snL Interviews Romulus

With the rapid expansion of Skill Not Luck into multiple games, we wanted to sit down and have a 1 on 1 chat with Tony “Romulus” Santamaria formerly of team Belligerence.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  Hi Tony.  Just wanted to start by saying congratulations on your guys’ performance at WCG.  Getting some background information on the team, how long have you been playing Counter-Strike 1.6 with the 5 who attended WCG?

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria:  We were lucky enough to have the same roster from WCG Canada 2007. Most of us have been playing together for about a year and a half. We did take numerous breaks within that gap, although, we managed to perform well despite having little practice.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  Having d0nuts leave after this past WCG, what do you foresee in future competitions for belligerence?  Any hopeful prospects you can release at this time?

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria:  We plan on replacing d0nuts with a solid fifth player that can fulfill his task in-game. At this point in time, we are not certain on whom the replacement will be, although, we do have a vague idea on the type of player we are looking for to fill in the remaining spot on the squad.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  With many people concentrating on the gaming scene at a professional level, and having a solid core group of 4 original members, has there ever been any talk of moving to Counter-Strike source at an attempt to compete at a CGS pro level?

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria:  We have never discussed making a switch to Counter-Strike:Source. We enjoy playing Counter-Strike 1.6 and we enjoy its game play. We have no plans in the near future to make the switch to Counter-Strike: Source. The Counter-Strike 1.6 LAN scene is still very big and we plan on competing in numerous upcoming lans.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  What LAN events does the team currently have lined up?  Does the team plan on having d0nuts come back to guest as their 5th if at that time no replacement has been found in time to bootcamp with?

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria:  The next LAN we plan on attending is Corelan 2008. Corelan is a LAN being held very close to Montreal. The roster for the event will be released soon and we do plan on having a replacement for d0nuts at that time. Once we have a replacement, our main objective will be to practice for Corelan. As of now, d0nuts is no longer part of the team as he has decided to retire from competitive gaming.  We are sad to see him leave, he has been part of Belligerence for a very long time.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  Coming off of a 5th-8th place finish at WCG do you plan on making any drastic changes to the teams play style with upcoming roster addition; and if so, what teams are you looking forward most to competing with?

Purple.cs (left) vs. Belligerence (right)

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria: We do plan on making drastic changes with our gameplay. We hope to get enough practice done so that we can go into future events more prepared. We are hoping that the upcoming roster addition will help change our style of play. We are not very selective when it comes to playing other teams, we enjoy playing any team on lan.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  Well I certainly can’t wait to see some coverage from the upcoming Corelan as I would definitely like to touch base with you again regarding the new 5th and more plans for the future.  That will be all of the questions I have for you this evening Tony, any final comments?

Tony “Romulus” Santamaria :  I would like to thank everyone who supported us to this point. Also, thanks to bonEs and snLgaming. We look forward to representing snLgaming at future competitions.

Sean “FatS” Ranaldo:  Thanks again, best of luck to you, Alexandre, Hugues, and Rene