Joe Zvada is from McAllen, Texas. He has been a licensed balloon pilot since 2002 and has over 650 hours as pilot-in-command of a balloon. He presently works as an Aircraft Scheduler/Dispatch for Charter Company. The name of his balloon is "Bumbled". This was his 11th year participating in the event. Check out the Balloon Pong website.
Joe won 5th place in 2016, 6th place in 2014 and 1st place in the 2013 in the hot-air balloon competition and placed #9 in 2012 and #11 in 2011.