Hi.
My name is Sonic Storm, my username sucks. It was an attempt to achieve some similarity with my other name on another forum, but Sonic Boom was taken. But I'm more known by friends as Josh.
I played Brawl originally for fun, nothing serious, until I went to SMU in Dallas for a year, and found some friends that played the game as well, one of whom was vastly better than me. After class, we'd usually get together and have some fun Brawls, and we also kept a small ladder ranking amongst us to see how we ranked against each other. I'd say this was my first step into playing "competitively," if you want to call it that.
When I fist started delving into competitive play, I was an Olimar main and Falco main. My Falco would get trashed aside by my friend's Pikachu, and while I won with Olimar sometimes, I didn't have fun winning with him. So after a while, through a combination of seeing the old tier list here, and through a challenge posed by my friends, I decided to pick up Sonic and work with him and try to win matches with him (which my friends thought was laughable, since Sonic can't kill and generally sucked.)
After a few months, they groaned whenever they heard "Sonic!" on the TV.
Something about Sonic just clicked with me, and it wasn't because of an obsession with the Sonic games. I loved the fact that he was generally a fast character in every category - ground speed, air speed, attack speed - and the fact that he has an innumerable amount of options for almost any situation. I loved to keep my opponents guessing on what I would do next, and have them guess wrong usually. It wasn't uncommon to hear "oh, **** you Sonic!" and other exclamations during Brawls.
Nowadays, I'm in rural Oklahoma, trying to make due with a nonexistent Smash scene around me - I have been keeping tabs on tournaments and the like though in Texas and other places; I plan to go to the tournament (whose name escapes me) in Wichita in March.
I've never looked back from Sonic as far as mains are concerned, even when I get tossed around when I'm Sonic, which is fairly common, but I have been using other characters when I feel my Sonic won't work out for the match - Pokemon Trainer is one I use in particular, but I also use ROB, Luigi, Yoshi, and Ike if I feel confident with them. But overall, I try and make it known that I'm a Sonic user, and I feel that I have much to improve with him, and that he's the guy that I feel I can go the farthest with.
....hi again.