{"id":10329,"date":"2018-01-14T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/alas_the_worlds_best_smash_bros_for_wii_u_player_is_retiring"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:15:00","slug":"alas-the-worlds-best-smash-bros-for-wii-u-player-is-retiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/14\/alas-the-worlds-best-smash-bros-for-wii-u-player-is-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Alas, The World&#8217;s Best Smash Bros. For Wii U Player Is Retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Zero.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/the_worlds_best_smash_bros_for_wii_u_player_is_retiring\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/the_worlds_best_smash_bros_for_wii_u_player_is_retiring\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Zero.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the <strong>Super Smash Bros.<\/strong>\u00a0series (or at least it&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/super_smash_bros_for_wii_u\">Wii U instalment<\/a>), there&#8217;s a great chance you would&#8217;ve come across Gonzalo &#8216;ZeRo&#8217; Barrios\u00a0\u2013 a highly talented player in the Smash Bros. competitive scene and the world&#8217;s best when the franchise&#8217;s Wii U outing is concerned. Barrios has won dozens of tournaments,\u00a0and currently possesses a world record for most consecutive tournament wins in a row\u00a0\u2013 a whopping streak of 53 in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in an unexpected announcement, Barrios has stated that he&#8217;d like to take a step back from the competitive scene\u00a0\u2013 at least for the time being. Here are some comments of his from his Twitter account:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is that I lost passion in current Smash 4. But I must clarify, this game is responsible for the most success I&#8217;ve had in my life and some of my fondest memories. I love this game, I really do. I love Smash Bros in general as well. However, I just don&#8217;t have that &#8216;fire&#8217; that I used to have for Smash 4. I used to be able to push myself so easily and without effort back in the day&#8221; &#8230; &#8220;but nowadays, I pretty much have to force myself to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI anticipate I will want to participate once again in tournaments once the next iteration of Smash Bros. is on the horizon. If that&#8217;s Smash 5, Smash Switch, or even a big Smash 4 Deluxe update&#8230; that&#8217;s going to be enough to bring me back in the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Barrios then goes on to say that he&#8217;d like to focus on other things for the time being, such as being more dedicated with his streaming and YouTube content, possibly commentating in future events, writing a book, learning a third language, &#8220;experience a different world,&#8221; and taking care of his body in general. You can read his full farewell statement to the Smash community\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSMZeRo\/status\/951914839709974529\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While this &#8216;retirement&#8217; isn&#8217;t likely to be permanent, it&#8217;s certainly an end of an era for those who kept up to date in the Chilean&#8217;s dominance over the last three years. His departure from the game is one more reason to nag Nintendo to release Smash Bros.&#8217; inevitable Switch iteration ASAP. Are you a fan of ZeRo&#8217;s Smash antics? How badly do you want a Switch Smash Bros.? Sound off below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the Super Smash Bros.\u00a0series (or at least it&#8217;s Wii U instalment), there&#8217;s a great chance you would&#8217;ve come across Gonzalo &#8216;ZeRo&#8217; Barrios\u00a0\u2013 a highly talented player in the Smash Bros. competitive scene and the world&#8217;s best when the franchise&#8217;s Wii U outing is concerned. Barrios has won dozens of tournaments,\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}