User:FrederickMS

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Frederick Michael Smith
Born	Frederick Michael Smith
Nationality	American
Citizenship	USA
Education	Academic major in Information Technology Minor in Information Systems
Alma mater	Georgia Southern University Honor Student
Occupation(s)	Full-time Student, Entrepreneur

Frederick Michael Smith, pseudonym "Dash", is an entrepreneur, independent electronic sports player of First-person shooter and coach of competitive gaming teams. Michael is a full-time equivalent Information Technology (academic minor in Information Systems) honor student and director of gaming tournaments. Michael has had experience with currency trading, the sales of digital assets, being a web developer, IT services and consultation, and internet marketing.

Early life and career

Michael was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael's family moved to Cartersville, Georgia at age 8. Michael underwent homeschooling until age 14 and was then put in a small private christian school. He attended Excel Christian Academy for High School and then transfered to Georgia Highlands College. After 2 years he transfered to Georgia Southern University and got honors for his academic success as a top transfer student. Michael worked 5 years serving and cooking in the restaurant business. Looking up to his Father he was interested in business ventures, philosophy, politics, and reading. Michael is an artist, open water diver, guitarist, and technology enthusiast. Michael enjoys tennis, skateboarding, mountain biking, online multi-player, reading, listening to music, recreational gaming, video blogging, voice acting, writing, and contributing to English Wikipedia electronic sports history and facts.

Halo3-Tourney(H3T)

February 2008: Michael's first entrepreneurial endeavor started by hosting free tournaments on a team management website. People voted that cash tournaments be hosted, thus Halo3 (Dash) Tourney commercial was created. Dozens of tournaments were hosted and thousands of people were signing up(1,736 human-user emails on email-list). The biggest tournament hosted was a partial sponsorship to a Major League Gaming event. However, the team that was sponsored didn't make it into Top 32 for the 2009 California Event. After a while of inactivity of tournaments and forum use the website was hacked and all data was lost(Unfortunately no back-ups were saved by the web host. The phBB backup was outdated and a download of the outdated forum was no longer available). Some data can still be seen from wayback machine. Eventually the website expired and the domain was bought by FourthMedia Ltd(an advertising company) on March the 22nd of 2011. .

Merger&Acquisition Offer

A $2,000 offer was made in 2009. Discussion of acquisition was that all site credentials be given (after money-pick up transfer via Western Union) including: member email list, MySQL database, CPanel, facebook, myspace, twitter, and youtube. New management would take over promptly, volunteers could choose to stay active, and Michael would stay the advisor for 1 month. The acquisition was rejected.

Volunteers of H3T

1. Drew Bergmark, a broadcaster from G4 TV Online Interactive Series. He volunteered as a journalist and tournament broadcaster. He posted regularly in the news section and made tournament coverage announcements via vlogs. He also hosted live stickam events to involve the community in discussion of predictions of tournament outcome and motions only a socialite could think of.
2. Anthony Nixon is a full-time university student majoring in Computer Science. His efforts were focused as an administrator of the website and general manager of tournaments. He also consulted and helped with the implementations of new programmed scripts for modifications of phpBB. (such as: unique view counter, "who's viewing this" functionality, sub categorical forums, birthday list view, mass message functionality, and bots currently 'algorithmically crawling' site.)
3. Travis Cheney was the chief moderator. He volunteered as a moderator of forums and referee of tournaments.
4. Zach Smith, a university student studying Finance, was the chief financial officer. He volunteered as a director of tournaments and invested in the future of H3T. He was the main advisor to Michael for business development, substantial expansion motivation, and financial expenditure.

World Gaming League(WGL)

February 19 of 2009: After deciding to host tournaments in more than just Halo, World Gaming League(WGL) was launched. Tournaments hosted in 2010 were: StarCraft 2, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo Wars, and Unreal Tournament 3. WGL is expected to relaunch in June of 2011.

Sponsorships Acquired 2005-2009

1. OnlineDotCom - First sponsor. Won it by winning a 4v4 Tournament. Paid for entry fee to MLG ATL 2005
   • Team: Webb(Elastigirl), Michael(Dash, where name originated from), Jason(Mr. Incredible), and Joe(Jack Jack)
2. EB Games - Sent free games and accessories
3. Art of War - Partially sponsored to TGN tournament
4. Antonino's Italian Restaurant - Provided discounts to rent space and catered to a local LAN

Halo LAN Tournament Placements

1. 1st Place: GameRiot(Now World Series of Video Games) Head2Head DogFight Tournament Champion. Hosted by MTV2's . Was suppose to face Zyos, in an attempt to gain an MLG contract, but Matt was competing at WCG
2. 1st Place: HIN Halo 2 Free-for-all Tournament, Hosted by GameRiot NOPI Show
3. Top 16: Major League Gaming 2005 Atlanta
4. Top 4: 2008 4v4 Tournament TGN ATL
5. Top 10: 4v4, 4th in: FFA, TGN Tournament 2008 Nashville
   • Notable Competitors: Top Type-Z Members
     • Team AoW: Zach Smith, Josh, and Anthony
       • Sponsor: Art of War
6. 2nd Place: 2005 Georgia Blockbuster FFA Tournament
7. 1st Place: 2010 State-Wide Georgia GameStop City Pre-Qualifier FFA/1v1 Tournament
   • 2nd Place: 2010 State-Wide Georgia Official FFA/1v1 Tournament
     • Prize: Halo 3: ODST Legendary Edition & $50
8. 2nd Place: GameFrenzy 2v2 July 2009
9. 1st Place: XL Wired 2v2
10. 2nd Place: Antonino's 4v4 LAN, hosted by Michael. $350 Total Prizes
11. 4th Place: Computer Arena 2v2 2007
    • Team: Nick Lambert
12. 3rd Place: Battle & Brew 2v2 2006
13. 1st Place: Gamesboro of Statesboro, Georgia FFA 2010
14. 3rd Place: New Media Arena 2v2 2008
15. 1st Place: The Vineyard 4v4 Tournament 2009 $100
16. 2nd Place: 2v2 ODC(Online Dot Com, a lan center) Tournament 2009
    • 3rd Place: 2v2 ODC Tournament 2009

Halo Internet Tournament Placements

1. Top 32: 2005 Rumble Pit, during stat reset(due to mass cheating), TFxDash was on highscore list for 2 weeks.
2. 6th Place: IPTourneys FFA
3. 2nd Place: 1v1 League 2009 TournamentFront
   • TournamentFront was Acquired by Virgin Gaming
4. Top 400 World FFA Rank in UT3, 2008-2009 Xbox Live: "iDash R"
5. 1st Place: HaloMega 1v1 $80
6. 4th Place: H3Compete FFA Tournament 2008(32+ Players)
   • 3rd Place H3Compete 2v2 Tournament 2008
7. 2nd Place: TATourney 2v2 Tournament 2007

Teams & Strategy

The Incredibles: Won first sponsorship on this team. played as Dash. This is where the name originated from. Team Flash (TFx): The flash part was partly used to metaphorically mean, "winning fast". Incorporating aggressive strategies involving flanking tactics, trapping, positioning for higher ground crossfire advancement, and spawn dominance control. Defensive strategies involving repositioning crossfire grounds, holding power weapons, and forcing enemy advancement on point leads. Michael created Team Flash and was the captain of division 1 team. Competed in many tournaments state-wide. Art of War (AOW): One tournament in Nashville, TN.