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| {{Infobox Smasher | | {{move|Smasher:Alpharad|Draft more or less complete}} |
| |name = Alpharad
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| |image = Alpharad.jpg | | |name=Alpharad |
| |mainssbu = Mario
| | |mainssbm=Peach |
| |2ndmainssbu = Joker | | |mainssb4=Lucas |
| |mainssbm = Peach | | |2ndmainssb4=Kirby |
| |2ndmainssbm = Marth
| | |mainpm=Peach |
| |mainssb4 = Mario | | |2ndmainpm=Marth |
| |mainssbb = Marth | | |location=Oklahoma |
| |mainpm = Peach | | |country=USA |
| |sponsor = {{Team|Panda}} | | |skill=Pro-amateur |
| |former sponsors = [[Tourney Locator]] | |
| |realname = [[wikipedia:Alpharad|Jacob Rabon IV]] | |
| |birthday = 19
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| |birthmonth = 12
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| |birthyear = 1995 | |
| |location = Los Angeles, California
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| |country = USA
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| }} | | }} |
| {{art-wikipedia|Alpharad}}
| | Alpharad is a pro-amateur smasher most famous for his series of YouTube montage parodies, ''How to Play 101'', and similar videos. He frequently partners with Dad in ''[[Project M]]'' doubles matches. |
| '''Alpharad''', or simply '''Alpha''', is a smasher and [[YouTuber]] from Norman, Oklahoma, who is currently residing in Los Angeles, California. He was first known for his series of ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'' montages on [[YouTube]] entitled ''How to Play 101'', as well as ''Story for Glory'', and ''Challenge Mode'', and although branching out to other content since, he is considered one of the most well-known ''Smash Bros.'' YouTubers, becoming the first ''Smash Bros.'' YouTuber to reach 1 million subscribers on November 22, 2018, and currently sits at 3 million subscribers.
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| Outside of content creation, he helped develop the ''[[Melee]]'' mod ''[[Gameplay modification#Silly Melee|Silly Melee]]'' alongside {{Sm|MagicScrumpy}} and co-organized the {{Trn|The Quarantine Series|series}} alongside {{Sm|Cr1TiKaL}} during [[COVID-19]]. He was part of the streaming crew {{Team|Tourney Locator}} until May 4th, 2016,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/alpharadTV/status/727960346720243712|title=Alpharad confirming that he is leaving Tourney Locator}}</ref> and was picked up by {{Team|Panda}} two months later,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/PandaGlobal/status/748646569436602368|title=Alpharad joins Panda Global}}</ref> serving as their Creative Director for a period before stepping back in late 2019. He remained a shareholder in the company as of November 30th, 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Alpharad/status/1598091685741105154|title=Tweet commenting on his dealings during Panda Global's controversy}}</ref>
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| ==Tournament placings==
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| ===''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''===
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| {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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| !Tournament!!Date!!1v1 Placement!!2v2 Placement!!Partner
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz33ms Smash @ DZ #33]||March 22nd, 2015||9th||—||—
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| ===''[[Project M]]''===
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| {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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| !Tournament!!Date!!1v1 Placement!!2v2 Placement!!Partner
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz18pms Smash @ DZ #18]||November 9th, 2014||9th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz19pms Smash @ DZ #19]||November 16th, 2014||9th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz22pms Smash @ DZ #22]||December 21st, 2014||9th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz26pms Smash @ DZ #26]||January 18th, 2015||17th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz30pms Smash @ DZ #30 (Allstar)]||February 22nd, 2015||7th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz32pms Smash @ DZ #32]||March 15th, 2015||13th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz33pms Smash @ DZ #33]||March 22nd, 2015||7th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/ohsnappmdubs OHSNAP 7]||May 12th, 2015||—||13th||{{Sm|Mart}}
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/m9s Moorenado 9]||June 10th, 2015||9th||—||—
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/m12d Moorenado 12]||July 11th, 2015||—||4th||{{Sm|Dad}}
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/m17s Moorenado 17]||August 15th, 2015||5th||—||—
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| |}
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| | ==Notable Tournament Results== |
| ==={{forwiiu}}=== | | ==={{forwiiu}}=== |
| {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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| !Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
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| | |n=Low Tier City 3 |
| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/dz22s4s Smash @ DZ #22]||December 21st, 2014||7th||4th||{{Sm|Trash}}
| | |d=August 1st-2nd, 2015 |
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| | |l=Plano, Texas |
| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/ss13 Sonic Storm 13]||April 3rd, 2015||5th||—||—
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| | |2v2=9th |
| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/ohsnaps4dubs OHSNAP 7]||May 12th, 2015||—||5th||{{Sm|Zeroic}}
| | |p=Jtails |
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/ss20 Sonic Storm 20]||June 13th, 2015||7th||—||—
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| |[[Low Tier City 3]]||August 1st-2nd, 2015||—||9th||{{Sm|Jtails}}
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| |[http://stockcancelgaming.challonge.com/ss45s Sonic Storm 45]||February 12th, 2016||13th||3rd||{{Sm|Deezus}}
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| |[https://www.start.gg/tournament/super-bit-wars-4/event/wii-u-doubles/brackets/4032/16434 Super Bit Wars 4]||February 20th-21st, 2016||—||17th||{{Sm|Dakpo}}
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| |[https://www.start.gg/tournament/no-man-s-land-ft-dmg-james-250-pot-bonus/event/wii-u-doubles/brackets/95601/291327 No Man's Land]||March 18th, 2017||—||9th||Deezus
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| |}
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| ===''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''===
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| {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
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| !Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
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| |{{Trn|Frostbite 2019|g=SSBU}}||February 22nd-24th, 2019||—||65th||{{Sm|Miloni}} | |
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| |{{Trn|Low Tier City 7|g=SSBU}}||July 12th-14th, 2019||—||97th||{{Sm|JoSniffy}}
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| |} | | |} |
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *Occasionally, Alpharad will not take local tournaments seriously, using characters such as [[Wario-Man]] during bracket matches or partnering with a random person for doubles matches. He also uploaded a video of him at a tournament [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bX397Ihduk playing by himself as Wario-Man in doubles]. | | *Occasionally, Alpharad tends to not take local tournaments seriously, occasionally using characters such as [[Wario-Man]] during bracket matches. |
| *Alpharad had or was part of several other channels outside of his main channel: Alpharad Gold (formerly Alpharad Plus and then Alpharad Deluxe), in which he uploads content that is typically unedited; Alpharad Replay, which is used as a stream archive; Not Alpharad, in which he uploads very short comedy videos and snippets of his life as well as clips from his videos on his other channels; and Friends Without Benefits, a collaboration between YouTubers Dad as Heck, Weegee Plays, Deezus, and Major Duncan that he was part of until 2018. He is now also part of a group channel called Wildcard, a collaboration between him, Jaiden Animations, Captain Kidd, Giwi, gsmVoiD, Fyrus, sunflowersmith and Weegee Plays
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| ==References== | | ==External links== |
| {{reflist}}
| | [https://youtube.com/channel/UCBODyKF0JMbUd6D9Bklyzbw YouTube channel] |
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| ==External links==
| | [https://twitter.com/AlpharadTV Twitter account] |
| *[https://youtube.com/channel/UCBODyKF0JMbUd6D9Bklyzbw YouTube channel]
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| *[https://twitter.com/Alpharad Twitter account]
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| *[https://twitch.tv/alpharadTV Twitch channel]
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| *[http://sillymelee.com/ Silly Melee]
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| [[Category:Oklahoma smashers]] | | [https://twitch.tv/alpharadTV Twitch channel] |
| [[Category:Southern California smashers]]
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| [[Category:YouTubers]]
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| [[Category:Livestream commentators]]
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| [[Category:Tournament organizers]]
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