Editing Smasher:DP

{{Infobox Smasher
| name          = DP
| image         = 
| mainssbm      = Falco
| otherssbm     = Mario
| 2ndotherssbm  = Ness
| mainpm        = Falco
| crew          = 
| former crews  = Team Rocket
| skillssbm     = High level
| skillpm       = High level
| alias         = D..P
| realname      = Michael Pigford
| birthday      = 
| birthmonth    = 
| birthyear     = 
| location      = Sacramento, California
| country       = United States
}}

'''DP''' or '''D..P''' is a {{SSBM|Falco}} [[main]] from Oakland, California and the brother of {{Sm|Catnip}}. Although he has not yet made national impacts, he has performed very well while living in Maryland, having taken sets off of notable players such as {{Sm|ChuDat}}, {{Sm|Chillin}}, {{Sm|Nintendude}} and {{Sm|DJ Nintendo}}. DP was formerly ranked 1st, 8th, and 9th on the Sacramento Melee Power Rankings, DMV Melee Power Rankings, and MD/VA Project M Power Rankings, respectively. 

==Playing style==
DP is a defensive "textbook" Falco player. He employs heavy usage of [[dash dancing]] and [[Blaster|laser]]s in the [[neutral game]], and uses safe options to stifle his opponent's approaches. DP also has excellent [[spacing]], particularly with his aerials, and usually makes decisions to give himself positional advantage, pressuring his opponent with his superior position rather than with extended combos. DP also employs Falco's more underused tools, such as his up smash, back throw, and forward tilt, in creative ways, usually also to gain position. Because of this, in his games, he usually racks up damage slowly then goes for a guaranteed KO setup when the time is right. DP's patient playstyle has allowed him to defeat low tier characters even without knowing the matchup beforehand, such as {{Sm|DJ Nintendo}}'s {{SSBM|Bowser}}.

However, due to this reliance on spacing, DP will usually drop combos that similarly-skilled Falcos would not. This makes his punish game weak for his level, and gives him serious problems against players who can beat him in the neutral game but have a much more lethal punish game, such as {{Sm|Mew2King}}. Additionally, due to his reliance on guaranteed KO setups and edgeguards, he struggles if the opponent lives up to a high percentage where those setups are no longer available to him. DP is also weak in matchups against [[floaty]] characters, and used to be notoriously poor at playing around the {{SSBM|Ice Climbers}} and [[wobbling]].

==Tournament placings==
===''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|[[CGC @ SFSU VI]]||February 28th, 2009||3rd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU IX]||May 2nd, 2009||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU X]||June 20th, 2009||7th||7th||{{Sm|Dark Mike}}
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU XII]||October 10th, 2009||5th||7th||{{Sm|Mr. G}}
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU XIII]||November 7th, 2009||7th||2nd||{{Sm|Shroomed}}
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU XIV]||December 5th, 2009||4th||4th||{{Sm|Catnip}}
|-
|[[R3]]||December 19th-20th, 2009||5th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU XIX]||July 17th, 2010||9th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/cgc-sfsu-xxv-sep-3rd.200283/ CGC @ SFSU XX]||August 14th, 2010||7th||9th||{{Sm|Meep}}
|-
|[https://smashboards.com/threads/gamecenter-7-27-results-feat-pewpewu-shroomed-sfat-plus-scar-vs-tomber-runback.339982/ Gamecenter VI]||July 27th, 2013||4th||9th||{{Sm|Josh}}
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-xanadu-weekly-5-6.354646/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 5/6]||May 6th, 2014||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/shell-shocked-xv-results-college-park-md-64-melee-singles-entrants-incomplete.355005/ Shell Shocked XV]||May 10th, 2014||1st||2nd||{{Sm|Boss}}
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/s-x-weekly-5-20-results-baltimore-md.355866/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 5/20]||May 20th, 2014||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-xanadu-5-27-weekly-results-baltimore-md.356655/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 5/27]||May 27th, 2014||4th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-xanadu-6-3-weekly-results-the-return-of-azen.357202/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 6/3]||June 3rd, 2014||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/thanks-for-playing-7-md-va-tournament.357587/ Thanks For Playing 7]||June 7th, 2014||5th||2nd||{{Sm|ChuDat}}
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=363207/ Mortality eSports Tournament]||August 2nd, 2014||2nd||1st||{{Sm|TC1}}
|-
|[[SMASH BASH 4]]||November 29th, 2014||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|MomoCon 2015}}||May 28th-31st, 2015||3rd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[Let It Shine!]]||August 15th, 2015||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[Button Check #1]]||August 29th, 2015||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[GENESIS 3]]||January 15th-17th, 2016||65th||25th||TC1
|-
|Sacramento Saturday Smash #2||February 13th, 2016||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[Button Check #5]]||April 2nd, 2016||1st||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[https://start.gg/tournament/the-golden-bair-4/events/melee-singles/brackets/19702/65773 The Golden Bair 4]||April 3rd, 2016||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[Button Check #6]]||June 25th, 2016||3rd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[EVO 2016]]||July 15th-17th, 2016||97th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[Button Check #7]]||July 30th, 2016||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|}

===''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|{{Trn|MomoCon 2013}}||March 9th-10th, 2013||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|}

===''[[Project M]]''===
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!Tournament!!Date!!1v1 placement!!2v2 placement!!Partner
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-xanadu-weekly-5-6.354646/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 5/6]||May 6th, 2014||13th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/shell-shocked-xv-results-college-park-md-64-melee-singles-entrants-incomplete.355005/ Shell Shocked XV]||May 10th, 2014||9th||3rd||{{Sm|TC1}}
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/s-x-weekly-5-20-results-baltimore-md.355866/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 5/20]||May 20th, 2014||7th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|{{Trn|MomoCon 2014}}||May 23rd-25th, 2014||2nd||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[http://smashboards.com/threads/smash-xanadu-6-3-weekly-results-the-return-of-azen.357202/ Smash @ Xanadu Tuesday 6/3]||June 3rd, 2014||13th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|-
|[[FinalBOSS]]||January 9th-10th, 2016||13th||&mdash;||&mdash;
|}

== Trivia ==
*DP has been repeatedly featured in "salt compilations" due to his refusal to shake some players' hands after he loses a set, particularly {{SSBM|Ice Climbers}} players who utilize [[wobbling]]. The most well-known example of this are DP's many matches with {{Sm|Nintendude}} at Xanadu, particularly his Grand Finals sets with him.

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