Casey

*"Fatty Shatty"*

Casey is one of the club's original members. Serving 2 terms as the vice president, he is a frequently seen face who plays many games with club members at competitive and casual levels.

## General History

When the esports club was originally founded Casey was one of the first people sought out to join, for he was considered by many to be best smash player in the school. Prior to his involvement with the club, Casey played Super Smash Bros. Melee semi professionally during middle school and won the vast majority of the tournaments held in the school. Knowing this, Nikhil B would routinely pester Casey to join the club and form a smash team, as no one else he knew seemed qualified to do so. Casey was originally hesitant, but, after some persuasion during their computer science class, Nikhil got Casey to join the server on October 18th, 2019.

Casey got right to work after joining the server, inviting all the people he knew who played smash in MHS. For the first time, the likes of Brandon Y, Gabe P, Hunter R, and Danny L would all play under one banner. He then held a round robin style tryout which saw the usual players as well as a freshman named Nikhil P make the team. Casey also joined the Overwatch team after talking with Patrick S, aka Partikc, about the game during band class. Though he had not played in a while, Casey would join the team as a main tank and stick on that role.

Casey originally stayed within the confines of #smash-chat, but he eventually branched out and became one of the most active members about a month after joining the club. He started frequently posting in random as well as elsewhere (such as CSGO Chat). Over the course of the club's first year, Casey distinguished himself as one of the most active members in the main channel and other teams' chats. This, along with Casey's participation in his teams' chats, gave him the title of most messages sent for the first half a year of the server's existence.

However, frequent posting did not mean that those posts were always so respectful. Casey's participation could be seen as a bit 'rough around the edges' early on in his tenure. With the help of Eric B. and Damon L., he would troll server admins such as Josh H and Alex B on a regular basis under the guise of protesting against censorship. Casey saw the officer's moderation decisions, such as adding censorship bots in early 2020, as unjust and bad for the server. He took the most offense to Josh who would delete messages that made fun of him personally which Casey saw as an abuse of power. Josh's actions caused Casey to just keep attacking him harder. This all came to a head in April of 2020 when Casey spammed a copypasta so abhorrent that it finally forced him and Josh to have a lengthy conversation about their disagreements and eventually settle their feud. Though these messages were certainly over the top, Casey was not maligned but instead revered by a large part of the community who agreed with his points.

Riding this wave of popularity, Casey decided to run for Vice President of the club in the 2020 officer elections. With Will Y deciding to go out for President, he saw his chance and seized it. His campaign centered around his anti-censorship positions and his ability to speak for the members of the club that did not play CSGO or Overwatch as none of the officers at the time played any competitive games other than those 2. With large support from the non-competitive members of the club as well as the smash team, Casey won a solid victory over Partikc and Ram to become the VP.

After winning the election Casey toned down his rhetoric and decided to work more behind the scenes. This does not mean that he was any less active with the club, however. In July 2020 he would start creating videos for the MHSE Youtube channel. He joined CSGO Team 2 for the Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 seasons as a bottom tier sub who could occasionally make some good plays in between spurts of feeding. He lost his spot atop the message leaderboard for Nikhil B, but replaced his participation there with more frequent voice chat usage. He was one of the most avid Valorant players at the game's launch, but quickly lost interest due to being bad at the game. On April 18th, 2021, Casey streamed himself for 24 hours straight in the discord server to much fanfare. He was re-elected as Vice President in 2021, running unopposed. In mid-2021, he began playing Guilty Gear: Strive with other smash players in the Esports club who picked up the game. To this day, Casey remains an extremely active member who can be seen in the top 10 for messages sent and voice chat minutes every month. He is still competing in HSEL for Overwatch and Smash and still runs Smash Team 1. He is a frequent of Overwatch stacks, Smash grind sessions, and any other events going on in the server.

## Smash

### Smash

Casey is one of the most decorated smash players in MHS history. He routinely dominates in both individual and team competition. For HSEL, he's made the playoffs in 3 of the 4 seasons he has competed in. He had an undefeated regular season in Fall 2020 and peaked at 3rd place in Winter 2019. In crew battles against other New Jersey schools he is even more accomplished. Casey has the MHS record in just about every crew battle statistic including stocks taken in a match (13), lifetime stocks taken (37), and match MVPs (3). Casey has also seen success in both online and offline tournaments outside of high school competitions.

## Overwatch

### Status:

Active (Starter)

Casey's place on the Overwatch team has never been as solid as the Smash team. When the team was first created he was not able to play in the starting lineup for one simple reason: internet. Casey's internet was so notoriously bad in the team's first 2 HSEL seasons that the term 'The r1ft DC' saw common usage to describe his frequent disconnects from the game server. This prevented Casey from playing in HSEL, because a disconnect could mean that the team would have to play a 5v6 for a significant amount of time. He also couldn't consistently practice by playing the competitive game mode due to frequent bans for his disconnects. When Casey fixed his internet woes, he was thrust into the starting lineup in the Fall 2020 HSEL season in which OW Team 1 had its worst record in team history. However, Casey gradually got better as he started more games and became a solid player. While he isn't the best on the team by any means, and can make some incredibly stupid misplays at times, Casey remains a consistent contributor on OW Team 1 with the ability to create highlights in any given match.

## CS:GO

### Status:

Inactive

Casey is one of the worst CSGO players to participate on an MHS team. The vast majority of his hours in CS have been spent on the game's deathmatch mode. This creates the great juxtaposition of Casey's play in CSGO. His time spent in deathmatch gives him the aim to make skilled plays for a team 2 player. However, his lack of practical game experience makes Casey's positioning and awareness akin to that of a headless chicken. He rode the bench for his 2 seasons with the team, seeing very rare playing time outside of games on Mirage because he knew the smoke lineups there. His greatest accomplishment is starting for team 2 in their only playoff series to date and playing surprisingly respectfully. And yet, after this match he would retire from the team and CSGO as a whole in Spring of 2021.