Smasher:T0mmy

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t0mmy
Character info
Smash 64 main	Pikachu
Melee main	Pichu
Other Melee character	Jigglypuff
Brawl main	R.O.B.
Smash 4 mains	Mii Brawler, Diddy Kong
Team info
Crew(s)	Super Smash Twins
Personal and other info
Location	Eugene, Oregon
Miscellaneous info
Skill	Professional

t0mmy is a smasher and tournament organizer from Portland, Oregon. He was ranked 3rd on the Pacific Northwest Brawl Power Rankings. For some time, he was considered to be one of the best American R.O.B. mains. t0mmy is a member of Super Smash Twins, along with his twin brother, t1mmy.

History

He started playing Super Smash Bros. for the N64 at a game store pre-release demo. Years later, Nintendo promoted the Nintendo GameCube through a series of events called the Gamecube Game Club Super Smash Bros. Melee was available for demo. He attended an event in Philadelphia and enjoyed a competitive and fun atmosphere, then trolled about being one of the first people to play the game. But it wasn't until Fall of 2006 that changed the way he played the game from then on.

A local Game Crazy store hosted a Nintendo-sponsored Super Smash Bros. tournament. t0mmy entered with Pichu and his brother played through as Kirby. It was a free-for-all, items-on mess with broken controllers and two seasoned players (and previous champions) ganging up on the other players. t1mmy ended up winning the tournament, and more importantly it started their interest finding better players. Coming across Smashboards they found the closest tournament in Oregon was TANG hosted in Portland by Aftermath. The turnout was small (about 8 entrants) but was the spark that lit a wild fire of tournaments seen in Oregon today. Soon thereafter, t0mmy and t1mmy met with Tudios and Shin and started a community in Eugene with the Smashfest:Eugene and Big City Brawl events; with this renewed tournament scene the Oregon Smash community grew. NOregon (Norther Oregon) grew larger with TANG, OATS, Empire Games, Gamer's Guild, and Portland Kombat, and the state of Oregon was finally put on the competitive Smash map.

By the time of Brawl's release the Smash Twins were hosting or overseeing the tournaments in Oregon and have successfully brought a regional tournament to Oregon with The Oregon Mega Games (The OMG).

With the decline of the Pac NW tournament scene at the end of 2011 t0mmy decided to put focus on hosting events due to most of the state events having about 4 entrants competing. He decided to revolutionize the scene and bring it back to its glory days of 2008-2010 with his "R3VOLUTION" tournament series (R3VO series). The name of the series is an homage to the Ron Paul rEVOLution which emphasizes freedom in economics, personal choices, and many libertarian philosophies (minimizing government, maximizing peace, and liberty), but additional puns include the revolution of R.O.B.'s Gyro, and the first event's name "Revolt" means to "charge up again" eluding to electronics/robots and recharging the dying Oregon scene.

The first R3VO#1 was a success, seeing about 8 times the amount of attendees as the usual events. The next two events in the series were just as successful; The Oregon Smash scene saw an influx of new players and many returning players.

t0mmy continues to play Smash and other games in the game shops around his home town.

He currently helps head up the Oregon Scene organizing and hosting events, moderates the state boards online, and contributes to discussion regarding tournament protocol and rules on a national scale. Looking forward to several more years of tournaments and travel for Super Smash Bros. 3DS & Wii U. Needless to say, he has his hands full as both a professional gamer and a supporter of the community.

Tournament History

t0mmy started competitive Smash with TANG 9 in Fall 2006. Since then he has helped organized and competed in nearly every SF:E tournament and other series of state/local events. Playing catch-up to all the seasoned veterans he's boldly jumped into the big competitive scene with events like MLG, 0C2, and NCT2. Ever since Brawl's early release t0mmy has scored 1st place in countless Oregon state events and went on to win many major Pacific Northwest tournaments (RCB series and GameClucks series). Noticing a decline in attendance he announced his retirement from the "local" scene and focused on hosting events to help bolster tournament growth, but continued to play outside the state to represent Oregon where he scored some wins in Washington around the time of Felix's impressive top 3 placing at an MLG event (MLG Raleigh). His best placing on a national level to date was Evo 2k9 in Brawl Singles taking top 10 at 9th place. [1] The first grassroots Pacific Northwest regional (East/West Washington, North/South Oregon, Idaho, and Canada players attended) tournament for Super Smash Bros. 3DS (hosted at GameZone/GameClucks in Washington on Oct. 4th) started off his involvement with the newest Smash franchise where he took 2nd place to Gimpyfish. Since then t0mmy has won nearly every weekly and monthly 3DS event in his state leading up to the launch of Smash Wii U. He is currently ranked 2nd on the Oregon Smash 4 Power Rankings.

Notable tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner
GENESIS	July 10th-12th, 2009	33rd	25th	t1mmy
EVO 2009	July 17th-19th, 2009	9th	9th	t1mmy
MLG Columbus 2010	June 4th-6th, 2010	33rd	17th	t1mmy
GENESIS 2	July 15th-17th, 2011	33rd	25th	Izumi

Super Smash Bros. 4

Tournament	Date	1v1 placement	2v2 placement	Partner
PAX Prime 2015	August 28th-30th, 2015	9th	7th	Tudios

Videos

• YouTube profile
• t1mmy's YouTube profile

External links

• [2]
• Oregon Group on AiB
• Floating Island of the Ancients
• Smashboards profile
• The Pichu paradigm