ChuDat

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ChuDat

ChuDat at SSC 2017. Photo by Preston Kwan.

Player Information

Name:

Daniel Rodriguez

Birth:

January 16, 1987 (age 31)

Country:

USA

Team:

Team Liquid

Crew:

H2YL

Approx. Total Winnings:

$35,597

Alternate IDs:

Chu

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Main:

Ice Climbers

Secondaries:

Young Link,

Pikachu,

Fox

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Main:

Kirby

Project M

Main:

Kirby

Links

Achievements

History

2006-??-?? — ????-??-??

Carbon

2014-05-26 — 2015-06-22

Mortality

2015-10-10 — 2016-06-27

ROOT Gaming

2016-07-14 — 2017-06-13

VGBootCamp

2017-06-14 — Present

Team Liquid

Daniel "ChuDat" Rodriguez is a top professional level Ice Climbers main who has primarily competed in his home region of Maryland and Virginia, but has also lived and competed in Southern California. ChuDat is a very well traveled player, who has competed all over North America over his long playing career. He is credited with pushing the Ice Climbers metagame in the early days of competition, as few other players played Ice Climbers at that level, let alone at ChuDat's level. His work with Ice Climbers is comparable to Ken's work with Marth. He is currently ranked 11th on SSBMRank 2017.

Biography[edit]

ChuDat began competing in local Virginia tournaments with his, at the time, unusual main of Ice Climbers. At one tournament, he met and quickly befriended the members of the crew, Ha Ha You Lose (H2YL) such as Chillindude. He was soon recruited to join the crew. Upon competing and placing third at Tournament Go 6 in California exclusively with Ice Climbers, he became even more recognizable for his unique play with a fairly unrepresented character. After continuing to place very well in locals and majors, ChuDat moved to Southern California to live and compete alongside legendary player Ken and his family, after ChuDat started dating Ken's sister. While living in California, he continued to place extremely well in tournaments, but the price was his friendship with the members of H2YL. He regularly placed second to Ken at various MLG tournaments. His place in Ken's crew didn't last forever, as ChuDat was feeling pushed to the brink in the household, and felt that he couldn't try his best at tournaments against Ken because he would be shunned if he won. He eventually left California and moved back to Virginia, where he reconnected with the members of H2YL.

In 2006, ChuDat was one of several smash players who were sponsored by Carbon, an esports organization that originally focused on Halo.^[1]^[2] It is not known when this sponsorship lapsed, as MLG slowly phased Smash out of its Pro Circuit in 2007. Wife has also asserted that Smash players ultimately benefited very little from the sponsorship.^[3]

After a hiatus from Melee, he returned to compete after the release of The Smash Brothers documentary, (which he was heavily featured in) and quickly rose back to one of the top players in his region.

On May 26th, 2014, ChuDat was picked up by Mortality eSports, as their first Smash Bros. player. On June 22, 2015, ChuDat announced that he was no longer part of Mortality.^[4] Around the same time, he was let go from his day job. Due to this, he could not afford to attend EVO 2015. Through a crowdfunding campaign by Facebook group Melee Hell (MH) via a GoFundMe page, ChuDat was able to go. At EVO 2015, ChuDat was able to defeat numerous high-caliber players including KirbyKaze, Silent Wolf, Westballz, and HugS. He ultimately qualified for Top 8 at the event, but was knocked out of the tournament by Mango.

Although not attending January 2016's GENESIS 3, ChuDat still gained highly ranked wins, defeating both HugS and Westballz again when they traveled to his home region in early 2016. Then, at Pound 2016, ChuDat placed 17th, where he defeated Axe. A few months later, ChuDat placed 7th at CEO 2016, including wins over Alex19, Gahtzu, and Druggedfox, where he lost in Game 5 to Shroomed.

Only a few days after his Top 8 placing at CEO 2016, Root Gaming closed it's Smash division, thus parting ways with ChuDat. One month later on July 14th, 2016, it was announced that Chu would become a part of the VGBootCamp Pro Team.^[5] He left the team on June 13, 2017.^[6]

At Heir 3 in August of 2016 ChuDat made history by becoming the first Ice Climbers player in recorded history to take a tournament match from Armada. Armada previously had a completely spotless record versus all Ice Climbers players, playing the highly advantaged Peach vs Ice Climbers matchup, until ChuDat took Game 1 of their Winners Quarters set on Final Destination.

On June 14, 2017, it was announced that Chu joined Team Liquid.^[7]

Recent Major Results[edit]

Singles
Doubles
Recent VODs

Date	Place	Event			Prize
2018
2018-10-07	M313 - 16th	The Big House 8	2 : 3	AbsentPage
2018-08-26	M313 - 16th	Shine 2018	1 : 3	Swedish Delight
2018-08-12	S3165 - 96th	Super Smash Con 2018	1 : 2	42nd
2018-08-05	R725 - 32nd	EVO 2018	0 : 2	MikeHaze
2018-03-25	R725 - 32nd	Full Bloom 4	1 : 3	Crush
2018-01-21	S1533 - 48th	GENESIS 5	2 : 3	Santi
2017
2017-10-22	E15 - 6th	DreamHack Denver 2017	1 : 3	S2J	$500
2017-10-08	M313 - 16th	The Big House 7	0 : 3	Swedish Delight
2017-10-01	Q717 - 24th	GameTyrant Expo 2017	1 : 3	aMSa
2017-08-27	G17 - 8th	Shine 2017	2 : 3	Leffen
2017-08-13	M313 - 16th	Super Smash Con 2017	2 : 3	SFAT
2017-07-23	I39 - 12th	DreamHack Atlanta 2017	2 : 3	Druggedfox
2017-07-16	Q717 - 24th	EVO 2017	0 : 2	The Moon
2017-05-14	M313 - 16th	Royal Flush 2017	2 : 3	Crush
2017-04-30	B12nd	DreamHack Austin 2017	2 : 3	Hungrybox	$2,000
2017-04-16	B12nd	HFLAN Melee Edition 2017	1 : 3	Armada	$721
2017-04-09	E15 - 6th	Smash Rivalries	2 : 3	Druggedfox	$250
2017-03-05	G17 - 8th	Smash Summit - Spring 2017	1 : 3	Plup	$1,543
2017-01-22	I39 - 12th	GENESIS 4	1 : 3	Leffen	$170
2016
2016-12-04	Q717 - 24th	UGC Smash Open	1 : 3	PewPewU

All Results

Date	Place	Event	Partner	Result		Prize
2018
2018-10-07	B12nd	The Big House 8	ChuDat Hungrybox	0 : 3	SFAT PewPewU	$2,064
2018-08-26	D14th	Shine 2018	ChuDat Hungrybox	1 : 3	SFAT PewPewU
2018-08-12	M313 - 16th	Super Smash Con 2018	ChuDat Rishi	0 : 2	Reno Lucky
2018-03-25	B12nd	Full Bloom 4	ChuDat Hungrybox	3 : 2 2 : 3	SFAT PewPewU	$160
2018-01-21	B12nd	GENESIS 5	ChuDat Hungrybox	1 : 3	Plup Mew2King	$630
2017
2017-10-22	A11st	DreamHack Denver 2017	ChuDat Hungrybox	3 : 2 3 : 0	NMW SFAT
2017-10-08	D14th	The Big House 7	ChuDat Hungrybox	1 : 3	S2J Shroomed	$328
2017-10-01	D14th	GameTyrant Expo 2017	ChuDat Hungrybox	0 : 3	Plup Mew2King	$70
2017-08-27	Q717 - 24th	Shine 2017	ChuDat Medz	0 : 3	Reno Cactuar
2017-08-13	G17 - 8th	Super Smash Con 2017	ChuDat Chillindude	2 : 3	MilkMan Cyrain	$58
2017-07-23	E15 - 6th	DreamHack Atlanta 2017	ChuDat Chillindude	1 : 2	Hungrybox Crunch
2017-04-30	M313 - 16th	DreamHack Austin 2017	ChuDat Chillindude	1 : 2	Mojo Jake13
2017-04-16	B12nd	HFLAN Melee Edition 2017	ChuDat Chillindude	0 : 3	Android Armada	$159
2017-04-09	G17 - 8th	Smash Rivalries	ChuDat Wizzrobe	1 : 3	Westballz Axe
2017-03-05	G17 - 8th	Smash Summit - Spring 2017	ChuDat HugS	0 : 3	SFAT PewPewU
2017-01-22	M313 - 16th	GENESIS 4	ChuDat Chillindude	2 : 3	Reno Lucky
2016
2016-12-04	I39 - 12th	UGC Smash Open	ChuDat Professor Pro	0 : 3	n0ne The Moon
2016-10-09	D14th	The Big House 6	ChuDat Chillindude	1 : 3	MacD Ice	$323
2016-08-21	D14th	Heir 3	ChuDat reaper	2 : 3	Overtriforce Trif	$98
2016-08-14	E15 - 6th	Super Smash Con 2016	ChuDat Chillindude	2 : 3	Mew2King Ice	$188