Smasher:Wobbles
| Wobbles "Honorbound" | |
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| Wobbles.png | |
| 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 | |
| Location | Gilbert, AZ 
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| Miscellaneous info | |
| Skill |  Top professional  |
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, Nintendude, and ChuDat.
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 3-1 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 MVG Sandstorm, a huge Arizona tourney expected to have 5 of the Top 6 and many more top tier talents.
As of the time of this update, Wobbles has beaten all but one of The Five Gods in a tournament bracket match, the exception being Armada.
Notable tournament placings
| Tournament | Date | 1v1 placement | 2v2 placement | Partner | ||
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| 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 | — | — | ||
| EVO 2015 | July 17th-19th, 2015 | 104th | — | — | ||
| Low Tier City 3 | August 1st-2nd, 2015 | 1st | — | —
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