6 electropneumatic paintball
gun.
A scan from the June 1994 issue of PCRI
shows the Pulse electronic Rifle.
1996, WDP Introduces
Hyperball
In 1996 Hyperball fields we futuristic-looking paintball fields constructed
of black corrugated plastic tubing from
a few inches in diameter to several feet
in diameter and length, arrayed in symmetrical patterns and constructed in
shapes and sizes that better resemble
something out of “Logan’s Run” than
a sports field. While this may not be
ground-breaking innovation, Hyperball
fields were a first of their kind in that
to this point in history fields were not
portable in any way. you may say that
Hyperball fields were not portable but
in fact, the NPPL/PSP used a combinaWWW.PAINTBALLX3.COM