Smash Bros. Player Sexually Assaults Female Competitor at Evo, is Dropped by Team and Sponsor
Image via SmashboardsAt the annual Evo fighting game tournament this past weekend, competitive Super Smash Bros. player Cristian “Hyuga” Medina (above, right) sexually assaulted another Smash Bros. competitor and commentator, Victoria “VikkiKitty” Perez. As a result, Medina’s sponsor and team VGBootCamp ended their relationship with him.
The incident occurred late Saturday night/early Sunday morning. Perez shared a statement about the events on Twitter. She wrote that Medina was drunk and alone, so her boyfriend decided to let him stay in their hotel room for the night.
“I fell asleep next my boyfriend on the bed and I woke up to Cristian in between my boyfriend and I, rubbing against me and sliding his hands up my shirt and another down my pants,” Perez wrote. She continued:
I told him to leave me alone and to get back on the floor, repeatedly. He’s drunk and doesn’t get off me so I say it even LOUDER until someone in my room woke up to see what was going on. That person, Stefan, gets up and tells me immediately to sleep on the other bed where he was on and I changed beds. 15 minutes pass and I have still not fallen back asleep before Hyuga slides between the person I was on the bed with and tries to do it once again before Nick Riddle woke up and kicked him out of the room. Again, this has never happened to me and I was frightened so after they kicked him out I started to break down in tears. Did my “friend” actually attempt doing this to me? Why wouldn’t he leave me alone? What if I was alone? We filed a police report.
Medina’s actions were brought to the attention of his sponsor, VGBootCamp. They decided to end their sponsorship, writing the following: