Former Smash Bros pro player Zero has announced his intentions to run his own tournament, years after they were banned from the vast majority of tournaments due to allegations of sexual misconduct.
Explained briefly in a four minute video titled “I honestly can’t believe I’m doing this…”, Zero states that he’ll begin hosting his own tournament “based on popular request”. This comes following a joke tweet last year where he mused the idea of running a tournament with other banned players called the Banned Series. While this was in jest, Zero would acknowledge that certain banned players would be allowed to take part based on his own judgement.
However, this event would be far from a free-for-all between the entire cast of banned players. Zero explicitly states that the attendence of certain players would depend largely on whether he believes their bans were justified. He states: “My objective is not to necessarily host a tournament just to invite a bunch of criminals and a bunch of people who are banned, because the reality is that there are people who are banned who did terrible things.”