[MadMax]

Colin isn't a paid spokesperson. I send him a lot of free stuff for review because of his technical aptitude and interest in our game. Our sport is pretty small and there are few manufacturers in Canada (let alone Toronto). I have a habit of consulting local players when I develop my products. It's handy to get face to face feedback from local players and see them use my prototypes.

Unfortunately that can affect my local base of reviewers, because their early prototype feedback often ends up influencing my product design.

For instance, Colin partook in my early grenade gaming trials at TTAC. A few years ago I brought this wierd abomination which had two plastic tubes wrapped around a crude aluminum valve assembly. The timing assembly pished out a measured shot of water before unfurling and blasting pellets out as the two tubes unfurled and flailed about. That proof of concept was called the Tentacle grenade and it was the first working proof of concept for my spinning grenade design. Later revisions of the rigid shell grenade were trialed at TTAC so I could observe players fielding my product.