Smasher:Wobbles

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Wobbles "Honorbound"
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Character info
Melee main Ice Climbers
Other Melee characters Sheik, Mario
Smash 4 main Wii Fit Trainer
Project M main Ice Climbers
Other Project M character Mario
Team info
Crew(s) FX Game Exchange DFW
Personal and other info
Real name Robert Wright
Birth date (age 37)
Location Gilbert, AZ United States
Miscellaneous info
Skill Other Top professional
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Wobbles, previously known as Wobbles the Phoenix or Honorbound, is an American smasher known for playing the Ice Climbers and was considered the best in the world with them prior to his initial retirement. Wobbles was formerly ranked 1st on the Arizona Melee Power Rankings. Wobbles has since come out of retirement, and is still considered to be one of the best Ice Climbers players in the world, along with Fly Amanita and Nintendude.

He became known for his use of the "grab, neutral attack, forward tilt" infinite combo that effectively pushed him within the top 12 finalists in his debut major tournament NorCal Tournament. Wobbles' claim to fame also sparked a series of discussions concerning whether or not the Ice Climbers' forward tilt infinite should be banned in competitive play. The Smash Back Room decided that the infinite should go unbanned in tournaments. The technique has since been called wobbling.

Wobbles is well known for his performance at EVO 2013, where he defied all expectations and placed 2nd. He made it into the top 8 through winners' bracket by defeating Mango 2-1 in the winners' quarters pool, and then defeated Dr. PeePee 2-0 in winners' semis and Hungrybox 2-1 in winners' finals. However, in grand finals, he lost to Mango 0-3 and 1-3 in the first and second sets respectively. After this performance with a character once considered to be below the threshold for a high tier character, Wobbles retired from the competitive community like he announced before the tournament.

Wobbles is currently in a semi-retired state. He still enters locals in his area and commentates on the livestreams of nationals, but usually does not compete as seriously in national tournaments. He has also recently shown a disdain for wobbling and prefers to perform flashy yet more impractical desynching combos, which has resulted in comparatively low placings in tournaments where top players are present.

Wobbles has recently made a bit of a resurgence after being sponsored by a local provider in FX DFW. He regularly goes to the Monday Night Melee weeklies and DIME monthlies and consistently gets 1st nearly every time. He has also in this time gone to 2 major tournaments, Forte 2 and Apex 2015. At Forte 2, he placed 3rd of 200+ entrants, taking out notable players such as Axe and taking a game from Hungrybox in Winner's finals before being defeated by Hungrybox 1-3 and then later Axe 0-3 in loser's finals. At APEX, Wobbles placed 33rd of roughly 1,037 entrants, getting 1st seed in his R1 and R2 pools to make bracket, in doing so defeating players such as Qerb, s0ft and Blea Gelo. He then lost to S2J in round 1 of Winner's bracket 1-2, though he quit Game 3 prematurely after losing a stock rather viciously at the hands of S2J. He then forfeited his set with Cactuar in round 1 of loser's bracket to get 33rd overall.

Wobbles has also gone to several smaller tourneys, such as Infinity and Beyond! 18, where he placed 2nd, being able to take a set off of Mew2King 3-2 in Grand Finals but ultimately losing the second set 1-3. Another tourney he attended was Low Tier City 2, where he placed 3rd, losing to Mew2King 1-3 in Winner's finals and Westballz 0-3 in loser's finals. He also attended AZ tourney Smash the Target, where he again placed 3rd, defeating the likes of Squid and Tai, the latter coming off an upset over Westballz, both 2-1 before losing to Axe 2-3 in Winner's finals and Westballz again 1-3 in loser's finals. Finally, Wobbles recently attended the monthly DIME 13, which had Lucky in attendance. Wobbles was able to take 1st at the tournament despite the top level SoCal talent being in attendance. After defeating Mojo 3-2 last stock in Winner's semis, Wobbles lost to Lucky 2-3 last stock in Winner's finals, then proceeded to defeat Mojo 3-1 in loser's finals and take grand finals over Lucky 3-2 and 3-0 for each set, respectively.

Wobbles attended huge southwest tourney Aftershock in March 2015, where he placed a great 2nd place. After earning enough qualifiers points to automatically grant a Top 16 placing, he defeated top MDVA talent in Milkman and Redd to enter Winner's Semis, where he finally defeated Westballz for the first time. He then lost to Axe in Winner's Finals, then proceeded to narrowly beat Redd again in loser's finals 3-2 to reach Grand, where he lost the first set to Axe, netting 2nd place of roughly 150 entrants. Wobbles recently stated he will be attending Sandstorm, a huge Arizona tourney expected to have 5 of the Top 6 and many more top tier talents.

Notable tournament placings

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
NorCal Tournament 2 October 28th, 2006 9th
EVO South 2007 March 10th-11th, 2007 1st
EVO East 2007 May 25th-27th, 2007 9th
Zero Challenge 3 July 20th-22nd, 2007 13th 9th Taj
Super Champ Combo September 29th-30th, 2007 5th 5th Taj
Apex 2010 August 6th-8th, 2010 6th 9th DoH
GENESIS 2 July 15th-17th, 2011 9th 9th DoH
Apex 2012 January 6th-8th, 2012 9th
Apex 2013 January 11th-13th, 2013 17th 17th Taj
Kings of Cali 2 April 13th-14th, 2013 2nd
Project AZ Melee June 1st, 2013 2nd
EVO 2013 July 12th-14th, 2013 2nd
King of the House 3 June 21st, 2014 1st
Gameguys Intergalactic Kegger July 26th-27th, 2014 2nd
Infinity and Beyond! 18 August 14th, 2014 2nd
Low Tier City 2 August 16th-17th, 2014 3rd 1st Westballz
Monday Night Melee 2 November 10th, 2014 1st
Absolute Battle 5 November 15th, 2014 1st
Monday Night Melee 5 December 1st, 2014 1st
Monday Night Melee 7 December 15th, 2014 1st
Forte 2 December 21st-22nd, 2014 3rd
Smash the Target January 3rd, 2015 3rd 3rd Twin_A
DIME 12 January 24th, 2015 1st
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 33rd 17th Taj
Monday Night Melee 16 February 9th, 2015 1st
Monday Night Melee 17 February 16th, 2015 1st
DIME 13 February 21st, 2015 1st 4th Sethlon
Monday Night Melee 19 March 9th, 2015 1st
Aftershock March 28th-29th, 2015 2nd 1st Axe
MVG Sandstorm April 18th-19th, 2015 9th 5th Taj
Monday Night Melee 34 June 22nd, 2015 3rd
Monday Night Melee 35 June 29th, 2015 9th
Monday Night Melee 36 July 6th, 2015 1st

Trivia

  • Wobbles is infamous for popularizing the term "Arizona Anger", when he threw his controller in a match against SilentSpectre.[1]

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