Back On Top: MLG Interviews Str8 Rippin
By subtheorist | Published: June 17, 2009 8:52pm EST
 Str8 Rippin retook their throne as Halo 3’s team to beat with a domineering total victory over the competition at MLG Columbus. They managed to avoid dropping a single series throughout the entire weekend, and culminated their performance with a clearly decisive win over Triggers Down in the Finals. The test of time proven to be no match for Str8 Rippin, and their future looks blindingly bright once again. We pulled up a chair with Snipedown and ElamiteWarrior to find out just what this win meant to them. MLG: Let’s cut straight to the chase, guys. Simply put - Str8 Rippin absolutely dominated in Columbus. How does it feel to be back on top? ElamiteWarrior: Good. We never left if you think about it; we just had a lazy off-season. Snipedown: We really never thought we left, we knew we weren't ready in Meadowlands. We wanted to prove at this tourney that we were the best, and we feel as though we did. MLG: What changed between Meadowlands and Columbus? Snipedown: Our drive to practice and play. We also actually had internet for this tourney and had no schedule conflicts at all. ElamiteWarrior: We actually had internet and were well prepared for Columbus. We never had time to learn v6 gametypes before Meadowlands. 
ElamiteWarrior rallies the crowd after taking down Triggers Down in the MLG Columbus Finals.
MLG: So preparation was the key this time around. What all was involved in that process? Snipedown: After the Meadowlands event we knew we needed to practice so we played online every night. We also set up three LANs in the first two days after getting back. That's why other teams had a hard time getting LANs and blamed us. Our practice online helped so much because Tom, Kyle, and Bryan we at the same house, and I was in school but was able to practice for four hours every night. ElamiteWarrior: We LAN’ed a couple times. We even held a four team invite only LAN. We chose the teams and we didn't want to LAN with tD. We wanted to show them how much we practiced this time around in Columbus - which we did by the way. Triggers Down was a little upset by it and called me out during their interview. I thought I would return the favor. (laughs) We were well practiced for Columbus. MLG: Let’s touch on that subject for a moment. SK had some harsh words for you in an interview on Main Stage regarding the LANs. Do you have any response? ElamiteWarrior: Status Quo and I wanted to LAN each other twice before Columbus. However, due to our schedules, we could only LAN once this tournament. We decided to make it a four team LAN and chose two other teams to come. We didn't want to LAN against tD because that is who we were practicing to beat - to be number one again. TD was upset by it and thought we were sabotaging them. So that’s were that came from. They were mad that they weren't invited. |
