Guilty Gear Player Wins Match During Earthquake

Fighting games are tough even in the best of conditions, but what about competing in one during an earthquake?

Friday night, the Los Angeles area was hit by a tremor that, while not huge, was enough to interrupt an important match during a Guilty Gear Strive exhibition between Japan and the United States.

Reynald Tacsuan, an Evo champion with roots in the King of Fighters series, found himself battling not only his opponent but also Mother Nature herself when the 4.3 magnitude earthquake shook his Long Beach home, located just a few miles from the epicenter near Carson, California. And the whole thing was caught live on stream (language warning).

“Oh shit, there’s an earthquake?” Tacsuan asks in the clip above, his webcam visibly shaking. He crouches out of view as someone offscreen giggles, eventually answering his own question: “Oh my, there’s a fuckin’ earthquake!”

Despite these distractions, Tacsuan still managed to take the round against his Japanese opponent, fellow veteran Kei “BNBBN” Komada.

“Dude, for real?” Tacsuan said as the shaking subsided. “I just won that during a fuckin’ earthquake! Ain’t nothin’ stoppin’ me right now. Fuck that earthquake!”

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