Era

Era, formerly known as Era Wolf, is an player and tournament organizer from the United States. She is one of the most prominent online tournament organizers as well as one of the most prominent female community members. Era is most well known for running Champions of the Era, one of many event series that she hosts. She is also currently a member of RipTide eSports.

Era's ARMS journey began in March of 2018 when she first discovered the game. While her early support of the community's events and players was evident, she did not become widely recognized until July when she began running Champions of the Era. Despite this, a month prior to CotE's first event, she hosted an online tournament for those unable to attend Smash'N'Splash 4 which was actually her first stint as a TO (she also later ran similar events for Smash'N'Splash 5 and EVO 2018). With a stream provided by Cedge and occasional contributions from Hamma, Radio, Rashiko, and LiteraryFirearms, Champions of the Era became one of ARMS' most recognizable and successful tournament series. This success landed Era a spot with Milky Way eSports as a tournament organizer as well as being their captain for ARMS. Under their sponsorship, Era also ran an event series titled MWe Randoms which had players utilize a random character and a random selection of ARMS. This series was later renamed to RipTide Randoms after she left MWe and joined RipTide eSports. Her partnership with Milky Way eSports was somewhat short lived as Era left the team in November of 2018. Era then joined RipTide in December of 2018 as their captain for ARMS and the co-owner of the team alongside Radio.

In October of 2018, Era contacted the eSports organization 2GG in an attempt to help run a new ARMS biweekly series, Iron Fist Fridays. She was successful in partnering with the team for the event series, though there were complaints that the tournaments used the same stage list as Champions of the Era. Regardless, Era was later contacted by 2GG in early 2019 to help seed Heart of Battle. She also assisted in seeding 2GG: SwitchFest 2019 where she was offered to be flown out to the event to help TO, but unfortunately she was unable to attend the event in person.

Over the course of 2019, Era began to expand the amount, and variety, of the tournaments she hosted. In February, she began hosting Default Derby, a default ARM only event. Despite not reaching Champions of the Era level of popularity, Default Derby still managed to engage players with a format that hadn't been widely utilized for almost two years. She also ran the North American bracket for the FellowsTV Open Circuit 3. Later in the year, in August, Era began running Temple Tantrum, a series that utilized the "Backroom" set of stages. This series was created as a result of complaints with the Champions of the Era stages, as it did not use the Backroom's list. Throughout the year, Era also ran numerous smaller series and pop-up events, including one titled Midnight Madness. In late 2019, Era also joined the team Casual Crew as an ARMS player.

In 2020, Era expanded her events even further by creating Champions of the Erapean Union, a European region locked tournament series, and Outlaw Skirmish, an event utilizing a stage list consisting of typically banned competitive stages. During the early part of the year, Era also began helping out Casual ARMS with their events Casual Scramble and Casual Clash. She also considered retiring from TOing due to low entrance numbers in her events, but she continued to run events leading up to the ARMS related announcements featured in a Nintendo Direct Mini on March 26th. This reinvigorated many players which allowed an increase in numbers as well as new events. In late March, she assisted in running the ARMS tournament in Quarantined Rapport and proceeded to run a small series of events utilizing the same rule set as the upcoming official Nintendo event, the ARMS North American Online Open, to allow players to get practice with the unique rules. In April, she was recommended unanimously, by the tournament's casters, to help run the bracket for said event. Era, alongside a team from Battlefy, orchestrated the 880 player event with great success which gave her the ethos to possibly run other official events in the future. Era returned to help out with Quarantined Rapport 2 in June of 2020. Sometime later that Summer, she also parted ways with Casual Crew which saw her depart as a tournament organizer for Casual ARMS events.

On July 27th, Nintendo announced the ARMS North American Open (August 2020) with Era, shortly thereafter, being asked to return to assist in running the bracket for the event. Similarly to the Open in April, she once again ran numerous practice events throughout the week prior to the tournament. On August 30th, Era placed 2nd in a unique tag team event titled Worst in the World: Tag Team Chumps Edition, with Grimwood as her partner. On September 26th, after being rescheduled from August 19th, Era took part in an ARMS first-to-ten against fellow tournament organizer Frosty in which she won 10-8. The event was preceded with back and forth banter between the two players on Twitter throughout numerous threads. Later that year in October, Era was once again brought in to assist with an official Nintendo event, the ARMS North American Open (October 2020). Unlike the previous Opens in the year, she did not run practice tournaments prior to the event due to timing issues as well as the ladder format not being optimal to utilize with a smaller amount of entrants. On October 18th, Era TOed the ARMS VTuber Open, a tournament created by and presented by Neru alongside AstroNinja and bubbMungus. Along with Era running the bracket, her server was also utilized for set communications as well.

Despite controversies in stage lists and numerous breaks spanning weeks at a time, Era has manage to remain a prominent ARMS community member and tournament organizer with a lasting player base supporting her along the way. She has a connection or partnership with almost every other online tournament organizer in the community and has helped run some of the largest online ARMS events in recent time. Overall, despite not having consistently high entrance numbers or placings, Era has remained a positive force within the community since her introduction in 2018.

Playstyle
Era primarily uses Min Min with a loadout consisting of the Toaster, Hydra, and Phoenix. She also uses Boomerang, Retorcher, Revolver, and Tribolt on occasion as well, switching out ARMS from the aforementioned loadout for them. Era also plays Twintelle as a secondary, using a variety of ARMS including the Hydra, Chilla, Boomerang, Tribolt, and Chakram. Alongside her main fighters, she also plays Lola Pop, Spring Man, and Ninjara.

Trivia

 * The name of Era's Discord server, Network Era, is a play on the phrase "Network Error".
 * Despite many ARMS players living in her home state of Florida, Era has never attended an offline ARMS tournament.
 * "Stuff your face with Zebra Cakes" is a phrase Era commonly uses to end her streams. This goodbye, combined with other mentions of the snack cakes, have made many people associate her with the confection.
 * Era has assisted in running the brackets for the two largest ARMS tournaments ever, being the ARMS North American Online Open (April 2020) and the ARMS North American Open (August 2020). Both of these events were online.
 * Due to her continued support of The Biweekly Procrastination, Era holds a special role in the Ohio ARMS community: Honorary Ohioan. She shares this distinction with only one other player, with that player being Kookiez.

Social Media
Twitter account Twitch channel

Gameplay Videos
CotE #17 - MWe | Hamma (Lola Pop) vs. MWe | Era (Min Min) Exhibition Match - ARMS CotE #20 - Era (Min Min, Twintelle) vs. Mogori (Min Min) - Winners Side - ARMS CotE #22 - TCM | KaytchJam (Kid Cobra) vs. Era Wolf (Ninjara, Min Min) - Losers Semis - ARMS CotE #22 - AotN | AntheM (Ribbon Girl) vs. Era Wolf (Ninjara, Min Min) - Winners Side - ARMS CotE #23 - AotN | AntheM (Ribbon Girl) vs. Era Wolf (Min Min) - Winners Side - ARMS CotE #24 - Era Wolf (Min Min) vs. BG | Croco (Helix, Kid Cobra) - Winners Side - ARMS CotE #24 - Era Wolf (Min Min) vs. IluZ | Asqew (Mummy, Coyle) - Winners Semis - ARMS Exhibition Matches: Era vs. Cedge CotE #30 - Era (Min Min, Ninjara) vs. DartRemix (Coyle) - Winners Side - ARMS Color Crash #14 - Era (Min Min) vs. TCM | KaytchJam (Kid Cobra) - Winners Side - ARMS [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccmd5Sr07GM&feature=youtu.be ARMS First to 10! Era vs Frosty]