BobbyScar

About

BobbyScar (aka Scar) is the alias of Super Smash Bros. Melee competitor and personality Bobby Scarnewman, known for his personality and commentary in the competitive Melee community and matches respectively.

Online History

Bobby Scarnewman began his competitive Melee career in 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Besides his constant exposure to high level play, Scarnewman's rise to recognition began with his self-branded remix video "I Killed Mufasa," a title that features clips of his gameplay preceded by a scene from the 1994 animated Disney film The Lion King. Scar posted the first video on Febary 18th, 2008, receiving more that 463,000 views in less than 13 years (shown below).

He would later release two sequels to the combo video. On February 15th, 2009, he released "I Killed Mufasa II," which received more than 165,000 views in less than 12 years (shown below, left). The following year, he published "I Killed Mufasa III," which received more than 147,000 views in less than 11 years (shown below, right).

In 2009, Scar placed 6th out of 290 at the Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament "GENESIS." His 6th placing came from a tiebreaker match with Mew2King that he would end up losing.

Podcasts

In November 2012, Scar created the podcast Melee It On Me. The podcast discussed issues and upcoming events in the competitive Melee community. On December 15th, 2015, the MeleeItOnMe YouTube published its most popular video as of November 2020. The episode "Toph & Scar Show S1 SEASON FINALE – ft. Creator of Undertale, Toby Fox, and Storm Heroes :^)" received more than 196,000 views in less than five years (shown below).

Scarnewman also runs a podcast with fellow commentator Kristopher "Toph" Aldenderfer called the "Scar and Toph Show" every other Monday where they invite other Smash personalities and occasionally other Fighting Game Community personalities on to the show to discuss happenings in the Smash Community and other FGC communities when appropriate. At the end of each show, Scar and Toph partake in a best of three set to see whose name gets mentioned first in the title for the next airing, in reference to the feud over who would get their name on first when reviving the series. They also run a series called "The Reads," a show where they play online matches of Melee through Netplay, alongside a guest, usually a competitive player from the Melee scene, and exchange banter, much in the same vein as "The Excellent Adventures of Gootecks and Mike Ross" series, but with Super Smash Bros. Melee, as opposed to Street Fighter.

Reputation

Scarnewman's reputation as a competitive Smash personality and commentator have made him well recognized in the competitive Smash scene, so much so that he, along with fellow commentators D1 and Prog, were invited to the Smash Smash Bros. Invitational at E3 2014 to provide commentary for the matches that took place.

Scarnewman has stated that his personality is inspired by actor and WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, self-proclaiming to be "The People's Champ" and "The Most Electrifying Man in Smash," titles that parody that of his inspiration. Scarnewman's personality has often been compared to that of Street Fighter competitor and figurehead, Mike Ross, known for his narcissistic tendencies and high energy (clip below, left).

Scarnewman's reputation in esports goes beyond just Super Smash Bros. Melee; he also sports proficiency in Street Fighter as a Makoto main in Ultra Street Fighter IV, enough so that he was invited on to "The Excellent Adventures of Mike Ross and Gootecks" show for episodes 84-87, where Scarnewman showcased his skill with Makoto in online matches while exchanging banter with Mike Ross and Gootecks (clip below, right).

Personal Life

Scarnewman was born on January 7, 1987. He is one of the founding members of Melee It On Me, a crew and podcast that discusses issues and upcoming events in the competitive Melee community. Scarnewman also works for the streaming platform Twitch where he manages the product of bits, a currency used in twitch chat for betting. Scarnewman is married with one child, to which they often refer to their son as "The People's Baby" in reference to Scar's self-entitlement of "The People's Champ."

Related Memes

PeoplesChamp

PeoplesChamp is a global Twitch Chat emote that represents Scarnewman's face. The emote is often used in reference to Scarnewman or spammed when he is on screen.

Scar Got 6th at GENESIS

Scar Got 6th at GENESIS refers to the reaction to Scar's placing in the "GENESIS" tournament. Despite his reputable placing at the at the time largest Melee torunament, Scar often refutes the fact that he placed 6th and insists that he placed 5th, despite losing the tiebreaker match with Mew2King. It has become a meme within the Smash community in mocking fashion towards Scarnewman for making a big deal out of being placed one spot below another player, despite essentially finishing in the same spot in the same bracket round. At GENESIS 3, a tiebreaker match was supposed to be played between players SFAT and PPMD in reference to the tiebreaker match from the first installment of the tournament series, but the latter opted out of the set, and was placed at 6th.

"Yo! Did he just walk up slowly and down smash!?"

"Yo! Did he just walk up slowly and down smash!?" is a copypasta/phrase originating from game 2 of Joseph "Mang0" Marquez vs Aziz "Hax" Al-Yami at the tournament "The Big House 4." While Scar was on commentary with HomeMadeWaffles, Mang0 performed a hard read on Hax's spotdodge shenanigans and took one of his stocks. As this play happened, Scarnewman, in disbelief, spouts the phrase with HomeMadeWaffles responding with "He did! He really did though!" This phrase is often used in shock/mock shock of someone performing any sort of act, sometimes spammed with PeoplesChamp emotes in between words.

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