Bob Gurnsey Lifetime Achievement Award

[haywoodjublomi]

I'll be putting some photos of this in my other thread but I felt like it was almost worth its own post. I recently acquired this from Simon and it's such a cool part of paintball history. This award was given to Bob Gurnsey (for those of you who don't know, he's credited with the invention of this sport we all love) in 2001 at IAO. The excalibur is brand new obviously and will stay that way, no "break glass in case of emergency". I feel like this belongs in a museum but wanted to share it here.

[iamthelazerviking]

I'm glad this went to someone who will leave it as-is!

[Jonnydread]

This is one time when I'm okay with wall queens.

[haywoodjublomi]

Yeah this the only one that's staying a wall queen

[Riot]

I hear EMR has a museum.

[Riot]

Kill any good jokes lately, Ecapnation?
;p
It’s okay, sarcasm doesn’t always translate through text. Lol

[Chuck E Ducky]

Yeah Blue sold it all of including stuff that wasn’t his… pissed off a bunch of old heads when he did. A lot of them never went back.

[Ecapnation]

Chuck I'll say this....

Anything donated was given back only and if only they wanted it back. I helped blue pack up tons of stuff to ship back on the course of a week there.

However.... Many many things went completely missing. Everything I and my team donated were gone for instance. Basically our entire display was gone all I found was one OD green spray painted grip set from a 68 special. Which we donated whole... So caretakers were parting and stealing things long before the building changed to the RC shop.

[Psycho91]

This is one of those things that if I had and died I wouldn't even leave it to my kids I'd have that thing in my will to go to a paintball museum, definitely a piece of PB history

[haywoodjublomi]

It may very well go to a museum if one ever shows up that seems to be sustainable.

[ketzer7]

When you say 'Simon', are you referring to Simon @ Inception?

[haywoodjublomi]

The one and only Simon Stevens