San Diego Dynasty

Dynasty is a team of Paintball born in 2001 of ashes of a team of very young players of the west coast of the the United States, the Ironkids. She was born during the intersaison 2000-2001 following a proposal made by Chuck Hendsch, then managing director of JT the USA, to turn into to Ironkids a professional team. Hendsch made come in the team a certain number of more experienced players and the cocktail which resulted from this made of Dynasty the most known team and most powerful of the history of the world sporting paintball.

History

The team took part in its first tournament at the time of the edition 2001 of the Fatty Tuesday Open (which was played 5 per team) where it introduced a team registered in division pro and a team registered in division Amateur-1. The results were not extraordinary. The first sleeve of NPPL in which the team took part was on the other hand of much better forecasts since the team passed the stopping of what was then the semi-finals (2 hens of 4 teams at the conclusion of the qualificative hen phases) and finished third of the tournament, which had never been seen for the first tournament of a pro team. During the season, the team finishes two other times third at the time of handles of the Millennium Series in Europe, with Toulouse and in England at the time of the Campaign Cup. Especially, the team gained the World Cup in her first year of existence, which was another first and made the world famous of the known TEAM from now on as the team of the young wonders, half of the players not being 20 years old at the time.

Results

Titles

2002 total

Victorious NPPL (title divided with Ironmen)
Victorious total total Millennium Series
Victorious World Paintball Series (better world team)

2003 total

Victorious total NPPL
Victorious total Millennium Series
Victorious World Paintball Series (better world team, after 2003, this title ceased existing)

2004 total

Victorious total NPPL
Victorious total Millennium Series 7-man
Victorious PSP Open X-Ball

2005 total

Victorious total NPPL
Victorious PSP Open X-Ball

2006 total

Victorious NPPL

2007

Number 1 with the classification NPPL (August 2007)
Number 1 with the classification NXL (August 2007)

Players

In 2001 when the team was created, it was made up of Alex Fraige, Angel Fragoza, Ryan Greenspan, Brian Cole, all old Ironkids, to which are added Chuck Hendsch, founder who convainct the Ironkids to pass as a pro, Johnny Perchak, Kevin Bredthauer, former player at Oakland Blast, Brad Maughan, Richard Loughran, Rodney Squires. The large absent ones are Oliver Lang and Yosh Rau, both at Ironmen at the time, and Todd Martinez, old Ironkids which will end all up joining the team (and by leaving it, in the case of Oliver Lang). At the end of 2001, Hendsch was withdrawn to be devoted to its work at JT. After the World Cup 2001, the victory of Dynasty which gains the tournament its first year and a season médicore of the Ironmen, Oliver Lang joined his/her friends of childhood at Dynasty. Follow themselves from there several years of absolute domination of the team on the world scene (titles NPPL in 2002 (divided with Ironmen, 2003,2004,2005,2006, Titers Millennium Series into 2002,2003,2004, and titles PSP Open category in 2004 and 2005). At the end of 2003, Todd Martinez which wanders since the beginning of the season between Aftershock and Strange joined the team right before the World Cup, first participation of Dynasty in a tournament in the format X-Ball in which it loses in finales against Strange. Just after, Yosh Rau joined in its Dynasty turn. The Ironkids are again complete. In addition to Yosh, other players come to supplement the team which roughness to be taken part in the Open category of the PSP which will take place with the format X-Ball: Quincy Boayes and the players of the Bob Long' S Ironmen Tyler Michaud go up on board, then during the season Mike Hinman. At the end of 2004, the players " historiques" who did not know to adapt physically and technically with the requirements of the modern paintball and in particular of the X-Ball leave the team: Rodney Squires deals with the training of young players within the formation Dynasty Entourage, Brad Maughan is withdrawn to be devoted to the cinematographic edition, Kevin Bredthauer withdraws paintball. In 2005, the young person Cody Szmik is recruited to play with the team with the format X-Ball. In 2006, two weeks before the beginning of the regular season with Huntington Beach, Oliver Lang announces with his/her comrades and the world which it leaves Dynasty to join its first TEAM pro, Ironmen. It signs at Dye for an amount estimated at the time with 100,000 US Dollars. Lived at the time like a treason by its fellow-members and the fans of the team, this transfer was due to a very good historical agreement between Lang and Dave Youngblood, owner of Dye (principal sponsor of Ironmen), and with the fact that Lang very considered to have lived and more nothing to have to gain with Dynasty: for him, the true challenge was to make of a team of medium of table one of the major players of the American championships, which it makes a success of since in less than two years Ironmen is one of the very best teams as well in NPPL as in NXL. At the beginning of the season 2006, Dynasty also recruited the former player of the All Americans Garett Maxwell and the young hope Justin Schwarz, as well as Canadian Josh Davey during the summer. At the end of 2006, Hinman was withdrawn in its turn while Johnny Perchak announced its retraire sporting paintball (it was before seeing it reappearing in the roster of San Diego Legacy for a sleeve NXL a few months later, to which it did not take share). Right before the Commander' S Cup in 2006, Davey Williamson which had played at Ironkids whereas he played at Ironmen left XSV for Dynasty with which he gained the tournament and the title over the season.

Controversies

World Cup 2001

Two major controversies tarnish the image of Dynasty forever, although they do not call into question the size of the team. The first took place during the year of birth of Dynasty, at the time of the World Cup into 2001 that Dynasty gained. The World Cup was historically the prerogative of another team, Aftershock, which traditionally gained the tournament each year whatever its performances during the year: it was its “exclusive domain”, Aftershock always playing with “an incomparable faith and a determination” for Cup (most prestigious of the tournaments of Paintball) according to Rich Telford. The last match of the finales thus opposed Dynasty to Aftershock: the difference in points made that, to gain, Shock navait that to prevent Dynasty from hanging up again the flag. Dynasty, on the contrary, needed to hang up again, in which case the team would gain whatever her number of players still present on the ground (at that time, these parameters varied the number of points). The transit of the flag (captured but not hung up again in home base) was not sufficient for Dynasty. The accounts what then did without are numerous, but here what seems to be really last. The matches, to ten against ten, lasted 10 minutes then.

On the ground Diablo (Sup' Air' Ball), the two teams, their practice, played in aggressive manner, Aftershock launching a first offensive, quickly countered by Dynasty which took again the advantage and started to return in half of ground of Shock. At the end of one moment, the watch starting to turn, and whereas there did not remain any more large-world in each team, Ryan Greenspan loaded a carton in which two Aftershock players were: it touched them both, but the referees withdrew only one from them, declaring the other clean . This player remained alone at the end of the match against Rodney Squires and Brad Maughan which ended up eliminating it. Brad seized the flag then, but the final whistle sounded whereas it was with fifteen meters of its base: the victory in the tournament thus went logically in Shock, which started to celebrate it on the ground. It is at this time that the last Afterschock player was found with an impact in his Brêlage, probably received at the time of the load of Greenspan and of which it was comprehensible that it did not feel it. Was followed from there a half an hour controversy between the two captains and the ultimate judge of the tournament, at the end of which one allotted the victory to Dynasty with the pretext that elimination deferred action of the last Aftershock player automatically gave to Dynasty the accosting of the flag. This rule was registered black on white in the payments and Series a posteriori .

One intended much to say that the presence of Chuck Hendsch at the committee of arbitration of the NPPL had influenced the decision of the referee. If it is false to say that the decision was bad it was very logical within sight of the facts, it is not less than, Dynasty having beautiful being a pro team, it was the first (and probably the last one) time in the history of the sporting paintball modern which the exit of a match was changed half an hour after the end of this one under the terms of a glaring error of arbitration. A terrible competition between Dynasty and Aftershock was born at the time of this match and, the year according to with the World Cup, Dynasty and Shock were again opposite. Before the match in the Huddle, in which the Aftershock veterans were in a true state of fright, Kenny Klamper was seen howling almost until the “go go go” launching the match: “you can' T steal our title” (“you cannot steal our title”). Aftershock gained the match and the tournament. Interesting fact, it is Todd Martinez, old Ironkids and future Dynasty player who cleaned the left band of Dynasty and was at the origin of the victory of its team.

Commander' S Cup 2006

The season 2006 had been one season in half-tone for Dynasty: arriving at the denrière sleeve of NPPL, the team had not gained any major tournament this year, and was in second position of the total classification NPPL behind her eternal rivals XSV. To gain the title over the season, Dynasty was to gain the tournament, and XSV was to post a bad performance. XSV having passed a very bad end of season, with the successive departures of Jon Richardson, Rusty Glaze, Dave Baines and Davey Williamson which had joined Dynasty, the team was unable to rise in finales. Dynasty on its side found face-to-face discussion for the title with Stockholm Joy. Each team gained a match, the third meeting would thus determine the winner of the tournament and, in the case of Dynasty, if they would gain the title over the season. The match started in a traditional way, with a fort Prébunk on each side. At the end of one moment, Alex Fraige was found in the second notch length zipper on the tape spectator from where it made consequent damage in the rows of Joy, preventing them from deploying their play on the opposite tape. The match started to stagnate to stabilize itself in a situation of two compared with three in favor of Dynasty, with Fraige in the third notch of the zipper and almost more balls, Brian Cole to the corner behind Fraige, and Davey Williamson on the other wing in an intermediate position. Opposite, two Joy, of which Sebban in the center at the bottom, and another in the corner of the zipper. Adhesive made a move to protect Fraige while being placed in the triangle with the fifty beside the zipper, when Sebban passed a " shot magique" on Williamson and left it. The Joy corner left to charge Fraige in the zipper, Cole touched it before it arrives but, not sure to have left it, jumped over the zipper for the Dumper. Sebban, at this time, arrived of the center to charge Cole, both drew one on the other in what seems a simultaneous elimination. The referees eliminated Sebban while they let Cole hang up again with a pink impact on the nose. It was explained later that Sebban had been made leave on a inflicted One for one to its fellow-member to have continued to play after being itself made touch on its race by Fraige. However, video is not very clear for it, but this reveals that what did the Joy player is not hanging: in the worst case, it drew on Fraige in continuity from its race before plunging by ground and being made dumper by Cole. At all events, the decision of the referees was severe: Sebban was banished for a sleeve to have Overshooté Cole with bearing end. It was not the beginning of the competition between the two teams because Johnny Perchak and Brian Cole had already, at the time of the Joy Masters in Sweden in 2003, passed to tobacco a friend of Joys, the distributer in Sweden of the launchers WDP, for a murky story of ketchup reversed on the shirt of Adhesive. At all events, the victory went in Dynasty while the players XSV would start to cry behind the nets. Several weeks after the events, NPPL published an official statement in lequelle it detailed the facts and, " following the visionnage of the vidéos" , the banishment of Sebban cancelled which could thus take share with sleeve NPPL of Huntington Beach in 2007.