Purplegaze

Purplegaze is one of the most influential members of the MiniTWOW community.

Joining the community
Purplegaze joined the community in December 2016 for the release of Season 5 of Dark's MiniTWOW Society.

Rise to relevance
Purplegaze started his MiniTWOW, Purple's TWOW Odyssey, in January 2017. After maintaining a high level of activity in there as well as JCL KayTWOW, he soon garnered a reputation for doing generally well in small TWOWs as well as shipping.

Spreadsheet mastery
As Purplegaze continued to host his TWOW, he developed a hobby with working with spreadsheets, and eventually rose up to become known as one of the "spreadsheet gods" alongside biscuitmeister. He became known for making revolutionary spreadsheet aesthetics, but also dabbled in complicated formulas, especially towards the end of 2017.

Purple's TWOW Hub
Season 3 of Purple's TWOW Odyssey received massively positive reception due to being one of the first TWOWs to go at a consistent fast pace, albeit an extremely fast one. He has stated since that hosting it was a nightmare for him, but he did manage to accomplish hosting an entire season with every round after the first one being four days long (three for responding and one for voting, with prompts being released immediately after results)

Purple's TWOW Odyssey became a de facto hub for the TWOW community in late 2017 up until late 2018, becoming the most-messaged MiniTWOW server in July 2018. The server has over 1.3 million messages as of October 2019.

Legacy as a competitor
Purplegaze was unanimously considered to be one of the best TWOWers in early 2018. He is the TWOWer with the most season wins, at 23 as of October 2019.

Hiatus
In early 2019, Purplegaze slowly began to slip into a Discord hiatus as he focused on his life, and his server fell into inactivity as TWOW Central became the new hub. He DNP'd in a significant number of TWOWs and greatly lessened his previously very high level of Discord activity.

Return
In late June, Purplegaze returned to the community. He initially rose to high placements as in past times, but faltered in September, now considered by some including himself to be washed-up.