Editing Smasher:Nintendude

{{Smasher Infobox

| name               = Nintendude

| image             = Nintendude.png

| mainssb           = Mario

| 2ndmainssb         = Pikachu

| otherssb          = Kirby

| mainssbm           = Ice Climbers

| otherssbm         = Peach

| 2ndotherssbm       = Samus

| mainpm             = Mr. Game & Watch

| otherpm           = Peach

| 2ndotherpm         = Ike

| mainssb4           = Zero Suit Samus

| crew              = Splyce, Video Gamerz, [[Twitch]]

| former crews       = [[MC]], [[Team Apex]]

| skillssb          = Top professional

| skillssbm          = Top professional

| skillpm            = Professional

| winningsssbm       = ~$8,032.25

| winningspm         = ~$477.90

| alias             =  

| realname           = Michael Brancato

| birthday           = 11

| birthmonth         = 11

| birthyear         =  

| location           = Northern California

| country           = USA

He is considered to be one of the best ''[[Melee]]'' {{SSBM|Ice Climbers}} players in the world along with {{Sm|ChuDat}}, {{Sm|Wobbles}} and {{Sm|Fly Amanita}}, having defeated top players such as {{Sm|PewPewU}}, {{Sm|Zhu}}, {{Sm|KirbyKaze}}, {{Sm|Hax}}, {{Sm|Mew2King}}, {{Sm|Westballz}}, and {{Sm|Plup}}. He is mostly known for his high use of [[wobbling]], along with many creative setups to maximize its use. He is also a notable {{SSB|Mario}} and {{SSB|Pikachu}} player in ''[[Smash 64]]'', and has taken sets off high-level players such as {{Sm|Fireblaster}}, {{Sm|Revan}} and {{Sm|Stranded}} in tournament. For this reason, he is considered to be the best Mario main in North America, and even the world. He does play {{PM|Mr. Game & Watch}} in ''[[Project M]]'', but has not achieved the results of other top Game & Watch players such as {{Sm|Dakpo}} and {{Sm|MrLz}}.

Nintendude is also one of the most prominent tournament organizers on the east coast. In addition to being a staff member of Apex from 2010 until 2015, he administered the Smash @ Clarendon tournament series in Arlington, VA, in addition to other large local tournaments such as PrEVO 2015. Nintendude was also a head organizer for Super Smash Con and PAX Prime 2015. He is a moderator on the [[Reddit|/r/smashbros]] subreddit, where his username is "Elbedhar". In April 2016, Nintendude also helped organize [[Pound 2016]]. Nintendude is currently a member of Splyce, which was formerly known as FolloweSports.com.

|[[Apex 2013]]||January 11th-13th, 2013||9th||—||—

|[[Apex 2013]]||January 11th-13th, 2013||49th||—||—

|[[Sa2vation S]]||January 26th, 2013||4th||—||—

|[[The Big House 3]]||October 12th-13th, 2013||5th||—||—

|Xanadu 12/10/2013||December 11th, 2013||1st||—||—

|S@X Sunday||December 22nd, 2013||1st||—||—

|[[Revival of Melee 7]]||March 8th-9th, 2014||17th||13th||{{Sm|Wife}}

|[[Smash @ Clarendon]]||July 18th, 2014||5th||—||—

|S@X||July 22nd, 2014||5th||—||—

|[[Zenith 2014]]||August 2nd-3rd, 2014||5th||—||—

|S@X||August 5th, 2014||1st||—||—

|Smash @ Clarendon||August 15th, 2014||4th||—||—

|S@X||August 19th, 2014||1st||—||—

|Smash @ Clarendon||August 29th, 2014||4th||—||—

|S@X||September 2nd, 2014|| 1st||—||—

|S@X||September 10th, 2014||1st||—||—

|S@X||September 17th, 2014||3rd||—||—

|S@X||September 24th, 2014||1st||—||—

|S@X||October 8th, 2014||1st||—||—

|Smash @ Clarendon||October 11th, 2014||7th||—||—

|[[Shell Shocked XVI]]||October 11th, 2014||1st||—||—

|[[Super Nebulous 3]]||April 25th-26th, 2015||3rd||4th||Swedish Delight

|[[FC Smash 15XR: Return]]||July 4th-5th, 2015||7th||5th||Swedish Delight

|[[EVO 2015]]||July 17th-19th, 2015||97th||7th||Swedish Delight

|[[The Big House 5]]||October 2nd-4th, 2015||13th||5th||Swedish Delight

|Smash @ Xanadu Wednesdays||October 21st, 2015||2nd||—||—

|[[GENESIS 3]]||January 15th-17th, 2016||7th||33rd||Bladewise

|[http://vgbootcamp.challonge.com/SatX02172016SSBM Smash @ Xanadu Wednesdays 2/17]||February 17th, 2016||5th||—||—

|[http://vgbootcamp.challonge.com/SAX03302016SSBM Smash @ Xanadu Wednesdays 3/30]||March 30th, 2016||5th||—||—

|[http://vgbootcamp.challonge.com/SAX04062016SSBM Smash @ Xanadu Wednesdays 4/6]||April 6th, 2016||2nd||—||—

|[[Project M Showdown 3.02]]||May 17th, 2014||3rd||{{Sm|Seagull Joe}}

|[http://challonge.com/SAX03302016PM Smash @ Xanadu Wednesdays 3/30]||March 30th, 2016||17th||—||—

*Due to his infamously high use of wobbling compared to other Ice Climbers players, as well as his many setups into the technique, Nintendude is seen as a somewhat controversial player among the community, more so than other Ice Climbers players. However, he has revealed in his Reddit AMA [https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/2ctue2/hi_this_is_nintendude_people_get_salty_when_i/ he actually thinks of it as a terrible gameplay mechanic], and the reason why he uses it much more compared to other Ice Climbers players is because he had practiced for several years to execute sophisticated grab combos with them (similar to those of {{Sm|Wobbles}}), though they became obsoleted by his use of the mechanic, and he knows the characters can do great things without wobbling. He also said he would still main the Ice Climbers even if the mechanic didn't existed.

**This is not partly true, however, as in ''[[Project M]]'' the {{PM|Ice Climbers}} cannot wobble, and he mains Mr. Game & Watch in said mod.

*[http://www.reddit.com/user/Elbedhar Reddit account (Elbedhar)]

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