Regular Contributors
Anokh “EdwinBudding” Palakurthi
Editor-in-Chief
@edwin_budding
Edwin is an aspiring author, freelance journalist and creator of this website. You can check out some of his previous work on his personal blog. He enjoys reading, writing, sports, history and music.
Sam “Ding” Greene
Staff Writer
@ding_mas
Ding is a person from Rhode Island who, with 343, led seeding efforts for large tournaments. He also writes When’s Melee, a weekendly article with tourney information.
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Other Members
Scott “SaveAsUntitled” Schroeder
YouTube Content Creator/Former MS Podcast Producer
@SaveAsUntitled
Save started off making YouTube videos earlier this decade for other video games before getting involved in the Melee community as a content creator. He likes music, video games and is an avid Dungeons & Dragons player.
Eryk “Ambisinister” Banatt
Quipper Extraordinaire
@Ambisinister_
Ambi is a formerly power ranked Tristate Fox and Melee’s mini-version of Gwern. You can check out some of his material on his YouTube channel or his website.
Brendan “GimmeDatWheat” Malone
Lead Data Tracker and Deep Dives Founder
@GimmeDatWheat
Wheat tracks results data for the Melee Stats team and the world. He’s maintained spreadsheets with top 50 players’ results for the last two years, which provide valuable information to SSBMRank panelists. On top of that, he submits tons of tournament data to Tafostats and founded the Deep Dives podcast series.
Michael “Pikachu942” Forde
Smash Historian
@GCH_Pikachu942
Pika writes about Melee history on his personal blog and co-wrote the Top 100 Melee players of all-time series, among other Smash History projects. He follows the other Smash games as well, notably watching and playing Ultimate and the original Super Smash Bros.
Andrew “PracticalTAS” Nestico
Frame Data Wizard
@PracticalTAS
PracticalTAS is a Melee TASer, statistician and content creator. He’s an analyst for SSBMRank and the Smash 4 Panda Global Rankings, as well as a member of both the UCF team and the Melee Competition Committee “25.”
Damien “343” Jiang
Seeding Organizer
@TL343
343, also known as Algebra, leads seeding efforts for large tournaments alongside Ding. He used to write for Team Liquid.
Leon “ycz6” Zhou
West Coast Correspondent
@ycz6
Ycz has played Melee for over a decade, creating mini highlight videos, being power ranked in different regions and, most famously, writing the compendium of SSBM knowledge. Right now, he’s NorCal’s No. 20 Melee player.
Luiz Felipe “Fairfax” Rossas
South America Correspondent
@OneFairfax
Fairfax keeps track of stage and viewership data from Melee nationals. He’s also a PPMD cultist, WRPG aficionado and organizes tournaments in Brazil.
Glenn “KayB” Kim
East Asia Correspondent
@TheKayBGuy
KayB is the main writer for Melee scenes within Korea and Japan. He’s pursuing a degree at Cornell University.
Ben “Ovenn” Dyck
British Columbia Correspondent
@Ovennagain
Ovenn literally enjoys playing Peach against Jigglypuff. He currently helps keep track of data within Tafostats.
Akhil “Fire” Silla
Puff Player
@FirePuff12
Fire makes YouTube playlists of all the sets between the top tier players of Melee. He enjoys playing and listening to music, watching sick Jigglypuff gameplay and being a Mango diehard.
Jake “Chroma” Robins
Commentary Expert
@chroma_smash
Chroma is the premier San Diego Melee expert and has organized several local tournaments before. Today, he focuses on commentary, both at regionals and nationals.
Daniel “tafokints” Lee
Editorial Advisor
@tafokints
Tafokints formerly coached for Cloud9 and has written for ESPN, Yahoo, HTC, etc. Along with years of being a community leader, tournament organizer, top 100 player and content creator, he also once won a thousand-dollar money match.