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Hey guys, just got done playing a whole night of Halo with Tom and Mad Max from End Result. Got some solid games in then Max had to head back to Canada. The LAN went down this past weekend here in Orlando and I'd say it went pretty well, but I wish we could've got at least another series or two in since we only got two in total. The final score was 23-1 in our favor, and even though they only put up 1 win I still think they have a good shot at a top 12 placing, they play a (imo) weakened BtH round 1 and if they keep there heads in the game I can see them going deep into losers. Anyways, everyone is just about gone here and just as we get to relax we'll be on our way to Chicago to LAN sQ. Alright also, there's gonna be a Dr Pepper Live Chat on Facebook today at 4 pm, it's only going to be myself and squared since eric and kyle just left to get ready for Chicago but it should still be pretty cool so check it out!!!
- Legit

Only 4 more days til Columbus comes and I feel so much more confident in myself and more importantly my team. Tom and I left the Str8nctuary just about 3 weeks ago and have been in Kentucky at Kyle's gaming hard since. Now that I look back at it, for the amount of practice we had compared to other teams, I'm actually surprised we even placed 4th at Meadowlands. I feel like we're back in our comfort zone and that is a huge deal. I think I remember Soviet talking about being in a comfort zone when he was teaming with Instinct and it really helps out when you just feel comfortable with your other 3 teammates. Well anyways, we're back in our comfort zone mainly due to the amount of practice we've put in for this tournament. We're going to be going from one of the least practiced teams, to one of the most, and that is also a great feeling. With 2 LANs under our belt (1 being a 4-team LAN) and A LOT of xbl practice, I know we are ready to win this tournament. I'm going to be putting in at least 50 games a day these next 3 days just to make sure I'm my best I can be individually.

So on Thursday, after 3 days of some heavy practice, Kyle, Tom and myself will be making our drive from here in Kentucky to Columbus. Thursday is also the 4th of June, which is the best day of the year. Mainly because it's my birthday ;) I'll be 19.. which basically means I'm 1 year closer to hitting the next milestone (which is being 21) but yeah, I'm expecting some happy birthday wishes from anyone who reads this. :) I'll probably wait to celebrate until Sunday night though...

Alright, well that's all I got for now guys. Next stop, Columbus.

peace out everyone!
-Legit

What up everyone, so it’s almost been a month since Meadowlands and I guess you can say that it didn’t go the way I wanted. Long story short, we came in as the team to beat and we were under prepared. That’s mainly because Tom and I didn’t have internet at our place up until a week ago… so yeah. Now we have internet and I couldn’t be more relieved, I can finally play without driving 45 minutes to my condo with 2 monitors, 2 xbox’s, 2 astro sets and two T2 Dr pepper bottles, lol. Thinking of DP.. the Dr Pepper station at meadowlands was very unexpected and I loved the new look, it’s definitely the best booth to visit while you’re there, I mean free dr pepper and multiple pro scrims throughout the weekend, can’t get too much better than that, now all we need is the foundry maps put on the hardrives! thanks guys. Anyways, so right after Meadowlands I went out to Chicago to get some games in and to relax in Totz gaming basement since we didn’t have internet and our flights home were cancelled, so Tom gave our friend Joe(totz dad) a call and he invited us over. So we decided to take him up and practice over there. Let me tell you guys, after watching the finals for the first time in a year it made me very, very anxious to play the whole time I was over. I stayed for about a week and I had a blast. We went to see the Bulls/Knicks game up in the box seats, Totz 16th birthday with his ridiculous xbox cake, driving go-karts for the first time since I don’t even know when, but I’m not gonna lie, Joe also has 3 segways and needless to say, they’re pretty badass. Haha. It was a lot of fun over at the sQ place and I wanted to also say thanks again for letting me stay over guys, appreciate it. Now I’m back home and just trying to play as much as I can online to prepare myself for Columbus. We also have a couple of LAN’s lined up with FB and a multiple team LAN against sQ in our near future. Nothing’s in our way coming into Columbus, so expect a fully prepared Str8 come early June. Well alright guys that’s all I got for now, and remember practice makes perfect, peace.

-Legit

Well, well… what a year. I would have never predicted some of the stuff that went down last year, definitely the type of season that had its ups and its downs. It went from hearing about our team receiving a Dr Pepper sponsorship before the season, to the crazy team changes after Orlando, to the win in Vegas. It seemed like every event that we had a disappointing placing, the next tournament we would redeem ourselves. The rest of the season kind of went on with that pattern. Winning Vegas was all that really mattered though. If we were to have been so successful during the regular season, and then come short when the National Championships came around, it would have been nothing but disappointment for all 4 of us, maybe even Ace too, haha. That’s why I think I was so relieved at Vegas, all the hard work me and my teammates put in during 2008 paid off, and its a great feeling being considered one of the best.

Coming up on almost 2 months since the 08 season has ended and I’m already practicing and beginning to get into the groove of things again. One thing you can’t do in this league is underestimate your opponents or think you can just walk over other top teams without practice to show for it. But yeah, I took a good couple weeks break and I knew that’s all I needed. Whenever I had nothing to do I just always felt the urge to turn my box on and start playing again. Something I did learn to appreciate this off-season is playing with my teammates vs. just going into MLG playlist on your own in matchmaking. It really is better and is a whole lot more fun playing with people you know and game with on a consistent basis. Usually Tom and I will go into MLG playlist and always try getting an outrageous amount of games in a day. This game is so much easier when you actually use teamwork, and sadly some people still don’t realize this.

Anyways… yeah speaking of Tom, its great seeing a player of MLG, my friend and teammate to be on millions of Dr Pepper bottles. It’s just so crazy walking into my local gas station and seeing the MLG logo and Tom on Dr Pepper. Congratulations to Tom and MLG for that. Well that’s all I got in my head for now, the last thing I want to say before I go is to just give a thanks to all the fans of either Str8 Rippin or myself, I really do appreciate all the support, keep it up. Until the next blog.. peace.

And just one last look to the end of my 08 season

Ah where to start, where to start… How about right after San Diego. Quick note on San Diego, this is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to in my entire life. If you didn’t get a chance to go, you missed out. It was sunny every day with just about the most perfect breeze you could ask for. The Pre-tournament LAN was great, we practiced everyday for a week before the tournament. That might not sound a lot but we literally practiced EVERY DAY. Whether it be 4v4, 2v2, or 1v1. We would always be lanning. Speaking of LAN it’s the best thing in the world, Xbox Live is the devil in internet form. Anyways though, we crushed The Influence during the LAN and we didn’t know if it was truly us playing well, or The Influence not playing well. Soon enough we found out that we were all playing as a team as we only dropped a single game during the San Diego weekend. I felt we bonded significantly and we would be the new team to beat for the rest of the season and maybe for all of Halo 3.

Orlando came up quicker than I could imagine, it was something like 4 weeks from San Diego, and with Mason in Mexico for a week, we knew the team wouldn’t be getting nearly as much practice for Orlando as we did for San Diego. Our team practiced for maybe 1 day of Xbox Live, and 4 days of LAN against Carbon. By the way, Carbon is a great team and they honestly should have done way better than how they did finish. I honestly thought they were either going to win the tournament or come in a close second, they kind of messed up in round 2 but I can’t really comment on them since I didn’t witness it. They are also really great guys, I never really got a chance to know them since Str8 and Carbon are rivals and can’t like each other! Haha, but now that I do know them I have a new found respect for them. Anyways tournament came and everything was running like normal, until Ambush. Ambush, Ambush, Ambush. I take Halo as seriously as someone would take a career they love, and losing the way that we did was honestly one of the most embarrassing moments in my life, I couldn’t believe what just happened. I was so flustered and confused on what happened that I couldn’t even think and I had to spend the night at my own place to get a good nights sleep. I woke up more determined to win a tournament then ever, I honestly wanted to win so bad I could feel it. We played a little shaky in the morning but we got our stuff together towards the end of the series against Carbon. We played FB and beat them pretty handily. Next up was our re-match against Ambush, which I wanted so bad because I thought it was such a fluke. We ended up beating them 4-0 in that series and in game 2 Construct TS I had the most ridiculous overkill and I’m dieing to see it, please put it up jokr!!! Seriously though the Ambush team is a great team with new talent and all of them played extremely well. Congrats on your 4th place finish. We then had to play Instinct in the Losers Finals which is a team we love to play. We’ve lanned with them in the past and its one of those teams we play very well against. As we 3-0 them we knew would be playing Triggers Down in the Finals. We knew it would be tough to overcome but we knew we could do it. The first series was so intense especially with the crowd that amplified everything up, especially on game 5 amplified… lol. They were seriously so crazy and loud I couldn’t believe it, even if they were mostly tD fans it was still great. I feel as though we burnt out after that game and tD capitalized in clutch moments. They were all sick and I have to give them another congratulations, SK you really did deserve a win and even though we don’t know each other as well as others I’m happy for you. Same goes for fear. Hysteria is such a great player and he’s only going to get better. And Snipedown, I don’t know how he has done it, 3 events under his belt and he already has a first place finish, really amazing. Even though we got 2nd and I hate losing, I wasn’t that upset because all of the games were great, and everyone on our team gave it their all.

The aftermath was soon to happen. A day or two after the event I was informed FB has made a move on Kyle, I knew he’d consider it because of his friendship he has with all of them but I always knew he wouldn’t go, I mean why leave the #1 ranked team halfway through the season to join one of our rival teams, just doesn’t make sense. So he calls me and told me he declined their offer and I was relieved that I was correct in my prediction. A day later I was told that they were going after another one of my teammates, Mason. Now I see my team as a family almost, I mean I might get mad at them occasionally when things aren’t going my way, but I still love them at the end of the day. So when I learned FB wasn’t just going after 1, but 2 of my teammates I took it extremely personally. Mason called me just as Kyle did and he declined as well. I was relieved because I honestly believe we were the best team and why would we mess it up by going to a team we were clearly better than. So FB is searching for a 4th as people have declined left and right. All of a sudden I get a call from Kyle while I’m watching the best show ever Entourage to tell me to get on XBL. Apparently, Mason left. I couldn’t believe it. Why? Why after declining would he accept days later? I was in a big party discussing it and I was told things like Gilbert Arenas calling him persuading him to join with huge signing bonuses, or the Ogres non stop calling him urging him to join. So naturally I believed it and at the time it made sense. I was so furious at FB. At the time it seemed like they stole one of my best friends and teammates. I was honestly so baffled and for the rest of the day I was outside pacing myself back and forth making phone calls. I tried reaching Mason multiple times and didn’t get to him once. Meanwhile we were looking for new possible teammates.

The first person everyone mentioned was Snipedown, we didn’t think we had a shot at him at all since they did just win the previous tournament, but hey, I guess anything could happen if someone would leave the #1 ranked team. So we give him the offer and he thinks about it. A couple hours later we get a call from Joe(XxX) saying he’s talked to Mason and he wants back on the team. I was hurt by what he did to us but I was under the impression that he was bribed and confused. So we all gave it a talk and we decided that we’d bring him back with open arms and forgive him since it was a hard situation to overcome. So we practice that night and we split games over XBL with the new Instinct I believe. After we got off I thought everything was normal and I started watching some more Entourage. Once again I get a phone call, this time from Tom saying he heard that Mason is talking to FB again thinking about re-joining with them. I told him to shut the hell up and I didn’t believe him. He was completely serious. I try calling Mason, again no answer. So we wait. And let me say this, it’s the worst just sitting, sitting and sitting waiting to figure what your team is. I get a text from Mason a little later in the night saying the he is going to team with FB and he wishes our team the best of luck… I look at it for a good 10 seconds and I just… laughed. I was so blank, the only thing that came to me, was that this was ridiculously funny. Whatever I guess, as I said before I look at my team as family and if Mason doesn’t want to be apart of the team then we don’t want him to be apart of it either. I’d rather have someone that truly wants to be on the team then someone who flip flops back and forth. So again… we are searching for a fourth. We offer Snipedown once again, and he tells us he’ll think about it. I think that he just was worried about screwing over his team or possibly being replaced after this tournament by Mason, which we assured him we would never pick Mason up again. So we all sleep on it. I get a call from Kyle and he seems confused, I didn’t think of anything so I went to class and I decided to call him afterwards. On my drive home he tells me that tD now offered him a spot on the team in replace of Snipedown. At this point I realized I couldn’t control what he does, you can’t control anyone but yourself. I realized this and I feel like I’ve changed as a person this past week. So I told him to go with whatever he thinks will be best for him. After a tough 2 hours for everyone, he decides to stay. Once again I’m relieved, but we still need a 4th player. Snipedown told us he would know if he’s going to join or not, once he was alerted about possibly being replaced he knew he was unwanted and told us he wanted to be on the team. So it was between Mackeo and Snipedown. We thought about it for a good hour and decided to go with Snipedown. I felt bad this whole time cause Joe(Mackeo) really wanted to be on the team, and we all wanted him as well. It was just a tough situation and I’m sure he’ll do fine with his new team. Good luck Joe.

So the team, Tsquared, Elamite, Legit, and Snipedown. I’m so excited for this team and for Toronto. Eric is so sick and I have a good feeling he is going to fit perfectly with time. It will be different without Mason but I think it will be a good different. Eric has all the drive to win and I look forward to the future of our team. I already love this team and the people on it. There has also been talk with who our coach is. After about 3-4 days of hard thinking, the teams decision was to take our previous coach Lammie. Joe was such a great coach, he did so much for us in the short time we were a team and I want to let him know I really do appreciate everything he has done. I also have to welcome Lammie, its great to have you back on board. I’m really excited for this event, and I’m going to be practicing everyday in preparation. My final notes have to be that we are going to miss you Mason, even though I think you made a bad decision, and you were shady about it, I’m not going to hold any grudges against you. I also have to apologize to FB, I was hard on them because I was told one side of the story and I did make some assumptions but I realize it wasn’t their decision to leave, it was all Mason’s choice. So I am sorry Tom, Dan, and Mike, I hope we are still fine. Once again I’d like to say I look forward to our new team and friendship! And go Dr Pepper, the best drink ever made! A big shout out to Jason(Not Richard, Haha) Richard, and my man Jay. You guys are great. I’ll see everyone in Toronto, expect the American flag head band, U.S.A.! Peace!

So it’s been awhile since I’ve let the public know what has been going on in my life, so here we go.

Well gaming wise as all know the season is over and Halo 2 is done. I have so many amazing memories in this game, and who knew when I was a 14 year old freshmen that 3 years later I’d be where I am in this community. All the people I met, all the times I’ve been yelled at by my parents to get off the game, and all the memories of playing way into the morning. Halo 2, it’s been good. Anyways, after Vegas I felt that we were disappointed in ourselves after placing 1st in Orlando a couple weeks before. We underperformed and can only blame ourselves. We had a strong mindset and got out done by Carbon, I wouldn’t even say out skilled, they used the mental game against us getting inside our heads. But it worked, so good for them, I just wish we had a shot against Final Boss in the Finals. Oh well though, can’t change the past. Canada came just weeks after Vegas with minimum practicing due to Halo 3’s release and Str8 just missed a 1st place title there. Just like that and Halo 2 is basically a memory.

So nowadays I’ll be at school, at my friends or girlfriend’s house, at the gym, or practicing some Halo 3. I’m finally on Christmas break and its very much needed. Waking up at 6 in the morning and going to school to 1:30 5 days a week starts to suck. Cause then I’m tired after school so I’ll take a nap and it squeezes the amount of time I have to do the things I want or have to do. So this is good, staying up late, sleeping in, I love it. I’m finally getting to do the things I want and its great.. plus its Christmas! This is some good time to catch up gaming wise and put in some solid games with myself and the team.

Speaking of the team, expect us to be putting major hours in these coming weeks. Once Neighbor and Elamite get back from Dallas we hope to start up again. Congrats to Neighbor for placing 3rd at CPL in Dallas btw. I’m really looking forward to start getting back into the whole practicing with the team deal though. Since Halo 3 came out, everyone’s really just been practicing their individual skill trying to get as good as they can. I mean we’ve only had one real scrim as a team, and hopefully that will be changing in the near future. I’m sure the new season will sneak up on as really quickly as it has in the past years. Hopefully we won’t disappoint.

Happy Holidays everyone, stay safe. I hope everyone gets what they wanted!

Phew! I've been asked around with questions regarding lessons for awhile now, and wow has it overwhelmed me. Well things should be easier now, I actually have hired an assistant to help me out. You get in contact with him, and he will set everything up. I will be starting lessons immediately after Dallas.

AIM

Legits Lessons

That will be how you get in contact with my assistant.

Remember you must have paypal, and you will discuss the amount per lesson with my assistant.

P.S. I am sorry for those that I did not get a chance to do lessons with previously, now it will be a lot easier for me and you!

As some may know, I used to offer lessons on gaming-lessons.com for a couple of months. Well school, family, friends, and practice along with managing quite a high demand of lessons was just a tad too much for me. So I slowly stopped offering lessons. But with school ending in a couple of weeks, and summer starting I'll be able to offer some more lessons. I won't be doing it with g-lessons though, I'd rather handle this personally. I'm going to offer 10 lessons for now just to see how everything starts out, and if I can handle it efficiently then I'll start offering some more later on. First come first serve. So the first 10 that contact me wanting lessons will be the ones to receive them.

Ways to contact me:

1. email (Bryan.Rizzo@hotmail.com)

2. AIM (B Rizzle Tu)

3. PM (send me a private message on MLG)

Once we have started talking this is when we discuss what you want from the lesson. Whether it be just playing in games with me (FFA, Team Hardcore) or if you'd like me to go through some basic strats with you.

I'll discuss prices once you get in contact with me in one of those 3 ways, and I'm sorry but the only way you will receive a lesson is if you can pay through paypal. If there is anything else you need to know, ask away with any questions!

Well Charlotte has basically settled down all the way and all I have to say is that this past weekend was amazing. The hotel and venue were both so nice and you just have to love the atmosphere right when you walk into every single MLG. The 2 story Red Bull lounge was absolutely ridiculous as well. 1 full Halo 2 station, 3 Xbox 360's, 3 beautiful women, and unlimited amounts of red bull. What more could you possibly ask for? Haha, well enough about the looks of MLG, lets get into some of the action that took place!

If anyone thought that Anaheim in the 2006 season was messed up, Charlotte was 10x worse in my opinion. I could not believe what I was seeing through my eyes as the events unfolded. Top expected teams dropping like flies in the early rounds of the Pro bracket. Upsets left and right. After every one of my series I tried to immediately get up and look around for any more of them. First I heard was LeGendZ, then Redemption, the one I really couldn't believe was in the third round of the winners bracket when The Agency actually beat Carbon. At that point in time I realized the only top 6 teams that had not been upset, was us and Final Boss.

After all Saturday's 4v4 fiasco was over, it was getting pretty late in the night, pushing on Sunday morning. All the Free For All players were waiting as MLG decided what to do. And as you all know they decided to play that night.(most likely because of time and restrictions on the contract for the venue) It had been a long time since I played a FFA at an event, Orlando was the last time any of the top 7 players had to play so I was wondering how well I'd end up. Starting with the first game I thought I was the worst FFA player in the pro bracket. I was in dead last as Naded was entering 20 kills, I thought I had no chance, and was on the verge of giving up. I then realized that this is the beginning of the first game, and believed I could atleast make a strong comeback and get top 4 to help me out in the later rounds. I ended up winning that game with 59 kills. I guess the momentum carried on for the rest of the rounds as I consistently placed top 3 and took the number 1 seed for the FFA. On main stage I kept my composure and played the game as if there were not a single distraction. Getting near the end of the game I was up by 7 or 8 kills and realized unless Brett got a double killamanjaro then I had basically won it. I didn't know how to react once I had realized I had won it, technically I was the Champion in something, and I have the belt. I think I got somewhat of a grin and attempted a half ass Tiger Woods pump fist. I've been top 8 in the FFA portion ever since the beginning of the 2006 season, with the highest placing of 3rd I never felt completely satisfied. That all changed though, I had won, and felt on top for once.

I got a decent 3 to 4 hours of sleep as I ventured down to the venue. The team and myself got as warm and psyched up as we could be to face the top dogs, Final Boss. Game 1 goes by as we play a gametype that had headily favored FB, Midship CTF. We played decent, of course we have some kinks to work out but FB won this one on the count of 5-2. We then played Warlock TS, which up until present time, FB had been infamous for being undefeated on this map for Team Slayer. We started off with a commanding lead as we were up by a score of around 15-6. We kept the momentum up the rest of the game and finished it out as we took game 2. Oh yes, as we come to game 3, Lockout Oddball. This one is still a mystery to me. To those who were watching this game at the beginning must of thought there was absolutely no chance on us losing this one as were up 3:00 - 00:30. Yet we did... haha, don't ask how, but we did. The loss might of got to us a little bit but not that much. FB then played us on CTF Sanctuary where they showed they knew how to set up as they took the game 3-0 over us. Tough loss, but we weren't out... yet.

Directly to losers bracket and guess who? Carbon! Nice! With some of our weakest gametypes to possibly their strongest, all we could do was try our hardest. Which is what we did. Midship CTF is up once again and Carbon takes a commanding 4-0 lead on us. We didn't let in as we got 2 more caps in and held them off to the 15 minute marker. The last 2 caps gave us reasoning that these guys aren't invincible, we can possibly find their weaknesses. Miship TS comes and we were down by 10 around 20 kills in. They had a really strong control, but we broke it with a good spawn along with some good decisions. After this, I really don't know what happened, apparently I got 22 kills and I don't recall how. I just killed everything I saw, and we came back and took it from Carbon. Lockout Oddball... again. Once again we take an small early lead but lose control and Carbon takes a good lead for the rest of the game winning by roughly 2 minutes. Game 4, Warlock CTF, arguably Carbon's best game type is up next. 5 minutes into this game and we're up 3-1, I couldn't believe it, we could bring this to game 5 we thought. They then capped 3 times in a row to make it 4-3 with a few minutes remaining. We got them all dead and moved their flag. Capping moments later, and we were a cap away from a Game 5 Team Slayer match(which we didn't lose a TS the whole tournament). They run the flag top mid, I shoot him 20 thousand times with a beatdown and Gandhi resumes to stay alive for the last cap. Wow, haha. What an end to a dramatic series and tournament.

With a 5th place finish it certainly wasn't expected, but we all walked out with our chins up. We know we played well, especially for our 1st tournament together, and brackets don't always work your way. We, Str8 Rippin, took a game each from Carbon, and Final Boss, something Str8 Rippin hasn't done since Dallas of 06. A lot of things to look forward to in The Meadowlands. Will I keep the FFA belt? will we move up in the rankings? will things be back to normal again with not as many upsets? I guess we will just have to wait and see like we always do. Well that wraps it up for now. See you all in The Meadowlands in June!

Okay so I have the ACT's coming up this Saturday, and it's big because if I do well then I can basically skip my senior year and go to college through an Early Admissions program offered at my school. The program will basically allow me to skip my senior year of high school, and take college classes at no cost (always good to get free tuition and books - right?). I will finish in May 2008 with both my high school diploma and one year of college credit. Doing this will be really helpful since I'll have more control over my daily schedule and I will get one year of college credit instead of basically wasting a senior year taking electives. Now, if everything works out, I'll start college in August. And in case you're wondering how I'll get to class, I'll be driving my new Nissan Altima- check out the pictures below - and note the cool tag my Dad custom ordered and got me recently as a late Christmas gift! So yeah, wish me luck on the test, I'm gonna need it come Saturday.

So I have a few updates to share with the community today. The first update is to clear the speculation and the rumors of me going to Str8 Rippin after the recent drop of Cpt. Anarchy. Fonzi did approach me for a possible team offer (which many think this would be a great opprotunity, including myself) but I had to decline. I have to much faith in our new team to succeed that there is no way I'd break it up. This also might bring up a suggestion that Anarchy should replace Mimic's role on our team. No, Mimic is staying. He's an incredible player and we'll be ready to roll come opener. This has nothing against Anarchy, just as of now Mimic seems like the best fit for our team. Also, for those who don't know, we have also have a new addition to our roster, and that is our new coach Mantrain. He has a high maturity level, strive to win games, and the confidence Storm Gaming as a team needs to push us over the next level and compete in the top 3. Well that basically raps it up for now. I wish best of luck to Str8, and Anarchy for next season. And I also believe with our new coach the train! we hope to be surprising a lot of people next season as well.

As many of the members know, I have recently left SV to join the 4th seeded team LeGendZ. I, and many, thought this would be a very good fit and a possible push for top 3 in the 07 season. The decision to leave SV in the first place was one of the toughest decisions I've made on the circuit to date. I sort of got sandwiched in between the two teams and was pressured into making a decision quicker then I intended. So I decided LeGendZ would be the best choice. Many pros told me LeGendZ was the way to go and I have always wanted to team with Defy, Mack, and Vash. I felt really terrible right after telling Naded and Ramby, since I still really wanted to team with them. A bond was made throughout the 06 season, so it was generally a tough decision. The article comes up the next day, and everything is going as planned, and I was really excited for the 07 season. But something had happened in the 2 days following that made me think about SV constantly, and realized that I never wanted to really leave in the first place. Wednesday night, Naded was on the verge of leaving to XiT Woundz, and something hit me. Later on, I talked it over with both Ramby and Naded, and decided I had made a mistake and I take full blame for it. With deciding I would come back to SV, now known as Storm Gaming (SG), we would also no longer be teaming with Wolf (Wolfyyy). Him having 0 points was a huge factor in that decision. But after having the experience of playing with him, he is absolutely disgusting, and should definetly be picked up by a team with the calibur of top 8. So with no longer having Wolf on our roster, Ramby already had a player in mind, Mimic. And I couldn't have thought of any one better to fit our team. He is absolutely amazing, and probably the best pick up out there. For some who don't know, I was actually going to team with him at the opener for the 06 season until SV offered me a spot. So, in all, I'd like to apologize to LeGendZ. These are great guys and deserve something great. I shouldn't have committed and backed out like that. It was wrong and im sorry for that. I'd also like to apologize to MLG for the article, and to all of the community for everything. So the team of SG is as of now, and will continue to consist of, Ramby, Naded, Mimic, and myself. We hope to make a big impact in the 07 season and I wish the best of luck to everyone.