Meet the JWA Gamepress Staff!

Welcome Explorers! It's a New Year and a NEW Meet the JWA GamePress Staff - 2020 version! Curious to know who is moderating our discord, writing your guides, bringing you up-to-date content and battling it out with each other on those tier lists (and in the arena)... Now is your chance! Some of our staff has been with us since the very beginning, and some are brand new just getting started. Our little JWA Family is comprised of top rated players, casual players, and everything in-between! We all bring a little something special to the team and we hope you enjoy learning a little something about us!

MNBrian: MNBrian is considered in-house as the brains behind the JWA GamePress operation, leading the “business” side of this adventure. He is owner and administrator of the JWA Discord and has an uncanny faith in his team to keep everything running smoothly. His newest venture of helping his wife who acquired a coffee shop has spread him a little thin lately, but things are slowly getting back on track! MNBrian is a sauropod fan who wishes all sauropods had 50% armor, 80% crit rate, 2000 base damage and 9000 health!

Dr.Reebecca: Dr.Reebecca, the “mom” of the group is also an administrator of JWA GamePress, leading the “people” side of this adventure. Saving lives by day (as she truly is a Doctor… of Nursing Education) and hunting dinosaurs by night, she has been playing since release but her team is never good enough. Rumors are CONFIRMED that she booted her own husband from the GamePress alliance. While her goal is to keep our discord “professional” at all times, some Mods would argue that the pinned messages in mod channel are proof she has a bit of a wild side as well.

Piere87: Piere87, our newest Admin and one of the most valuable assets of our crew! If you are using any of our social media outlets, reading our articles or using our dinosaur tools or tier lists, chances are she had a hand in getting it to you! As an amazing wife and mother of two precious little ones, there is a small chance that Piere87 doesn’t ever sleep. She recently became the leader of the GamePress Alliance to help poor ole Reeb out a little bit, as well and is well-known for her amazing “Pierefuses” that we all desperately want! She still runs that beastly Monostego – which must be working as she is currently the highest ranked player in the GamePress alliance!

Bart: Bart is our one and only Lead Moderator and a writer here at GamePress. Hailing from the Netherlands, he began playing in summer 2018 and understands strategy like few others. When he is not accidentally tagging all the Mods at 2am in discord, you can find him going to university and balancing his love of the game with real life responsibilities (which is harder to do than you think!) He finally unlocked Quetzorion and is kicking butt with it in an arena near you!

AquaDemon: AquaDemon has been playing the game since the very beginning and is now one of our most experienced moderators! Living in Kissimmee Florida, by day he is a Team Leader for a theme park attraction (we finally figured out which one and he might just have the coolest real life job ever!) and by night he helps others in discord by furthering their teams and strategies, using his knowledge to help others get better.

Castal: Castal has been a moderator on GamePress since mid-March. Her username is a combination of her dogs' names (which are NOT Brian's guess of Cassie and Brutal). She hails from Canada's smallest province and is one of our most nocturnal moderators (which is much appreciated!) Having recently started a brand new account she is more excited than ever to play the game! She has worked as a journalist, a baker, and a game developer... and now we get to use all her skills!

ChrispyChris: Chris is one another one of our most experienced mods and we are so glad to have him on our team! He is currently pursuing a degree in mathematics, which makes for an extreme knowledge base of dino stats and win rates! If Dr. Reebecca tags him in discord, he automatically knows she needs some help with 'the maths'! He is still running that Suchotator (for a little while longer, at least) and is a huge proponent of Stygidaryx as well.  He bears a slight resemblance to superstar Chris Pratt as you can see, so we will still keep him around!

CincyDave: If you haven’t yet fought CincyDave in the arena, you just don’t know what you are missing! On second thought… If you haven’t fought CincyDave in the arena… are you playing JWA? Anyone who is on the beach has likely battled this guy, and you know who he is! He is providing a tremendous amount of input at GP on battles and strategies, because he has likely battled them all! Due to unfortunate nerfs to the classics he used to run, he is running a fairly meta team right now, and killin’ it!

DadJokes: DadJokes is from Queen Creek Arizona and has been playing since day 1 of the main release of JWA. He is quite the battler and chances are if you are at or near endgame, you have battled against him – and you may easily recognize his team from the monster Stygidaryx he runs! When he’s not battling he keeps us chuckling in our moderation channels as he truly is the king of the cheesy “dad jokes”.

Ethan (Fur): Ethan has been playing JWA since last July and has the cherished honor of being our youngest moderator! He is the “baby” of our crew and has everyone watching out for him (especially Reeb & Heather)! Don’t let his age fool you though, this kid has strategy beyond belief and can whip you in the arena. If you see him out darting Utasino please don’t let him curse, just like us!

Heather: Heather has been on staff at GamePress since December writing and moderating and is almost solely responsible for the creation of our newest discord channel, “Hangry Mods”. She is well known for her sense of humor and fighting to the death for higher tier placement of her favorite dinosaur, Tuoramoloch. She is fierce and Feisty (mostly towards poor Jimbohi), but she will become your instant friend if you show her pictures of your food!

Jimbohi: Jimbohi is Jimbohi – and you likely know him. Jimbohi boasts about battling an average of over 100 battles a day, gets his boosts through incubators, and EVERYONE wants to tempt him into their alliance! Much to his dismay however, all the battles in the world can’t help him with his “Jimbo Stuns” which still is one of our coined phrases in discord when anyone misses a stun (Like Jimbohi always does).

Kelociraptor: Arizona State University alum and Scottsdale Arizona resident, Kelociraptor has been a JWA player since about day one. She spends much time hunting in the park outside her home and thrives in leading the great folks of Kelliance. Her favorite real creatures are her two little girl cats, Payton and Cat Tillman. In the world of JWA creatures, Magnapyritor will likely always hold that true number one spot even if sometimes by the narrowest of margins.

NathanH96: Nathan has been one of our moderators since before the game was released, and is well-known for his heavy hammer... The ban hammer, that is! He doesn’t talk as much as some of our other moderators, but rest assured, he is usually watching. He will admit that his game of choice will always be PoGo, but he can’t get away from us that easy…

Steph: Steph’s moderating style comes with a hug or in our case a big purple heart emoji. With a truly original JWA name, Steph is one of our mod softies – but we are training her fast! Suchotator was her first JWA love but her heart was taken when she unlocked Utahsino, a tyrant dino in her eyes. You’ll see her on the discord often and she is always up for a conversation but watch out… she recently got her first Time Out and Ban and is ready for some misbehavers!

TheDQK: TheDQK can still bring a smile to anyone’s face! She is easy to talk to and is quick to catch things when they happen in discord. Her favorite temporary status is "I got my eyes on you all!" Hailing from the Carolinas, she is a proud member of “Just Needed an Alliance” alliance! Her favorite dinos are Pyrritator, Sarcorixis, and Megalosuchus – but she is currently running an amazing All Epic + Pyrritator team and wreaking havoc in the arena!

CopperKiwi: CopperKiwi is… On Vacation to Cuba and unable to help write his bio… So we are making it up! We imagine he is 52 years old (probably minus 20 years), and he seems to enjoy metals and fruit -Together (which seems strange)?! He hails from Canada and has a younger daughter that plays the game as well! Copper recently started a new account and has a fresh new outlook on the game and is enjoying the variety he is now seeing in the lower arenas.

GhastPixel: Ghast is a first-time mod but long-time discord member! He has competed (and won) several discord competition tournaments and is extremely knowledgeable about the game! He has been playing since release, is from West Virginia and enjoys running slightly off-meta dinos like Einias (Poor Einias!) and Utasino. He recently joined the GamePress alliance and is striving to help us hit 10/10 on the regular!

PraiseBigBoy: Praise is one of our newest moderators but has been on our discord for what seems like forever. He hails from California and has been playing JWA for a year and a half. His name comes from Nodopatosaurus, who he calls “Big Boy”. He (Like Ghast) made a name for himself in our server by continuously winning competitions against us mods, so we made him one of us! His favorite dinos are Quetziorion and Smilonemys which he is using to stomp you in the arena, and a proud new member of the GamePress alliance as well!

P2nd2B32r (Panda!): Panda is our very newest moderator and she is AMAZING! She and her husband joined our discord and immediately became active, knowledgeable contributors to our discussions. Clearly we like her more though, so she got the job! She first discovered JWA after randomly searching for yet another AR game to try. What started out as an experiment turned into a love for the game and the rest is history! If she’s not busy trying to convince you that Indoraptor is her first love (despite all her detractors), then she’s busy serving up food to hungry college students at her restaurant with her equally JWA-addicted husband.

MattE: If you don’t know who MattE is, then you are definitely not playing this game to the best of your ability! Matt is the creator of the amazing JWA Field Guide app that we all use and love! If you don’t have it, check out our article below for the links! He is also part of the brains behind helping us with tier lists, battle simulations and all things data based! Hailing from Toronto Canada, Matt has been playing JWA since Day #1 of the Beta, his Favorite dino is Magna, and he is an invaluable asset to our team!

OrangeRex: Orange is well-known for creating graphics for Pokémon GO (OrangeHeart); Harry Potter Wizards Unite (OrangeWizard); and here at JWA Gamepress for Jurassic World Alive (OrangeRex) where it all started! He hails from Amsterdam, The Netherlands in Europe. His busy schedule creating all of these amazing graphics for you allows him to spend very little time on playing the games himself, just the bare minimum to know what he’s talking about when creating graphics! We are so lucky to have him as part of our team!

OrigamiRobot: Origami has been playing JWA a little bit since launch but went “all in” on the game in January 2019.  Hailing from beautiful North Carolina, USA - darting dinos with a dead-on aim. Origami’s favorite dinos include Yoshi, Spyx, and Orion and as our spawn data expert, knows how frequently we could find each dino in the wild! Their vast knowledge about the game can often cause frustration, knowing how good it this game could be, with just a few tweaks… As a member of the GamePress alliance and our datamining expert, we are so glad to have them onboard!

So there you have it, your JWA GamePress staff in all our glory. We are just average players like yourself and would love to talk strategy, frustrations and everything in between with you! As our discord continues to grow (and the game itself grows) we are always looking for new writers, researchers and moderators to join our team. Join us on Discord by clicking the link below!