If you got into paintball after 2003, you may not have heard of Jeremy. So I'll skip his backstory, and jump straight to why he is infamous.
The Avalanche of the late 90's/early 2000's was the blueprint for the "paintball lifestyle".
They truly were the first rockstar team. Jeremy was Captain, and on the roster you had Jon Richardson, Brian Fow, Travis Lemanski, Eric Roberts, Chris Lasoya, Rocky Cagnoni, Mark Knop, Glenn Forster, Steve Rabackoff, Weasel....and Ed Poorman was team owner.
Can you imagine having to try & control all those personalities? Nobody else had a roster that even came close. Remember, Dynasty had just started out in those days.
Anyway, going into World Cup 2002, Avalanche were the hot favorites. They were losing a game against Ground Zero, when suddenly GZ start losing players. At that time, WC was played at a site that had woods running along the side of the playing fields.
Mr U - who at that time played for GZ rather than the Ironmen - worked out what was happening, and ran off into the woods, and later drags out Salm with him, having chased him through a swamp.
Turns out that Jeremy had dressed all in black, taken a Matrix (Avalanche used Angels at the time), went to hide in the woods by the field, then started sniping at GZ players after the game started.
This is Greg Hastings' account of what happened, and it's interesting reading:-
http://www.paintball.com/content.php?aid=1223
This is the gun Jeremy used:-
http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/rare-old-guns/131212-jeremy-salm-sniper-matrix.html
The aftermath? Avalanche imploded.
Why did he do it? The pressure to win, I guess.
In March the following year, WDP rolled out the NPPL at HB.
"Before Chuck Norris goes to sleep at night, he checks his wardrobe for Jeremy Salm".
In a related article, Todd Martinez used to go out with Keely Watson. Until Eric Roberts slept with her behind his back.
The Avalanche of the late 90's/early 2000's was the blueprint for the "paintball lifestyle".
They truly were the first rockstar team. Jeremy was Captain, and on the roster you had Jon Richardson, Brian Fow, Travis Lemanski, Eric Roberts, Chris Lasoya, Rocky Cagnoni, Mark Knop, Glenn Forster, Steve Rabackoff, Weasel....and Ed Poorman was team owner.
Can you imagine having to try & control all those personalities? Nobody else had a roster that even came close. Remember, Dynasty had just started out in those days.
Anyway, going into World Cup 2002, Avalanche were the hot favorites. They were losing a game against Ground Zero, when suddenly GZ start losing players. At that time, WC was played at a site that had woods running along the side of the playing fields.
Mr U - who at that time played for GZ rather than the Ironmen - worked out what was happening, and ran off into the woods, and later drags out Salm with him, having chased him through a swamp.
Turns out that Jeremy had dressed all in black, taken a Matrix (Avalanche used Angels at the time), went to hide in the woods by the field, then started sniping at GZ players after the game started.
This is Greg Hastings' account of what happened, and it's interesting reading:-
http://www.paintball.com/content.php?aid=1223
This is the gun Jeremy used:-
http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/rare-old-guns/131212-jeremy-salm-sniper-matrix.html
The aftermath? Avalanche imploded.
Why did he do it? The pressure to win, I guess.
In March the following year, WDP rolled out the NPPL at HB.
"Before Chuck Norris goes to sleep at night, he checks his wardrobe for Jeremy Salm".
In a related article, Todd Martinez used to go out with Keely Watson. Until Eric Roberts slept with her behind his back.