Arcticblast
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Areas of Expertise: Other Metagames, Doubles
Background: I've been around since 2008, although outside of some DPP UU I never really did much of anything until 2011, when I found the fledgling Pokemon Showdown and took up residence there, eventually becoming a server moderator (@). Due to this, I never really made an entry into the community until then and thus consider myself more of a 2011 member. Most of the time. Since then I became a moderator in Other Metagames and basically redid the entire forum, adding new moderators (how else would Joim have risen to power? :O ) and beginning Other Metagame of the Month. When Doubles popped up in OM, I jumped right in, and when the metagame finally broke out I became a moderator there as well. Also, these Mentorship AMAs were my idea!
As for non-Smogon stuff, I'm 18 and currently attending the University of Pittsburgh. I went in thinking of majoring in ecology & evolution (that's one major), but after doing badly in chem so far and realizing I have three more semesters of it I'm not so sure...
Hobbies: Well, Pokemon kind of killed off everything else once I got to college o.o I've been starting to play League of Legends and slowly picking up writing, and I played the violin for about ten years and still love music.
Favorite Pokemon: It was Musharna when I submitted my mentorship application, but now it's probably Tynamo or Pumpkaboo. Maybe Mega Mawile.
Good Questions to Ask Me: "What qualities do successful Other Metagames have?" "What kinds of differences exist between teambuilding in OU and teambuilding in Doubles?"
(try to keep the ratio of non-serious questions to serious questions no higher than 1:1 please)