PaintballX3 Magazine January 2015 | Page 69

69 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