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Adrien Nougaret (French pronunciation:[adʁijɛ̃nuɡaʁe]; born 1 March 1990), best known under his pseudonym ZeratoR, is a French video game online streamer, event organizer and esports commentator.[2]
Biography
Youth
Nougaret was born in Montpellier on 1 March 1990[3]. His father is a lawyer and his mother is the director of a daycare.[4] He has a brother and two sisters[4]. He is a French citizen and tax resident.
Career
ZeratoR has a large following on Twitch and YouTube where he streams a variety of video games. He regularly hosts esports events in France, notably his annual multi-game LAN event ZLAN [fr]. He is also known for the TrackMania competition ZrT TrackMania Cup [fr], which he organized. Since 2023, the cup has been replaced by a similar competition called Ascension, which is held in arenas in multiple French cities[5] and focuses on a different game each year, beginning with Trackmania for the 2023 edition.[6]
Since 2016, ZeratoR organizes and livestreams the annual charity project Z Event. The last edition in september 2025 resulted in donations of 16.2 million euros to 8 associations ; some editions received French president Emmanuel Macron's support and congratulations.[7]
Other ventures
Esports
ZeratoR is the president of the gaming publication and Esports team Mandatory [fr].[8] Before the sites creation in 2020, Nougaret had been personally sponsoring various esports teams.
Game Development
In 2016, Nougaret founded a video games development studio named Unexpected.[9]
The studio's first game, dWARf, was a commercial failure, but Nougaret considered it a "personnal success" for himself and the studio's team.[10] The game's online servers were shut down 4 months after the game's release due to a lack of players.[11]
In September 2020, the studio's third game, titled As Far As The Eye released to mild commercial success, financing the studio's operations for the next 2 years.[12]
