Smasher:Hyuga

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For the American smasher formerly known as "Hyuga", see Smasher:Dr. Z.
Hyuga "Huggies, Rey de Plata"
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Character info
Brawl main Toon Link
Other Brawl character Meta Knight
Smash 4 main Toon Link
Other Smash 4 characters Diddy Kong, Cloud
Ultimate main Toon Link
Other Ultimate character Snake
Team info
Former sponsor(s) VGBootCamp
Former crews Haven eSports, Smash Factor, ITH
Rankings and results info
Most recent ranking Super Smash Bros. 4 Mexico City Power Rankings: 3rd
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Mexican Power Rankings: 33rd
Personal info
Real name Cristian Medina
Birth date (age 31)
Location Estado de México, Mexico Mexico

Hyuga (pronounced "he-you-ga") is a Mexican smasher who mains Toon Link in Brawl, Smash 4, and Ultimate. He is known as one of the best Brawl Toon Link players in the world along with MJG. In Smash 4, he is considered to be one of the best Toon Link players in the world along with Sigma and Ri-ma, and was widely considered to be the best Smash 4 Toon Link player in the world prior to his hiatus, with results many other Toon Link players have yet to match such as 9th at GENESIS 3, 5th at CEO 2016, and 25th at EVO 2016, and has wins over top players such as Nairo, Ally, MkLeo, ESAM, Kirihara, Zinoto, ANTi, and falln, as well as having very close sets against top players such as Larry Lurr and Tweek. He is currently ranked 3rd on the Mexico City Power Rankings and was formerly ranked 22nd on the Panda Global Rankings v2.

Tournament history[edit]

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Smash 4[edit]

As one of the most renowned players in Mexico since the Brawl days, he quickly gained notoriety shortly after the launch of Smash 4 by winning various tournaments nationwide, both online and offline by using his old Brawl main.

He stayed unbeaten for the rest of 2014, until he finally lost a local tournament to Leo. During early 2015, Hyuga got 2nd place at The Arena, the first Mexican Smash 4 major, losing to Leo at both Winner's Finals and Grand Finals and sparking a strong competitive rivalry which would continue through nowadays. Since then, he has consistently placed 2nd at every national major he has gone to, only ever dropping sets to Leo (typically at both Winner's Finals and Grand Finals), except for Smash Factor 4, Summer Warfare, Thunderstruck and True Combo, where he was beaten in Loser's Finals by Mr. R, Javi, Wonf and Vinnie, respectively.

On November 2015, at CGX, another Mexican major held at Monterrey City, Hyuga was the first player to take a set from Leo since the start of 2015, when he beat him 3-2 in Winner's Finals; however, Leo would face Hyuga again at Grand Finals, resetting the bracket, forcing a second set and ultimately taking yet another tournament from Hyuga in the closest set they have ever had (a score of 3-2, in favor of Leo).

On January 2016, at GENESIS 3, Hyuga took a set from Nairo, beating him 2-0 and sending him to the losers bracket. He placed 9th in singles and 7th in doubles with Dabuz as his partner.

He had a very notable performance at CEO 2016. He eliminated Nairo from the tournament to advance into top 16. He then defeated ScAtt, making a reverse 3-0 comeback after being down 2 games. He went on to 3-0 NAKAT and False before losing to Zinoto 1-3, placing 5th.

After a long hiatus from Smash 4 since the incident at EVO 2016 (placing 25th at singles), he returned to play Smash 4, with his first tournament appearance being Hail VIII: The Return of the Heroe of the Wind, placing 1st in singles and doubles with BryanZ. After that he continued to attend locals and regional tournaments in his region, with top 8 at many of them, such as 2nd at Tijuana at War and 4th at The Arena 2017 and Smash Factor Toluca. At Smash Factor 6, Hyuga made it to round one of pools and qualified for top 128. However, he lost to Rox 2-0, was sent to losers bracket, and had to face Anti to get into top 32. He lost 2-1 against him, placing 33rd, which marks as Hyuga's lowest tournament placing since EVO 2016.

Tournament placings[edit]

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 Placement 2v2 Placement Partner
Smash Factor 2013 July 19th-21st, 2013 4th
Smash Factor 3 August 1st-3rd, 2014 4th

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Smash Factor 4 July 24th-26th, 2015 3rd 2nd Richi
Smash @ Tier3 - Vol. 2 August 23rd, 2015 2nd 2nd raM
Smash @ Tier3 - Vol. 3 September 26th, 2015 2nd
Smash Pendiente II October 7th, 2015 1st
Thunderstruck 3 October 16th-18th, 2015 3rd
Smash Pendiente IV October 21st, 2015 1st
Smash @ Tier3 - Vol. 4 October 24th, 2015 2nd 2nd Serge
True Combo November 1st, 2015 3rd
Smash Pendiente VI November 4th, 2015 2nd
Smash Pendiente VIII November 18th, 2015 3rd
Smash Pendiente IX November 25th, 2015 1st
Smash @ Tier3 - Vol. 5 November 28th, 2015 3rd
Smash Pendiente X December 2nd, 2015 1st
Smash Pendiente XI December 9th, 2015 1st 2nd Richi
Smash Pendiente XII December 16th, 2015 2nd 2nd BryanZZ
TNT December 21st, 2015 2nd
Smash Pendiente XIII December 23rd, 2015 1st 1st Richi
Smash Pendiente XIV January 7th, 2016 2nd 2nd MkLeo
Time To Tip The Scales January 9th, 2016 2nd
GENESIS 3 January 15th-17th, 2016 9th 7th Dabuz
Smash Pendiente XVI January 21st, 2016 1st 2nd Richi
Smash Pendiente XVII January 28th, 2016 2nd 2nd Richi
Smash Pendiente XVIII February 4th, 2016 3rd 2nd Richi
TGC 6 February 6th, 2016 Top 8 1st Dabuz
Smash Pendiente XXI February 25th, 2016 1st
Smash Haven 29 March 3rd, 2016 2nd
Shots Fired 2 March 5th-6th, 2016 13th
S@X 140 March 8th, 2016 1st
Smash Haven 30 March 10th, 2016 1st
Do or DI March 11th-13th, 2016 4th 1st ANTi
S@X 141 March 15th, 2016 3rd
Ignition #22 March 16th, 2016 1st
Midwest Mayhem March 19th, 2016 4th 3rd Mr.R
The Arena 2016 March 25th-27th, 2016 2nd ? ?
Pound 2016 April 2nd-3rd, 2016 9th 3rd Dabuz
ConComics 2016 April 16th-17th, 2016 2nd
Hail Smash III May 28th-29th, 2016 3rd
2GGT: Mexico Saga June 4th, 2016 4th 4th Zan
Shockwave 85 June 8th, 2016 1st
Shockwave 86 June 15th, 2016 2nd
Low Tier City 4 June 18th-19th, 2016 3rd 5th Mook
Shockwave 87 June 22nd, 2016 1st 1st Mook
CEO 2016 June 24th-26th, 2016 5th 7th Dabuz
Ignition #38 July 6th, 2016 1st
Midwest Mayhem 4 July 9th, 2016 2nd 1st Ally
EVO 2016 July 15th-17th, 2016 25th
Hail Smash VIII: The Return of the Heroe of the Wind January 14th, 2017 1st 1st BryanZZ
The Middle 1 January 18th, 2017 2nd
Smash Pendiente 68 January 19th, 2017 1st 2nd Cloudy
The Middle 2 January 25th, 2017 1st
Smash Pendiente 69 January 26th, 2017 5th
Tijuana at War February 25th-26th, 2017 2nd 1st Wonf
Smash Pendiente 76 March 16th, 2017 5th 1st CloudY
Smash Pendiente 77 March 23rd, 2017 1st 2nd CloudY
The Arena 2017 April 8th-9th, 2017 4th 4th BryanZZ
Smash Factor Toluca April 29th-30th, 2017 4th
Smash Pendiente 82 May 11th, 2017 3rd 3rd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 83 May 18th, 2017 7th 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 85 June 1st, 2017 1st
Smash Pendiente 86 June 8th, 2017 2nd 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 87 June 15th, 2017 1st 2nd BryanZZ
Hail Smash IX June 24th, 2017 2nd
Smash Pendiente 89 June 29th, 2017 4th 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 90 July 6th, 2017 4th 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 91 July 13th, 2017 5th
Smash Pendiente 92 July 20th, 2017 2nd 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 93 July 27th, 2017 7th 1st BryanZZ
Smash Factor 6 August 4th-6th, 2017 33rd 5th BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 102 October 5th-6th, 2017 1st 2nd Salva
Smash Pendiente 106 November 2nd, 2017 2nd 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 112 December 14th, 2017 9th 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 113 December 21st, 2017 9th 3rd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 114 December 28th, 2017 2nd 2nd BryanZZ
Smash Pendiente 115 January 4th, 2018 4th 5th Richy
Smash Pendiente 116 January 11th, 2018 2nd 3rd Richi
Smash Pendiente 117 January 18th, 2018 1st 1st Captain Levi
Smash Pendiente 118 January 25th, 2018 5th 5th Richi
Smash Fest 3 January 27th, 2018 9th 2nd BryanZ
Smash Pendiente 119 February 1st, 2018 5th 2nd Captain Levi
Smash Pendiente 121 February 15th, 2018 7th
Warlock Fridays: Fabz Saga February 17th, 2018 2nd 1st BryanZZ
OVA 6 "The P.L.U.R. 2" February 25th, 2018 5th 3rd BryanZZ
Mexcombat April 1st, 2018 5th
Smash Factor 7 July 20th-22nd, 2018 49th 4th BryanZZ

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Tournament Date 1v1 placement 2v2 placement Partner
Comeback Tournaments - Choose your character December 15th, 2018 1st 1st BryanZ
Smash Mania 2 December 21st, 2018 2nd
OVA IX December 30th, 2018 3rd
Catedral 2019 January 12th-13th, 2019 3rd 1st Cloudy
OVA X January 20th, 2019 3rd
Smash Fest Ultimate January 26th-27th, 2019 3rd 3rd BryanZ
Warlock Fighters: Mushroom Kingdom Saga March 2nd, 2019 3rd 3rd BryanZ
Ragnarok April 20th-21st, 2019 5th 4th BryanZ
Encuentro Mítico June 8th-9th, 2019 5th
WeTecThose 9 June 15th-16th, 2019 5th 1st Javi
Smash Factor 8 July 26th-28th, 2019 9th 7th BryanZ
Tec In Place 2 October 12th-13th, 2019 5th 3rd Chag
Mexican Gaming Championship October 19th, 2019 5th
Smash Fest to the Sky January 18th-19th, 2020 9th 9th BryanZ
Smash Vertex February 6th-9th, 2020 17th 5th Blade
ChillHouse February 16th, 2020 4th
RFTV DOJO - LA DESPEDIDA: Thanks For Playing March 14th, 2020 5th 3rd MkBryanZ
Mazer Gaming Gives BackOnline May 15th, 2020 65th (DQ)
Warlock in The Multiverse of Hex August 7th, 2021 9th

Sexual assault allegations[edit]

At EVO 2016, Hyuga lost his sponsorship with VGBootCamp due to allegations of sexual assault towards a fellow smasher and streamer VikkiKitty.[1][2] In response, it was later announced that Hyuga was banned from taking part in any American tournaments for a full year, with both the Brazilian and Australian tournament scenes also banning him.[3] Hyuga wrote a response explaining his side of the story, adding that he would be retiring from competitive Smash.[4] He later announced that he and Vikki had discussed the incident, and that he would consider returning to Smash in the future, though he would still accept all consequences and punishment for his actions.[5]

In October 2016, Hyuga declared his comeback in the Smash 4 competitive scene in January 2017, which occurred at Hail Smash VIII: The Return of the Hero of the Wind. He also began tweeting again after several months of inactivity. Ultimately, following EVO 2017, his ban has since been lifted.

Hyuga became a heated controversial topic again in late October 2017 when discussions of who should be flown out to 2GGC: MkLeo Saga began. Some people were supportive of Hyuga attending more events in the U.S. for reasons such as that he already served a one year ban, he has had rehab since then, he should be forgiven when also the victim has forgiven him, and he has already attended multiple tournaments normally since his hiatus. Other people were not supportive, for reasons such as that the one year ban was just a suggestion and not a concrete rule, someone capable of sexual assault is not to be trusted at future public events, people would feel unsafe around him and not attend events with him, and he was already lucky enough to not get legal charges against him. 2GGaming made a statement on October 22nd, 2017 that their Hyuga suspension is still active for them until further notice, in the interest of wanting a safe environment.[6] Smash United controversially announced on October 24th, 2017 that Hyuga would not be allowed to attend the upcoming Clutch City Clash 2 mere days before the event, after Hyuga already checked beforehand if it was okay to come and was already planning to fly over there.[7]

Trivia[edit]

  • At CEO 2016, Hyuga entered the top 8 wrestling ring dressed as El Santo, the famous luchador. [1] He also used an in-game tag bearing his name.
  • Hyuga was the second non-US member of the VGBootCamp crew (though he lost his sponsorship). The first was aMSa.
  • Along with KEN and Taiheita, Hyuga is one of the three players on the Panda Global Rankings v2 not to attend 2GGC: Civil War.

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