Tournament Organizer

Alex “The Party” Wallace

Alex is a Super Smash Bros. tournament organizer and video producer from Southern California. She has been organizing events since 2014, and became most well-known in 2015 for her grassroots weekly series, “Smash at the Balcony”, as well as her work in documentary production for the Project M community. Her favorite thing about TOing is yelling at nerds. She has been working at smash.gg since May 2018 and currently works as a video producer and team lead in the Partner Support department.

Tournament Organizer

Kelly “Kupo” Goodchild

Kelly has been a tournament organizer for SSBM since 2013 after joining the community in 2011. She was frustrated by her lack of skill in the game, but she still wanted to find a way to give back to a community she loved. Since then she has helped grow the central Florida smash scene through “Gaming Knights” and helped facilitate the long-running local tournament “CFL Smackdown”. She is co-owner to the organization “Polarity” which runs numerous gaming events in Florida. She has helped execute other large-scale events, such as “Smash the Record”, “Paragon Orlando”, “Frame One”, and has been the lead SSBM organizer for “CEO” since 2015. Kelly has worked at smash.gg for 2 years where she is the Senior Partner Support manager.

Tournament Organizer

Lindsay Gonshak

Lindsay is a fighting game tournament organizer from central Florida. She discovered her passion for competitive gaming in 2013, when she joined the Gaming Knights (UCF’s video game club) and assisted them with running tournaments. Since then, she’s volunteered her time at many large events, including “CEO”, “Smash the Record”, and “Dreamhack”. She currently helps run events for “Polarity” in central Florida. She has been with smash.gg since May 2018 as a part of the support team.

Tournament Organizer

Kelvin “K” Nunez

From being a Smash.gg Support Guru during the mornings to being an up-and-coming Production Manager by night, Kelvin is here to make sure your dull day becomes a little bit brighter. Originally getting into the Esports scene via the Melee community as a Marth/Falco main in 2006, Kelvin has had his fair share of experience in the world we’ve come to know. Contrary to what you’ve read, he originally had no interest in streaming and wanted to stick to TO’ing as his main hobby. It wasn’t until 2014, when his college friends asked him to run their college tournament streams, that he realized how much he loved being the administrator of media and entertainment.

In 2018, Kelvin is now the Production Manager for the up-and-coming Spectrum Smash tournament organization stationed in New Jersey! Currently studying to become a future Computer Engineer, Kelvin hopes to spread his love of technology around the world and help users get the best out of what they have.

Ecommerce Specialist

Samara “Tiptoe” Jackson

smash.gg Co-Founder, Director of Ecommerce

Andrew “zzyZx” S.

Along with being a founding member of smash.gg, Andrew directs the ecommerce team. He’s very mysterious, so you’ll have to wait for more details!

Ecommerce Specialist

Leah “leahboo” Doh

Tournament Organizer

Brian Buckley

Brian is a tournament organizer, graphic designer, and livestream director based out of Atlanta, GA. He started out as a competitor for Super Smash Bros. Melee in 2014 and began helping out with community projects and events shortly after. His first full tournament as an organizer was The Georgia Arcadian, which he started alongside creating Recursion to run and stream events across the Southeast. With his team, Brian quickly got into organizing bigger events such as Bad Moon Rising 2, DreamHack Atlanta, and MomoCon, while also doing stream production for events like Shine and Pound series.

Today, alongside running Recursion and helping grow smash.gg, Brian spends his time working with new organizers to help build their local scenes with his experience as an organizer and community leader.

Tournament Organizer

Matt “Swanner” Swanson

For over five years, Matt has been a staple of the Midwest Super Smash Bros. scene and greater Project M community. He got his start in tournament organizing during 2015 at Illinois State University–hosting events for their Smash Bros. club. He soon realized that he was passionate about bringing people together to play games competitively. After he graduated in 2017, Matt continued to foster competitive Smash Bros. and Pokémon scenes in the Chicagoland area. From running his own sanctioned Pokémon events to building the ASH@WIT local, Matt has organized hundreds of local events. He is currently a member of Underground Studios Gaming and operates Tripoint Smash in Romeoville, IL.

On the National scale, Matt is known as the Project M guy by many–having been a lead organizer 2 out of 3 of the largest Project M events in history. Outside of his well-known work for the Smash’N’Splash series, he has been on the floor for The Big House, Shine, and Genesis. Recently, Matt began hosting Project+ Netplay Nights as a way to engage the North American Project M scene online. 

Matt has been with smash.gg since November 2019 as a member of the support team.