05-09-2014, 02:18 PM
I know you probably did not intend this, but you make it sound like Sterling were bereft of skilled pilots. And while a decent number of their better pilots imo developed their skills primarily as members of Sterling (BfB/Rage, Plareplane, varsity, & nine), I would argue that they relied heavily on pilots like Seismic, Maimer, and to a lesser extent Primos and life who were already established as top pilots elsewhere before joining Sterling. As good as Rage was, I'd rather have a pilot like bhang or Mop in (speaking of which, where is the love for bhang?) -- of course, maybe I'm just resentful of Rage for keeping me off Sterling by threatening to quit (and getting Ice & nine? to join him) unless Five Venoms kicked me when I rejoined after Hemp Lordz. I'd like to believe Sterling could have been successful much sooner if not for that. oh well, fortunately I think we've all grown up and mellowed out since then.
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What people don't realize is Sterling evolved as a top team with the same people over the course of like 6 years. If Rage wanted to join Intrepid or Assassins at their prime then he could have - and would have done just as good as Dingo/Travis. Instead he decided to play with friends and stuck his neck out a lot in games to try and make big plays.
As for Kingnewbie, the reason I point out that he wasn't as impactful back then was because the talent pool was larger - subsequently making his light in league a bit dimmer. Now we have a population of like 80 and he sticks out more because the talent pool is substantially smaller.
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