Gonzalo “ZeRo” Barrios has had a rough 2016. After winning Genesis 3 in January, a finger injury took him out of the game for months. He came back and find his tournament main had been nerfed and that the meta was in total flux.

But despite a few second place finishes at recent majors, ZeRo is coming into EVO 2016 ready to defend his title. Just before EVO kicked off, ZeRo stopped to chat with theScore sports' Daniel Rosen about Diddy Kong’s place in the meta, his secret EVO training regimen and the Cinderella story he’s writing about his comeback.

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