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Nairo subsequently deactivated his Twitter and Instagram accounts. The morning after the allegation was posted, NRG Esports cut ties with Nairo. Nairo issued an apology hours later, claiming that his behavior was wrong, and that he 'messed up tremendously'. He also stopped streaming on Twitch and attending tournaments. What are the outed smash players doing now that their careers are over? We look at their social medias and see if anything new has happened. Cinnpie Allegati. The latest tweets from @nairo. The irony in all of this is that Nairo has been a proponent of better player behavior and professionalism on his twitter feed and streams – but like seemingly a lot of others in the FGC, it seems this was done with a guilty conscience and skeletons in his closet. Several people on Twitter were quick to express their happiness over his return. On the other hand, there were others who seemed to oppose it. Social media was filled with mixed reactions, but it.

Nairoby Quezada (born November 7, 1996), known by his gamertag Nairo, is an American professionalSuper Smash Bros. player from Passaic, New Jersey. He was regarded as a top professional in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He primarily competed playing as Meta Knight in Brawl, Zero Suit Samus in Wii U, and Palutena in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.^[1][2]

Career[edit]

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Quezada gained national recognition for his skill in Super Smash Bros. Brawl at Apex 2012, defeating top players such as Yuta 'Nietono' Uejima, before losing to Kenta 'Otori' Ishikawa in Winners' Finals and Nietono in Losers' Finals, finishing 3rd out of 400 entrants. He won his first national-level Brawl tournament at SKTAR, defeating Eric 'ESAM' Lew in winners' and grand finals. At Apex 2013, Quezada suffered an early defeat in winners' bracket, before making his way through losers' bracket and finally finishing 4th. Quezada would later win Apex 2014 concluding with a Meta Knight vs. Meta Knight match ('ditto') against Gonzalo 'ZeRo' Barrios. Quezada is also known for frequently teaming up with Wyatt 'ADHD' Beekman, often regarded as the strongest Brawl doubles team in the world, having won both Apex 2013 and 2014.^[3][4][5] Quezada is known to play the opposite of his brother being very offensive and rarely opting to go on the defensive.

Quezada signed to play for Team Liquid in August 2015 and later ended ZeRo's 56-tournament winning streak at the 2015 MLG World Finals.^[6][7][8] Quezada has won many national-level tournaments in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, including Paragon Los Angeles 2015, Umebura FAT, and MLG 2015.^[9][10]

Quezada was one of the eight players competing in the Pokkén Tournament Early Access Competition Invitational by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo.^[11]

On August 16, 2016 Quezada left Team Liquid.^[12] It was announced on August 23, 2016 that Quezada would be joining NRG Esports as their first Super Smash Bros. player.^[13]

Quezada was also a surprise guest at the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Invitational at E3 2018. Quezada had expressed his disappointment in not being one of the featured players to be invited to compete in the invitational, despite being a top player in Wii U. He made a surprise appearance at the invitational, when he was challenged to play against Olivia Holt, Mike Daniels, and Ember Moon, playing in a 3 vs. 1 team battle (without friendly fire). Quezada played as Snake, and beat the 3 celebrities, despite being on a team by himself.^[14]

Allegations of sexual misconduct, blackmail and cut ties[edit]

Initial allegations[edit]

On July 2020, former professional Smash player Zack 'CaptainZack' Lauth posted an allegation that he and Quezada had a sexual relationship in 2017, while CaptainZack was a minor, and that Quezada had subsequently sent CaptainZack payments to entice the latter not to reveal the allegations. Quezada subsequently deactivated his Twitter and Instagram accounts. The morning after the allegation was posted, NRG Esports cut ties with Quezada.^[15] Hours later, Quezada reactivated his twitter account and issued an apology hours later, claiming that his behavior was wrong, and that he 'messed up tremendously'.^[16] After he made that post to twitter he went silent for several months and eventually deactivated his twitter account again. He also stopped streaming on Twitch and attending tournaments.

On September 2020, Tamim 'tamim' Omary, a pro player and a friend of CaptainZack and fellow pro player Samsora, alleged that Zack was the one who initiated the relationship via non-consensual first contact while Quezada was asleep and requested the payments to stay silent, and that Samsora had pushed Zack into revealing the situation publicly for personal gain, with Omary stating that even though Samsora knew about the situation he continued to collaborate with Quezada on several occasions until the information was revealed publicly, and that 'Zack had been in relationships with many adults, and Samsora ha[d] never cared' then.^[17][18] Samsora denied the allegations against him.

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Quezada's response to the allegations[edit]

On October 28, 2020, Quezada reactivated his Twitter account and released a statement, claiming CaptainZack's allegations to be 'completely false' as well as explaining the story from his perspective. Quezada detailed how CaptainZack allegedly sexually assaulted him by performing oral sex on him while he was asleep. Quezada claims that he had told him to stop but CaptainZack refused and that he stopped once Quezada pushed him off. CaptainZack later allegedly blackmailed him into paying him 3 payments of $2000, $275, and $350. Quezada also explained the tremendous toll the initial and subsequent events had taken on his mental health. Quezada claimed to have a 30-page document that includes details and evidence to clear his name.^[19] While the initial response from the community was mixed, some pro Smash players such as James 'VoiD' Makekau-Tyson and Brian 'Cosmos' Kalu tweeted that they had seen the document, and corroborated Quezada's version of events,^[20][21] while other prominent players such as MkLeo and Maister tweeted their support.^[22][23]

Quezada's return[edit]

On February 19, 2021, Quezada uploaded a video to his YouTube channel announcing that a legal agreement had been reached between both parties and he intended to return to competing and streaming. He has also submitted an appeal to his Twitch ban.^[24] Following this announcement, many players began requesting Quezada's ban from tournaments and Twitch be overturned, and the hashtag #UnbanNairo would start trending a few days later, reaching over 200,000 tweets and even managing to make it to the top of the trending list for a few hours.^[25]

Following Quezada's statement, tournament organizations such as 2GGaming and Collision would lift Quezada's ban from their events after processing his appeal.^[26][27]

On April 8th, 2021, Quezada streamed for the first time in nearly a year, hosting his stream on YouTube, as Twitch had not unbanned him by that time. His stream peaked at over 26,000 viewers, and he gained over 2,200 YouTube members in just over 6 hours. ^[28]

Personal life[edit]

Quezada has a brother, Kelvin 'Ksizzle' Quezada, who also plays Super Smash Bros.^[29]

References[edit]

1. ^Álvaro Morillas Correa (2015-10-24). 'Nairo elimina al mejor jugador de Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'. viciojuegos.com. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
2. ^Arash Fekri (2015-08-20). 'Super Smash Bros 4: Nairo Has a New Team, Game Offered at a Discount!'. Master Herald. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
3. ^Alex Strife. 'Apex 2012 Results'. smashboards.com. SmashBoards. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
4. ^Alex Strife. 'Apex 2013 Results'. smashboards.com. SmashBoards. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
5. ^AlphaZealot. 'Apex 2014 Results'. smashboards.com. SmashBoards. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
6. ^Eric Van Allen (2015-10-19). 'Super Smash Bros. Pro Loses After Epic 53-Tournament Win Streak'. Paste Magazine. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
7. ^Hernandez, Patricia (2015-10-05). 'World's Best Smash Bros. Player Makes Awesome Comeback After Almost Burning Out'. Kotaku. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
8. ^Womack, Barrett (22 November 2015). 'ZeRo on MLG, Nairo and the Next Chapter'. Red Bull. Retrieved 2015-11-22.
9. ^Chaobo. 'Liquid Nairo wins Umebura F.A.T.'teamliquidpro.com. Team Liquid. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
10. ^Nicholas Taylor. 'Paragon LA 2015 results feat. Mango, Leffen, Hungrybox, Mew2King, Westballz'. eventhubs.com. Eventhubs. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
11. ^ssf1991. 'Nintendo Has Introduced The Pokken Tournament Early Access Competition Trainers'. mynintendonews.com. My Nintendo News. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
12. ^Erfanian, Sasha. 'Nairo leaves Team Liquid'. theScore eSports. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
13. ^Wolf, Jacob. 'NRG Esports picks up Super Smash Con winner Nairo'. ESPN. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
14. ^'Super Smash Bros. Invitational - 3vs1: Olivia holt, Ember Moon, Mike Daniels vs. Nairo - E3 2018 HD'. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
15. ^Michael, Cale (2 July 2020). 'Nairo accused of having sexual relationship with 15-year-old CaptainZack, deletes social media accounts'. Dot Esports. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
16. ^Quezada, Nairoby. 'NRG and Nairo statements 2 out of 2 image gallery'. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
17. ^@tamim2938029181 (September 14, 2020). 'Regarding Samsora and Zack
    Read: tl.gd/n_1srda66' (Tweet) – via Twitter.
18. ^Michael, Cale (15 September 2020). 'CaptainZack allegedly lied about taking 'hush money' from Nairo'. Dot eSports. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
19. ^'My Statement'. Twitter. October 28, 2020.
20. ^'VoiD's statement'. Twitter. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
21. ^'Cosmos' statement'. Twitter. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
22. ^'MkLeo's comments'. Twitter. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
23. ^'Maister's comments'. Twitter. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
24. ^Quezada, Nairoby. 'Update: On Moving Forward'. YouTube. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
25. ^'Nairo trending'.
26. ^'2GG lifting Nairo's ban'.
27. ^'Collision lifting Nairo's ban'.
28. ^https://dotesports.com/news/nairo-peaks-at-over-26000-viewers-in-his-first-stream-since-july
29. ^CT Chibo. '#SSBBRANK 1 – 3 : THE GRAND FINALE'. Clash Tournaments. CLASH Tournaments. Archived from the original on 2014-12-30. Retrieved 2015-11-23.

External links[edit]

• Nairo on Twitter
• Nairo's channel on YouTube

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Regarding Samsora and Zack

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The Truth
Let me start things off by saying that CaptainZack and Samsora are two of my best friends, or at least they were. I do not gain anything from what I am about to voice. I do not want to return to the smash scene, I do not want followers and I do not want fame. I have not been active on social media for the past couple of months, completely deactivating everything and I have no intention of returning. I simply want to express my personal views on a recent affair that I believe was twisted in the eyes of the public. I’ve been debating and struggling with myself for months with this information due to my friendship with Zack and Samsora but I don’t feel like I can move on until I bring the truth to light.
To begin, I received a message from Samsora on July 1st, 2020 that evening notifying me that he had an emotional conversation with Zack earlier that morning. Samsora had known that I was out with my family for Canada Day and he informed me that he wanted to discuss something important later that evening. I called Samsora to hear what was so important and he explained that he wanted Zack to speak the truth about his encounter with Nairo 3 years ago. Samsora had wanted my input and I suggested we all discuss this together to see every viewpoint.
Zack, Lima, Samsora, and I started a discord call to discuss the matter. After some silence, Samsora quickly took the lead of the conversation. Samsora explained how he was tired of Zack living a lie and that he wanted Zack to come forward with his truth. Samsora preached that Zack was lying to his followers and they deserved to know the truth. Lima agreed and they turned to me for the final confirmation before proceeding. However, after hearing their views, I was still hesitant, especially given the details of what Zack had previously explained to me on what happened between him and Nairo.
I will explain why I was hesitant and the version of the story I had heard from Zack later in this document.
Although, I did not want to be insensitive towards Zack. Still, I felt this approach was not the correct way to go about things. I responded to them cautiously saying, “Do what makes you feel most comfortable, but also do not rush to making your decision.” Shortly after I had to leave the call and said I would call them when I got home.
During this time that I was out of the house, Zack had publicly claimed that he had made up the rumors. After arriving home, I quickly rejoined the call which had a very tense atmosphere. I did not know what happened to the original plan for Zack, which was to tell ‘the truth’. As I understood it from other people in the call, Zack had made the first tweet and then Nairo had offered to make a follow-up on his side, in order to take some heat off Zack, and Zack agreed, saying he would follow through after.
While I was on the call, Zack was also on a call with Nairo. I want to mention that Nairo did not know that Zack was also on a call with us (Lima, Samsora, and I). Zack typed to us what was going on in his conversation with Nairo. He explained to us that Nairo was going to quote-retweet Zack’s response and did not show that he had a problem with it. Nairo then posted his quote-tweet about Zack, also claiming the rumors were not true. This is also corroborated in a Messenger screenshot Zack would later go on to post in his twitlonger as it shows that he did indeed pick up his phone before the tweets were made and afterwards. ( https://imgur.com/a/IFSrezs )
Zack then claimed to us that Nairo had not approved the wording of his tweet with him before publishing it.
He and Samsora then used this as an opportunity to try to convince me that Nairo was abusing and manipulating the truth and used this to further their viewpoint to continue with the twitlonger. I want to point out that this is contrary to what Zack said in his Twitlonger, which was that Nairo ‘painted [Zack] to be something completely different than what he told he would say’ (taken from Zack’s twitlonger). This is despite the fact that Nairo’s tweet only addressed what Zack himself had publicly debunked.
At this point, I still had a different viewpoint and wanted to share my opinions. I started by saying, “We should take things slower, do you guys think we should be doing this in one day?” While attempting to explain my perspective, Samsora shut me down. He started yelling at me and portraying me to be malicious and insensitive to the situation at hand. It was clear to me that Samsora felt strong about the situation and I didn’t attempt to push my viewpoint as I was outnumbered 3 to 1. I was pushing my limit of being able to stay awake any longer due to having been out all day for Canada Day and I soon exited the call, no longer wanting to be involved as I realized my voice would not be heard.
I went to sleep and when I woke up I had immediately checked the chat and noticed there were many other people added, who I will not name, as I believe they were added after Zack’s twitlonger was posted. The call was still ongoing and I joined to give Zack some words of support where he thanked me and went to sleep shortly after. I then left the call to read the post on my own. I felt very uneasy about the entire twitlonger being written in a few hours and wondered what evidence was shown, as I had only known about the situation through word of mouth. As I was reading the twitlonger, I immediately recognized there were lies and screenshots used out of context to manipulate and twist the truth. The story Zack had told to the person on Discord (who would later be revealed as Salem) was not the story that I was told by Zack in the past.
Zack had previously told me that Nairo housed him for a night at a tournament because Zack and Samsora did not have housing. The entire day, Samsora and Zack were seeking a place to stay and Marss and Nairo both agreed to housing one of them. Samsora went with Marss and Zack went with Nairo.
Zack had explained to me that in the middle of the night, he had gone from his bed to Nairo’s bed while Nairo was asleep and began caressing Nairo’s chest. When Nairo did not budge, Zack felt it was okay to go further with his attempt. Zack explained to me that Nairo had still been asleep when Zack escalated things.
This was very disturbing to hear because Zack had taken advantage of the situation at hand. I understand that this was alarming, but I was young (I am only a year older than Zack) and didn’t understand the reality of what he’d told me when the story had been introduced to me and did not question it or tell anyone. Zack made me promise I would keep it between us. This was the reason I was hesitant about this whole thing.
Since the story I heard and the one I was reading on this twitlonger conflicted, I asked Lima privately what he knew of the story previous to the twitlonger. The story Lima knew from Zack’s word of mouth was the same one I heard. The narrative given by Zack in his twitlonger conflicts with many different stories shared on the same topic. Tweek had already had to debunk a part in Zack’s story given to Salem. Zack claimed that Tweek encouraged him to go to Nairo’s, but Tweek says that never happened. I wanted to reach out to Nairo to know what his side of the story was but because he knew I was close to Zack, I figured he would not trust me and did not say anything.
I want to mention that Zack had an obsession with talking about how much money Nairo made and used this to justify himself when asking Nairo for money. Zack had made it very clear to me in the past that he continuously approached Nairo for money. On the first occasion, Zack had received $2,000 from Nairo because Zack asked for money after losing his sponsor and Zack used that fact to pressure Nairo.
I know that Nairo did not offer Zack ‘hush money’. Zack definitely asked for the money. For the following situations after the $2,000 where Nairo had sent money, it was because of Zack, yet again approaching Nairo.
However, in Zack’s twitlonger, he implied that Nairo had given him money to stay “Quiet.” This was NOT the case. He went as far as to fake-cry on his stream about “bribe money” ( https://imgur.com/a/qYvZk77 ) when Zack clearly understood that was not what occurred. I want to specify that I’ve known Zack for years and I have seen Zack cry in person many times. That is why I know he was not truly crying during that stream.
Zack is going to lengths to push the innocent narrative he created for himself because it is the only thing keeping the public on his side. It is very ironic how the entire motive and title of Zack’s post “I’m Tired of Living a Life of Lies” is built on himself lying, multiple times, once again.
As someone who has been a close friend of Zack’s for a long time, I can testify that Zack was, and still is a very sneaky and devious person. He had constantly bragged about the men he had romanced and puppeteered. Zack had aggressively attempted to seduce countless adults in the Smash community and had been told many times by his friends to stop this nefarious act. There is a clear difference between making innocent mistakes in contrast to unapologetically continuing to pursue immoral actions. Zack viewed these people's lives and careers as toys and destroyed them without remorse when an opportunity arose. For example, Zack openly stated to me that during his relationship with Ally, he was not scared of people finding out because he would not be the one at fault due to him being the minor.
I can not stand by Zack, as he knowingly abused a movement meant for justice, looking for personal gain. In the past, I stood with Zack because he was young and I believed he would learn from his mistakes and grow from them, but unfortunately, he has not changed. I have known Zack for many years and I want to go on record to say his intelligence should not be underestimated. I need to stress that the point of this isn’t really to defend Nairo. I only want to make it clear that the entire truth was concealed and manipulated.
--------------Samsora---------------
Samsora’s complacency is repulsive. During the Ally and Zack misconduct, he acted oblivious when he contributed immensely to all of this transpiring in the first place. He went as far as accompanying them to the movies ( https://imgur.com/a/GYdkf3e ) and teaming with Ally at multiple events. Samsora had no issue with Zack and Ally’s relationship. Where was Samsora’s concern during even ONE of Zack’s relationships with older men? Samsora knew of the situation between Zack and Nairo since it happened 3 years ago and he also knew about Zack’s relationship with Ally the entire time, 100%.
Where was his voice when I was being crucified for speaking the truth? I was a minor and Samsora was an adult during the entire relationship of Zack and Ally, yet I was the one who spoke out about it. Samsora let me take the fall, when he had been complacent and did not care. Instead, all he did was tweet vaguely about it and expressed his sympathies to Ally publicly ( https://imgur.com/a/AnnyjJB )
Zack had been in relationships with many adults, and Samsora has never cared. That is why I believe it is incriminating that at seemingly random, Samsora decided it was time to discard Nairo, after all these years of never standing up for Zack. Samsora is pretending to be shocked and sorrowful about the situation to the public. ( https://imgur.com/a/Ww3XvbM ) On his social media, Samsora is trying to garner sympathy from the community so that they don't look deeper into the mistakes that he made.
Samsora’s motive for his actions were also unjust, immoral, and selfish. Samsora pushed for this situation to be public forcefully, shutting down any and all opposing viewpoints. I know that people will say, “Samsora is in the right to expose Nairo.” However, remember the version of the story that I heard from Zack and the fact that the ‘hush money’ was false. This was a much more complex situation than people realize.
It always bothered Samsora how he was constantly compared to Nairo, and Samsora spoke to me on more than one occasion about disliking and wanting to avoid being in his shadow. I do not condone leaking private accounts, and I want to make it clear that this is an extreme breach of someone’s trust. However, it needs to be understood that this is the mindset Samsora had 2 weeks before everything transpired ( https://imgur.com/a/wkKauwa ).
And yet, literally the day before Samsora decided to push for this twitlonger to happen, Samsora had been collaborating with Nairo. ( https://imgur.com/A4lrRNx )
I believe this is what the initial conversation of “telling Zack’s story” stemmed from. Samsora wanted to eliminate Nairo as his competition under the guise of helping Zack speak his truth. Samsora (along with Zack) used a movement that is meant to help victims, primarily to benefit himself. Basically, Samsora weaponized Zack’s story for his own personal gain.
It is important to note that part of Samsora’s goal was to push for the twitlonger to be released as soon as possible. That is why there were so many errors in trying to keep people’s identities anonymous.
Along with this, I want to mention that Samsora manipulated Lima into going along with this over an entire hour. The full proof can be found here ( https://imgur.com/a/LB2UON5 ). In the messages, Samsora adjusts his argument multiple times to persuade Lima into taking his side. He even contradicts and admits some things such as how Samsora had messaged Zack about it and Zack “only care [sic] about his coin”. Samsora also outright says that “This is not about abuse, it is never about abuse with Nairo. Nairo is not a predator.” (those specific screenshots are found here: https://imgur.com/a/obdHBLA ). Samsora continues to contradict himself in order to persuade Lima.
It’s very necessary to point out that Samsora approached Lima after Zack had told Samsora that he did not want to come out with this story against Nairo. The intention behind approaching Lima was because having a numbers advantage was crucial in influencing Zack to do what Samsora wanted. Samsora continued to push for this narrative and in the end, Lima finally agreed to help Samsora push Zack to release a statement.
The only way I could understand Samsora’s hypocrisy was by realizing that he would be benefiting from Nairo getting “cancelled”. In the beginning, Nairo supported Samsora by doing streams together, hosting him, gifting subs, and giving him exposure. When Samsora realized Nairo could no longer bring him any more fame or power, he knew that the only way he could get further to the top was by getting rid of Nairo. From the moment he found out about Nairo and Zack’s situation, he kept this information in his back pocket. Finally, when it was most advantageous to him and the social climate was right, he shed light on what happened and manipulated those around him to rush the story. He hid under the guise of helping a friend but that was not his full intentions. He wanted to reap the benefits of Nairo’s downfall and that is exactly what he did
I realize people will notice that I do not have all the screenshots, but this is because I deactivated all my social media as I mentioned before, and thus I am no longer able to retrieve them.
I’m sorry it took so long for me to speak up on any of this. I’ve been debating and struggling with myself for months with this information due to my friendship with Zack and Samsora but I don’t feel like I can move on unless we learn the real truth.
-Tamim

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