Slawson describes gaming as having had an immense affect on his life, and he grew to become concerned with OU earlier than he even graduated highschool.
“For the longest time, I performed baseball, and once I wasn’t taking part in baseball, I used to be taking part in video video games,” he mentioned. “In highschool, I tore my rotator cuff, and so I finished taking part in baseball. I form of misplaced half of my extracurricular actions. Every little thing else was baseball, and I might use gaming to relax out.”
After Slawson’s damage, he participated in Tremendous Smash Bros. tournaments at his highschool and within the metro space.
“It fully modified my life,” he mentioned. Most of Slawson’s buddies throughout this time have been made at this match, and he described this time as when he actually grew to become targeted on the gaming neighborhood.
Across the similar time in 2018, he first began attending Sooner Smash Dojo, a Tremendous Smash Bros. match placed on by OU’s Smash Membership. These occasions led Slawson to the OU Gaming Membership as soon as he was a freshman at OU.
“As a freshman, I knew I needed to get entangled with the event of their tournaments. That was across the time that the Gaming Membership merged with the Smash Membership, and we have been working the tournaments with the OU Gaming Membership.”
Due to Slawson’s involvement with the Sooner Smash Dojo and different smash occasions held by the OU Gaming membership, he grew to become extra concerned till he was supplied the vp position. His involvement later led to him turning into the group president from Fall 2021 to Fall 2023, in addition to the coach for the OU Esports Tremendous Smash Bros. crew.
