Splat Magazine has been a well established name in the paintball publications category for years now. As budgets got tighter and technology advanced through the internet, online magazines started to appear. Splat Magazine took on an all new form as SplatXD, an entirely digital magazine for viewing at no cost.
This year, editor in chief Chris “IQ” Iaquinta added a new section to the site, the 2009 Splat Awards. In this section you will find awards for such things like player of the year, team of the year and our favorite category, website of the year. Read on for more.
IQ named ProPaintball.com as the premier Website of the Year of 2009 by explaining what we’re all about:
In a time where many parts of the paintball media have all but died off completely, ProPaintball.com took the opportunity to provide the sport with the daily updates and investigative reporting it needs. Few other sites have the guts to talk about the controversial issues the way that Pro Paintball owners Justin and Brandon Mason do, which is why hardcore tournament fans have listed this site permanently in their “Favorites”.


Special thanks to all the staff at SplatMagazine.com!
This article was authored by Kyle Johnson – who has written 40 paintball news and gear articles.
Kyle was born into some unusual circumstances. His father, Arnold, a goat farmer, fled the Allied invasion of Germany and married a Finnish woman with whom he had 17 children. Kyle was the only one who survived childbirth. Kyle was born a twin, but he “resorbed” his twin while still in his mother’s womb. He believes that he now has the strength of a full grown man and a tiny baby. He claims to have been born weighing 13 lb 5 oz, rendering his mother incapable of walking for three months and two days. Kyle was shunned by his family between the ages of four and six for forgetting to save the excess oil from a can of tuna. He lost a grade school spelling bee by misspelling the word “failure” in front of the entire school, and subsequently lost the spelling bee to Raj Patel.
Kyle is trained in the art of surveillance and is a former Lackawanna County volunteer sheriff’s deputy. He is also a purple belt in Goju-Ryu karate. He enjoys Battlestar Galactica, the Harry Potter franchise, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Lost and 24. His favorite movie is The Crow.
Kyle lives on his family’s 60-acre beet farm, in a nine bedroom farmhouse with one bathroom, with his cousin Mose, where they grow table beets. On the weekends, Mose and Kyle spend their time selling beets to local stores and restaurants from their road side beet stands. As well as run a decently successful “themed” agritourism bed & breakfast.
Kyle also likes paintballing and has an impressive array of weaponry, including laser tag equipment. He enjoys playing ping-pong and many of his heroes are olympic table tennis players. He is also known to be very good at the sport. His musical tastes vary, but classic rock is his favorite, especially when sung accapella. His personal musical talents are not lacking, as he plays guitar and recorder, and sings, which is quite impressive as Kyle has lost 12% of the hearing in his left ear because of a ninja attack.
Kyle’s life goal is to become the pilot for Air Force One and an ambassador to Hawaii.
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Nice. Go JMase and BMase!
pipestreet 4 life
Congrats Boys!
Nice job guys
Congratulation! You guys deserve it! ;)
Congrats!
justin is my hero
This was over my strong objections. I had you guys second behind http://www.realultimatepower.net/, but I guess cooler heads prevailed.
hahahaha… congrats, guys!
Ninja vanish!