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Zelgadis is a Fox player who is a former member of DBR of Concord, CA. He was once ranked 6th on the NorCal Power Rankings, and had many strong performances in tournaments during the Golden Age of Melee. He gained fame with the release of the DBR combo videos, where he demonstrated his mastery of Fox's shine and other advanced techniques in "Shined Blind" and "Evolution", where he almost looks ahead of his time.
Tournament placings[edit]
| Tournament |
Date |
1v1 Placement |
2v2 Placement |
Partner
|
| Game Over |
January 10th, 2004 |
33rd |
— |
—
|
| Zero Challenge 1 |
January 17th-18th, 2004 |
9th |
— |
—
|
| 707 Tournament |
March 13th, 2004 |
4th |
— |
—
|
| Tournament Go 6 |
August 21st, 2004 |
49th |
— |
—
|
| MLG Los Angeles 2004 |
September 25th-26th, 2004 |
7th |
— |
—
|
| MLG San Francisco 2005 |
February 26th-27th, 2005 |
4th |
5th |
Husband
|
| MELEE-FC3 |
July 10th-12th, 2005 |
33rd |
— |
—
|
| Champ Combo: NorCal Edition |
April 8th, 2006 |
7th |
4th |
DieSuperFly
|
| MLG Dallas 2006 |
May 19th-20th, 2006 |
17th |
— |
—
|
| MLG Anaheim 2006 |
June 23rd-24th, 2006 |
— |
9th |
DieSuperFly
|
| Zero Challenge 2 |
August 15th-17th, 2006 |
25th |
— |
—
|
| NorCal Tournament |
October 28th, 2006 |
— |
4th |
The King
|
| UCLA Montlies II |
March 24th, 2007 |
9th |
2nd |
LunInSpectra
|
| Zero Challenge 3 |
July 20th-22nd, 2007 |
25th |
— |
—
|
| Super Champ Combo |
September 29th-30th, 2007 |
17th |
13th |
LunInSpectra
|
| UCSD Winter Smash II |
January 13th, 2008 |
9th |
2nd |
HugS
|
| Pound 3 |
February 2nd-3rd, 2008 |
97th |
— |
—
|
| SCSA West Coast Circuit |
December 6th, 2008 |
13th |
3rd |
DC
|
| Mango Juice |
March 21st, 2009 |
25th |
17th |
The GERM
|
| CGC VII |
April 4th, 2009 |
17th |
13th |
LunIn
|
| CGC IX |
May 2nd, 2009 |
5th |
— |
—
|
| GENESIS |
July 10th-12th, 2009 |
97th |
— |
—
|
| CGC Reperations |
August 15th, 2009 |
13th |
5th |
Hella
|
| CGC @ SFSU XII |
October 10th, 2009 |
25th |
3rd |
GERM
|
| CGC @ SFSU XIV |
December 5th, 2009 |
9th |
9th |
Hella
|
| CGC @ SFSU XV |
February 6th, 2010 |
9th |
7th |
Cubaisdeath
|
| GENESIS 2 |
July 15th-17th, 2011 |
65th |
— |
—
|
| Gameclucks Monthly March 2012 |
March 3rd, 2012 |
4th |
1st |
Eggz
|
| Northwest Manifest |
March 24th-25th, 2012 |
17th |
7th |
C!Z
|
| Smash @ Gaming Generations |
May 25th, 2013 |
2nd |
3rd |
Kels
|
| Warehouse Throwdown 2 |
November 23rd, 2013 |
3rd |
— |
—
|
| Eau Claire Sucks at Smash 5 |
March 22nd, 2014 |
7th |
9th |
Yoshicues
|
| Tales of Jank 4 |
August 2015 |
3rd |
7th |
Yoshicues
|
| No Contest |
April 2nd, 2016 |
1st |
1st |
Inui
|
| Construct 48 |
April 23rd, 2016 |
7th |
2nd |
Inui
|
| Tales of Jank 7 |
May 7th, 2016 |
9th |
9th |
KOKingpin
|
| Construct 50 |
May 15th, 2016 |
17th |
3rd |
Inui
|
| Construct 51 |
May 29th, 2016 |
1st |
1st |
Inui
|
| Construct 52 |
June 5th, 2016 |
4th |
1st |
Inui
|
| Smash at the Bay 8 |
June 18th, 2016 |
5th |
— |
—
|
GENESIS 2 theft incident[edit]
At GENESIS 2, a supermajor hosted by DBR, an envelope containing $6,000 of sponsorship money for the prize pot was left in DBR's hotel suite. When Zelgadis was alone in the hotel room with a friend named Clayton, who wasn't a member of DBR, he would attempt to steal the envelope and leave the premises, taking the envelope back to Clayton's house. After no member of DBR could find the envelope, they confronted Zelgadis about it when he returned to GENESIS 2's venue, and while he initially tried to lie about taking the envelope over the course of several hours, he would confess to taking the envelope after police got involved and Zelgadis was informed he could face felony charges.[1] Escorted by police, he would retrieve the envelope from Clayton's house and return it to DBR, after which he was made to leave the tournament's venue. Though Zelgadis did not face any formal ban for this action, nor did DBR press any charges, he was kicked out of DBR, and with the stained reputation, his tournament activity dwindled; he never attended a major tournament again.
In 2015, Zelgadis would re-emerge, where he spoke publicly for the first time about the incident in a lengthy post on SmashBoards.[2] In the post, Zelgadis claimed he found the envelope sprawled on the floor and initially took it to bring it to the tournament, but along the way, he and Clayton got sidetracked, with them going back to Clayton's house. On the way to Clayton's house, he alleges Clayton suggested they take the money, and he went along with it due to financial difficulties he was having at the time, with them taking $200 out of the envelope and Clayton taking the envelope to stash in his house. Zelgadis further claimed he wanted to return the money when first pressed, but couldn't find Clayton when they returned to the venue, and thought he was in too deep already to salvage the situation. Zelgadis would additionally deny accusations of him being addicted to hard drugs at the time, and closed out the post with a public apology to various members of DBR, though the post was also juxtaposed with various accusations throughout of being mistreated by DBR leading up to the incident, particularly by Boback, who he claimed lied to the police by telling them Zelgadis was not in the hotel room with the rest of DBR the night before GENESIS. The post was met with a mixed reception by the community, with a general sentiment that a second chance after several years was deserved, but people also criticized the post for sympathy baiting and Zelgadis partially blaming DBR for his actions with the aforementioned mistreatment accusations.[3][4] No member of DBR would publicly respond to Zelgadis, and no private reconciliation with Zelgadis is known to have occurred; meanwhile, Zelgadis would continue to compete locally at Wisconsin tournaments through 2016, after which he would disappear from the competitive Smash scene.
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