Jon's more or less quit, he hasn't explained himself other than he thinks Melty is "stiff." I've tried to get to the bottom of how you could possibly think a game with this much offense is stiff, but whatever. It's a dead issue, he's got it in his head that Melty is stiff and that's that for him, I guess.
As far as 2k4 went, my cousin played TAM casually but he competed under normal rules. If you're asking whether he was just your average pub stomping TAM hero, then no not at all lol. He understands how to play for real lol. I don't think he got to travel more than once though, he was still pretty young. His tag was blindrob, I don't think he still plays much though. He's just hype for Global Agenda, and is one of the USA mods for some freeware shooter called CrossFire.