Nakon vrijednoga transfer-a, shaGuar-a su uhvatili novinari Global Gaming League-a te izvukli od njega informacije i njegova misljenja o prelasku u Team 3D.
Neke od njehovih rijeci su bile:
3D | shaGuar: Hey, my name is Griffin Benger, and the community has come to know me as “shaGuar”. I started playing Counter-Strike under the alias “Gr!ff!n” approximately 5 years ago at a local LAN center in downtown Toronto, and moved to “shaGuar” about 1 year into my pubbing/OGL days after I got a rise out of Austin Power’s lame pun of a license plate. I felt it represented a lot of my style of humour, and I was able to throw in a big G in there to never forget my Gr!ff!n roots, and frankly, I don’t wanna sound like a queer or nothin’, but I think jaguars are kickass.
My most notable accomplishments are a CPL Winter 2004 Championship, WEG Season 1 Championship, two 2nd place CPL finishes in the Winter of 2003 with NoA and the Summer of 2005 with EG respectively, as well as a 2nd place at ESWC with zEx in the Summer of 2003.
Reporter: There isn’t a competitive Counter-Strike player in the world that doesn’t know who you are. What moment was it that you believe gave you your name in Counter-Strike as one of the best in the world?
3D | shaGuar: I always knew I had the potential to become one of the best, and that can often be misconstrued by the community as cockiness, and the fact that I make a joke of the community’s misconception of me, on TSN and the like, there are a handful of people that can’t stand me I’m sure, but I take it all with a grain of salt. Besides, it doesn’t help when I’m misquoted, or quotes get taken out of context, or drastically edited to spice up the controversy, such as my so called claim I was the best player in Canada a few years ago in an ESEA interview, or when I apparently said I didn’t know about the flashbug after the EverLAN incident. I think being confident is a very important trait to have in competition, but it is especially important to be fully aware of when to be careful and when to be confident, and when to combine the two when necessary in your mental preparation for a tournament or match. When you play at this level of play for long enough you learn not to underestimate anybody, and I think that’s what has lead to my personal success over the course of the past year. For instance, going into our first match vs lp at CPL with EG, I told the guys that one of the teams that just beat us in a scrim on mill (mNm) told me that lp raped them in a scrim so all the guys on my team would come in with smart heads about themselves and not underestimate them. Upsets can happen to any team, and I knew I didn’t wanna be apart of a repeat of first round Summer CPL 2004 for EG when they lost to team EverLAN in the opening round on de_dust2.
But drifting back to the question at hand, I think the moment I believed I was one of the best players in the world was when zEx scrimmed against the CS titans of 2003, SK, in the tournament area of ESWC right before our quarter finals match vs 4Kings, and I dropped something like 25 frags against them T side. That was a huge personal boost for me, especially going into the match against them on de_train, where the entire team played an excellent game, but most notably Justin (sunman).
Reporter: 3D has been doing decent lately, but not nearly living up to their expectations and capabilities. You recently were playing with NoA that won CPL Winter 2004 and WEG season 1 and you had a great showing with EG taking 2nd at CPL Summer 2005. What exactly made you want to take your chances with 3D?
3D | shaGuar: “3D has been doing decent lately”, what kind of an interview comment opening is that? To answer your question, I loved playing with Sal in the zEx days, wanted the opportunity to play with Mikey again, and Ron is always a player I have greatly respected and admired, so the choice seemed natural (Oh and josh and kyle aren’t half bad either J). However, it wasn’t as easy as one would imagine, as after my success with EG at the Summer CPL (although it will always feel like a bit of a disappointment due to the fact that we should have won the event) I was contemplating the notion of joining up with them. I wanted to wait until after the newegg LANfest event taking place this weekend to make a final decision, but some factors entered the picture this past weekend that made the choice obvious
Reporter: You mentioned in an interview with esportsea.com that your favorite teammate that you have played with was our very own Sal “Volcano” Garozzo. What is it exactly about him that makes you enjoy playing with him so much?
3D | shaGuar: I… I love him Chris. Is that not enough? Can words… possibly describe the connection two people have?
Reporter: NoA had a rather disappointing finish at WEG season 2 after winning two consecutive events just prior, what went wrong at this event for you guys?
3D | shaGuar: Myself, Xeqtr, Naikon and Method were all very excited about competing in Season 2. We had had a two month break from competition already, and we had a knew, dedicated, motivated player (fisker) to break in and felt we were going to be as successful if not more so with the addition. However, one of the flaws of being an international team is that it is very difficult to give the sense of being a “team” online, since we don’t compete or practice, and we’re all on different mIRC networks (since half the team was European, the other half North American). I think this was one of the reasons why fisker, to be frank, screwed us over a few days before we flew out. He wasn’t given the chance to get a feel for NoA because you aren’t really a member of the team until you go to an event with us. However, it doesn’t justify how inconveniencing changing his mind was to us. Not only did the NoA organization have to pay for the replacement player’s flight (and a last minute flight from Sweden to Korea ain’t cheap), but as far as I know fisker’s ticket didn’t even get refunded. Outside of the finances, morally it completely threw the team off. Quick was an excellent player in his day, and played a great Season 2 of WEG, but we knew from day 1 that we were no longer a championship team, and would have to start from the very bottom and work our way up, and we all knew we didn’t have the time to do that… by time all of us even got to Korea, our Begrip inferno match was a mere two days later, a team that went on to win the entire event undefeated (I believe). Although he speaks fluent English, Quick had never communicated in English before, and was calling the vents the rafters and the squeaky door the hut. Furthermore, NoA was never really a team where we had a great deal of fun playing together. Most of the time it was strictly business, and that is fine when you are winning, however, it is extremely tedious when you are losing, and we honestly won maybe 4 scrims the entire time we were at WEG Season 2. That is why after Season 2 it was inevitable the team was going to fall apart, or that a few of us would at least have to find new homes.
To su bile neke od rijeci koje je shaGuar izjavio novinaru GGL-a..hmm...mogu puno pricati :)
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