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Madden NFL 08: Interview with Pete "Litez Out" Calefato

By: Jonathan Hoskins - Published March 31, 2008 at 2:13 PM EST - Writer Archive
Jonathan "SickxNasty" Hoskins is back with another interview with a top Madden professional


1. Why did you choose to pick up the sticks and start playing Madden?
I have been buying Madden every year since 2000, but I would play the game once in a blue moon. I started getting addicted to Madden when Ray Lewis was on the cover. I was a freshman in high school and everyone in my class would talk about it. So I went and bought myself online for PS2 and started practicing. I thought I was good and talked a lot of trash to them but wound up taking L's left and right. I continued playing online throughout that year but every time I was about to win I would get end game glitched. There were so many cheaters that year it was insane. I felt that if they're doing it to me, then I should be able to do it too. I remember googling madden cheats and tips or something like that and the site "Madden Authority" came up. Occasionally I would go on the internet and view the forums. This is when I started learning about using audibles, formation shifts, and when to call the right defenses.

2. How did you get the nickname 'Litez Out'?
Before I started playing Madden competitively, I use to play Counter-Strike for PC. Around my house there were a lot of Internet Cafe's that me and my friends would go to chill out and play video games. Kids from different neighborhoods would come in and play us for money. Every time we played I always made my name LiteZoUt and from there it kind of stuck with me. My other nick name and also my Xbox Live gamer tag is CALEFATZZOx. Sounds like a weird name but its really just my last name with zz's. I know a lot of GotFrag readers play Counter-Strike, but I'm done with CS. That said, watch out for my boy's clan called Xothermic. I think they are in CEVO main.


3. When did you realize, "Hey I Got Something Here"?
In Madden 2006, I started realizing I was getting good at this game. I remember losing 0-3 vs some kid with a record of like 100-10. He got me on the mic and tried convincing me to join his madden crew. Like I said earlier I use to play Counter-Strike so to me at that time having madden crews was the sickest idea ever. I eventually made my own crew and we would go in the lobbys and play 3-on-3 or 5-on-5. There was actually a couple people in my crew that are really good now on ps2, like Da Realness and AGame (PS2 Players Bowl winner). Mainly the best people online were in crews so playing them definitely got me better. Also playing dudes from "The Madden Lab" and playing my lab partner Pound Attack every day has gotten me a lot better. No one knows about him. Pound Attack is an underground player, but he's really good.
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