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America's Army: The Storm Has Settled

By: Nicholas Huber - Published September 23, 2008 at 2:31 AM EDT - Writer Archive
After winning the TWL Intermediate Championship, and being one of the top teams left in America's Army, Rising Storm has officially taken a hiatus -- until at least 3.0.


One could presume that the beginning of the team's future disbandment started when Philip "Becker" Becker, the team's leader, left two months ago.

Some players move on

According to Pimp, the team has some players that have left America's Army either permanately or just temporarily due to school, starting an online business, just not having the right internet connection to compete, or even being deployed in Iraq.

"We had some guys move on in life. Becker retired; warpain is getting his grades right; stalker is starting an internet business and devotes all his time to that; xeno had horrible internet and strife was useless."

Pimp was talking about Becker, Logan "warpain" Poe, Landon "stalker" Sapp, Justin "xenotype" Berendes, and Brian "strife" Philip, respectively.

Joshua "Bud" Bush is currently serving in the US Armed Forces and has been deployed to Iraq.

Winning a title and losing another

The team, with warpain and stalker still occasionally playing, marched on and took home TWL's Intermediate Championship and faced just Cause Project in CEVO's FREEDOM tournament, after the match being delayed about a month.

"We won a title, and we're on par to win another with CEVO, then [CEVO] randomly changed the format of the finals one day before the match and forced a reschedule. We were ready to play that first week, but because of the random CEVO gayness, we pushed it back a week," Pimp said.

"A week turned into a month, and CEVO forced a date, which was not flexible for our team. We played 3v4 on one map, and then played 2v4 on another (winning some rounds surprisingly). After the match, Jonny expressed interest in re-creating Audigy, while xeno went to nsd and Soul and myself are still [teamless]," mentions Pimp discussing the CEVO match delay.

Because of our inactivity, we are taking a hiatus and will probably get back together when 3.0 comes out or something.


Roster

United States Philip "Becker" Becker
United States Landon "stalker" Sapp
United States Travis "SoulCreation" Trost
United States Justin "xenotype" Berendes
United States Hakeem "Pimp" Bilal
United States Jon "Jonny" Lundquist
United States Brian "strife" Philip
United States Logan "warpain" Poe
United States Joshua "Bud" Bush

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