Smasher:Tope

Tope
Character info
Melee main	Sheik
Personal and other info
Real name	Matthew Jewell
Location	San Diego, California
Miscellaneous info
Skill	Top professional

Tope is a Sheik main from Richmond, Virginia who currently resides in San Diego, California. He often teams with Cyrain at nationals, and has done so to great success, placing 5th in Melee doubles at Apex 2014.

Tope is known for being one of if not the first Sheik player to popularize tech-chasing against fast-falling characters like Fox and Falco, a strategy that is now commonly used by nearly every Sheik player. At the time in which this was the case, they called it "Tope-chasing".

Notable tournament placings

Melee

Tournament	Date	1v1 Placement	2v2 Placement	Partner
Pound	January 28th, 2006	25th	9th	Oro
MLG Anaheim 2006	June 23rd-24th, 2006	—	9th	KoreanDJ
Pound 2	June 16th-17th, 2007	25th	17th	Meap
Pound 3	February 2nd-3rd, 2008	17th	41st	HugS
GENESIS	July 10th-12th, 2009	13th	13th	Cyrain
Pound 4	January 16th-18th, 2010	9th	7th	Cyrain
Apex 2010	August 6th-8th, 2010	—	13th	Cyrain
Revival of Melee 3	November 20th-21st, 2010	25th	4th	Chillin
Pound V	February 19th-21st, 2011	25th	7th	Cyrain
GENESIS 2	July 15th-17th, 2011	33rd	9th	Cyrain
Revival of Melee 4	November 19th-20th, 2011	13th	4th	Cyrain
Apex 2012	January 6th-8th, 2012	13th	13th	Azen
Apex 2013	January 11th-13th, 2013	17th	17th	Cyrain
Zenith 2013	June 1st-2nd, 2013	13th	7th	SwiftBass
Revival of Melee 6	November 16th-17th, 2013	7th	5th	Chillin
Apex 2014	January 17th-19th, 2014	25th	5th	Cyrain
Apex 2015	January 30th-February 1st, 2015	65th	17th	Cyrain
Paragon Los Angeles 2015	September 5th-6th, 2015	33rd	—	—