The Odd Records: Fandom Edition
Everyone wants a record! Highest accuracy, longest win streak, there are so many great things one can achieve and claim as their own. However, not every record is put in golden writing on the front page of the weekly newsletter, so let’s check out some lesser known, albeit odd records held by Fandom players.
The Truth About Chaos
It’s hard to remain undefeated. In fact, it’s not something people often think about. Even the best of the best eventually lose. Arkham Knights lost their first title shot, Knights of Ren loses to DUM-Es, and Duel of the Fates loses to Young Justice. In the teams arena there is shockingly only one singular team that is still undefeated today (if you take out the rookie teams who debuted this year). That team is none other than The Truth About Chaos. Before Matt Cuellar’s transition to FandEm Ranked, he played a single teams match with his Championship Melee partner Thomas Eanes. The two played as The Truth About Chaos and after their first match, and first victory by knockout, they hung it up for good. Today at 1-0 and only playing two rounds of Fandom, they are the only undefeated Fandom Team.
The Truth About Chaos record applies to Singles as well. The most long standing champions all have losses. Brittani started out with a few losses, Joe fell to Koho, Scully took me down. But after nearly 200 people stepped in the Fandom ring, only two players within the continuity remain undefeated today (again barring this year’s rookies). The first is Scott Harvey, a Melee force who stepped in last minute to replace Andrew Barr’s opponent who didn’t show. And to everyone’s shock, including his own, he actually won. Then he promptly retired in the post match. The other player is Abbie Koho, Kaleb Koho’s younger sister. She stepped in for a gimmick Boatman v Koho match as she took on Eli Boatman. Even though it was a gimmick it still counted, and after winning 5-2, Abbie stepped back with a 1-0 record as well.
‘Til the Score Reaches Zero
It’s a popular phrase. You would hear it every match as the rules of the betting round are read off. We will play until someone is mathematically eliminated or the score reaches zero. But why say that? Does it ever happen? In truth it has happened twice. Not the best record to be holding but hey, all press is good press.
First, in the 2019 Summer Series Singles Tournament, Jay Burnz and Douglas Cassell faced off. Jay put up a good score of 12, to Doug’s 0. Doug was a decent player, and was part of decent teams like Iowish Bros. But in this instance he became the first person to reach zero points in a regulation match.
The other instance belongs to the legend himself, Mike Hanley. In the 2022 Fandom Five Way Play-in, with a 32% accuracy somehow Mike Hanley got himself back down to 0, finishing in a solid last place. I’m fairly certain this was on purpose. But if this is a form of history book, consider Mike’s name permanently etched in.
Sticky Fingers
Steals are impressive! Right? They are a stat that is kept for some reason, though they have no bearing on rankings or records or anything of that nature. It’s sort of just something that has been kept track of since the beginning and so it continues on today. However, once you look at the actual steal percentages, you discover an oddball group of people I am now dubbing “Fandom’s Perfect Thieves”. Whether they just luckily guess a 1 in 3 multiple choice option, or purposely give their opponent their strength to build up their score, the following people have never missed a steal in their singles career (as of right now).
*Note that this list requires the players to have had at least 3 steal opportunities.
Brittani Tapley: 20/20
Cameron Redshaw: 7/7
Igor Kasic: 4/4
Carrie McGough: 4/4
Regev Ben-Vais: 4/4
Michael Campbell: 4/4
Dean Manness: 3/3
Erick Moreno: 3/3
Name another time all these people will end up on the same list. I dare ya.
And those are some odd Fandom records. I’m sure there’s plenty more out there so if you liked this let me know and I’m sure I can dig them up.
