Smasher:Mr. Wizard
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| Mr. Wizard | |
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| Character info | |
| Smash 4 main | Duck Hunt |
| Team info | |
| Crew(s) | Shoryuken |
| Personal and other info | |
| Real name | Joey Cuellar |
| Location | Southern California 
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| Miscellaneous info | |
| Skill |  Amateur |
Mr. Wizard is a tournament director from Southern California who is mostly known as one of the co-founders of the Evolution Championship Series or simply EVO. He is the main TO for the EVO national tournaments which are the largest yearly FGC-run and Smash events ever. In terms of playing, he mains Duck Hunt[1], and has also played other various fighting games.
Controversies surrounding Smash at EVO
Fucking pedo. ALSO LISTEN TO GORILLAZ GOATED ASF!!!
Rule decisions
Within the Smash tournaments he has organized, he has made a few controversial decisions:
- Allowing items on at EVO 2008's Brawl tournament
- This decision is considered to be by far the most controversial decision he made as Super Smash Bros. tournaments generally don't allow items in tournament play. It was also a playing card for CPU's unexpected victory as it allowed him to spam Diffusion Beam very frequently. The aftermath of this decision would result in the relationship between EVO and Brawl being tarnished.
- Allowing Customs at EVO 2015's Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament. (due to community feedback, customs are off at EVO 2016)
- Making Lylat Cruise a starter stage at EVO 2016, while making Dream Land 64 a counterpick; which to many is surprising since most Smash 4 tournaments have it vice-versa. This would become a standard in various tournaments following the EVO 2016 ruleset announcement.
Other criticisms
- One of the more recent criticisms comes from the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U community, as their game had the second most entrant numbers at both the 2015 and 2016 editions of EVO, albeit being treated to Saturday finals over Super Smash Bros. Melee as the latter got Sunday finals on both years. Notably in 2016, most players had about a maximum of five hours of sleep going into EVO which put a lot of stress on the players (Top 32 specifically) for the former game due to the poor scheduling. The issues with the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U's performance were fixed for EVO 2017 when it was announced that the staff would place it on the Sunday finals in addition to switching to smash.gg as the tournament bracket.
Tournaments hosted
| Tournament | Date | Attendance |
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| EVO 2007 | August 24th-26th, 2007 | 270 
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| EVO 2008 | August 8th-10th, 2008 | 110 
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| EVO 2013 | July 12th-14th, 2013 | 709
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| EVO 2014 | July 11th-13th, 2014 | 970
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| EVO 2015 | July 17th-19th, 2015 | 1,926 
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| 1,869
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| EVO 2016 | July 15th-17th, 2016 | 2,662
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| 2,372
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| EVO 2017 | July 14th-16th, 2017 | 1,508
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| 1,428
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| EVO 2018 | August 3rd-5th, 2018 | 1,358
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| 1,353
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| EVO 2019 | August 2nd-4th, 2019 | 3,534 
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