Carl Perfect Legend WhiteMy name is Carl White aka Perfect Legend. The multi-time fighting game world champion from Toledo, Ohio, has competed since 2005. I've been on every level as a fighting game player and have played my entire life starting from the age of 4 with StreetFighter 2's home release in 1992.My competitive life started at home like everyone else wanting to be the best amongst friends and family but it wasn't too long before I found myself in arcades beating grown men at Mortal Kombat 2, 3, 4, and Killer Instinct inside a restaurant bar arcade while they were on dates with their significant others or in front of their college homies.Dad would take me to the arcade almost every day twice a day. Once after school let out and after dinner. When I played against people he would tell me to focus and hit the buttons faster in order to win against my peers.I rarely lost once I got on the machine. I only remember a few times I had to put quarters up on the machine for my place in line. I could play all night on 5 dollars alone. Clearing out the players by beating them off the machine to where I am closing out the night by beating the game's CPU.I had the traditional life of the 90s-2000s kid in my adolescence. Played outside during the day then when it was dark I was on the game all night. I barely paid attention in school but was intuitive, so I had no issue advancing in classes. I had great teachers but I skipped a lot. I paid more attention to gaming than I did schoolwork.I felt the amount of homework was unnecessary so I'd do the bare minimum and then ace a test. School for me was mostly memorization. It didn't take long for me to understand a concept or retain information but gaming is what provided that bigger psychological challenge.I spent a lot of time being competitive with my friends and online in different gaming communities such as Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2 Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy & Half-Life mod: Earth's Special Forces.It wasn't until Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate was released on Xbox in 2004 that I would be brought back to fighting games and a more defined journey began for me. Thus, getting my feet wet with online fighting games and being introduced to the greater fighting game sceneof the world.I saw there were players around the world that all were so competitive they felt they needed to travel to compete and prove how good they were! This blew my mind because it was something I always wanted to exist but didn't know that it did.On the great and popular gaming news website IGN, they had a list of games along with highlights, accolades, and video trailers with all of the players that took top honors at the event. That event is the Evolution Championship Series.While beginning my experience in the scene and studying different games with their competitive history, I would put my hand into organizing tournaments online as I built myself up before I went into full competitive mode. With hosting events, I would take after my parents who were both community leaders in their particular fields.In 2005 this would lead me to host my first on and offline tournaments. For my first offline tournament, I co-hosted it with Tim "Thug Geek" Fields in a pool hall where people from all over the Midwest showed up. I then traveled to my first major tournament in the same month with my childhood lifelong best friend and brother Earnie "The Champ" Bouyer on a 24-hour bus there and back to TiT7 also known as Tournament in Texas 7, where I took 2nd in 3 tournaments. The rest after that is history.The year is now 2023 and in between this time, I've competed at the highest level in a multitude of fighting games over almost two decades. Battling with and against the greatest champions in history. Read More Read Less