Smash pro Ally retires after admitting to lying about dating 16-year-old TischphotosProfessional Super Smash Bros. player Elliot \u2018Ally\u2019 Carroza-Oyarce has announced his retirement, after confessing he lied about having a relationship with fellow pro player Zack \u2018CaptainZack\u2019 Lauth, now 17, which he previously denied. Ally, who has been competing in fighting games since as early as 2010, apologized for not earlier admitting to the relationship, claiming he was \u201creally scared.\u201d Concluding his statement on July 3, the pro player said: \u201cBecause I feel like it\u2019s the right thing to do, I am going to retire from Smash. Sorry to everyone I disappointed. Sorry for the wait, I only got home yesterday night from CEO. Here are both my statements for everything that I had to address. I won’t be active on Twitter and I’m retiring from Smash as of now. I’m extremely afraid but it has to be done. I’m really fucking sorry to everyone. pic.twitter.com\/goxFbpRo3T \u2014 Ally (@AllyUltimate) July 4, 2019 While the age difference has split opinion in the fighting game community, there is no suggestion that the relationship was illegal, with the age of consent being 16 in Ally\u2019s native Canada, as well as Zack\u2019s home state of Louisiana. Initial claims about the secret relationship Accusations against Ally first came to light on March 22, 2019, when another pro player, Tamim \u2018tamim\u2019 Omary posted in a since-deleted Tweet: \u201cHey @AllyUltimate how\u2019s the minor you\u2019re dating doing?\u201d After identifying this \u2018minor\u2019 as CaptainZack, Zack himself apparently deleted Tamim\u2019s account which he somehow had access to, but Tamim continued on another account called \u2018@tamimexposing\u2019, where he posted a series of Discord messages where Ally says \u2018he started caring for (Zack) and liked him back\u2019. 500On March 23, Zack claimed that no sexual relationship had taken place between himself and Ally, stating \u201cnothing ever happened even close to that\u201d, when asked if they had slept together. However, on June 29, CaptainZack tweeted an image of himself holding a note, on which he had scribbled: \u201cTamim was telling the truth\u201d. 500Following Ally\u2019s retirement announcement, and after a number of days of silence on social media, Zack asked for the \u201csituation\u201d to never be brought up to him again, saying it had \u201cbeen taken care of.\u201d Community reacts to Ally\u2019s admission and retirement There has been a mixed response to the situation within the Smash community. Some have pointed to the fact that, legally speaking, Zack was above the age of consent in his home state of Louisiana, as well as Ally\u2019s native Canada, meaning even if it was a sexual relationship (which Zack claimed it was not), it was not illegal. What does this have to with Smash?? Why do Smashers care about his relationship with his ex?? Or Zack?? Stop calling this pedophilia when it isnt. You might not like the idea of them “”dating”” but it’s not illegal or against the rules. Y’all are silly. https:\/\/t.co\/6oWjR5t9uC \u2014 Meru \/ \u30e1\u30eb (@MeruSensei) July 4, 2019 However, others argue that irrespective of any legal argument, the relationship is still problematic, given the disparity in ages and the position that Ally holds within the Smash community. Tempo Storm pro player Gonzalo \u2018ZeRo\u2019 Barrios called it a \u201cterrible\u201d day for the Smash scene, and that his friendship with Ally \u201cdoesn\u2019t excuse terrible acts.\u201d I’m really sad tonight. Today has terrible for the Smash scene, mutiple bad things happened. Friendship doesn’t excuse terrible acts. I hope Ally seeks rehabilitation at the least. I just want to encourage positivity within the scene, despite today being a day of darkness. \u2014 Tempo ZeRo (@zerowondering) July 4, 2019 Tamim, the pro player who initially aired the allegations against Ally, posted an apology on July 4 for how he \u201chandled\u201d the situation: \u201cI know I will never handle a situation like this again as I\u2019ve definitely learned and grown from this experience,\u201d he explains. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stand seeing my friend at the time, in a situation where I felt like my protests to him had no impact.\u201d \u201cI know I was stupid and I am completely sorry for outing the victim, as I have apologized to him many, many times,\u201d Tamim continued. \u201cI know there is no justifying it either, but in the situation I was in at the time, I felt like it was the only other option.\u201d Ally was also caught up in another controversy on July 3, after 15-year-old aspiring player Bocchi beat him in a match, and backlash from some fans almost drove her to retirement. The hate was so severe that she said \u201cI literally would have rather lost that set and have done nothing.\u201d Bocchi added being a teenage-girl \u201cin an extremely male dominated community\u201d is the \u201cworst\u201d and \u201cvery weird,\u201d and confirmed she would take a break from competing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash pro Ally retires after admitting to lying about dating 16-year-old TischphotosProfessional Super Smash Bros. player Elliot \u2018Ally\u2019 Carroza-Oyarce has announced his retirement, after confessing he lied about having a relationship with fellow pro player Zack \u2018CaptainZack\u2019 Lauth, now 17, which he previously denied. Ally, who has been competing in fighting games since as early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}