Zelgadis "Trebor"
Character info
Melee main Fox
Brawl main King Dedede
Project M mains Captain Falcon, Fox
Team info
Former crews DBR
Personal and other info
Real name Robert Scherer
Birth date (age 38)
Location La Crosse, Wisconsin United States

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 placingsEdit

Super Smash Bros. MeleeEdit

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

Project MEdit

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner
Eau Claire Sucks at Smash 5 March 22nd, 2014 13th 5th Yoshicues

Super Smash Bros. BrawlEdit

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
UCLA VI: A New Hope May 18th, 2008 33rd 2nd Lucien
AxisGaming August 30, 2008 25th

GENESIS 2 theft incidentEdit

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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