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| RagingCherry "Cherry" | |
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| Character info | |
| Melee mains | Jigglypuff, Marth |
| Other Melee character | Fox |
| Smash 4 mains | Donkey Kong, Samus |
| Other Smash 4 character | Diddy Kong |
| Project M mains | Link, Ganondorf |
| Team info | |
| Crew(s) | #StR |
| Former crews | Gaming Knights |
| Personal and other info | |
| Real name | Alexander Chiricosta |
| Birth date | |
| Location | Southern California 
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RagingCherry or Cherry is a smasher from Florida who is one of the most well known tournament directors, running events such as Smash the Record 2014, Smash the Record 2015 , Paragon Orlando 2015, Paragon Los Angeles 2015, and CEO 2014. He currently resides in Southern California, where he does not currently host events on a regular basis anymore. Since moving, he has been an adviser of Gaming Knights when it comes to some of the Florida events. Formerly a Call of Duty and Halo player, Cherry found his way to the Smash Community in 2012 when he hosted a small gaming event at his school, the University of Central Florida (UCF). Cherry was approached by Colbol to host Melee at his event, which ended up bringing over 100 people on the first try. Cherry instantly loved the Smash Community, and has not looked back since joining.
Tournament placings
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| Tournament | Date | Placement | |
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| CEO 2014 | June 27th-29th, 2014 | 9th | |
| EVO 2015 | July 17th-19th, 2015 | 4th | |
| SoCal Regionals 2015 | October 9th-11th, 2015 | 3rd |
Biography
Origin of the Name
Cherry is pulled from his last name "Chiricosta" (which many people pronounced 'Cherrycosta'). One day while playing FIFA on Xbox Live, he was getting really frustrated over lag, which his roommate walked in to say "Yo...stop raging, Cherry!" Though his tag is officially RagingCherry, he prefers to be called Cherry.
Paragon Tournaments
Paragon Orlando 2015 was formed when Cherry was approached to run an Apex World Circuit event. Cherry then approached Eric Santner of VS Gaming Center to partner with on the event. After being a huge success, the two decided to push the event to the West Coast for Paragon Los Angeles 2015. There has not been any official statements regarding the continuation of the Paragon Circuit as of today.
#SmashTheRecord
- SmashTheRecord was created in attempt to run an event that is much different than other Smash tournaments with a focus on raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Though still a tournament, the event runs for over 60 hours straight, with many side events such as: team with your significant other, low-tier tournament, reverse main tournament, oven mitts challenge, etc. The event is most notable for the Mango vs. The Baddies event in 2014 where Mango faced 40 people with four stocks each (while only having 16), where he defeated all 40 players while only losing eight stocks. In 2015, the event added Speedrunning which attracted runners such as: Narcissa (formerly Cosmo), Trihex, Fuzzyness, Iateyourpie, Carcinogen, and many others.
The event has raised over $64,000 for St. Jude ($13,932 in 2014, $50,637 in 2015)
Personal Life
Cherry obtained a degree from the University of Central Florida with a major in Production, minors in both Digital Media and Coaching. He now works for ESL in California as an Associate Producer, and continues to host events such as #SmashTheRecord and the Paragon tournament series.
Cherry was also a collegiate wrestler for UCF, where he holds the record of pins (77 career), and was a 3x All-American wrestler, placing 4th/5th/4th in the nation from 2012-2014, with a record of 107-26 in the 125lb. and 133lb. weight classes. Cherry is also a 3x SEC Champion at 125lbs. He quit wrestling in his 5th year of college in order to pursue gaming as a career.