Editing Smasher:Recipherus

'''Recipherus''' is a retired ''[[Melee]]'' {{SSBM|Sheik}} main from Los Angeles, [[California]]. He was well-known for briefly being considered ''Melee''{{'}}s best player in the game's competitive beginnings before {{Sm|Ken}} emerged, back when {{SSBM|tournament rulesets}} still had [[item]]s on and had [[stage legality|most stages legal]], while he would remain Ken's strongest competition in the pre-[[MLG]] era after Ken started competing. He consistently placed top 3 at all tournaments he entered during this time, while also travelling across the US to compete, where he placed 2nd at {{Trn|MOAST}} and 1st at {{Trn|Snexus 2}}, and additionally won a then-record-setting $8,000 for 1st at [[IVGF Northwest Regionals]] (a record he would hold until {{Sm|PC Chris}} earned $10,000 for winning {{Trn|MLG Las Vegas 2006}} over three years later). His dominance in this time period would retroactively get him ranked 2nd by [[RetroSSBMRank]] for their 2001-2003 ranking, being only outranked by Ken.

In 2004 when the MLG era kicked off, Recipherus would attend the final Tournament Go and ''Melee''{{'}}s first supermajor, {{Trn|Tournament Go 6}}, but he would have by far his worst performance yet when he placed 17th. After this he would quietly retire and never compete in a ''Melee'' tournament again, as he found it too difficult to keep up with the rising level of competition while having increasingly less time to practice and attend tournaments himself.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/3bgm4t/hey_smashers_this_is_jeremy_but_you_guys_probably/csm4uwn/</ref> He would make a reappearance in ''[[Brawl]]'' shortly after the game released, but this return was very brief, as after entering only a couple tournaments, he would disappear from the ''Smash'' community again. He was mentioned in the ''[[The Smash Brothers]]'' documentary, but was not asked for an interview, despite Recipherus later stating he would have been opened to an interview.<ref>https://smashboards.com/threads/the-smash-brothers-series-discussion.341152/page-2#post-15902006</ref> In June 2015, Recipherus did an AMA on the ''Smash'' [[subreddit]], r/Smashbros, but indicated that he was not interested in returning to competitive Smash, and that remains Recipherus' last known involvement with the ''Smash'' community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/3bgm4t/hey_smashers_this_is_jeremy_but_you_guys_probably/|title=Recipherus's Reddit AMA}}</ref>

|[[Tournament Go 1]]||April 6th, 2002||3rd / ?||3rd / ?||[[Smasher:Adam (CA)|Adam]]

|[[Tournament Go 2]]||June 15th, 2002||2nd / ?||1st / ?||Adam

|[[Tournament Go 3]]||August 24th, 2002||1st / ~40||1st / 22||Adam

|[[Meleepalooza]]||December 29th-30th, 2002||3rd / ?||&mdash;||&mdash;

|[[MOAST]]||January 6th, 2003||2nd / ?||&mdash;||&mdash;

|[[IVGF Northwest Regionals]]||March 1st, 2003||1st / 151{{Rollover|*|Unverified entrant count that is disputed|?}}||&mdash;||&mdash;

|[[Snexus 2]]||July 12th, 2003||1st / 48||2nd / ?||{{Sm|Isai}}

*Recipherus was infamous for always wearing gloves inbetween sets at tournaments.