GotGame East Bios:
Alex Ringe (Sodah)
Alex grew up in the Los Angeles Valley, and has resided in Southern California ever since. After playing soccer for over 7 years, his interests turned toward games of the electronic variety in high school. He started his gaming career with Counterstrike and graduated to WoW, which hooked all of his friends as well. He has been playing for over three and a half years, and his primary character is Sodah: a druid that has been on Frostwolf, Frostmane, Korgath, Blackwing Lair, and Detheroc. Alex currently attends the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is studying Political Science. When he’s not playing WoW or studying, he enjoys dirt biking, late-night Denny’s debates, and fantasy novels.
Elliott Venczel (Venruki)
Elliott grew up in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. He recently graduated high school in Calgary, Alberta, and plans to attend college this fall. He started playing Counterstrike at 15, and switched to WoW approximately 2 years ago. His first character was a druid named Venczel, but he eventually decided to pick up an undead mage, whom he still currently plays. Elliott’s favorite pastimes include playing games, spending time with his friends, and watching his favorite television shows, which include House and Family Guy.
Jordan Mance (Happyminti)
Jordan has lived in Charleston, South Carolina his entire life, and he played many sports growing up. After first delving into the gaming world when he was 13, he realized that the competitiveness he showed as a young athlete translated into the online games he played. He recently graduated from the College of Charleston with a B.A. in Religious Studies, and currently works for a cell phone company. Much of his free time is devoted to WoW, and he has used his rogue HappyMinti since June 2005. When he’s not gaming, he enjoys boating, playing soccer, and spending time with his girlfriend. Jordan feels lucky to be here, and would like to thank his teammates and GotGame for their support.
GotGame West Bios:
John Grenier (Greenranger)
John has lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the majority of his life and attended Episcopal High School. He grew up with a love for soccer and tennis and now his heart lies in online gaming. After dabbling in other MMO and FPS games like Everquest and Halo, he developed a partiality to WoW, and has played since its original release. Over his accomplished WoW career, he has played a rogue and warrior both named Severien, eventually creating a druid named Greenranger, whom he has exclusively played for the past three years. John is currently an undergraduate Medical Physics student at LSU.
John Pinkham (Didy)
John was born in Missouri and moved to Colorado when he was 8. He played many sports before his classmates outgrew him in high school, and then began to focus more of his energy on gaming. Prior to WoW, he played games like Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, and Star Wars Galaxies. He initially started out as a paladin in WoW, and after a brief hiatus exploring the world of Rainbow 6, came back as a warlock, citing the BG9 community as being the ones that “whipped him into shape.” When he isn’t playing video games, he enjoys watching movies, playing ping pong, and going to Denny’s after the LAN closes. John plans on going to school in August for Computer Programming and Networking.
Joey Tarvin (Vaux)
I am an 18 year male at a community college in central California. I work part time while going to school. For fun I will pretty much do anything that sounds fun, which can range from going to a party to doing some maui tai kick boxing. The majority of the time though I am either playing wow or some type of computer game, or hanging out with my friends.
