2015 Smash Thank You Letter

Dearest Smash Community,



For those who don’t know me, my name is Justin ‘paperfairy’ Mills, and I am the Tournament and Community Organizer for Great Value Smash - you may not know who we are, but you will in 2016!



As 2015 comes to close, I really wanted to thank ALL of you so much in helping Great Value Smash grow as much as it has. I know we're still very small, but I think I accurately speak for the team when I say that we are SUPER excited for the viewers and players that we do currently have, and we can’t wait for more of the greater Smash community to notice us!



But we wouldn’t have had this success without the help of a lot of people… so this list is in NO PARTICULAR ORDER (seriously, I made a list and then randomized it), but I, paperfairy, wanted to give some thanks.



Dual

For those who don’t know, Dual is the stream manager for Great Value Smash. I love his passion for streaming and his commitment to detail - he really works SUPER hard to make sure that the stream looks and sounds good, and he puts up with all of my idiotic requests. From the bottom of my heart, I am honored to have you at my side.



Fireblaster

2016 is going to be an amazing year for Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 64, and it is in thanks to this guy. His commitment to growing Smash and the 64 community is truly inspiring, and I thank him for giving us a chance (and playing for us at Hitstun, and perhaps another tournament in the future…)!



Peanut + Giga K

You guys were amazing on commentary. The stream monsters loved you guys, and I hope both of you continue to kill it in the future.



Smashers

If you came to Gauntlet 2, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I love having players in the building, and the energy in the venue was FANTASTIC that day. I hope you all had a good time, and I hope you all keep coming to future events!

If you’ve come to ANY of the weeklies, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I appreciate ANYBODY who shows up, even if they don’t play, because I really truly love and value the Smash community members. Keep showing up! I can’t wait until people start driving from NY or NJ to play in our weeklies, and it won’t be long until we are SUPER HYPE.



Reddit

I am specifically talking about /r/ssbpm - you guys are amazing! Every time I advertise the stream in there, you guys come out in FULL force without fail. GVS gfycats always hit the front page too, so it would appear that you guys like us! Without you guys, I don’t think Hitbox would have even noticed us, so we really appreciate it. I hope we can continue to provide meaningful Project M content for you guys in the future. (LAST MINUTE EDIT: Shoutouts to Painful VD who I’m pretty sure is the only person who has watched every single minute of GVS footage and makes the awesome gfycats I was talking about. He’s amazing.)



Hitbox (Hawkeye)

Thank you for the kind words, quality options, and advertising for us over the weekend on Twitter. We hope to be the biggest Melee stream on Hitbox pretty soon, and we are looking forward to working with you more as time goes on. (Oh, and your website is pretty awesome too.)



Swift

You’ve been in the Smash community longer than the entire GVS staff put together, so hearing kind words from you REALLY means a lot. Thank you for supporting our tiny little group with your words, and we hope we continue to have fun at our events!



Followers

If you are following us on Hitbox or Twitter, subscribed on Youtube, or liking us on Facebook, then I LOVE YOU. Metrics are what draw in advertisers, so the more people we have tuned into our social media channels, the better chances we can work with bigger companies, so that in turn, we can increase the quality of our events. Thank you so much!



Rebecca, Wavebae, Tonks and LadyHolic

Even if you guys don’t play, you guys are willing to help in whatever way you can. I REALLY appreciate that, because as you’ve seen, this stuff can get hard. Thanks for the backup and support! I couldn’t ask for more amazing volunteers.



Project MDVA and SouthFloridaPM

You guys were hosting us on Sunday and we really appreciate that! I can’t work to work with you guys more often in the coming year!



Kycse, Flipp and Icylight

GVS couldn’t ask for a better team of sponsored players - thank you so much for choosing to work with us! As our players, you are one of our biggest priorities, and I personally promise that being sponsored by us will have huge benefits as time goes on. Thanks for being patient with us and we appreciate you!



Karl

Karl is the owner of our primary venue, The Grid Games. He has been nothing but helpful in growing Great Value Smash, and we are honored to work with him. GVS cannot wait to continue working with him in 2016, hoping to not only make GVS bigger, but the Grid too. Thanks for being a fantastic store owner, Karl.



Wavebird

Wavebird works COUNTLESS hours as our Youtube Manager, making sure all of the videos are uploaded quickly and organized well. He loses a lot of sleep and time with his wonderful girlfriend to help us out, and his sacrifices ARE NOT in vain. I love working with Wavebird and hope to continue to do so. (The raw video for Gauntlet 2 is already up! Individual matches are being worked on as I type this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-aJ28peHzA)



Gooley, HM04, Kaz, MLGF

Salt is amazing. Hype is real. Thank you for giving people a reason to watch our channel. All of the money matches were great - thank you for being such good sports about it all too. Here’s to more salt in 2016!



Golden

LAST BUT NOT LEAST, the world’s best commentator. Golden is really good at undervaluing his work, but I personally think that commentary is WAY more important than the Smash community gives it credit for, and I appreciate Golden stepping up as the Head of Commentary (and doing a fantastic job at it). Without good commentary, I personally would not be here at all, and I hope to God that your work is pulling in new Smashers like TK Breezy did for me.



And to anybody still reading this, THANK YOU. I’ll see you all at the weeklies, and in particular, Gauntlet 3, in February.

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