Justin “SK” Mann discusses the current status of compLexity Trigger’s Down as they prepare for the next MLG Pro-Circuit stop in Anaheim, California.

Today saw the finals of The North American Champions Trophy StarCraft II tournament. After fighting their way though a pretty nasty bracket featuring players like LzGamer, Axslav, Fenix, Stakufe, Ryze, and Spades, the two players left standing were compLexity’s CrunCher and CatZ.

In a thrilling best of 5 series which went all the way to game 5, CrunCher managed to get the upper hand on CatZ making CrunCher the North American Champion.

CrunCher took the first game on Tal’darim Altar, but lost the next two (Shakuras Plateau and Shattered Temple) putting him in dire straits. CrunCher some how managed to collect himself and win out the remaining two games on Crevasse and Terminus RE.

While it’s never fun to knock your teammate out of a tournament, both players put on a phenominal show and should be proud of their preformances. CrunCher takes home $250.00 USD along with a Killer 2100 networking card for the first place prize.

The Syndicate would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Chad “Minigun” Jones as he turns 21 today!

Chad first joined compLexity last month along with the rest of ROOT Gaming as they merged with compLexity Gaming in order for ROOT leaders to further persue their gaming career. Chad has played a pivotal roll in the success of the compLexity SC2 team since he joined, leading the team to a 2nd place finish in the EG Master’s Cup last week.

Once again, we’d like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Chad “Minigun” Jones!

Gootecks and Mike Ross from coL.CC were recently in Australia for Shadowloo Showdown 2K11 and had a chance to sit down with “Don’t Be a Scrub Podcast” for an interview.

Below is an excerpt from the hour long audio interview:

Today we are in the CQ hotel. It’s Shadowloo Showdown…God knows what day. But this is near the end of the event. And we have two very special guests with us today. All the way from the other side of the world. Definitely the people who follow the fighting game community have heard of these two.

And it’s Mike Ross and Gootecks.

Mike Ross: What’s going on man. Thanks for having us.

Gootecks: What’s up guys.

S: Thank you for coming down.

G: No problem, thank you for having us.

Muttonhead: Alright we’ll just get right into it, because they need to sleep!

S: It is quite late, yeah. (It is past 1 AM and they have an  8 AM flight.)

M: Yeah. So who came up with the idea of Crosscounter?

MR: That would be the man known as Gootecks.

G: Yeah um, we were fortunate enough to run into Machinima. Basically walked right into their offices by mistake.

S: Oh really?

G: Not by mistake but by fate! As it were.

And they spotted us, and they were like, hey, wanna do some Super Street Fighter IV videos? This was before Super came out in April of 2010. And we were like sure, that sounds amazing.

So we did some videos for them and over the course of the next several weeks they realized; hey these guys actually know what they’re doing.

MR: And for some reason people actually keep watching these videos.

G: Can’t quite figure out why.

MR: Yeah. So maybe if we bring them on board they might want to work with us.

G: Right.

MR: I guess then they said; hey Gootecks. Come up with something.

G: Yeah. So I was like, hey Mike you wanna do this show?

Which was…what we had in mind from the get go.

They didn’t know about it. We performed Inception on them.

MR: That is correct.

G: Planted the idea in their minds to give us our own show. And that’s how it came about.

 

You can find the podcast and read a full transcript of the interview here.