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| Lovins' favorite hobbies outside of gaming are basketball, working out, poker (getting straight flushes against [[Jimbo]] in consecutive years), and driving his 2011 Mustang GT (you will lose, badly). Eddie is also good friends with eliters [[Adam Matis]] and [[Greg Woll]], hanging out several times per year despite living in different states. He has also met several other eliters at the 2007-2010 Virginia meets, the 2009 and 2010 Florida meets, the 2009 and 2010 Michigan meets, and the 2011 California meet. Eddie graduated from Wayne State University in December 2007 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and now works as an Actuary/Plan Administrator. He is also quite talented outside of the GE arena, as proven by his winning Ohio's State Championship for [[Mario Kart 64]] and [[Super Smash Bros.]] in the spring of 2007, and taking 2nd place in the [[Mario Kart 64]] tournament at the 2009 Elite Virginia meet and 3rd place at the 2010 meet. | | Lovins' favorite hobbies outside of gaming are basketball, working out, poker (getting straight flushes against [[Jimbo]] in consecutive years), and driving his 2011 Mustang GT (you will lose, badly). Eddie is also good friends with eliters [[Adam Matis]] and [[Greg Woll]], hanging out several times per year despite living in different states. He has also met several other eliters at the 2007-2010 Virginia meets, the 2009 and 2010 Florida meets, the 2009 and 2010 Michigan meets, and the 2011 California meet. Eddie graduated from Wayne State University in December 2007 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and now works as an Actuary/Plan Administrator. He is also quite talented outside of the GE arena, as proven by his winning Ohio's State Championship for [[Mario Kart 64]] and [[Super Smash Bros.]] in the spring of 2007, and taking 2nd place in the [[Mario Kart 64]] tournament at the 2009 Elite Virginia meet and 3rd place at the 2010 meet. |
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| + | Some people thought Eddie's 2010 Championship may not have been fully deserved, since he was never pitted against Patrik Nilsson in a tournament match. [note: This is garbage, but some people actually thought that] As 2011 approached, the Goldeneye bracket was set up so that Adam Matis, [[Bryan Bosshardt]], [[Ryan Lockwood]], and newcomer [[Ryan Koch]] would be in Eddie's side of the bracket, while Jimbo, [[David Clemens]], and Patrik Nilsson would be in the other. Ryan Koch emerged as the finalist in Eddie's conference, resulting in one of the more humorous matches of the year, as Eddie came out of character a bit to dish out some trash talk that Koch had been sending his way to get him off his game. The finals would come down to the most anticipated matchup brewing since 2010 -- Patrik vs Eddie -- and Eddie played all out for complete validation of the 2010 championship. Patrik would return for his double elimination matchup vs Lovins for the final match of the tournament, and even handed Eddie a rare single-match loss to force round 3, but to no avail. Eddie would win the 2011 Goldeneye championship in grand fashion, and would back up his all-around gamer skills with a 3rd place finish in Mario Kart 64, and a dominating showing in Super Smash Bros 64 on the big screen. |
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| + | Other things to note: |
| + | - Eddie has never lost a best-of-three series since the 2010 Virginia meet began. |
| + | - Eddie is the 2nd back-to-back champion in Goldeneye, matching what Patrik Nilsson did in 2008 and 2009. |
| + | - Eddie's streak of finishing in the final four in Mario Kart 64 is the 2nd-longest active streak, dating to 2009. |
| + | - Eddie's notable "squishing" in Mario Kart 64's finals in 2010 was fully avenged in an exhibition match vs Jimbo in 2011, resulting in Jimbo raging and laughing simultaneously. |
| + | - Eddie's poker antics continued into 2011: In 2009, Eddie beat Jimbo's straight with a hearts-straight-flush, and in 2010 Eddie took about $10 off of Jimbo with a diamonds-straight-flush. In 2011, Eddie had QUAD SIXES - TWICE - WITHIN 6 HANDS, only math geniuses would appreciate the astounding odds of that happening. |
| + | - Eddie owns the 2nd-rarest colored N64 controller, and the only one of that color used in Virginia. |
| + | - Eddie owns a 2011 Ford Mustang with the newly-engineered 5.0L 302 V8 inside of it, sporting about 420 horsepower. |
| + | - Eddie is a homeowner and lives with his girlfriend of 4 years, Stephanie. |
| + | - Eddie gets other people to edit his wiki for him, what a champ! |
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| The road to the 2010 Virginia Goldeneye championship was a relatively easy one for Lovins, who started as a #2 seed in Jimbo's bracket. He won his division handily, sending Jimbo to the loser's bracket right away and beating Greg Woll for the winner's bracket crown (this also let Eddie watch everyone play and would give him much-needed rest while everyone else went through a gauntlet-style loser's bracket). After defeating Greg, the loser's bracket would have to work out a champion; Jimbo, after being eliminated by Lovins, would go on a tear, eliminating [[wiff]], [[Mgay]], tournament favorite and 2-time defending champion [[Patrik Nilsson]], and Adam Matis, Eddie's next-biggest threat. Jimbo would lose to Greg Woll by one kill however and the dream-rematch was over; this would set up a classic Woll vs Lovins grand finals. Eddie beat Greg in the first set of 3 matches at 4:30 AM, giving Eddie an unblemished record in his run to the 2010 championship. | | The road to the 2010 Virginia Goldeneye championship was a relatively easy one for Lovins, who started as a #2 seed in Jimbo's bracket. He won his division handily, sending Jimbo to the loser's bracket right away and beating Greg Woll for the winner's bracket crown (this also let Eddie watch everyone play and would give him much-needed rest while everyone else went through a gauntlet-style loser's bracket). After defeating Greg, the loser's bracket would have to work out a champion; Jimbo, after being eliminated by Lovins, would go on a tear, eliminating [[wiff]], [[Mgay]], tournament favorite and 2-time defending champion [[Patrik Nilsson]], and Adam Matis, Eddie's next-biggest threat. Jimbo would lose to Greg Woll by one kill however and the dream-rematch was over; this would set up a classic Woll vs Lovins grand finals. Eddie beat Greg in the first set of 3 matches at 4:30 AM, giving Eddie an unblemished record in his run to the 2010 championship. |