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ChuDat "Chu"
Character info
Smash 64 main	Kirby
Other Smash 64 character	Pikachu
Melee main	Ice Climbers
Other Melee characters	Jigglypuff, Fox
Retired Melee characters	Pikachu, Young Link
Brawl main	Kirby
Other Brawl character	Ice Climbers
Smash 4 main	Cloud
Other Smash 4 character	Sheik
Ultimate mains	Pokémon Trainer, Mii Gunner
Project M main	Kirby
Other Project M character	Ice Climbers
Team info
Sponsor(s)	Team Liquid
Former crews	H2YL, Power Underwhelming, Mortality eSports, Melee Hell, ROOT Gaming, VGBootCamp
Rankings and results info
Most recent ranking	SSBMRank 2022: 63rd ;
Best historical ranking	RetroSSBMRank 2005: 2nd ; SSBBRank 2014: 49th ; MD/VA Power Rankings May 2015: 9th ; MD/VA Power Rankings Spring 2014: 1st
Best tournament result	1st / 201 at Pound 2 ; 13th / 151 at Pound V ; 25th / 837 at Apex 2015 ; 65th / 273 at Mainstage ; 4th / 255 at CEO 2014
Winnings	~$44,779.07 ; ~$1,194.11 ; ~$1,513.51 ;
Personal and other info
Real name	Daniel Rodriguez
Birth date	January 16, 1987 (age 37)
Location	Falls Church, Virginia

Revision as of 02:05, August 10, 2024

ChuDat, also known as simply Chu, is an American professional smasher from Falls Church, Virginia who mains the Ice Climbers in Melee. He is widely considered to be the greatest vegetable oil user of all time. His name originates from the phrase, 'true that,' as he stated in the Smash Brothers Documentary due to his obsession of the phrase. In the early times of the Melee scene, Chu joined the legendary crew H2YL, and regularly attended tournaments with them. He notably defeated top professional Jigglypuff main Hungrybox at Zenith 2012 to take 3rd place at the tournament. He was formerly ranked 5th on the MD/VA Melee Power Rankings and 63rd on SSBMRank 2022.

In Brawl, he is considered to be the best Kirby player, and also mains Kirby in Project M, and is considered one of the best Kirby players in said mod. ChuDat was ranked 4th on the final MD/VA Brawl Power Rankings, was formerly ranked 5th on the MD/VA Project M Power Rankings, and was formerly ranked 49th on the 2014 SSBBRank.

He also plays Smash 4 competitively (albeit not to the same extent as Melee), maining Cloud, and primarily enters doubles. His best performance in Smash 4 was 13th in The Big House 6 doubles where he teamed with Puppeh, notably defeating komorikiri and SuperGirlKels. ChuDat previously mained Sheik, and was formerly ranked 9th on the MD/VA Smash 4 Power Rankings when he mained her.

Tournament history

Earlier history

In addition to piquing the interests of the community at large about the Ice Climbers' metagame, Chu has also spearheaded the local community in Northern Virginia by hosting "NoVa Bi-weekliez !" at his parents' home. The tournaments have attracted a wide variety of top level competition including Mew2King, Chillin and Azen. His biggest original tournament placing in early smash was OC2 where he made an incredible loser's run.

He had been known to frequently visit Southern California to spend time with the Hoang family, which includes Ken and Manacloud. For several years ChuDat preferred to represent the West Coast due to his friendships and close ties to California but this put stress on his relationship with the other members of H2YL.

CEO and EVO

After a few years on the West Coast, (around when Brawl came out,) he moved back to MD/VA where he once again became one of the top smashers in the area and reestablished ties with the rest of the MD/VA scene. Chu Dat won a large number of the weekly S@X tournaments in Brawl, Project M, and Melee. In Brawl and Project M specifically, he became the top Kirby main. Due to his frequent results, he was sponsored by Mortality eSports along with Axe. However, Mortality dropped both sponsorships shortly before CEO 2015 which left Chu with little cash. For EVO specifically, a crowd fund was sponsored by Melee Hell (or MH) which sponsored enough cash for Chu Dat to be able to attend EVO 2015. He lost eventually in winners to Ice's Fox in round 2 pools. He then made an impressive loser's run, beating players including Silent Wolf and Westballz and winning a nail-biting set vs HugS to get top 8 before finally losing to Mango in losers, netting 7th at then the largest tournament in history.

2017: Rise of ChuDat

ChuDat started the year off with an impressive run at GENESIS 4, where he defeated Shroomed in winners but lost to Hungrybox in a close game 5 set. In losers, he defeated Crush and Wizzrobe before losing to Leffen to finish at 9th place.

After his performance at GENESIS 4, he was voted into Smash Summit Spring 2017. He placed 7th at the tournament, notably upsetting Axe and 4-stocking Mango in the last game of their set.

ChuDat was later invited to Smash Rivalries, where he defeated Mango for a second time before being defeated by Wizzrobe and Druggedfox to place 5th.

Three weeks later, he travelled to DreamHack Austin 2017, where he had an impressive run. He notably beat Mango for the 3rd time in 2017 and strongly defeated Mew2King's Peach with Jigglypuff and Ice Climbers (the latter of which was a four-stock) and winning the set 3-1. ChuDat took Hungrybox to a game 5 in Grand Finals but ultimately lost to place 2nd. He then attended Battle of BC 2, where he won the entire event and double eliminated Mew2King. All these great performances lead him to be ranked at 7th on the Summer 2017 SSBMRank.

After ChuDat's performance during the first half of the year, he placed 17th at EVO 2017, 9th at DreamHack Atlanta 2017, and 13th at Super Smash Con 2017, taking sets off the likes of Ginger and HugS.

At Shine 2017, he earned his first top 8 performance of the second half of the year, defeating dizzkidboogie and Spark 3-0 and Westballz 3-1. In Loser's Top 8, he proceeded to defeat Leffen 3-2. However, a discrepancy in the use of UCF mandated that the set would be replayed. Leffen won the rematch 3-2, leaving ChuDat to place at 7th.

After Shine 2017, ChuDat continued his strong performances with 3rd at DreamHack Montreal 2017 and 4th at Syndicate 2017. At GameTyrant Expo 2017, ChuDat was eliminated by Syrox and aMSa, leaving him at his worst performance of the year at 17th place. ChuDat then placed 13th at The Big House 7 and 5th at DreamHack Denver 2017. ChuDat ended the year at 11th on the 2017 SSBMRank.

In 2019, the Melee community was considering to ban wobbling. He has stated that wobbling is definitely an unfair mechanic. However, he believes if it were ever to get banned, it should only be illegal against top tier characters. Although this controversy has been a huge debate over the years, to help Melee seem more interesting to watch, this has been heavily considered since the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Rankings

Super Smash Bros. Melee

RetroSSBMRank

Ranking	Time period	Rank
RetroSSBMRank 2004	January 2004 - December 2004	5th
RetroSSBMRank 2005	January 2005 - December 2005	2nd
RetroSSBMRank 2006	January 2006 - December 2006	4th
RetroSSBMRank 2007	January 2007 - December 2007	6th
RetroSSBMRank 2008	January 2008 - December 2008	6th
RetroSSBMRank 2009	January 2009 - December 2009	HM
RetroSSBMRank 2012	January 2012 - December 2012	7th

SSBMRank/MPGR

Ranking	Time period	Rank
SSBMRank 2013	January 2013 - December 2013	22nd
SSBMRank 2014	January 2014 - December 2014	32nd
SSBMRank 2015	January 2015 - December 2015	35th
SSBMRank 2016	January 2016 - December 2016	22nd
Summer 2017 SSBMRank	December 2016 - June 2017	7th
SSBMRank 2017	December 2016 - December 2017	11th
MPGR 2018	December 2017 - December 2018	46th
Summer 2019 MPGR	December 2018 - July 2019	28th
MPGR 2019	December 2018 - December 2019	23rd
SSBMRank 2022	March 1st - December 18th, 2022	63rd

MD/VA Power Rankings

Ranking	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
October 2014	5th
April 2015	6th
Fall 2015	4th
Spring 2016	5th
Fall/Winter 2016	1st
Winter 2018	5th

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

RetroSSBBRank

Ranking	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
RetroSSBBRank 2009	HM

SSBBRank

Ranking	Time period	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
SSBBRank 2014	January 2013 - June 2014	49th

MD/VA Power Rankings

Ranking	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
May 2012	1st
August 2012	4th
November 2012	6th
December 2013	4th

Project M

MD/VA Power Rankings

Ranking	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
Spring 2014	1st
July 2014	4th
September 2014	2nd
Spring 2015	5th

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

MD/VA Power Rankings

Ranking	Rank	Character(s)	Notes
February 2015	4th
May 2015	9th

Tournament placings