Team Founder Bart Monroe formed the original Less Than Zero Paintball Team in the mid to late 80's to compete at local fields in the Las Vegas area. The Team competed in many 5-Man Tournaments on the West Coast and was well known for their help and support in building the Las Vegas Paintball seen in the late 80's.

Monroe played a big role in the development of the first scenario paintball fields just East of the sanitation plant in Las Vegas and most Teams with a true history in this sport knew those fields as Hawk Paintball. These fields were completed in the late 80's and became Monroe's home field for his team. They continued to play there until the early 90's when the team called it quits due to family reasons and some of the members moving to other states. Monroe hung is paintball guns up for the last time in the fall of 1992 and didn't dust them off again until his daughter Aly decided to take up the sport in April of 2003!

Aly Monroe was already a very accomplished young lady who competed in Tae kwon Do, Swimming, and Soccer and held one of the highest GPA's in her school district. Being as disciplined/committed in sports as her father who is a former Jet Ski and BMX World Champion and her Mother who is also an accomplished athlete only helped fuel Aly's desire to compete at the Top Level in Paintball. Aly herself already held 3 State Championship Titles in Tae Kwon Do (Weapons, Sparring and Form) and was an All-Star in Soccer and Swimming! So with the help of her parents and a long time friend who was already playing paintball, they set out to teach Aly how to play in April 2003! As expected, Aly picked up the sport rather quickly and then set her goals on building a Team to compete with. Once she and her Father put together some criteria for the Team members, they set out to the local field seen to try and find some players that had little or no tournament experience.

Aly and her father wanted to build this Team from scratch and prove to everyone that with discipline, sticking together as a Team and hard work, success can be achieved at any level! By the summer of 2003 Aly had hand picked a few players that would be put to the test in a Summer 5-Man beginner/rookie league than ran for 8-weeks.   After a mediocre start, the team really picked things up and finished strong in route to the Summer League Title. With the momentum from that win and some now very intense and long practices taking place every weekend, the Team decided to test the waters with some young guns/beginner play at a few California, Las Vegas and Washington events.

Proving to everyone they came to play for keeps and with that newcomer label, the rumors of who the heck are these guys/gal from LTZ started a BUZZ that has still not stopped for this Team!  In the fall of 2003 Aly completed the roster for what is now the LTZ TEAM.   There are 7 solid players on the roster and the sky is the limit for these kids. All that's left now is the waiting to see what will happen in 2004 said Alyshea! These kids will have the only TRUE 100% sponsorship in this sport! And one thing I can tell you for sure! With a little time to mature they will be the ones to lookout for!