Team Classic

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Team Classic is a professional Halo 3 team which competes in the Major League Gaming (MLG) Pro Circuit. The team consists of captain LegendPimps, Fear, Ant, and Soldier187. Team Classic currently does not have a coach. Although Team Classic competed in MLG Halo 2 events, aside from LegendPimps, they were not well known until the 2008 season, when Halo 3 succeeded Halo 2 in the MLG Pro Circuit.

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[edit] Roster[1]

  • Flag of the United States Sean Hinsinger -- "LegendPimps" (captain)
  • Flag of the United States Steve White -- "Fear"
  • Flag of the United States Anthony Roberts -- "Ant"
  • Flag of the United States Marcos Sanchez -- "Soldier187"

[edit] History

Except for LegendPimps, who saw some success in Halo 2 and later joined the MLG staff as a referee for Pro Circuit events, Team Classic was a little known group until the 2008 season. Team Classic began its road to notoriety by dominating online tournaments prior to the kickoff of the 2008 Pro Circuit. Chris Puckett, a video games analyst for ESPN and commentator for MLG called them "online superheroes."[2] Classic won the MLG Holiday 4v4 Tournament, the MLG E-For-All event, and the GameBattles Fall Season Playoffs.[3] Team Classic finished 5th in the GameBattles 2008 MLG Pro Circuit Ladder #1, which provided them with a top 8 seed heading into the Meadowlands event.[4] In order to prepare for MLG Meadowlands, the first event in the 2008 MLG Pro Circuit, Team Classic spent nearly a week playing LAN games with established MLG pro team Final Boss. Fear told MLG in an interview, regarding the practice with Final Boss, "I can say without a doubt, it definitely helped out by a huge amount. That was the first time we LAN’d together as a team, and we were a little sketchy at first. But we were there to work on our negatives and we did just that."[5]

The possibility that Team Classic would finish among the top teams was doubted by many on MLG forums due to the inexperience in a LAN setting and the fact that Team Classic did not have the success that many other highly seeded teams had had in Halo 2. Ironically, Final Boss was also doubted, but for the opposite reason; they had played poorly in the online tournaments, and many questioned whether this was due to the relatively poor gameplay mechanics of Xbox Live, or simply Final Boss's lack of skill at Halo 3. Both Final Boss and Team Classic put doubts to rest at MLG Meadowlands. Team Classic ousted Team Carbon, a Halo 2 pro team, 3 games to 0. Team Carbon had already knocked out highly favored Str8 Rippin, the #1 seed coming into the event. Final Boss, despite being sent to the Loser's Bracket, fought back to the finals. Team Classic met Final Boss in the championship round, where Final Boss won the best of 11 series 6 games to 2.

[edit] References

  1. ^ MLG Pro Team Rosters
  2. ^ MLG Championship Sunday Broadcast
  3. ^ Team Classic interview with MLG
  4. ^ Meadowlands Preview
  5. ^ Team Classic interview with MLG

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