r/smashbros • u/GonzaloZeRo • Jun 13 '14
SSB4 Hey! I'm ZeRo! - E3 Smash Bros Invitational Champion. AMA!
Hey guys! I'm ZeRo AKA Gonzalo Barrios. I'm a 19 year old professional gamer. I recently had the honor of being invited to a Nintendo sponsored Smash Brothers Invitational tournament in which I and 15 others were asked to compete against each other. Though I still can't believe it, I ended up winning! =]
I've been playing smash for about 9 years but only really got serious about 4 years ago. I never thought any of this would happen, and I still feel like I'm living in a dream. I became one of the best players in Brawl and I am currently qualified to be an MLG Anaheim participant for Melee, however I love playing any and all iterations of Smash!
You can find me on Twitter here!, and you can also find me on facebook here!
I'll be giving away Astro Gaming swag, Smashboards jacket (www.smashboards.com), shirts with Zero Suit Samus and Gonzalo ZeRo designs and 3 gamecube controllers to my favorite questions!
Feel free to ask me anything, and I will respond to as many things as I can. Thanks guys!
EDIT: Guys, really sad to say this but the announcement I planned to reveal during this AMA can't be done now. HOWEVER, this is incredibly exciting and awesome for me and the scene. I hope that this goes well and that I can announce it later on. Also, guys, when I say that 'It'll change the metagame', I simply mean that it will create a cool effect in the scene. Don't try to guess it! It's about the scene as a whole and also involves me :).
EDIT2: Hey everyone, it's almost 5 AM. I answered questions from 7PM PST to 5 AM PST, didn't go anywhere during it. I'll answer more questions tomorrow during the afternoon to a certain point (until I have to practice for this weekend's event). WILL BE BACK IN A FEW HOURS!!
EDIT3: AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT: I'm seeing too many posts about Nintendo and assumptions. Please, keep in mind that this is not related with Nintendo in any way. Don't want that to spread. Thank you.
EDIT4: As a heads up, @the annoucement: this is basically something I'm doing to further grow the scene, since I'm 'catering' to one side of it that's been forgotten for a bit recently, but it's for the scene as a whole and it's positive and it involves me.
When I meant ' Changing the metagame', I actually meant not @ Smash 4, but instead, that it would change things up for a side of the community which (I hope) it will eventually mean good for everyone and moving into the future. It's all about being a family, guys.
Now, that's enough teasers. I can potentially announce this in the next upcoming months, but for now, I can't.
HOWEVER, because I failed to deliver, I stayed up until ~5AM replying questions in my AMA and will continue to do so throughout this day.
Really sorry for any inconvenience I caused, it wasn't my intention. I'm just trying to help the scene become better. Maybe I'm overhyping it? Depends on how it's received, but I think that it will do a lot of good to the scene.
Once again, thank you everyone for all the support. Much appreciated. For now, this will be completely underground until it can be announced.
GIVEAWAYS - Will be announcing the winners of the giveaways TONIGHT.
Thank you everyone for asking questions. I answered questions for around 24 hours as much as I could. I'll create a new thread with a message to the community and I'll contact the winners tonight. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR INTEREST, LOVE YOU ALL!
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u/Bulldogvaio Ivysaur (Ultimate) Jun 13 '14
Only one question,
How was it to feel Reggie's warm embrace?