During this year’s Super Smash Bros. Invitational, the champion of the invitational, ZeRo (also known as Gonzalo Barrios), was wearing a scarf.

Don’t you think that’s a strange thing to wear during the summer? After the first Super Smash Bros. Invitational held in 2014, ZeRo, who also won the tournament, explained to his followers on Twitter that the scarf represents his mom, family, and Chile, his country:

https://twitter.com/zerowondering/status/476601487087239168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

This year during the Nintendo Power Podcast, ZeRO further elaborated on the backstory of the scarf, emphasizing to listeners that they should never forget where we came from.

I started traveling around 2006 (…) Chile is a very cold country, sometimes it is very hot but it is generally a “winter” country and my mother gave me a scarf. A white scarf, in fact the scarf is quite basic. It’s white, simple, old, nothing special, but she gave me this scarf. My family is very dysfunctional. My father is not part of the family, many of my family members have already died so my family, in large part, is just my mother, I have a family that is somewhat tragic, if you want to put it that way. Obviously, I have a lot of affection for that only member of the family that I have left (…) I think it’s important to remember where you come from, at least (…) so basically, my mother gave me this scarf when I started traveling to tournaments for the first time time.

What do you think of this touching story? Let us know in the comments.