Pro Smash's BIGGEST Anomaly

[@charlieh635]

First tournament I ever entered, I immediately was sent to loser’s bracket and was then approached by a stranger who had arrived late to the venue. He said “If you let me take your spot in the tournament, I will win it and give you 30% of the prize money”, to which I obliged - I later learned that person was Crush 😅

[@oatmeal2goskits492]

did he win and was there a vod?

[@cerealocelot8278]

@@oatmeal2goskits492 i second this i need to know

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

@@oatmeal2goskits492i would like to know too

[@moki4895]

Well answer us, DID HE WIN

[@charlieh635]

@@moki4895 Oh my gosh I didn't realize this comment had so much traction!! To answer everyone's question: Unfortunately crush did not win that night :( It was one of the few tournaments that he lost to Mafia. There might be VOD's out there, but I've never actually looked. It was from a Game Underground tournament in Framingham MA when I was still in high school (probably 2015 - 2016ish) I also remember that the peach player who sent me to losers bracket was Stacey's Stepdad lol

[@ssjayy-xs5lh]

I remember crush talking about how he was banned in certain chats cause of the way he expressed himself lol. He put up random topics like falcon color tier list years before random tier lists was a thing. He was definitely an interesting guy

[@fujster]

We learn now that that is actually important because of ECB manipulation

[@lincolnkaine]

@@fujster its been known for a super long time that it changes ecb. it actually matters less now because at one point it kind of did something on the rock transformation, but now its practically not applicable anywhere

[@GameConnoisseur69]

Even when he was a kid he had that Crush energy

[@Endurlay]

Yeah. By far.

[@ln8496]

He was shine land grabbing on the side plats of battlefield with falco at apex 2010. Thats when i met him. I was 15 and he was younger and significantly better than me then lol

[@King_Hehehe]

He's the only player I've ever seen to retire and actually stay retired. Even guys like Armada still have a level of involvement, even if it's less frequent and less involved. Crush just...disappeared. It's a truly unique case.

[@Nahoc]

bizarro flame?

[@King_Hehehe]

@@Nahoc I remember him starting to stream a little bit sometime last year or so, but wasn't able to keep it up for long. Like most people, Bizz didn't really quit per se, he just got too busy to really be around.

[@20102010b]

Slug

[@illustrious-jaco]

@@20102010b slug weird

[@King_Hehehe]

@@20102010b I'm not really counting anyone who's been more or less exiled, because it's not really a willful retirement like Crush.

[@hisnameiskish4874]

Crush was one of my favorite players when he was active. He was just really good and didn't have the same mindset as everyone else. I still remember him talking in an interview about how he didn't believe in stage counter picks. Basically that there wasn't an "optimal" stage to counter pick different characters or players to and that you should just play better than your opponent.. That mentality of "just play better no matter the situation" still resonates with me with all games.

[@anonanon521]

The idea that different stages don’t give certain characters advantages is objectively wrong. Play better is a good plan but if you’re jigglypuff and you don’t counterpick dreamland you’re making the wrong decision.

[@moosesues8887]

@@anonanon521or just be better than ur opponent

[@mymyscellany]

the view point is worth considering but it's also really important to contextualize the opinion- Crush played fox. Fox is really really good on every stage and counter picks just don't mean as much to the character

[@anonanon521]

@@mymyscellany Just say you don’t know much about the game. Fox does care about counterpicks and REALLY cares about them in certain matchups like jigglypuff, marth, peach, etc.

[@mymyscellany]

@@anonanon521 I would definitely beat you at melee. Don't know who you are, easy dub. 20 dollar mm ez. If you want to say I don't know about melee.

[@winniebobinnie34]

Man the mid-late 2010's was such a magical time for melee

[@senjoFan69]

I started watching in 2015 and couldn't agree more. I love the modern era, but there was something special about those days.

[@JackCohoon]

Yesss a crush video was much needed for people who weren't around to bare witness to the legend, keep up the banging vids Chalegend

[@louisbrosseau2649]

Forgot to mention about his short comeback in 2019 at locals under the tags « Kimba » and « Bagheera ». Maybe there’s hope of a return of the king of Dragon Duel

[@oxyacetylene_]

french

[@louisbrosseau2649]

@@oxyacetylene_ even worse, French Canadian

[@EliteDarkLordman]

Damn I completely forgot abt kimba

[@divagaciones1628]

*Faces one of the best players of all time who has a case for being the GOAT* Crush: "This guy has ok shield pressure, so I'm gonna down b out of shield"

[@tropicson]

not a day goes by where i dont thank god for Crush.

[@tropicson]

@emmanuelopoku-ware black clover fan

[@Silverado-pq6xe]

@emmanuelopoku-wareblack clover pfp

[@thesambuddy]

Just started the video but gotta share my one experience as someone in NE who didn't know him personally I played crush in doubles bracket at a MMOM in Amesbury ~2015 maybe. My team was sheik peach and I remember asking him if he noticed anything we could work on and he just said "down smash more" and walked away Dudes a legend

[@PerseusisRad]

I feel like I remember someone mentioning that Crush felt that Melee as a game had issues, and that was why he stopped playing. I'm also pretty sure he has since been to a local at least, but I could be mixing him up with another player.

[@TheMacaroniPanda]

He has been to some locals since “disappearing” going under different tags, which I do wish was mentioned in the video

[@The_DGO]

Some day, we’ll see crush again in esports, he’ll randomly win the biggest major, then drop off the face of the earth again

[@trueblueryu5713]

Ngl I was somewhat hoping that this would cover details from 2011-2013 based on how the video started. It’s a pretty overlooked era in the competitive community due to being considered the dark age, so the small amounts of behind the scenes information we get about it are interesting to see.

[@brandon1537]

Crush is closer to enlightenment than most of us

[@nya69]

hes so real

[@islandboy9381]

Or is he? 🤔

[@nya69]

O.o

[@sebcha8945]

I talked with n0ne about that at GOML 2023.. he said to me "don't give top player too much praise, some of them already have to much of an ego. We are just gamers"

[@salvatore_slate]

love it when ppl bring up how he played ygo

[@clippyredd6045]

4:56 might be the most confused scar has ever been

[@noobtuber10]

This is like the 10th fgc video ive seen this week with sexy trunks for background music

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

I feel like his quirkiness was a bit contrived. Like he was being deliberate about it and wanted people to talk about it. It was a bit too self aware.

[@beardeddragon1828]

The nikola jokic of smash lol

[@awareclueless]

I miss Crush :(

[@mutedknght]

Primal Dialga fight theme is criminally under rated. Good choice at the end.

[@justforshow1993]

Crush reminds me a Patrick Bateman and idk whhhhhhyyyyyyy.

[@AlxandreNotavo]

have you seen his summit sketch?

[@justforshow1993]

@@AlxandreNotavo maybe 😏😏😏

[@theInstituter]

Crush did what everyone wants to do and it's to just play melee instead of playing the game

[@jacobthebatchbandit3092]

6:05 Crush rocking the Diamond Supply Co. Highs 😳😳😳

[@rorbee]

mele big alimony 👍

[@EmpGG]

Crush and Silentwolf are two Foxes I miss so much man

[@sickteej]

I wish I would have been into competitive smash when Crush was around. I know the name but nothing about him. Great video ++

[@Xarenth]

another great video, chaler ages ago saw his "i can't do this anymore" interview clip, interesting to have a fuller picture of the guy now! crush's story is inspirational, in a way. to put on my own armchair psychologist hat - not sure if he'd want to be an inspiration to people or not but for me, it's beautiful to see the way you can still integrate with a community and people despite not following all of its customs to the T. to be accepted for a shared passion, plain and simple. not just for that, though. the ability to supposedly stay true to yourself despite pressures around you. the pursuit of your craft in pure, undiluted form. i realized despite having your videos pop on my homepage and watching them religiously i wasn't subbed 😨 please keep the content coming, or don't. you can pull a crush and delete your channel, i won't hold it against you. much.

[@MrGetownedLP]

Crush was ahead of his time fr

[@E-Brightvoid]

What a mad lad

[@XxuplmxX]

I love this series, would love to see a mini doc about the greatest homie of all time: dunk

[@veggie4876]

I love your content so much chaler. Hope you catch the algorithm more

[@kevinbroberg3504]

the algorithm brought me here and I will feed the algorithm so it will bring the next guy

[@13luken]

holy shit i went to junior high and high school with crush, used to play melee w him in junior high, and I was so surprised when his figure slowly faded in from black in the center of the screen hahahahahah

[@tiramusubi]

@Chaler where to cop that shirt?

[@mugiwaraLux]

Crush shows up to a game; becomes a top player, and leaves to do whatever else the fuck he wants. Why? Because he’s crush.

[@ThatOneScienceGuy]

Liquidpedia says that he no longer qualified for Dragon Duels because he was too old. So he aged out of that and then I guess started to focus on Melee.

[@Aresftfun]

12:17 i cried 😭 he was so cooool i hope hes doin alright

[@Jinju___]

I can only talk to girls with UCF is such a banger tweet

[@vashthestampede5130]

Dude is the Zach Greinke of smash

[@StagRed]

nice moves on the disclaimer!

[@dzorrilla]

Another banger. But the real question is, when are you going to do a video about the legend, the man...AC? Fun fact: Crush played against AC in EVO 2013 pools

[@ChalerYT]

Who didn't that man play against in evo 2013 pools

[@EatUrVeggies]

the coolest melee top player ever

[@MrMooooole]

Crushed it.

[@farmingsim9813]

Gotta love how people thought he was Guyfarting

[@SHAGANGBANG]

I miss crush

[@60fGALINT]

what about the Kimba OVA

[@jmarvins]

real heads know (as a former employee of the university of new hampshire i will claim even realer head-cred, take it when you got it)

[@XEPHOURIA]

Crush scares me

[@sickteej]

babe wake up new chaler video just dropped

[@N1twoN12]

Song name that starts playing at 2:06? Nice video!

[@Spacegoat_TV]

vs. Professor from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. I don't remember the actual name but that should pull it up for you if you search it

[@GCLU]

He did btw come back for two events under other tags, those being Bagheera and Kimba and then disappeared again. Sure was Crush.

[@bananacat3109]

ah yes the winner of 14 dragon duels

[@AutisticJesusGaming]

Bros just add ggets obsessed for a long time then finds something new

[@ApacheSmash]

I am the Crush of Metal Gear Solid

[@CSharp__]

holy shit quadball is mentioned

[@argentalis7339]

There anyone here that knows the song at 5:40 ?

[@Ehgg-]

I thought this would be about Borp

[@cojiro_ssbm]

"great games everone" :p

[@PlaZma372]

whats the song called at 2:06?

[@mario4154]

Final boss from pokemon scarlet and violet

[@VTHokie]

That wasnt his last event

[@ToddSnap3]

Crush really ran out of characters halfway through the interview

[@Psyko327]

Now this is what we need in Melee!

[@hahahalala-i1x]

i miss that guy

[@rohatozdemir9490]

2:06 whats the song name please anyone

[@mario4154]

Final boss from pokemon scarlet and violet

[@mauricemorasse9241]

whats the name of the first song plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@joeykeilholz925]

Crush is kewl

[@KanSanyara]

We can see the border of his green screen and I cant unsee it lmao

[@ChalerYT]

I fucked it okay! Lol

[@AL-lh2ht]

Anyone who is not aware green screen work is surprisingly difficult to work with and extremely hard to get perfect.

[@The_DGO]

Isn’t crush hbox’s coach? Or is it crunch?

[@h2_]

bombsoldier video when smile

[@isambo400]

Chillin made me chuckle

[@bibbyboxx2219]

W video I wish crush would come back

[@miguelquintero6117]

great video, bangers songs

[@LukeyFGC]

Song in the intro? Ive been looking for ages

[@jpzeiro]

Did you find out the name? I've been looking for her for a long time

[@jpzeiro]

lol i found! Balrog's Theme - Sexy Trunks [HD REMIX]

[@MrKynzer]

What's the song at the end?

[@EatUrVeggies]

My goat

[@gigasnake1008]

Damn. What a guy.

[@Dansam04]

5:39 What’s the song?

[@thewindysage1538]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIrbYqZ7acmMaM0

[@argentalis7339]

replying to get this a bit more traction

[@ratatata9450]

Crush is my GOAT

[@squarepusherssbm]

Baller thumbnail

[@AnarchoPurp]

I really disagree with the thesis here, I think the energy he brought was negative overall. Almost all Melee pros I've met are incredibly kind people, which really helps combat the elitism that's endemic to a game with so many skill plateaus. Crush is just kinda... mean. He interacts with everyone as if it's a chore, not because he seems anxious, but because he seems to think that everyone is beneath him. Everything he says is just dripping with disdain. Compare that with someone like Mang0 That said, part of me wants him back tho. It was fun to have a douchey heel to root against.

[@user-nm9yd4wq4s]

Crush gotta be one of the Super Smash Brothers Melee (2001) for Nintendo Game Cube players of all time.

[@Sasha0317]

No doubt

[@Adventureruler]

I think he's weird, that interview clip confused me

[@gediboy5695]

He looks like Christian Bale too xD

[@sethlast9024]

Feels like a weird cross between ludwig and bo burnham

[@mfour_themighty]

Hello?

[@DarrienGlasser]

Massachusetts 👍👍👍

[@mellemonster7832]

where is 7:45 from why is mang0 wering a wetsuit?

[@TuMadre8000]

actual psychopath

[@gnardawgyt]

Spell check bro

[@SnackMuay]

The overlap between melee and yugioh is so strangely large. Magi was also a hardcore yugioh player

[@partlyawesome]

Vibeo

[@Jeapie_z]

👍

[@ApacheSmash]

OIOI

[@yourdagan]

E-sports is foremost personality driven. You can be very good at your game, yet if you aren't entertaining as a person, less people will care about whatever you do than they otherwise would have. The word used here, "celebrity", essentially encapsulates Crush's appeal as a character in this drama that is Melee. Above it all, on another level, too good for this, but all tempered with an obvious douse of irony, even if you don't always understand the punchline---you can tell it's a joke, but a joke that still feels real in some way. Although at the time his age may not have been figured in as a significant factor, in a scene dominated by mid-millennials, he along with Wizzrobe represented a potential crop of top talent from Gen Z that could potentially displace The Gods or the players immediately below them---that there was a real future where the guys who won everything now may not be able to maintain that dominance against newer, younger players, which helped to bring excitement to the events taking place. And of course, Crush was not only good, but great even, and seemimgly rapidly improving. The height of his success was at the end of 2017 where he almost 6-0'd SFat to win a tournament stacked with most of the aforementioned top players who weren't The Gods. He proved he could be a winner, someone to champion. Pure speculation, but if you look at his 2018 results, it paints a picture which may have gotten to *him*, that of a top *regional* talent who nevertheless was going to be coming up short at supermajors, if not forever, then perhaps for a long foreseeable future. There could have been the thought that he had plateau'd, and further progress would require more investment than he was willing to give. Crush represented a lot of promise for the scene. He's missed because every fresh face that has come after him---quite a few who have been more successful than he was---has failed to build that same level of intrigue about themselves and their place in the game. At this point it's been acknowledged quite often how dependant the scene is upon who's playing and people caring to see them play. It's debatable how much of an impact his departure in itself made upon the quality of the scene, as well as whether it contributed to an often complained about decline of Melee's scene, but he remains missed and continued to be discussed years after the fact because he struck the exact right chord that resonates with the community. Many players have come and gone and yet few are as memorialized as Crush. It's not just because he was entertaining, but because of his seemingly unrealized potential, that it feels like he never finished the story---that he left Melee on a cliffhanger that many of us just can't accept.

[@Faceplantfloor]

Chaler, gotta work on your hand gestures while talking. You look like not sure if you're doing it right, and unless you're trying to imitate a cardboard robot, you're definitely not doing it right.

[@ChalerYT]

I would love to move my hands how I would like to unfortunately I am trapped in the box that is my green screen

[@Faceplantfloor]

@@ChalerYT I think you just need to relax a bit and get more comfortable with it. Solid content regardless,and hey, that's the most important thing.

[@IncompetentEarl]

FSkinny

[@AL-lh2ht]

Calling Cody the best player is pretty controversial.

[@ChalerYT]

Atm he like defo is top 2 at the very least

[@andresemidey9679]

​@ChalerYT zain and jmook are probably above, putting cody in the same tier as AmSA and above Hbox and Mang0

[@TheBeggies95]

@@andresemidey9679Exactly this

[@mauricemorasse9241]

whats the name of the first song plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz