As many have gathered, Pentia ran into huge problems this season due to lineup trouble. They fought valiantly to the bitter end, with two respectable map draws against Special Attack. Today, it was made public that Sraam had left his team Mister. Now, we can give you some insights on the story, and the person behind it all: Loco.
lo·co:
Slang . an insane person; maniac.
Source: Dictionary.com
Immediately after the news reached shore of the demise of Pentia, Loco announced he would try to establish a new team. Not even a week later, the man is back with close to complete lineup. Being informed of the news, I tried getting in touch with the man to learn more of this prospect. What I discovered, was a very frank and open minded person, and with the illuminating answers he gave, it would be a shame to reduce it all to just a small team gossip. So, here’s a small and improvised interview with a legend that keeps doing what he’s been doing before most of us bought our first gaming mouse: Building teams.
But, for the record, the new preliminary Pentia lineup looks like this (woo, colours):
Loco (medic)
Fyrh (scout)
Sraam (scout)
Morf (demoman)
Ups (demoman)
Mike (soldier)
By, Sivert “Torden” Bakkeng, with big thanks to Loco.
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Loco with his daughter, Liberty (5). Awwww, that's cute (- ;
- Some fast info:
Simon “Loco” Evans . 35 years, this April.
A telecoms network engineer from Jersey Channel Islands.
“to picture myself in your mind: I’m covered in tattoos.”
If you were a car, what would you be? – “I have a 1968 Ford Anglia custom built myself”
So, I heard about your new project, Sraam, Fyr, Mike, Morf, and a demo prospect was it “ups” his name was? Yeah, trialing ups who plays in Lithuanian national team. Extremer has been teaching him for some months, and then it leaves me to decide 2nd soldier to partner Mike. Morf is main demo. Ups is 2nd we will teach him ourselves, and give him quite a lot of games. He will only progress if he gets to play. But Morf has encountered a pc issue his drive failed so he has to sort it out this week so we are good to practice. But I mean, I played ups vs Rage and demigod who got promoted to div2, and he has done well.
Any ideas for Mike’s soldier buddy? Not sure a the moment, the 2nd soldier. It will have to be someone with at least div2 experience. So I will look at who is available. Nitro has played a few games. Bencshi, he will play some games.Why not Admirable or Memento Mori? Mori wants an established team, and Admirable will be inactive with uni. And after last season i wanted a core 6 active players, and 1 allrounder to backup. Our teamplay really suffered last season due to mercs every other game. It was just best to call it quits with the original roster and there personal life dealings. I need a core team to be honest. I mean as good as Line is, 1 pcw then he gets bored. Then he wanted to scout. Then he wanted demo again. It’s just too much of a fucking headache.
What happened with Koeitje. He said he left you in order to go for scouting, but right now he’s searching soldier again? I just want people playing and doing their main class and being stable each night. -And in 2 months he will wanna scout again :D
You gonna keep on with the support of Pentia then? Yeah man. Pentia are cool, they are behind me 100%. Sraam, Fyrh, Morf are all capable players. Mike has a lot of talent and will become a really good player I’m sure of it. He has seriously sick aim.
Speaking of Mike, judging from the feedback on Mike’s recruitment thread, I’m guessing a lot of people will take notice of him. Is he as bad as they say? Honestly, Mike was 14 came into TF2. I think a lot of people are so self righteous. He is young, and made some stupid posts, acted a bit naive. In game he has been perfect never rude. always listens, and said he would stop his carrying on with the forum flames. You got to just give people a chance mate: Look at Koeitje, the biggest flamer on earth :D. It doesn’t get more retarded than some of his posts, really. Mike just needs a mentor. That is is once he gets to grips with how he needs to behave, he will be fine. And, he will be attending LAN, so yeah I’m sure he will get on with people he is quite polite.
Sraam and Fyrh both back from A/C ban . Do you think the community are gonna be cool with it? Why not. Haduken have 3 cheats on the books. Fyrh personally i picked him up from a tip off from Haunter and Coinz. He was doing a Portuguese lan, and they said he was a really nice guy.
Do you think they were cheating in the first place? I was in up with Fyrh over 1 year ago, and he has not changed since. He still has good movement and I honestly never felt he was a cheat. If he was a cheat: he came back as good and why would he risk cheating instantly after a year ban? Would be kinda ridiculous in my opinion. I mean you can never tell… I’ve had my fingers burnt before. You just have to have faith in people to be honest.
How did you manage to snatch Sraam offa Mister? Sraam came to me and asked if I was starting a new project, and he said he would like to be part of it. This was the same with Morf. I told him I was trialling a lower demo he offered his services, and I couldn’t refuse.
You aren’t new to building teams, I heard…
I’ve given a lot of chances to players from low div teams in the past. I have a reputation for it, and I guess people kind of respect it. I’m the guy that gives the unknown player a shot at the bigtime. Not many div 2 clans would even consider it. I’m a risk taker i believe if you got good aim can listen and play as a team why cant you make it happen! Looper, Mori, Koeitje, Line, Kn0ck, Skinnie, Glongas, Fadestep – who where they before id given them a div2 slot from low div3 or div4 there season before?
I played in TFC almost 6yrs. I had the same mentality there. I built clans with unkown players from low divs I won div1 in uktfcl with BL clan I played in some top clans in TFC i maintained that way of recruitment in tf2. And yeah i played in wotr, with Xman, Byte Top Gear, Evil, Light, and for a while I played with Reptile, Mick, Winny, Lestat – all the stars of TF2, I’ve played with em all in TFC :) I even played engineer for team UK for a brief period – as engineer!
And maybe i wont play div1, I’m to old for that now. But they came in my squad got the teamwork side of it down and a lot of them moved on to better things. I am truly happy for them. -If they, like Looper end up in div1.
You’ll be gunning for div2 next season then, I take it? We’re in div2 :D. Winning it. I dunno mate, but I’ll give it my best and one thing with me: you just never know :P. It could be a real epic campaign if I take 2 div4 players and turn up taking a top div2 slot. Don’t bet against it! :)
This was quite on the fly, but i think i have what i need. Can you think of anything that should be asked/said? I think if everyone just didnt become so bitchy the scene and new teams would maybe have more interest in our community. I see a lot of ridiculous threads on ETF2L. Some guy comes on, saying “hi i was in cod4″ looking for a TF2 team – and gets ripped. That kind of shit really is what brings down the overall increase in the TF2 scene. However there is a very good community spirit as well, and the teams get on at lan. Tthe atmosphere there is fantastic from what I’ve seen. I think Byte has done a great deal for the TF2 scene with Multiplay. So, big respect to him for that. And Xman, who is also working behind the scene fantastically.
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Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2010-04-27 by torden.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.