The Immortal
To say you've done a lot for Other Metas would be far beyond an understatement. You've taken the biggest role in building this whole subforum from the ground up. Not a lot of people realize that before you be came involved,
Other Metas was hardly anything more than just a place to dump random unofficial formats. Not even a submissions process was around! You were left with a few others on your side to completely revolutionize Other Metas to a point even remotely close to where we are today! Because of your leadership, we have daily tours, a submissions process, OMotM/LCotM, the vast majority of our major tours, a large, dedicated playerbase, and now a TC badge to compliment them. Because of you, we even have an established philosophy on what OMs are and what formats to include or not include on our roster. To add on to the indefinite list of things, some of our past OM formats became official tiers due to your involvement, and others may in the future as a large ripple effect of your contributions. Your leadership in Other Metas caused us to grow exponentially, especially since we've become closer and closer to fully making use of playing our favorite formats competitively. You've even tackled a lot of the development on your own and hosted a significant amount of our tournaments for us just to make sure they were properly ran, all while extensively standing as the backbone of OM policy, leading at least one OM format, leading Random Battles, and maintaining a bunch of different formats through PS programming leadership. It's wild how at one point you've managed to handle most of this all by yourself. You practically owned the subforum and had everything needed to give it the most care imaginable! I would even say you've done too much for a prolonged period of time, and our inability to recognize this in the past may have been a cause of many tensions you've had with other people. In all honesty, you knew you pretty much owned Other Metas with your extensive contributions. We couldn't recognize a proper way to appreciate such extensive efforts, especially since to the public eye, you've seemed to have it all.
Despite these tensions, you were around long enough for many of us to have watch you grown. I can personally attest that you've actually tried bit by bit to shape yourself up in the Other Metas community and become on better terms with its top contributors. I'm sure many of them will miss you dearly for this. Since you were around since the dawn of OM, you've also watched many of us grow and did what you felt was best to assist us through our time here. Six years is a long time. I was practically a kid six years ago. I absolutely never expected to be able to work with you on one, let alone two leadership positions one day. It's been well working with you as a leader on both angles. Honestly a bit better than what I expected.
You were such a pinnacle to the Other Metagames subforum and the moderation team greatly understands that things are going to be different without you. We realize we're going to have to start figuring out all you've done on our own. For what it's worth, I can at least say you didn't leave us stranded! You had us very prepared to take on most of the tasks at hand and gave (at least me) an indirect run down of how your policy of OM worked before acquiring our positions. This knowledge will surely help us push towards a new era with as few repercussions as possible. We will never forget all you've done for us TI. Thank you.
On the side note, your current avatar adds a nice touch to your profile. We can accurately use the word phenomenal to describe your contributions to Smogon. If anyone asks explaining what your avatar could mean, talk about the wrestler it's from, but also link the OM subforum so they can understand what was up.
To everyone else
We just lost the biggest contributor Other Metas has ever had and arguably one of the biggest contributors this whole site has ever had. He's held the OM leadership position for over six years and used all of his abilities to completely shift Other Metagames into an established subforum. OM wouldn't have gotten as developed as it is today without him.