Oliver Lang

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Oliver Lang is a professional paintballer. He started playing paintball as a child, forming team Ironkids with some of his friends. At the time, the Ironmen (pro team) was the best team in professional paintball. The Ironkids was made up of Ryan Greenspan, Todd Martinez, Alex Fraige, Davey Williamson, Oliver Lang, Yosh Rau and Eric Roberts. The Ironkids quickly made a name for themselves winning all of the tournaments they entered. Oliver Lang is widely regarded as the best paintballer of all time.

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[edit] The Ironmen

The Ironmen 2000, at the age of 17, Oliver Lang was the youngest professional paintballer in history. The Ironmen, with the help of Oliver Lang became the first team to ever sweep the World Cup and Series tournaments in the same year. Not long after, however, Oliver would leave the Ironmen for San Diego Dynasty. Dynasty is a team consisting of Ollie's old childhood friends.

However at the end of 2005/ beggining of 2006, Olvier left his teammates and rejoined the ironmen. He was paid a six figure sum for this ( the highest rate a paintballer has earned todate

[edit] Team Dynasty

Oliver Lang left Ironmen and rejoined his childhood friends Ryan Greenspan, Yosh Rau, Todd Martinez, Alex Fraige and Angel Fragoza to create Team Dynasty. From 2002 to 2005, Dynasty had an amazing run of 32 Pro events and 14 Pro Series Titles, an accomplishment likely never to be duplicated. However, in February of 2006, Oliver Lang would receive an offer that he could not turn down. He now plays for Ironmen once again. When he went back to the Ironmen he received a Dye Paintball sponsorship . Ollie is now one of the highest paid paintballers on circuit receiving about $100,000 per year from Dye paintball (not inclulding other sponsors and or tournament winnings).