A little about me, Lunar

So upon writing this blog it occurred to me that the readers (if there are any of you out there) don’t really know anything about me, so for this entry I’m going to give a little bit of back ground information on me, at least from a smash perspective.

So my name or rather my handle in the smash community is Lunar, I’m a smasher from the state of New Jersey. Now I’ve been following the competitive smash scene since 2006, I found competitive SSBM online one day randomly surfing the web for things about melee. Now melee was already my favorite game back then but after finding the competitive scene it just strengthened my love for this game, once I found out about tournaments, the fact that there was a place to prove yourself, your prowess at this game, I immediately wanted to be a part of the smash community more than anything. However I had a few road blocks and wouldn’t enter my first tournament until the same year I made my tag, 2012. Now to start with I was young, very young back in 2006, in fact I was in middle school. I didn’t really know how to do anything being so young and by that I mean finding people to play with as well as finding tournaments. Secondly NOBODY and I mean NOBODY played melee or even smash for that matter where I lived. I remember I wasn’t even looking for a competitive player as a kid, I literally just wanted somebody to play with. Another road block and probably the biggest one was my parents (not that I blame them, I love you mom if you ever read this). My parents back then didn’t really understand competitive gaming (they kind of do now) nor did they really approve of me playing so many videogames, so I never really had the support of my parents to play competitive melee sadly. I practically had to beg my mother to let me go to apex 2012 which thankfully she did and I had an amazing time at that tournament. My lack of parental support though is also my fault, I didn’t really know how to explain the smash community to my parents, and I made the smash scene sound like a bunch of nerds going nowhere in life because all the do is play melee to them. Now of course if I could go back I would explain to them that these tournaments are more like big social events where a bunch of people who happen to have a similar interest congregate to not only play melee but to meet new people and make new friends. I bet my mother would have been much more open to smash tournaments if I explained it like that as she was always worried about me being anti-social. However even now though that I’m older and smarter I still don’t attend as many events as I would like too, I have a group of friends now that play smash competitively back in NJ however I go to school about 6 hours away and don’t have a car so I really only see them during breaks. I also am a collegiate athlete so as much as I love smash I have other priorities at the moment. After I graduate I hope to become a more active player and to make a name for myself. Call it nerdy or geeky if you will but I’ve had a dream of being a top melee player for a long time and I’ll never find out if I have what it takes unless I try.

So that’s a little about me and my smash “career” I guess, as much of a “career” as you can call that. But like stated earlier I’ve been present in smash since the golden age and even though I wasn’t there to experience all of it I’ve been there watching from the outside, back when ken dominated to when mango dominated to the now era of the gods and I don’t ever plan to stop watching so long as melee is still alive.