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Several weeks after leaving his previous organization, Team Liquid, top Super Smash Bros. for Wii U player Nairoby Nairo Quezada has joined multi-gaming organization NRG Esports. The deal with NRG comes after the team actively polled and communicated with the Smash community in search of a player to represent its organization.Nairo represents a big step forward for NRG into the fighting game arena, NRG chairman and Sacramento Kings co-owner Andy Miller tells ESPN.com. He is a carefully chosen first player that we feel will build the foundation for NRGs fighting game presence for years to come. He is an amazing competitor and a huge personality, so he should fit right in with the NRG family.Nairo initially left Team Liquid on Aug. 16 and instantly became one of the most desired free-agents in the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U market. Nairo says his desire to leave Liquid came after he felt that Liquid wasnt going in the direction that he thought his career should go.As I learned more about esports, I thought that maybe I could find a team that suited me as a player a bit better, Nairo told ESPN.com about ending his deal with Team Liquid. So after my contract ended, my manager sent out some notices to other organizations. We started by looking at teams who really functioned as one true unit, and not just as teams playing different games who wore the same banner. I wanted teammates.Over the past year and a half, hes had top eight finishes at some of the biggest tournaments in the world, and was responsible for ending Gonzalo ZeRo Barrioss 56-tournament winning streak last October. Nairo also has a popular stream on Twitch, something that is rare among top players.He says that NRG wasnt the only organization to approach him, and that he had something in the works with another team before NRG contacted him. While Nairo did not confirm which team, its been speculated by some of the communitys most prominent members that Nairo was set to join Luminosity Gaming.[Joining NRG] was half luck honestly, he says. I already had a deal in place. A contract was supposed to be sent over from another organization, but travel plans for the teams head had caused a few delays. In the end, there were three organizations I was really leaning towards. What sold me on NRG was the idea that theyre not looking to pick up a million players. They want to go into a few scenes, find people who they think have the passion to bring esports to the next level and put them into the same family.Nairo says that after joining NRG, he hopes to continue to improve and win more. He says that prior to his recent first place at major event Super Smash Con, his mentality was in the dumps. But that flipped when he won Super Smash Con:Winning that tournament became extremely important to me, he says. Immediately I started playing harder, thinking faster than my opponents again, and streaming with a better attitude. I feel more like myself, which might surprise all the people who will continue sleeping on me.Nairo is NRGs first fighting game player and will join the team after Miller actively went on both his personal and company Twitter, as well as in an interview with the Video Game Bang podcast, to seek insight from the community as to which free agents were worth signing. Amid his pursuit, Nairo became a free agent, with Miller and crew working out a deal with the player.Prior to expanding to Smash Bros., NRG founded League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Overwatch teams; the squad purchased Team Coasts League Championship Series spot in Nov. 2015 for a reported $1.4 million, and acquired Counter-Strike and Overwatch teams through 2016.The team is best known for its line of investors, which include Sacramento Kings co-owners, former Apple iAD chief Miller and 24 Hour Fitness founder Mark Mastrov, as well as former Los Angeles Lakers and NBA Hall of Fame center Shaquille ONeal, former New York Yankees shortstop Alex Rodriguez, and former Chicago White Sox shortstop Jimmy Rollins. Wholesale Nike Shox Retro . Terms of the deal were not immediately available. The 26-year-old finished last season with Clevelands Triple-A affiliate in Columbus after signing with the Indians in August. Nike Shox Outlet . 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MELBOURNE, Fla. -- When Melbourne Central Catholic trailed by 21 points early in the second quarter of a state quarterfinal matchup, players were reminded that there was still a lot of football left to play.Turns out, there was more than anyone envisioned.It took a Florida state-record nine overtimes, but the Hustlers beat Clearwater Central Catholic 69-62 on Friday night -- after the teams combined for a staggering 89 points after regulation.The win sent the Hustlers into this weekends state Class 3A semifinals.Im most excited for our kids and our coaches, to be able to experience this, Melbourne Central Catholic coach Stacy Sizemore said Sunday. We have about six or seven seniors that play and the rest are sophomores and juniors.Joaquin Collazos touchdown run in the fourth quarter pulled Melbourne Central Catholic into a 21-21 tie.Little did anyone know, the teams were just getting started.Both teams stopped the other in the first and fifth overtimes. In the eighth overtime, Clearwater Central Catholic reached the end zone but missed the extra point. And when Melbourne Central Catholic answered with a touchdown, the Hustlers had a chance to win right there -- only to see their own point-after try get blocked, extending the game a little more. Theres no rule in Florida mandating that teams try a 2-point conversion after a certain number of overtimes.ddddddddddddWe even threw two picks in overtime, Sizemore said.The Hustlers overcame it all, scoring again in the ninth overtime when Collazo rushed in for the third time. On the ensuing Clearwater Central Catholic possession, the Hustlers got a fourth-down stop at the 1 to -- finally -- end the game. Sizemore didnt even know what time the game ended, figuring it was somewhere around 11:30 p.m. and needed nearly 300 snaps to complete.Craziest game I ever played in, Clearwater Central Catholics Jerquan Newton wrote on Twitter, adding in a subsequent post that his teammates should never be ashamed of what happened.We all fought hard, Newton wrote.Players from both sides were helping each other to their feet as many cramped during the overtime sessions.Thats what high school football is about, those kind of memories, Sizemore said. Good, bad or indifferent, its about the memories.Sizemore said for the most part, his team -- which includes some two-way players -- got out of the game fairly healthy. And at 6 a.m. Monday, they would be back at work with some weightlifting before school starts.Theyre excited to keep going, Sizemore said. ' ' '