The team Lightning Force was formed in1986 to play in the first Skirmish-Pocono 15-man tournament. We were called 'The Big Red One' and in our third year decided that the name 'Lightning Force' better fit the image that we wished to convey. Since then we have evolved many times over. In the 90’s we were a club with about 40 members. In 1990 we were sponsored by Cooper-T Products and fielded a 5-man team under the name called the Cooper-Team. We played in tournaments in Ohio, New York and Canada. In the mid 90’s we were sponsored by Sheridan Paintball and National Paintball Supply, but once the 90’s started to come to a close a lot of our players stop playing because of family obligations or they were starting to feel their age. While we always attended big and scenario games under the Lightning Force name we also joined with another team called Unforgiven so we could attend 5 and 7 man speedball, sup-air, and hyperball tournaments. Now in the new millennium we have evolved into a scenario and big game only team. Currently we are sponsored by Tater’s Wilderness Paintball, and Jester’s Cap Games and our membership and jumped back up to 17. Paintball is an incredibly fun team building sport. We would like to thank those that have helped paintball grow and become such a great sport. Hopefully, we will still be playing for another 20 years. If you would like to learn more about us go to
www.wnypaintball.com.
--Rick Wloch, Co-Captain, Lightning Force Paintball Team
