Smasher:Nintendude

Nintendude is a smasher from Westchester County, New York who currently resides in San Francisco, California. He was named the 46th best Melee player of all time by Melee Stats, and peaked as the world's #17 player.

Nintendude is considered to be one of the best Melee players in the world, having defeated top-10 ranked players such as, , , , , , and. He rose to prominence in 2015-2016, achieving a string of top-8s including at Genesis 3, and peaked at 17th on the 2016 SSBMRank. Nintendude was signed by Splyce (then known as FolloweSports.com) along with on August 24th, 2015. On March 3rd, 2018, Splyce announced their departure from Melee, losing Nintendude and MacD in the process. In April 2018, Nintendude announced that he would be switching his focus to and he stopped competing in large tournaments as frequently.

Nintendude is known for his multi-game prowess. He was a notable competitor in Smash 64, peaking at #37 worldwide. He was considered to be one of, if not the best players in North America between before ultimately dropping the character for  in 2016. In Project M he notably pioneered, putting the character on the map in April 2014 after a 2nd place run at Civil War VI and several Xanadu performances including the infamous "Double 9" on. He served as the initial inspiration for other top Game & Watch players to follow such as and. Nintendude further cemented his legacy as a multi-game talent at Super Smash Con 2017, where he placed 3rd in the Smash Masters exhibition event, defeating and narrowly losing to  in a tiebreaker.

Nintendude is also one of the most prominent tournament organizers in the Smash community. In addition to being a staff member of Apex from 2010 until 2015, he administered the Smash @ Clarendon tournament series in Arlington, VA, and has served as Tournament Director for Super Smash Con (2015-present), PAX Prime 2015, Royal Flush, Pound 2016, Pound 2019, and Smash World Tour 2021 Championships. In 2011 he became the first community moderator on the previously abandoned /r/smashbros subreddit, of which he was the community's first advocate, growing it from several hundred subscribers to tens of thousands.

Trivia

 * Nintendude’s first top-8 appearance at a National was at The Big House 3, a tournament where wobbling was banned.
 * Nintendude has won the Smash @ Xanadu weekly Melee tournament 31 times, which is more times than any other smasher.
 * Despite playing Ice Climbers and making liberal use of wobbling he has revealed in his Reddit AMA he actually thinks of it as a terrible gameplay mechanic. He also said he would still main the Ice Climbers even if the mechanic didn't exist.
 * At Shine 2016, he became the first Ice Climbers main to defeat since Wobbles at EVO 2013.
 * Nintendude notably placed 13th in Smash 64 doubles partnered with a level 9 Luigi CPU at . His original partner,, had been suffering from hand pain and was unable to play.
 * Nintendude graduated from Cornell with a Master's degree in chemical engineering.
 * Nintendude started working at Twitch in 2016. He announced he was leaving on January 14th, 2022.
 * Nintendude holds multiple real-time speedrun world records in 10-Man Melee. He achieved holding all 25 TAS world records simultaneously on July 24th, 2023, achieving 's last.