Throughout the Smash community, the number of sponsorships that Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman has gone through is quite the meme. Every time a new sponsorship is announced, comments are filled with people jokingly typing out all of the abbreviations for his previous sponsorships as though it's for a tournament overlay.





Here's what the rough history of his sponsorships looks like.

Missed this but ... vVv Gaming has released Mew2King and Lee Martin. The announcement was made after MLG's report. #ssbb — Glenn - thegametwok (@thegametwok) October 28, 2010

Among Mew2King's earliest sponsorships was with vVv Gaming, who had his back during the MLG days for Brawl. He took first place in Brawl at events like MLG Orlando and MLG Columbus, along with strong performances in the few Melee events he attended during this time.





vVv Gaming ultimately let Mew2King go after M2K was accused of bracket fixing at MLG DC 2010 for agreeing to split winnings with fellow Brawl player ADHD. Their official announcement of dropping him came at the end of October 2010.

M2Ks longest-standing sponsorship, lasting between 2009 and 2015, was with Empire Arcadia. EMP saw him through his utter dominance of Brawl on top of high placements at almost any Melee major that occurred during that time.





Mew2King ultimately left EMP because they treated him poorly and didn't pay him properly.

CT could have been the strongest smash team of all time, they had



Armada

Hax

Mew2King

ZeRo

Salem

Hungrybox



They had the DYNASTY — Jason (@Anti) March 15, 2017

Sponsoring Mew2King from 2011-2014 was CLASH Tournaments, who saw the star Smasher through many of the same ups and downs in Melee that EMP did. The primary difference is that CT didn't have their name next to him during the beginning of Smash Wii U.





In the official thread about his release from CT, M2K specifically states that CT paid him the promised amount on a monthly basis and he had nothing against them, but they parted ways nonetheless.

Although it lasted for more than a year, Mew2King was "sponsored" (read: swindled) by Play-4-Keeps for a portion of 2012-2014.





They saw him through some of the same success his other sponsors did, but M2K ultimately left them because he never got anything from them and they were "a total scam."

@FStepGG congrats to @CT_Mew2King winning Smash 64 singles and winning Smash 4 Doubles with @NME_Xzax. — Ambition (@J_Ambition) October 25, 2014

For roughly a month near the end of 2014, M2K was also competing under FStep. Not much of anything happened during that time, and the organization's Twitter account disappeared just as quickly as it appeared.

Another short-lived sponsorship of M2Ks was with Pastime Legends, who sponsored him from late 2014 until partway through 2015. It was a relatively uneventful time for Smash (except Apex 2015, where M2K was sick), and his relationship with the group ended as quietly as it began.

Sponsoring M2K from mid-April 2015 until mid-May 2016 was COGnitive Gaming. A good portion of this was during M2Ks unfortunate slump in all the games that he played on account of hand injuries, but there were no hard feelings between them.





In fact, according to this Reddit thread, M2K simply didn't resign with COG. Nothing special whatsoever.

I'm now Echo Fox + MVG for those that are asking. Cognitive treated me great though, and it was a great year with them too. — Jason Zimmerman (@MVG_Mew2King) May 17, 2016

At last, the modern era of M2K. He has Most Valuable Gaming listed as a sponsor, but partially to grant more exposure to a company he considers family that he owns a part of.





As for his fully esports sponsorship, he's currently a part of Echo Fox, an organization started by Rick Fox. Given current appearances, FOX MVG | M2K will be what we see in stream overlays for quite a while.





It's not surprising that one of the most storied names in all of Smash has such a complicated history with sponsors, but it's great he finally has a top-tier sponsorship in Echo Fox.

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