Education
ZeRo qualified for the MLG Anaheim 2014 championship bracket and finished 17th.
ZeRo qualified for the MLG Anaheim 2014 championship bracket and finished 17th.
He is considered the best Super Smash Brothers for Wii U player in the world and a top ranked Super Smash Brothers Brawl player. He mains Diddy Kong and Sheik in Super Smash Brothers for Wii U, and mained Pit in Project M, Meta Knight in Brawl, and Fox in Melee. Barrios has had "ZeRo" as his gamertag since 2005.
He has been playing Smash since Super Smash Brothers in 1999.
He started to travel and play in Melee tournaments in a local Akiba Game Store in early 2007. ZeRo quit Smash completely until December of 2010 and then focused only on Brawl.
He defeated Dabuz, who was playing Captain Olimar, in the finals. ZeRo was ranked in 2014 by Melee it on Maine as the 35th best Melee player in the world.
On November 25, 2014, he criticized Diddy Kong"s repetitive playstyle in Smash Wii U, claiming that Diddy was "killing the game".
Barrios streams on twitch.tv Mondays through Thursdays at 1PM Socialist Workers Party. ZeRo attributes much of his success to training with Mew2King. He was sponsored by CLASH Tournaments for part of 2014 until resigning in November. e-Sports Earnings estimates that ZeRo has earned a career total of United States$ 31,484.22 from tournaments. ZeRo was considered the third best Brawl player in the world by CLASH Tournaments in the 2014 SSBBRank, published at the end of the year.
As of early 2014 ZeRo was making United States$40,000 a year from prize money, sponsorships, and twitch.tv streaming money et cetera by ZeRo has a "bounty" on his head that will be paid to anybody who can take a set from him at a future tournament.
On the August 1, 2015, Team SoloMid announced ZeRo as the second player in their Super Smash Brothers division. At The Big House 5, ZeRo was knocked into Loser"s bracket very early, putting his first place tournament run in jeopardy.
He qualified for the top 32. In top 8, he beat Rosalina and Luma main Raquayza07 and beat Mario main ANTi in a very close set.
In Loser"s finals, he handily beat Dabuz, who now plays Rosalina and Luma, to make it to Grand Finals against Team Liquid"s Nairo.
There, Nairo took two sets off of ZeRo, ending ZeRo"s reign at 55 tournaments. Kotaku named "ZeRo, The Smash Brothers Champ" as one of the gamers of 2015, honoring his 53-tournament streak.
Super Smash Brothers
Brawl
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Project M
Super Smash Brothers Wii U
Super Smash Brothers for 3DS.
ZeRo placed second in Brawl at Apex 2014, losing to Nairo and was the champion of the Smash Wii U at Apex 2015. In early 2014, he picked up Melee again, as well as the Project M. Since November 2014 when he placed third at Sky"s Smash 4 Invitational, ZeRo has won every singles Wii U tournament he has participated in. ZeRo won EVO 2015, the largest Smash for Wii U. tournament at the time beating Mr. R in the finals. After easily beating Nairo the first set of Grand Finals, ZeRo clutched out a win in the second set, 3-2, to win TBH5, despite suffering an early upset. In MLG World Finals 2015, ZeRo defeated Ness main Nakat, StaticManny, Ally, and ESAM to fight Zero Suit Samus main Nairo in Grand Finals, coming from the Winner"s side.
