Editing Matty Marshall (section)

== Playing career ==

=== Early career ===

Marshall began competing professionally in Southern California during the late 1990s.

His early teams included Marine Team and [[Navarone]], before he joined the Southern California Ironmen.[1]

Marshall subsequently became associated with the development of professional tournament paintball during the transition from traditional ten-player competition to seven-player airball and X-Ball formats.

=== Southern California Ironmen ===

By 2001, Marshall was a member of the Southern California Ironmen, competing alongside [[Shane Pestana]], [[Oliver Lang]], [[Micah McGlocklin]], [[Yosh Rau]], [[Rich Telford]] and [[Billy Wing]].

Contemporary [[National Professional Paintball League]] (NPPL) professional rosters list him under the name Matt Marshall in both 2001 and 2002.[5][6]

At the 2002 NPPL Chicago Open, held at [[Badlandz Paintball Field]] in Crete, Illinois, Marshall helped the Ironmen win the professional ten-player division.

During a decisive final-round match against [[San Diego Dynasty]], Marshall and Telford survived as the Ironmen's final two players, eliminating Dynasty's remaining competitors and securing a victory.

The Ironmen finished first in the professional division, ahead of Bob Long's Ironmen, Strange and Dynasty.[7]

Marshall also participated in the inaugural professional X-Ball competitions during 2003.

At the 2003 PSP Los Angeles Open, contemporary reporting documented him scoring the Ironmen's final point in a match against Chicago Aftershock.[8]

=== XSV ===

In 2004, Marshall joined XSV, a professional team established by players departing the Ironmen, [[Chicago Aftershock]] and other established organisations.

The original XSV line-up included Marshall, Rich Telford, Micah McGlocklin and [[Nicky Cuba]].

WARPIG's contemporary coverage of the 2004 NPPL Huntington Beach tournament identified Marshall among the players who had joined the newly formed team.[9]

Marshall competed with XSV during the organisation's rise to prominence in professional seven-player competition.

He was also involved in the team's early association with [[Planet Eclipse]].

In a 2017 retrospective on the launch of the [[Planet Eclipse Ego]], the manufacturer identified Marshall and Telford as prominent professional players whose use of the marker helped establish its credibility in American tournament paintball.[10]

XSV subsequently became the subject of the 2007 documentary ''[[Heroes for a Day: The XSV Story]]'', which documented the team's efforts to compete against the dominant Dynasty organisation.[11]