Nairoby Quezada

Nairoby Quezada (born November 7, 1996), known by his gamertag Nairo, is an American professional Super Smash Bros. player from Passaic, New Jersey. He is regarded as a top Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player and a top Super Smash Bros. Brawl player. He mains Zero Suit Samus in Wii U and Meta Knight in Brawl.

Career

Quezada gained national recognition in Brawl at Apex 2012, defeating top players such as Nietono, before losing to Otori in Winners' Finals and Nietono in Losers' Finals, finishing 3rd out of 400 entrants. He won his first national Brawl tournament at SKTAR, defeating ESAM in winners' and grand finals. At Apex 2013, Quezada suffered an early defeat in winners' bracket, before making his way through losers' bracket finishing 4th. Quezada would later win Apex 2014 concluding with a Meta Knight ditto against ZeRo. Quezada is also known for frequently teaming up with Wyatt "ADHD" Beekman, being the strongest Brawl doubles team in the world, having won both Apex 2013 and 2014. Quezada is known to play the opposite of his brother being very offensive and almost never camping. Quezada was the Meta Knight with the most approach options.

Quezada signed with Team Liquid in August 2015 and later ended Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios 53 tournament winning streak at the 2015 MLG World Finals. Quezada has won many nationals in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, including Paragon Los Angeles 2015, Umebura FAT, and MLG 2015.

Personal Life

Quezada has a brother who also plays Smash named Kelvin "Ksizzle" Quezada.

Tournament placings

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Tournament

Date

1v1 Placement

2v2 Placement

Partner

Apex 2010

August 6th-8th, 2010

25th

4th

Atomsk

MLG DC 2010

October 15th-17th, 2010

17th

1st

Anti

Apex 2012

January 6th-8th, 2012

3rd

4th

ADHD

SKTAR

July 14th-15th, 2012

1st

2nd

Ally

Apex 2013

January 11th-13th, 2013

4th

1st

ADHD

SKTAR 2

August 3rd-4th, 2013

9th

1st

ADHD

Apex 2014

January 17th-19th, 2014

1st

1st

ADHD

SKTAR 3

May 31st-June 1st, 2014

2nd

1st

ADHD

Apex 2015

January 30th-February 1st, 2015

2nd

1st

Ally

Super Smash Con

August 6th-9th, 2015

3rd

1st

V115

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Tournament

Date

1v1 Placement

2v2 Placement

Partner

Final Battle

January 17th, 2015

2nd

1st

NAKAT

Apex 2015

January 30th-February 1st, 2015

9th

7th

Tyrant

MVG Sandstorm

April 18th-19th, 2015

2nd

3rd

JA3

CEO 2015

June 26th-28th, 2015

2nd

7th

NAKAT

EVO 2015

July 17th-18th, 2015

3rd

Top 16

Shaky

Super Smash Con

August 6th-9th, 2015

3rd

1st

ZeRo

SKTAR 4

August 22nd-23rd, 2015

1st

2nd

Angel Cortes

Paragon Los Angeles 2015

September 5th-6th, 2015

1st

—

—

Umebura F.A.T.

September 21st-22nd, 2015

1st

1st

Ally

The Big House 5

October 2nd-4th, 2015

2nd

1st

ZeRo

MLG World Finals 2015

October 16th-18th, 2015

1st

1st

ZeRo

KTAR XIV

November 7th, 2015

1st

1st

False