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Areas of Expertise: Wi-Fi, Orange Islands, VGC
Background: Excuse me, I wrote a novel here. I've been here for too long.
I joined Smogon at the young age of 14 back in 2007 (actually registering my first email address for the sake of joining Smogon). I've been involved in just about every facet of this site at one point or another. Smogon was my first internet forum and it showed. I was an awful user initially. From June 2007 to July 2007, I hung out primarily in today's equivalent OU forum before settling down in my now home forum Wi-Fi. I stuck around there up until January of '08 at which point I tried my hand at spriting and started bullying a then 12 year old RODAN alongside Tennisace. With the release of Super Smash Brothers Brawl I started to hang around Internet Rennesaunce all the way until Platinum's release. Though I should mention that I had a brief stint with little cup in July of '08 and worked with future head honchos eric the espeon and vader among others like Deck Knight and SDS on making unofficial LC analysis. When Platinum rolled around, I headed back to Wi-Fi and opened shop as a distinctly less terrible user. This lasted up until May of 2009 where I started lurking smogon really, really heavily and barely posted anywhere.
When Black and White came out, I finally learned how to RNG manipulated and cemented myself in the Wi-Fi community for good. This lead to me getting involved with the legality checking website Pokecheck which I both moderate and have 430+ free RNGs uploaded for public download. I went to my first VGC regional in 2011 at Atlanta and by the most obscene miracle in all of Pokemon, I made it into the top cut and was hooked on VGC. Come 2012, I headed to Athens for the next regional and got third place and $300 despite losing to my own Pokemon. That summer, I became a part of Smogon's facebook team to report VGC related news. In Fall of 2012 I became a moderator of the Wi-Fi and VGC sections (and suggestion box!), but took a leave from December to April. In May 2013, I regained my status as a Wi-Fi moderator and got heavily involved with Orange Islands and their Google+ hangouts where I met good friends DHR, Jimera0, and Kadew. I currently commentate on Jimera0's stream every Friday and sometimes host my own stream afterwords where I corrupt older Pokemon games to horrific results. As of earlier this month, I now moderate OI.
Hobbies: Other video games are fun. You can find me on Steam as Magikarpe Diem and on Miiverse as TheMantyke. I enjoy spectating football both collegiate level (THWg) and NFL. Other than that, I'm so consumed by working towards my Biomedical Engineering undergrad degree I don't do too much.
Favorite Pokemon: Elekid actually! When I was young, I owned an elekid plush that I loved to death. Mantyke ranks second, followed by Cloyster, Chikorita, and Jynx.
Good Questions to Ask Me: Try batting most anything at me, I'll see what I can handle. Do note though that I'll only be able to go into detail on things that pertain to Wi-Fi, VGC, or OI. Personal questions are A-OK too.