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Michael
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Skerzo
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Ober
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Josh
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Unsure
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IMDRR
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Ferocitii
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Killablue
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lovestory4a
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Certified
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natebug01
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ORLY
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Fasthands
VOTER AVG
1.32
WIN-LOSS
65-10
PR EVENTS
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13th
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Riptide 2023
1st
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Tripoint Smash 218
1st
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Tripoint Smash 219
You can’t keep a good floaty down. They always rise to the top. The king of Tripoint Smash’s consistent attendance and performance played a big role this past season in elevating the Romeoville weekly into one of those most densely stacked weeklies around, an event where even if only seven people enter, five of them might be PR level.
If Skerzo has been able to rise to prominence as a high level Melee player despite being one of the game’s most inconsistent players, Michael may be his opposite. The powerful Puff lost to only a handful of players this past season. This exclusive list includes Skerzo, who he both beat and lost to three times, Josh, who he beat 12 of the 15 times they played, and Ober, who beat him three of the nine times they played. The Puff player’s most uncharacteristic loss may have been to IMDRR at Tripoint Smash 209, but even then, Michael maintains a 2-1 winning record over that player as well.
The days of Michael being a nationally renowned player seem to be in the background, but it’s clear that he can still hold his own against players out of state as well. At Riptide 2023, he was able to beat Preeminent and Lowercase Hero, two players who he has also beaten before at Tripoint, on his way to a very respectable 17th place finish. With the Jiggly Legend signed up for February’s Full Bloom 2024, perhaps we are due for a repeat of his legendary performance at that very event five years ago.