MegaZero
| Retired | ||
|---|---|---|
| MegaZero | ||
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| Background Information | ||
| Name | Patrick Glinsman | |
| Country of Birth | United States | |
| Birthday | September 29, 1994 (age 26) | |
| Residency | North America | |
| Competitive | ||
| Role | Top Laner | |
| Favorite Champs | ||
| Soloqueue IDs | MegaMadLife, Sunfire Top Only | |
| Social Media & Links | ||
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Patrick "MegaZero" Glinsman is a retired League of Legends esports player, previously top laner for Carnegie Mellon University.
Team History
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Team MRN | Aug 20122012-08-01[1] | ≈Sep 2012≈2012-09-?? | ≈1mo ejel | ||
| Team MRN | Dec 20122012-12-30[3] | May 20132013-05-11[2] | 4mo 12d ejel | ||
 Cloud9 | May 20132013-05-31[4] | ≈Feb 2014≈2014-02-?? | ≈8mo 1d ejel | ||
 compLexity Gaming | Jun 20132013-06-18[6] | Jan 20142014-01-09[5] | 6mo 21d ejel | ||
 TSM | Feb 20142014-02-04[7] | ≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-?? | ≈10mo 25d ejel | ||
 Carnegie Mellon | ≈Jan 2017≈2017-01-?? | ≈May 2017≈2017-05-?? | ≈4mo ejel |
| Team | Start | End | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team MRN | Aug 20122012-08-01[1] | ≈Sep 2012≈2012-09-?? | ≈1mo ejel | ||
| Team MRN | Dec 20122012-12-30[3] | May 20132013-05-11[2] | 4mo 12d ejel | ||
| Cloud9 | May 20132013-05-31[4] | ≈Feb 2014≈2014-02-?? | ≈8mo 1d ejel | ||
| compLexity Gaming | Jun 20132013-06-18[6] | Jan 20142014-01-09[5] | 6mo 21d ejel | ||
| TSM | Feb 20142014-02-04[7] | ≈Jan 2015≈2015-01-?? | ≈10mo 25d ejel | ||
| Carnegie Mellon | ≈Jan 2017≈2017-01-?? | ≈May 2017≈2017-05-?? | ≈4mo ejel |
News
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2017
 MRN | August 1, Team MRN is reformed. MegaZero, ecko, and AtomicN join. ClakeyD and Marn rejoin.[1] | |
| MRN | September (approx.), Team MRN is disbanded. MegaZero, ClakeyD, Marn, ecko, and AtomicN leave. | |
| MRN | December 30, ecco and Heartbeat join. MegaZero, ClakeyD, AtomicN, and Marn (Owner) rejoin.[3] |
| MRN | May 11, Team MRN is disbanded. MegaZero, ClakeyD, ecco, Nientonsoh, Heartbeat, Cruzerthebruzer, AtomicN, and Marn (Owner) leave.[2] | |
 C9 | May 31, MegaZero joins as substitute.[4] | |
 COL | June 18, MegaZero joins.[6] |
| COL | January 9, MegaZero, Chuuper, and MeyeA leave.[5] | |
| C9 | February (approx.), MegaZero leaves. | |
 TSM | February 4, MegaZero joins as substitute.[7] |
 CMU | January (approx.), MegaZero and Yusui join. | |
 GL A | April 14, MegaZero, Im Avi, Yusui, iAsh, and Tonington join as a pick-up team for NACS 2017 Summer Open Qualifiers. The team will be considered disbanded at the tournament's conclusion on April 23. | |
| GL A | April 23, Team is disbanded following the conclusion of NACS 2017 Summer Open Qualifiers. MegaZero, Im Avi, Yusui, iAsh, and Tonington leave. | |
| CMU | May (approx.), MegaZero leaves. |
Biography[edit]
He played during the beta, reaching top ten multiple times. He held Rank 1 in the 3v3 ladder in Season 1 for over 4 months, then switched to Bloodline Champions and won the Dreamhack Summer 2011 Championship on Team Orz. MegaZero also took first place in the "Best Riven NA Tournament" organized by Leaguepedia. After Team MRN disbanded, MegaZero announced that he "had plans in the works" and would not be returning to Carnegie Mellon in the following Fall.[8] He later played in compLexity Gaming as top laner, and while the team didn't qualify for the LCS, they still had some success participating in some competitions, obtaining 1st place in MOBAFire Challenger Series and 1st place in NESL Pro Series Season 7 , among others.
Later on, he competed in the League of Legends College Championship 2017 with Carnegie Mellon University, making it to the semifinals. Eventually he leaved the team when he graduated from CMU as an Electrical and Computer Engineer, and then getting a job at Amazon, in the AWS team. While in Amazon, he also competed in AHGL LoL Spring 2018 (an intercompany charity tournament), and obtained 2nd place with his team.
Currently, he works as a Software Engineer at Google, and occasionally streams LoL or other games in Twitch. While at Google, he competes with Google Wild Sorcerers in CEA.
Trivia[edit]
- He is the brother of Ian "TreeEskimo" Glinsman.
- MegaZero took Latin in High School.
- MegaZero was ranked in the top 5 professional players of Bloodline Champions.
- MegaZero is a part of his university Foosball club and as such, is extremely talented at it.
- He didn't know the full effects of
Renekton's passive until week 8 of the NA LCS. - Known for his 1v1 using bruiser champions.
- Winner of Leagupedia's Best Riven NA Tournament.
- Back in 2013, he played a best of 3 series as a sub for Curse Academy vs Cloud9, while he was an official sub for Cloud9.
- According to former teammate Ecco, Team MRN stood for "Mega's Riven's Nasty".
- He didn't know Olaf's ult disabled CC until summer promotion was over.
- His name is derived from the Mega Man series. Taking "Mega" and adding it to his favorite character "Zero".
Tournament Results[edit]
This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
| MegaZero 1v1 Tournament Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Pl | Event | Prize | Team | Last Result |
| 2014-09-14 | 12 - 18 | Alienware Fall Brawl 1v1 Tournament | |||
| 2013-10-13 | 5 - 6 | Best Lee Sin NA Tournament | 0 : 2 FeedOn | ||
| 2013-05-05 | 1 | Best Riven NA Tournament | 3 : 2 Aniratak | ||
Media[edit]
Images[edit]
MRN MegaZero, NA LCS 2013 Spring
CMU MegaZero, 2017 College Championship
Redirects
The following pages redirect here:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Marn Twitter Update twitter.com
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Marn Twitter Post twitter.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Marn Twitter update twitter.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Hai's Twitter post regarding Megazero Sub twitter.com
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 compLexity releases their League of Legends roster complexitygaming.com
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Changes to coL.LoL; Nickwu Departs, MegaZero Enters complexitygaming.com
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 New TSM Substitute: MegaZero newsoflegends.com
- ↑ Former Member of Team Marn, MegaZero (BestRivenNA), AMA reddit.com
