Era

Era
Full Name	Sammy Arguelles
Country	USA
Main	Min Min

Era, formerly known as Era Wolf, is an ARMS 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 and could possibly lead to another partnership down the line. Era returned to help out with Quarantined Rapport 2 in June of 2020. On July 27, Nintendo announced the ARMS North American Online Open (April 2020). Shortly thereafter, Era was asked to return to assist in running the bracket for this event.

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.

Results

Tournament	Date	Location	Placement	Tournament Type
TCM Color Crash	May 11, 2018	Online	9th	Online
Mega League Monday 38	June 18, 2018	Online	9th	Online
Champions of the Era 8	August 19, 2018	Online	5th	Online
Champions of the Era 9	August 26, 2018	Online	9th	Online
Mega League Monday 60	January 7, 2019	Online	9th	Online
Champions of the Era 25	January 13, 2019	Online	17th	Online
Default Derby	February 9, 2019	Online	7th	Online
Thor: Ragnarokjaw	April 17, 2019	Online	2nd	Online
Block Painther	April 19, 2019	Online	3rd	Online
Scrapstar Series - ARMS NA 14	May 13, 2019	Online	3rd	Online
The Biweekly Procrastination 29	May 19, 2019	Online	3rd	Online
Scrapstar Series - ARMS NA 15	May 20, 2019	Online	4th	Online
INITIALIZE_CODE	August 17, 2019	Online	7th	Online
Temple Tantrum 2	September 15, 2019	Online	4th	Online
The Biweekly Procrastination 34	September 26, 2019	Online	2nd	Online
Outlaw Skirmish	May 8, 2020	Online	3rd	Online
The Biweekly Procrasstination 50	July 14, 2020	Online	5th	Online

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.

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