MegaZero
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| Name | Patrick Glinsman | ||||||||||||||
| Country of Birth |  United States | ||||||||||||||
| Birthday | September 29, 1994 (age 24) | ||||||||||||||
| Residency | North America | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Top Laner | ||||||||||||||
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| Soloqueue IDs | MegaMadLife, Sunfire Top Only | ||||||||||||||
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Patrick "MegaZero" Glinsman was previously the top laner for Alexa Gank Mid.
Biography
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.[1] 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.
Trivia
- 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
- This table shows up to the 10 most recent results. For complete results, click here.
Interviews
- 2014
- 2013
- February 17 - Interview with TSM Megazero: “I think eSports needs another couple years to be a viable living style” with News of Legends
- March 28 - Interview with MegaZero on the perception of eSports (video) with shredder23518
- January 15 - Hey I'm MegaZero from Team MRN, AMA!! with Reddit
- February 14 - Team MRN's MegaZero talks Digni-loss LCS Week 2, Day 1 (video) with Leaguepedia
- February 16 - MegaZero talks about the new team house, moving to LA and LCS W2 (video) with GameSpot
- February 27 - League of Legends LCS WK4 - MegaZero - Curse vs. MRN (video) with MachinimaVS
- March 2 - MegaZero responds to HotshotGG's 1v1 claims (video) with GameSpot
- March 2 - MegaZero LCS Week 4 Interview (video) with Leaguepedia
- March 16 - MegaZero talks about his amazing play and Nientonsoh as a sub (video) with GameSpot
- March 23 - Interview with Team MRN's Top Lane, Megazero with Team Dignitas
- March 31 - MegaZero and Nientonsoh talk about their LCS Week 7 Performance (video) with GameSpot
- March 31 - MegaZero vs KiwiKid: Head to Head at the LCS (video) with GameSpot
- April 13 - MegaZero talks about going big against CLG (video) with GameSpot
- April 16 - Interview with Megazero: "ClakeyD makes sure you're asleep before he takes your food." with Team Dignitas
- April 19 - Megazero and Nientonsoh talk about their intense match with CLG (video) with GameSpot
- April 20 - LCS Week 10 - MRN MegaZero "Team morale is extremely important." (video) with Leaguepedia
- April 28 - MegaZero talks about the LCS Playoffs thus far on Day 2 (video) with GameSpot
- May 2 - Former Member of Team Marn, MegaZero (BestRivenNA), AMA with Reddit
- May 14 - What's Next: Megazero (video) with State of the League
- June 18 - Rift Talk #1 - Patrick "MegaZero" Glinsman (video) with Rift Talk
- June 22 - compLexity Lautemortis Interviews MegaZero (video) with compLexity
- June 29 - MLG Anaheim CoL MegaZero Interview (video) with Cyber Sports Network
- August 31 - Megazero shares his thoughts after the compLexity and TBD Match (video) with GameSpot
- August 31 - PAX Prime 2013 CoL MegaZero - "The game [was] snowballing out of control with objective security." (video) with Leaguepedia
- September 2 - Lautemortis and Megazero discuss their Challenger Tournament (video) with GameSpot
- September 6 - Interview with Megazero on winning the PAX Spring Promotion Qualifier with Team Dignitas
- September 17 - Lautemortis and Megazero on Visiting the World's Studio (video) with onGamers
Gallery
MegaZero
MegaZero
Megazero & CMU eSports
CMU eSports at Riot Games
Megazero and Sjokz
MRN MegaZero 2013 Spring
External Links
- MegaZero's Irelia Guide
- New TSM Substitute: MegaZero
- DreamHack Summer 2011 Bloodline Champions Grand Finals
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