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Frederick Michael Smith
Born
Frederick Michael Smith
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUSA
EducationAcademic major in Information Technology Minor in Information Systems
Alma materGeorgia Southern University
Occupation(s)Full-time Student, Entrepreneur
Websitehttp://www.WGLPro.com


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[1] 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.[2] 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, guitarist, open water diver, and technology enthusiast. Michael enjoys tennis, skateboarding, mountain biking, competitive multi-player in RTS/FPS, recreational gaming, video blogging, voice acting, writing, and contributing to English Wikipedia electronic sports history.

Halo3-Tourney

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-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. 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. [3].

Volunteers of H3T

  1. Drew Bergmark, a broadcaster from G4 TV Online Interactive Series. He volunteered as a journalist and tournament broadcaster.
  2. Anthony Nixon is a full time college student majoring in Computer Science. Volunteered as an administrator of the website and general manager of tournaments.
  3. Travis Cheney was the chief moderator. Volunteered as a moderator of forums and referee of tournaments.
  4. Zach Smith was the chief financial officer. He volunteered as a director of tournaments and invested in the future of H3T.

World Gaming League

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. It is expected to relaunch in June of 2011.[4]

Sponsorships

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)

EB Games - Sent free games and accessories Art of War - Partially sponsored to TGN tournament Antonino's Italian Restaurant - Provided discounts to rent space and catered to a local LAN[5]

Placements

  1. 2005: 1st | GameRiot(Now World Series of Video Games)[6] Head2Head DogFight Tournament Champion.[7] Hosted by MTV2's [8]. Was suppose to face Zyos, in an attempt to gain an MLG contract, but Matt was competing at WCG[9]
  2. 1st Place | HIN Halo 2 Free-for-all Tournament, Hosted by GameRiot[10] NOPI Show
  3. Top 16 | Major League Gaming 2005 Atlanta[11]
  4. Top 400 World FFA Rank in UT3, 2008-2009 Xbox Live: "iDash R"
  5. Top 4 in 4v4 | 2008 TGN ATL
  6. Top 10 in 4v4, 4th in FFA | TGN 2008 Nashville
    • Notable Competitors: Top Type-Z Members[12]
      • Team: Zach Smith, Josh, and Anthony
      • Sponsor: Art of War[13]
  7. 2nd Place: 2005 Georgia Blockbuster FFA Tournament
  8. 1st Place: 2010 State-Wide Georgia GameStop City Pre-Qualifier FFA/1v1 Tournament
    • 2nd Place: 2010 State-Wide Georgia Official FFA/1v1 Tournament
  9. Top 32: 2005 Rumble Pit, during stat reset(due to mass cheating), TFxDash was on highscore list for 2 weeks.

[Writing up online tournament competitions soon...]

  1. ^ Tau Sigma
  2. ^ Tau Sigma, 2nd Ref.
  3. ^ GoDaddy Link
  4. ^ World Gaming League
  5. ^ Antoninos
  6. ^ WSVG
  7. ^ GameRiot
  8. ^ Beejay Lange
  9. ^ WCG
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Major League Gaming
  12. ^ Type-Z
  13. ^ AoW

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