Slawson describes gaming as having had an immense impression on his life, and he turned concerned with OU earlier than he even graduated highschool.
“For the longest time, I performed baseball, and once I wasn’t enjoying baseball, I used to be enjoying video video games,” he mentioned. “In highschool, I tore my rotator cuff, and so I finished enjoying baseball. I sort 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 utterly modified my life,” he mentioned. Most of Slawson’s pals throughout this time have been made at this event, and he described this time as when he actually turned centered on the gaming group.
Across the similar time in 2018, he first began attending Sooner Smash Dojo, a Tremendous Smash Bros. event 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 operating 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 turned extra concerned till he was provided the vice chairman position. His involvement later led to him changing into the group president from Fall 2021 to Fall 2023, in addition to the coach for the OU Esports Tremendous Smash Bros. group.
