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Wes
Born Antoine Wes Lewis-Hall
May 5, 1984
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Other names Wes
The Legendary Wes
Occupation professional gamer
Years active 2002–present

Antoine Wes Lewis-Hall (born 5 May 1985), known by his gamertag Wes, is an American professional Super Smash Bros. player and content creator from Manhattan, New York. He competes in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Project M. He is considered one of Melee's first major figures and New York's top players.[1] Wes has always held high positions in tournaments.[2] He has been part of the Deadly Alliance esports team since 2002. He is also one of the founders of the team. A 2021 list compiled by PGstats ranked Wes as the 57th-greatest Melee player of all time.[1] He is also a streamer and has an active Twitch channel that boasts over 2,000 followers.[3]

Career

Beginning of professional career

Wes's interest in video game competition began at an early age.[4] Initially, he competed with friends and family members, then he began to be interested in more serious tournaments.[4] Wes has primarily competed in Super Smash Bros. tournaments using the character Samus and was often referred to as the "Father of competitive Samus play".

In 2003, he competed in his first major tournament, part of the Tournament Go (TG) series, one of the first major Melee tournament series. In this, the fifth installment of the tournament series held in San Jose, California, Wes placed 5th in the singles (1 vs 1) tournament and 2nd in the doubles (2 vs 2) tournament with his partner Hein.[5] The next notable tournament in which Wes took part was the DC Super Smash, better known as DCSS, which took place on 20 September 2003 in Clinton, Maryland. He took 2nd place with Samus.[6] According to the top 100 players in Super Smash Bros. Melee for 2001-2003, Wes was the 8th best Melee player of that time.[6]

The following year, he was also included in the 2004 table of the best Melee players, ranking 7th.[2] 2004 saw high placements at several major tournaments which included 1st place in the doubles tournament and 2nd place in the singles tournament at MLG Boston 2004, 1st place in the doubles tournament at Gettin' Schooled and 2nd place with his partner Azen in the doubles tournament at MLG New York 2004. In 2005, Wes, along with Mike G, participated in the largest Melee tournament of that year, MELEE-FC3, and placed 3rd.

Wes with his partner PC Chris placed 2nd at MLG New York Opener 2006. The tournament was also known as MLG Meadowlands 2006 and was the first event hosted by Major League Gaming on their 2006 circuit.[7]

At Zenith 2007, he took 2nd place and managed to win in the doubles tournament.

Project M, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

In 2014, Wes competed in his first gaming tournament for Project M, a gameplay modification[8][9][10] of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The tournament took place on March 15 and was attended by 39 players.

He began competing in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2015, roughly a year after the game's release. His first appearance in a major tournament was at Collision XI, in January of that year. During 2015, he placed in the top three best doubles players in tournaments Nebulous Prime #10, Nebulous Prime #11, Nebulous Prime #15, Nebulous Prime #16 and won the Nebulous Prime #9. The following year, Wes, along with his partner DireOnFire, managed to win the Nebulous Prime #36 tournament.

On 31 March 2018, he won the Nebulous Melee 119 tournament with a score of 10-1, losing only to 2can.[11]

In December 2018, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was released and on 27 March 2019, Wes competed in his first Ultimate game tournament called Xeno 154.

During his gaming career, Wes also took part in various other significant tournaments such as Evolution Championship Series, Apex, Super Smash Con and many others.

Deadly Alliance

In 2002, Wes formed a Super Smash Bros. group called Deadly Alliance.[12] The number of members of the group gradually increased and over time the group became one of the top teams ever created in the Smash Brothers community.[12] In 2005, Wes and his team Deadly Alliance began to cooperate with eSports team Empire Arcadia.[12] Together they created a Super Smash Bros. division to compete in all subsequent Smash Bros. tournaments.[12]

The Deadly Alliance team was considered as the first professional team and the best Super Smash Bros. crew in the United States.[4][6] The team's name comes from the 2002 fighting video game Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.[4] Numerous notable players have been members of the DA team at various times, including Mew2King, Armada, PC Chris, Jtails and DKwill.[4] They won MLGs and other large competitions which were eventually documented and certified by Guinness World Record.[4][13][14] In addition to being a founder and member of the team, Wes currently holds the position of General Manager of Deadly Alliance.[15]

Style of play

Wes has primarily competed in Super Smash Bros. tournaments using the character Samus, a fictional character and the playable protagonist from the video game series Metroid,[16][17] and the character Sonic the Hedgehog, the blue anthropomorphic hedgehog from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series.[18][19] He also used Charizard as a secondary character.

Personal life

Wes hereditary is of Native American, Blackfoot and Cherokee descent. He finished from Lower East Side Preparatory High School in 2004. He currently lives in New York.

Wes is currently married to his high school sweetheart named Cavaisa. He was not only very good at videogames, he excelled at sports like football and basketball. At some point, he pursued an NBA Career by going to tryouts like the D-league Tryouts. With the combination of sports and video games Wes was about to have a balance of health, social skills and great hand eye coordination. He is also a health coach and fitness Enthusiast.

In an interview given to Nintendo Life, he stated that the difference between eSports and traditional sports is "that you can learn and practice at your own place anywhere and anytime in eSports, whereas in sports that is not the case."[15]

Wes was interviewed for the 2013 documentary series The Smash Brothers, appearing in several episodes. He extensively covered the origins of crew rivalries in the first episode and gave his input on certain controversial issues that had come up within the community during his time with the game. Several gameplay clips of him were also shown, primarily in the two West Coast vs. East Coast crew battles that were featured.[20][21][22][23]

S.O.S. Gamers

In 2010, Wes with several members of Deadly Alliance created S.O.S. Gamers, a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to helping children become better through video games.[4] S.O.S. Gamers has done charity events with the NPDY, several community centres around New York city, youth development summer programs, March of Dimes, City Harvest, Susan G Komen and High Heel-A-Thon charity race on 'Live With Regis And Kelly' in Central Park. S.O.S Gamers has also been featured on several Nintendo based articles as well.

Tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Tournament Go 5 August 2nd-3rd, 2003 5th 2nd Hein
DCSS #2 September 20th, 2003 2nd — —
Game Over[2] January 10th, 2004 5th 9th HellFox
MELEE-FC1 July 9th-11th, 2004 4th 9th Snap Pop
Tournament Go 6 August 21st-22nd, 2004 7th 2nd Azen
MLG Boston 2004 October 9th-10th, 2004 2nd 1st Azen
Gettin' Schooled October 14th, 2004 7th 1st Azen
MLG New York 2004 October 24th, 2004 5th 2nd Azen
MLG DC 2005 January 29th-30th, 2005 7th 4th Dave
Gettin' Schooled 2 June 25th-26th, 2005 5th 5th Azen
MELEE-FC3 July 10th-12th, 2005 17th 3rd Mike G
BOMB 4 November 12th, 2005 17th 4th Mike G
MLG Atlanta 2005 November 26th-27th, 2005 12th 4th Mow
MLG Chicago 2005 December 16th-18th, 2005 25th — —
CyberHub Gaming Center Lock-In[24] March 25th, 2006 2nd — —
MLG New York Opener 2006 April 21st-23rd, 2006 17th 2nd PC Chris
MLG New York Playoffs 2006 October 13th-14th, 2006 — 5th PC Chris
MLG Las Vegas 2006 November 18th-19th, 2006 — 7th PC Chris
Cataclysm 3 March 3rd-4th, 2007 49th 7th DireVulcan
EVO East May 25th-27th, 2007 13th — —
Zenith July 2007[25] July 1st, 2007 2nd 1st PC Chris
Zenith 2007 September 29th, 2007 3rd — —
Apex 2012 January 6th-8th, 2012 129th 49th Chain Ace
KTAR 8 December 28th, 2013 5th — —
Apex 2014 January 17th-19th, 2014 65th — —
Collision 9 March 15th, 2014 5th — —
KTAR 9 March 22nd, 2014 7th — —
Smash Brothers University 2.5[26] April 12th-13th, 2014 9th — —
SKTAR 3 May 30th-June 1st, 2014 129th — —
Apollo X[27] October 14th, 2017 9th — —
Nebs After Dark 92[28] November 21st, 2017 4th — —
Apollo XI[29] December 2nd, 2017 17th — —
Nebulous Melee 118[30] March 24th, 2018 5th — —
Nebulous Melee 119[31] March 31st, 2018 1st — —
Maybulous[32] April 10th, 2018 9th — —
EagleCON 2018[33] April 14th, 2018 9th — —
Nebulous Melee: the finale[34] April 21st, 2018 5th — —
Smashed Out Melee V 2.15[35] April 23rd, 2018 4th — —
Nebs After Dark: the finale[36] April 24th, 2018 17th 4th CaptainJack
Pound Underground May 12th-13th, 2018 65th — —
Apollo XIV[37] July 29th, 2018 13th — —
Super Smash Con 2018 August 9th-12th, 2018 193rd — —
NYXL Pop-Up! December 22nd, 2018 33rd — —

Project M

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Collision 9 March 15th, 2014 5th — —
Smash Brothers University 2.5[38] April 12th-13th, 2014 — 4th DireOnFire
Zenith 2014 August 2nd-3rd, 2014 17th 7th Jtails

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Collision XI January 3rd, 2015 25th 9th Jtails
Apex 2015 January 30th-February 1st, 2015 193rd — —
Smash Attack 5 March 15th, 2015 9th — —
Smash Attack 8 June 7th, 2015 17th — —
Smash Attack 9 June 21st, 2015 17th — —
KTAR XIII July 11th, 2015 13th — —
POPnOFF 11 August 1st, 2015 5th — —
SKTAR 4 August 22nd-23rd, 2015 33rd — —
Nebulous Prime #3[39] August 30th, 2015 17th — —
Nebulous Prime #4[40] September 6th, 2015 9th — —
Nebulous Prime #6[41] September 20th, 2015 7th — —
Nebulous Prime #7[42] September 27th, 2015 17th 5th Jtails
Nebulous Prime #9[43] October 11th, 2015 7th 1st DireOnFire
Nebulous Prime #10[44] October 18th, 2015 9th 3rd DireOnFire
Nebulous Prime #11[45] October 25th, 2015 5th 2nd DireOnFire
Nebulous Prime #15[46] November 22nd, 2015 9th 2nd DireOnFire
Nebulous Prime #16[47] November 29th, 2015 7th 3rd DireOnFire
XenoThree[48] March 19th, 2016 17th — —
Nebulous Prime #36[49] April 17th, 2016 — 1st DireOnFire
KTAR XVIII June 11th, 2016 25th 17th DireOnFire
Nebulous Prime #48[50] July 10th, 2016 13th — —
XenoEighteen[51] July 13th, 2016 13th — —

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Xeno 154[52] March 27th, 2019 17th — —
Bum's Birthday Bash 2019[53] March 30th-31st, 2019 25th 9th Uncle Phillybilly

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Melee Stats Top 100: 60-51". 11 November 2021. https://www.pgstats.com/articles/the-melee-stats-top-100-60-51. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Smash History: 2004 in Review". https://bignokh.com/2016/10/28/smash-history-2004-in-review/. 
  3. ↑ "Twitch stats - thelegendarywes". https://twitchstats.net/streamer/thelegendarywes. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Friendlies: Wes, the OG of Smash". 21 February 2017. https://www.redbull.com/us-en/friendlies-wes-the-og-of-smash. 
  5. ↑ "TG% Results and Aftermath". 4 August 2003. https://smashboards.com/threads/tg-results-and-aftermath.29832/page-3#post-529839. 
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  7. ↑ "New York, MLG". 2006. http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/new-yorkapril-21-23-2006. 
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  10. ↑ "About". Project M Back Room. http://projectmgame.com/en/about. 
  11. ↑ "Nebulous Melee 119". 31 March 2018. https://smash.gg/tournament/nebulous-melee-119/event/melee-singles. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Antoine Wes Lewis-Hall". Walter Day. https://thewalterdaycollection.com/collection/gallery/item/2756-antoine-wes-lewis-hall. 
  13. ↑ "Twitter announcement of a world record gained by Empire Arcadia". 3 August 2012. https://twitter.com/GWR/status/231307419660193792. 
  14. ↑ "Facebook post of a world record gained by Empire Arcadia". 7 August 2012. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151009483754032&set=pb.6732359031.-2207520000.1375438425.&type=3&theater. 
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  18. ↑ {{#invoke:Citation/CS1 | citation |CitationClass=audio-visual }}
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  25. ↑ "Killa Fleet: Zenith Results!!!". 1 July 2007. https://smashboards.com/threads/killa-fleet-zenith-results.108052/. 
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  27. ↑ "Apollo X". https://smash.gg/tournament/apollo-x/events/melee-singles/brackets/163066. 
  28. ↑ "Nebs After Dark 92". https://smash.gg/tournament/nebs-after-dark-92/events/melee-singles/brackets/177991. 
  29. ↑ "Apollo XI". New York, USA. 2 December 2017. https://smash.gg/tournament/apollo-xi/events/melee-singles/brackets/163203/466584. 
  30. ↑ "Nebulous Melee". https://smash.gg/tournament/nebulous-melee-118/events/melee-singles/brackets/229576. 
  31. ↑ "Nebulous Melee". https://smash.gg/tournament/nebulous-melee-119/events/melee-singles/brackets/235630. 
  32. ↑ "Maybulous". https://smash.gg/tournament/maybulous/events/melee-singles/brackets/237764. 
  33. ↑ "EagleCON 2018". Fort Myers, Florida, USA. 14 April 2018. https://smash.gg/tournament/eaglecon-2018/events/melee-singles/brackets/244207/554560. 
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  35. ↑ "Smashed Out Melee V 2.15". https://smash.gg/tournament/smashed-out-melee-v-2-15-singles/events/melee-singles/brackets/251740. 
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  40. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #4 Singles". http://challonge.com/nebulouss_prime_sm4sh_singles/. 
  41. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #6 Singles Pro Bracket". http://challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_6_pro_bracket/. 
  42. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #7 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_7/. 
  43. ↑ "Nebulous Prime SM4SH #9 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_9_singles/. 
  44. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #10 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_10_singles/. 
  45. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #11 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_11_singles/. 
  46. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #15 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_15_singles/. 
  47. ↑ "Nebulous Prime Sm4sh #16 Singles". http://nebulous.challonge.com/nebulous_prime_sm4sh_16_singles/. 
  48. ↑ "XenoThreeSingles". http://xenozero.challonge.com/x3s/. 
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  50. ↑ "Nebolous Prime Sm4sh 48". https://smash.gg/tournament/nebulous-prime-sm4sh-48/events/wii-u-singles/brackets/51302. 
  51. ↑ "XenoEighteen". http://xenozero.challonge.com/x18/. 
  52. ↑ "Xeno154". New York, USA. 27 March 2019. https://smash.gg/tournament/xeno154/events/ultimate-singles/brackets/563856/947062. 
  53. ↑ "Bum's Birthday Bash 2019 SSBU Singles". 30 March 2019. https://smash.gg/tournament/bum-s-birthday-bash-2019-for-super-smash-bros-ultimate/events/bum-s-birthday-bash-2019-ssbu-singles/brackets/502597/867733/. 

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