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Oh boy, ladies and gentlemen, we've all been waiting and now
Now it's time for the World Championships here in Fort Worth, Texas, where at what some
would call the Monkey Moon Arena, aka Dickies, and a whole week of rock league action is
about to begin with 20 teams vying for that single crown at the end.
And a chunk, of course, at that $1.2 million price pool.
Welcome in, I'm Leaf, and if you've watched Rock League before, you know what I'm about
to do.
I'm down here getting a vibe check with all the coaches and the players throughout
the entire weekend.
And this entire week is something special.
We've got our threes, we've got our ones, but this week, we've got twos as well.
And I think we all know who's going to win that.
But my job here right now is done, we've got a lot to get through, so let's send you off
to the other guys and start the World Championships.
We're probably, I think, one of the best teams in North America.
As long as we go and do it super confident and we're not looking down on any of our
opponents, I think that's what matters the most.
The feeling after qualifying was the best feeling ever.
We have nothing to lose.
Just give it all and be confident all the time
so we can do a lot of work here.
For me, the Worlds, one of the biggest that there is,
both in the Rocket and any sport,
it doesn't depend on the confidence that we have built
in the training days before the competition.
I've been to a lot of worlds.
I've won worlds.
I haven't lost passion at all.
I don't care about peeking or hitting cliffs.
I just want to be like the support of teammate.
I just want us to show that we can win.
Last time was my first OLCS LAN victory ever.
This time I'm even more used to it
and more dangerous than ever.
I think this whole championship is,
how things is to win.
I mean every professional player wants to be a world champion.
I think that all I can prove that nothing is impossible.
Everyone here like has the chance of winning.
If there's one thing I want to prove out of the world
is that the win against NRG wasn't just a fluke.
You got to dream big, you know?
I mean, full-time shoot means a lot.
You got to put everything aside that you did wrong
some of the season, during the season,
and you're just going to put your best for full-time.
Rocket League fans around the world, welcome to Fort Worth Texas for the 2026 Rocket League
world championship. We are here for the biggest week of the
Rocket League year. So much competition of the course of
the last 365 days. Fun fact from a friend in my discord crew
March out with you 729 days, 16 hours and 19 minutes since
BDS held the trophy in this building. We are six days away
from having another team place that trophy. BDS not here.
So we'll be a different team this time. It's gonna be fun.
We have the greatest players in the world, the greatest
teams in the world and the greatest talent in the world
here. Hey, you're here too. I am here. Oh, God, guys, come on. We can look at the room
teammates earlier. How are you doing? Great man. Listen, it's an honor to be here once
again. Third World Championship here. I think he's bringing up monkey moves come out on
top two times on the road by Tom. Listen, he's trying to make it back to another World
Championship grand final, but a lot of competition here is going to be good. I said, I said
BDS isn't in the building, but monkey means in the building, exotics in the building,
Jollies in the building, Seiko's in the building,
Excher's in the building.
We got so many world people that have won the trophy
in this building here trying to compete to do it again.
It's gonna be a fantastic week of Rocket League.
If you're just now joining us,
you did pick genuinely the best time
to start watching Rocket League,
but it's been a long road to get here, folks.
All the way back, November 14th,
we started this season off.
We had the kickoff weekend in Copenhagen.
That was fantastic.
Fun that game.
You're up an extra spot at this tournament.
You'll see that on our list of teams
a little bit later on, but we went to Boston.
We went to Paris Gibbs that we've,
who are the world trying to find
who are the best at Rockland?
Oh, absolutely.
And we have the mates come out of nowhere
to win the Boston Major.
Three of these players, all three of them
have never been to a grand finals before
and they show up and put on the best offensive performance
in the history of a final.
Nass led the charge and the gentle mates
were crown champions in Boston.
Yeah, basically it took it in turns to Pete,
which was quite exciting.
and Oskie really making sure that he pulled his team all the way there, then Nass obviously in that grand final
with the arching system all the way throughout and then in Paris, the French got it done on home soil.
The blue wall were absolutely erupting in the L'Annefense arena and you know having finally that trophy lifted in front of a home crowd.
It must have been an incredible moment for those boys but still obviously this one is the one that properly got their eyes set on.
They are defending major champions and they have never looked better coming into a world championship.
Can Karmicor get it done again? A little bit of a hiccup there in off RLCS tournaments in between.
Harrison now but still you expect them to be back in form and there's more teams than ever before
here competing for the title of world champion. Coming from all over the globe from Sub-Saharan
Africa, from the Middle East, North Africa, from OCE, from APAC, North America send in
five teams here. Just don't be Europe's got six. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. And they've won everything
so far. They want to kick off. That's why they have six here. They won both majors. Yeah,
they're going for the full sweep. Yeah. And I mean, it's nice to see a huge breadth of
teams are here for Nina as well. They've got three teams in the world championship.
Two of them are competing through our planes that we're going to be doing it today. Parking
is being one of them. But I think for you, there's a lot of thanks to be O2 call
You mentioned that kickoff land that they got Man City spot earlier on the previous majors and now Matthew Tapper
They were then able to come through in this six spot as well
But lots of very strong teams all there costable and everyone of these teams has a reason they are here
They have won so much to get to this spot to have a chance to be crowned world champion
And it's been a long road the road for some teams a little bit longer than others though the play in brackets
somebody just said that we will play this entire bracket today for all these
teams. Some of them some of their tournaments end here on Tuesday.
This can be a brutal bracket. That bottom four is roughly at Falcons and foot
who have looked fantastic. RAD sports and TSM down there as well. TSM they just
beat NRG. So then they got bottom four is really tough.
It's what the next two series basically. So I mean they get a big
win against NRG but questions remain for them. You just got to peak at
the right time that they also looked better in Paris than they've ever
looked before. So is this the time for TSM? We'll find out today as we move forward. But
it's been a it's been a long, a long road to get here for four of the teams in that
plan bracket. They almost didn't make as they deployed to our last chance qualifiers. Let's
let's talk about the goal. Just let me start off the day here from South America, a bit
of a surprise. A roster that was formed for the L. C. Q. They picked up their third
player there in May right after the conclusion of the open number six. They've been
prepared for this LCQ since May. And these guys were not favorites. B.S. Plus were the favorites to win this tournament and they met in the upper round as well. B.S. Plus won that four to zero. But when it matters most in the finals when the nerves are in all time high, it's Trufino who was on a different squad throughout the season who was supposed to make every major. He failed but he picked it up at the perfect time here.
It's been like a leftover squad, I think, or at least they're kind of thinking,
okay, we could not get it done as a regular season.
Let's see what we can do when it comes to LCKQ.
A pretty neat thing we've added here for the RLCS this season.
And I mean, I believe in that previous video that we saw,
that Saturday night, their last LAN was once 22-23.
It was back-inducing.
They've not been to a LAN in such a long time.
But they have World Championship experience something.
That's what they've got a really green on right here.
If you start this playing tournament because, I mean, they have the experience.
even going against BS, but BS plus doesn't have to all that world championship experience.
When it got to a game seven, back against the ball, who would have used to make the plays happen?
This is when the moments happen.
Gryffina pops it up high, and then after that, just another goal coming right through the net.
And that's off, man. It's so big for Gryffina. He was like, he was on Furia, then he got kicked,
went to Team Secret. They were supposed to be great. They weren't, but he finds a new team
at the right time to make it here.
Now we talked about the Falcons being here in the bracket. They are the number two seed
out of mean that they did not have to play in those qualifiers.
But the fact that they weren't the dominant force in the region
speaks to just how strong this region is becoming.
Let's talk about the Middle East, North African last chance
qualifiers with R8 Esports secure the third spot.
Yeah, when you have Falcons and twisted mines in your region,
it's very likely you're not going to make it.
But R8 Esports had a fantastic year.
They made it to the Paris Major over Falcons
by beating them multiple times in that split.
Didn't get enough points, though,
so they had to go through the LCK.
They were favorites, usually favorites.
They don't win this, but 2-thirds of this roster
won the mean LCKQ last year,
so they do it again here with that experience.
Then the question for RA is,
can they do what they've done online
against the Falcons in particular,
and then actually have that translate to LAN
that they've not been able to,
even though they have a little winning record
against Falcons until it comes to online tournaments,
when it comes to LAN,
they really cannot get it over the line.
And I'd love to see that really good fruition
and the World Championship on the biggest stake.
Last year, two of the players on this team, Abul and Ghazi,
were here as the last chance qualifier from the Middle East
under Rocky Sports.
They have doubled up on that success.
They have been joined here by Muhammad, Land of Rookie
Worlds, championship rookie here.
We'll see if they can get it done.
The last time we saw R&D players at EWC,
they had lost game seven at Carmine Corp.
So they have a good loss on the left.
It was almost like we were sweep two.
Those guys were so close to reverse sweeping
the blue wall there, folks.
North America, we've got five teams,
lots of exciting names to talk about.
And one team that honestly, if they'd formed maybe a little bit earlier in the season Gibbs wouldn't have had to play through this lcq foot has been a right hot at the end of
Yeah, absolutely. I think most people have them as the na4 seed
But because they were a brand new roster sprain split they went to the Paris major didn't get enough points
So they had to play the lcq and again last year none of the favorites won any lcqs
But two of them won this time one of those games is foot everyone expected them to win this and they came out
And we're incredibly dominant for an awesome
And I think also you can look at the numbers as much as you want, but when it comes to an easily
rootable ball team, I think put on near the top of that list. I think everybody wants to see these
players doing well. Justin recently winning the first such award for the breakout player,
he's an incredible year. Come back there. Come back player. He broke it a long time. You can
see what foot I've been able to do, and yes it would have been nice to do them early in the
season, but a lot of time again after all of these LCK teams to really get that.
And not only that, they played another LCK, the EWC LCK with a lot more teams in it,
and they won that as well, so they know how to win these smaller tournaments,
where the big names are not there. They were in the group with Carmecourt
and Vitality in pairs too. Everyone was like, man, that's a rough group.
They took both those teams to game five. Didn't get quite the win of those,
but still the impressive run from them. We'll get to see them here a little
bit later on today. Last but not least, the sixth team from Europe,
You know just the rich keep getting richer out here. The Europeans are already so good
They got six chances don't win it here
But got talking about how big of a surprise it was for my day etapa to be the team that came out of that call for those
Paul for the head K-Dop pork a ball for the head of team with Eugene and rise and then Valer here also with a crispy
Grally talk roster. They're all looking good and somehow it's atomic Dorito and AJG from Argentina to come out on top
Yeah, we say that you know the rich get richer but AJG has got as much role to play in this a South American player
And I believe that one of the first times we've seen a South American player go to Europe for a path through and then be
Successful at that and I think that when you look towards here something in Dorito duo
They've done this before and having a different third on their side that has been phenomenal
And it's you know coming back up the level that we have seen them come to before is he really exciting
They're a very exciting unique team. I feel yeah
They absolutely Pete at the perfect time now can they do it again?
Big that is the big question. Everyone knows that Europe has depth, but this is digging deep into the Europe on depth field
So was this a one-off or was this team actually a real deal?
I mean that can score against anybody. The big question for them is how is the defense gonna hold up when they go
They just teams that are a little bit better than the last player right now.
We go to get the thousands of someone of that level and you stop that from scoring.
About the tosses, we have a really quick shout out to
Tox especially unfortunately couldn't make it to a line. He got so close again
But he did manage to get the win over a FIFA E. So he's got that feeling
I hope that's gonna keep igniting him to eventually get to an RLCS land we believe in your talks. Well, we'll see we'll see
I'm confident we'll see him again
Their money top, but they do have a new on the bracket of life side of things here in the playing
So we'll see if they can make it happen folks. It's been a fantastic year
We've had 1v1 2v2 and 3v3 for the first time
We have all three game modes in the Rockley championship series and we see spectacular moments throughout the entire time
Let's wrap it up books. These are the top 10 plays of the regular season of the 2026 RLCS shout out to the RLE sports reddit
They helped me compile this list and there were so many good plays that I decided to do it
Just one 2v2 1 1 2 1 in all major plays after that
With the most dominant tournament in RLCS history 2v2 Zenonato
This is a 4-0 stop in the grand finals overtime winner
That's what I was for folks unbelievable in the corner and then fancies it yet again
It's gonna be the one to one versus a resist gets a tripplery
Sinks it with only two seconds remaining at every angle that's that place from it's immediately a gold scoring opportunity
Proof, listen, that's great all twos and once local to our CS
But let's get back to the breading corner. Let's get back to the 3v3. This is all major players here on out y'all now
That's reason I fight against my
Looking like a no-one man, Shokin, that's exactly what he is.
The Boston Major MVP going against Vitality,
going off the ceiling.
Here's the reason, as it has XO, it doesn't matter.
I'm going to try to swat him. You're not stopping that one.
And let's keep it at the Boston Major where Vitality broke the curse
against K-Corpion and a lot of that is due to Zen.
The pre-flip shot here to the far post.
Vitality finally takes down K-Corp for the first time
and it feels like 20 years.
And it's a lot due to Zen.
Look at this pass. Look at that pre-flip.
Perfect touch.
Perfectly placed and received by Townsby Peaks. Let's see a player peek against them.
Just in with a lovely reception into a recent Bubs exotic. Still not done.
Ends up tapping Zin on the goal on the double bump against two of the best defenders that you will come up against.
Immediately gives away to a teammate as well. Night play across the board.
Listen, once again I'm talking with Nascis about to pull something off.
You know why? They had a lot of plays this year.
Grand finals, Boston first goal to open it up. Nascis brings on with that.
And then we got Kaycork, they had a miserable online split for the Paris Nager, but they show up against the Mates in the upper bracket to seal the deal at 0 on the clock, but Tiro with the catch and the flick top left corner and we all know what happened after that, they went on to dominate and win the whole thing.
It's not often that you look at monkey moon and think he's gonna be the most mechanical player in a lobby and yet in this series
He was against the mace the side corner skin boss back to new boat
He sent it to him initially a little cheeky bit a tech attacker right back into the danger zone
No, no sixer. Oh, listen. I come at the number two is one of the best plays of the season and your is just those of the
Fido guess who see our he's working. He's waiting bouncing off the ceiling
There's something in the water in Boston or maybe it was just something to freeze it could be all stuck there
But everybody was popping off yours with those up on zero so quick as in our G these most out of the atomic
Dusty zero slanted in and we'll keep it at the boss the major for the final play
And I think I'm just a little hungry and Oscar was team. He's gonna go up here
He's gonna get the job into the pancake
This is champions field semi-final versus Falcons and he gets the job
I mean when you think about it there was a blizzard so it makes sense everybody had the ice
Boston. I like that. This one guys. It's gonna be a
costume. I know that's why I saw your guys. Congratulations.
I appreciate you guys not being like, oh, there's a girl's
pun. No, I like that. That's why you paint. Thank you. No,
keep saying. Yeah, yeah. Not time for a compliment. Enough of
the compliments. Let's talk to you about how this tournament
is going to work because there's three stages to the
tournament. We have the play in that we showed you
earlier. We're gonna show it to you again here really,
really quickly. And then after that, we'll talk about
about the group stage. Then we'll talk about the plan bragging new math rotation as well. Here are a few maps that are making their world championship debut. Shout outs to sovereign heights future garden night is in the rotation there map and manfield dusk for map number one bit.
I know that's a different type of map. I kind of see him in a way. I was going to say I've seen the theme of it starts in dusk. And then you guys back up a little.
I mean, the big thing is, no DMH for the first time
in a world championship, that's going to be different.
That's a different tale.
But it also shows that we really do have truly seven maps
that we always put in rotation, mix them all in,
and then it's let bygones be bound.
Yeah, but those little gold knees at the end,
those are the two most important maps.
Neo Tokyo and Champions Field,
those were the big moments.
Yeah, the iconic moments of the good or bad.
Neo Tokyo's seen plenty in Champions Field
right at the end.
You need to have those big, loud announcers
letting you know who lifts the trophy.
That's going to be a big one, folks.
All right, we want to play those maps throughout the entirety of today.
Well, we want to play the first, uh, first three in the back two, I believe.
Because we're playing best of fives here in the playing.
Correct. No, New York, Tokyo.
No, New York, Tokyo.
The first two.
I see.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's the plan bracket.
If you make it out of this bracket, it's the top four teams, the two teams
from the top side, two teams from the bottom side.
That puts you into pool number three.
Gibbs.
Oh, yeah.
What is the pool number?
We're talking pools.
We don't know what the groups are.
yet for the main event, the only thing we know are the top four seeds are locked into their groups.
You see it on the board there, K Corp just minds energy and the mates will be in those groups.
After that, it comes down to we don't want that many regional matchups in groups.
Okay. So depending on who comes out of the LCQ, we'll determine how these teams go into these other pools.
But everyone is pool one and seed five through eight basically. Pool two is then nine through 12.
Pool three are the four winners from here. So the bottom four seeds.
So they will all be in one of these groups.
We just don't know where yet.
And the reason for that is, say like energy,
like if two North American teams come out of the South C.Q.,
we have five total.
That means one of the groups will have to have
two North American teams.
So then energy, there is a possibility
that space station will be in their group.
But if only one team comes out,
space station cannot be an energy's group
because we don't want regional matchups.
So that's kind of how it goes down.
We will know the groups at the end of today, though.
So, okay, everyone will know so the first determiner is seeding the second term with the qualifier of as long as you're not
The same region space. Yeah, okay. Okay. That sounds like fun. It's a world championship
We want more international matchups. I like pools. I like swimming. So I'm up for this
That's fine every time I look at Wave 2 his eyes kind of glaze over when I talk about how I'm at
I'm pain. I'm pain is much attention. That was a bad student. So I mean, I was listening
and when I really need to think about something,
I'm just going to look at you and get to know them.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Let's be honest.
Of all the formats we've ever run,
this is by far not the most complicated.
So I'm excited to show you guys those groups
at the end of today.
Once we have those groups set,
that will set us up for our playoffs,
which will be played on Saturday and Sunday, folks.
If you are the top seed out of your group,
you go through to the upper bracket.
You have two lives in this playoffs.
If you are the second seed and the third seed out
of your groups go to the lower side of the bracket.
Only one life remaining in the tournament.
If you're the bottom seed, you are eliminated
from the 2026 Rockland World Championship.
Yeah, that one seed is incredibly important.
You have two lives to have a chance to make it to the top four.
But if you don't finish first, you then
have to win three matches in a row to get to top four.
So it is a drastic difference from first to everyone else
in your group.
Just the same for the money.
You look at the first place in this 300,000 dollars for first place.
If you take that, you take home a tidy 100 grand, and you get 2,000 each.
Even if you don't score a single goal, you just show up, plug your controller in,
and then go home at the end of today, ultimately.
So, all across the board, a lot of these players will be very happy with the amount of money that they've got.
But, Wave, I wish they could earn a bit more.
You wish that this prize pool could be bigger?
I... I... I... Ideally.
Yes? Yeah?
I wish that it would be more...
I agree with you. I wish it could be bigger. And you know what?
It can be bigger. Thanks to you, the lovely people in the Rockley community,
the world championship bundles in the shop now by that bundle.
100% of net profits goes to this dry school.
100% all of it going straight to the teams to increase the price.
Cool. And check out the things you get. Check out these wheels.
Check out the stick out. It also has a boost and a goal explosion gives
very solid. And there's percentage breakdowns for player accolades as well.
So if you perform better than you get a little bit more of that pot,
there will be MVPs as well that we give out for finals MVP,
for tournament MVP, and then for breakthrough player.
So a lot on the line throughout the weekend.
It's so generous.
I know that that that decals got free speed in it.
I'm pretty confident.
Pretty sure you drive a little bit faster, a little bit more accurate
if you use the decal.
Just saying, not, not allegedly not official.
That's just my, my personal anecdotal experience with that decal.
Okay, folks, if you want to contribute to the prize pool,
One of the best things you can do for our tournament here.
Okay, we have a few things remaining to do
before we get into the match.
Mainly to talk about the brackets
and how things are going to work on this stream.
We have two different streams happening.
There's also some watch parties going on.
Just pretty fun for everybody involved.
And speaking of which, if you want to be at the event
here, but you couldn't make it,
AMC Theaters is going to be having
the World Championship running this week.
Stand the QR code find a theater near you. You could be in a building with rocket league fans cheering on the world championship
And there's not many times when you go to a movie theater and you're allowed to be loud
You're in enchanted for your team. So that would be a lot of fun
I would see a lot of pictures of people in their jerseys
They meet up with other analogy fans, whatever it is. I'd be so cool to see on socials
Well, and you scripted this whole thing. So it's basically a movie
Exactly
Yeah, for sure
But we don't tell anyone that
We literally told them that every single of them. I don't know what he's talking about
Alright, now let's talk about the two broadcasts that are going to be happening here folks
We are going to have two streams happening to alternate stream at twitch.tv slash RLE sports
We'll be covering four matches today kicking things off with five fears versus about the etapa
I'll have already supports and TSM as well
Make sure you got both broadcasts. We want to catch all the action. I think it's the first three days
I believe you have these things going on here on the mainstream. Hi. Hello
You hear my sound my voice you are in the right place for these matches
and we will have the remainder of the bracket after the first four matches.
All the matches for our play in today will be on the mainstream
and we will complete that play in bracket here today.
We'll see Falcons vs.
Footy Sports in a little bit, but to kick things off, the gorgeous
coming out of the South American region going up against
Vertus Bros.
The NA four versus the South American LCK team.
We were talking about the South Americans here, all Brazilian,
all excited to be here.
All have played at the World Championship before, but it's been a while,
especially for two.
Yeah, I think that, you know, there's a lot of experience that can come through from
the GoJs in particular, but VP, they've been such an exciting team coming into this entire tournament throughout the season.
So far, I think Wavy has been a massive breakthrough player, but I feel like he's really coming into his own.
He's doing really well across that content as well.
It really feels like it's been his year.
So hopefully they don't end up stumbling when it comes to actually being able to compete at the World Championship.
It's going to be a juicy matchup.
It's very hard to tell who's gonna take it. Both teams have been hot like at different times and let's see who peaks today
They have earned the opportunity of kicking off the 2026 Rockley World Championship. Let's meet the good things
The roads to come here to the World Championship was tough for us. We were not the favorites
We were confident coming into it
My last lamb was in Leon
Bams, that is my other teammate, his last LAN was Dusseldorf, then 23 and Knight, my other
teammate last LAN was Dusseldorf, then 23 too.
We have the experience and we are confident that we can do a lot of work here.
The pressure playing insecure is much bigger than playing original, because if you lose
your season is over, we've trapped a lot in these two maps.
Like the cough dance and the mantle I think was the key for us to qualify
Prodifying third was the best thing possible. The team is trying to prove that the region is good again
For myself. I want to prove that I have the level still so I want to show everyone that I still have
Well, we can't get enough of them let's keep talking to Truffinio here from the coaches
Dude you look so excited. You can smile in this whole time
Yeah, I'm so excited to be back two majors without coming to the land. So
Being back in the world championship. It's a pleasure
It's got to do just feel any like nerve-racking at all like you know having to go through the plans because obviously you guys have a
Lot more matches to play than some of the other teams. I think it's fun
I think for us is good to have this like momentum because like they are two years without going to a land
And I'm one here. So playing
The games is good for us again. Momentum. A lot of extra practice in there. Now I want to talk about the new
because just for a second here. What did you say it meant to get? Mustache. Mustache. Where did that come from?
I don't know. They created it. I'm just joined the party. Okay. Well, I'm kind of disappointed. You guys don't have like nice long
curly mustache. Only they both have it. You got to hurry up by the MMI, right?
Yeah. By the time you get to the grand finals on Championship Sunday. Yeah, I might need to.
I love it. Hey, we'll talk about your teammates here. I mean, what did you see in these guys bring them together?
Obviously, you guys have connected really well and you're feeling good coming into it. What was it about these two?
I think they are two players that have such a great experience in the game. So
LCK is a nerve-wracking
Matches to play in so you need to have this experience to
Try it and do your best. So I think that's why I chose them because they are two of my friends
They and they have a good experience in the game. That's awesome man
I love your energy, but I'm gonna let you go get back to you got a mashup play in a second here
In the meantime, we're gonna take a look at your opponents. I
Think our year from the start we started out very strong. We just formed as a team as redacted
We're probably I think one of the best teams in North America. We unfortunately had a
Kind of bit of fall down after split two now going into worlds
We feel the best we've ever felt after all our practice and everything we've done as a team
So we're really excited
We knew, no matter what, actually this time's going to come and we're going to have to be
the best we can be because Worlds is everything at the end of the season.
My dream has always been to play in front of a crowd and to be some leading memory.
Also, I haven't played in front of an LCS crowd yet.
That's our main first goal, but after we get that we want to obviously make it into
as far as we can go.
What it means to me, I think it's definitely by far the most important tournament of the
year.
like this is everything, like this is what you want to get to.
Well, I'm looking to prove that we're still just as good as split one, if not better.
I definitely think we're the best bit of a band, which need to prove it on the stage.
On the other side, Curtis Pro here, I'm talking to Coach Memory.
Man, it's good to see you again.
You know, I just thought you'd be new smiles on the faces.
You guys have a little more locked in right now, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just getting locked trying to get ready for the match.
We're feeling good, but I gotta stay in it.
Yeah, I asked him about the longer matches as well.
When it comes to play-ins, how are you guys viewing that?
You use it as like for practice.
You guys feel like you're nervous that there's more chances
maybe to get knocked out?
I think it's honestly kind of an advantage if you can win.
Obviously, it's a lot harder because you
have to go through more teams.
But if you end up doing that, which we are hoping that we
will, then I think you're honestly more
warm than the teams that are in the actual main event.
Right.
Well, can you quickly, as we run through your players here,
talk to me in the down the row,
wavey two-piece talk.
This squad, they've always seemed to connect so well
together. Has it been easy to get them ready for Worlds?
No, I don't think so.
I mean, it's no surprise too that I would say
we had a rough second split.
And since then, we've been working very, very hard.
All the players really want it, and they really
want to do all this for us.
But I think that we're ready.
Yeah, no.
I mean, again, I can't keep too much bias,
but I'm rooting for you guys.
But all in all, I mean, is there
a player on the field that was soon laid?
And he kind of takes charge of things.
Do you get tense and keep some, you know,
I guess, collected in the match
when you can't talk to them?
I think they all do it at different points. Honestly, they're all kind of responsible for a certain part of the game.
So it really just depends how it's going. Sometimes it's me, sometimes I'm getting in there together.
Yeah, it just depends. It depends on how the match is going.
And it's fairly go. I heard just a moment ago, I think it was talk, saying in his interview that
one of the main goals is to play in front of an audience.
Is that really like the main goal and nothing less than making audience would be acceptable for you guys?
Well, the goal is to win. Always.
To win worlds, obviously.
But I think past that, yeah, we really want to make it through play and we think that we're better than a lot of the teams here.
Obviously, everyone's good.
It is worlds at the end of the day.
But we think that we're ready.
And yeah, if we could play in front of the crowd,
I think that would be like step one for us.
OK, well, I'm excited, man.
I'm going to not take any more time.
Let you get back to your players.
This match is important.
Good luck in it.
Thank you very much.
It was meaningful to me to hear memory when asked
what seems like almost a kind of a throwaway question.
Like, was it hard to get your team ready to go to say,
yes, yes.
And I think it speaks to just how monumental of an effort
it is for any team at any stage
to make it to this level of a competition.
Yeah, I think a torpedo made a good point as well of like the planes.
What a good chance for a warmer, a brilliant like way that you can actually get into the competition really by the way through.
It's brutal.
It's cutthroat, but it's a really nice chance to be able to just practice a little bit in the environment before that you really run into all the big dogs.
And then if you do make it out of planes, if you get that one upset in groups, that could be the difference from being like top of your group or not.
So like, I think these teams are using this as like, yeah, sure, we're playing teams, but we're here.
It does not matter and if we win this, then the sky is the limit like at this point.
Both these teams have aspirations for a lot.
They both have dreams to move forward.
I think VP may be the favorite on paper for a lot of people, but the most experienced
person at this level of competition is drew on the other side.
So let us know who you think is going to win the progressive fan vote and we'll
make our picks up here.
Stumpy first prediction of 2026 worlds.
Who you got?
I'm not wrong.
I will say for me, the Virtus.pro, I've just got the edge here.
I think that in particular, they're on a bit more of that upswing.
I've really enjoyed seeing what Wavy can do throughout the Bumbley Bones as well.
He was really excited to watch.
Obviously couldn't get that done there, but for me, it's going to be the Virtus.pro for sure.
I'm also going to go Virtus.pro.
I think they went to the EWCLCQ.
They didn't make it out of that tournament, but they beat a lot of good teams throughout.
They beat Man City.
They beat BS Plus as well.
So I think they got a lot of experience there to take into this world championship.
And I think they're ready. I'm going to be thinking.
Well, I was going to say it was an experienced version of the new age skill,
but Gibbs just said they got a lot of experience.
I was the big one anyway. So give me a verdict, bro.
I do think that they are the better team here at the moment.
I do think that they can take down into the final squad.
We're going to start off with a desk sweep here.
I also have VP on this one.
Dr. Rufi on the other side gives me some a moment of pause there.
But I know that night in Bems,
it's been three years since they played at the world championship.
But again, if he's seen this as a warm up,
He's gonna be given that mentality that his players as well still the secret weapon on this field is tough a world
Rookie will he show up in the way? We saw him playing for the year
I want to see it happen folks the coin first pick of the tournament
We got Brazil on this side because the goons don't have a don't have a logo
And they're all Brazilian players and it come up for Virtus Pro on this one folks
So I can lean sweep on the death. That's usually a curse in RLCS standards
We'll see what they can do they obviously didn't have great numbers
They lost to BS plus in that upper bracket where they lost 4-0, but let's not forget that that lcq
Was played at two different times the final day was played weeks later
So goges they lost 4-0 then they had weeks prep to get ready for them again
What happens they beat them on champions field they make it through that bracket now
They have had all like all this prep time for the world championship
Did they prep enough like they can definitely pull the upside part of the difference here to me as well as the fact that obviously
obviously, you got the go Jays as an LCQ team. They had to pay the LCQ. VP didn't need to.
They got through off the back of their own points. They burned that fourth spot for North
America. North America as a collective just couldn't get another spot for the main event
in that number four seed. So, fortunate for them they couldn't do it, but VP, they didn't
need to do all that LCQ nonsense.
I think this match is maybe a little bit closer to the best predictions made at
look here. They are the favorites, but they're not that big of a favorites. Folks
that can already hear that the B3 matches have begun. Make sure you've got the
alternate stream pulled up as well.
The best week of the Rocket League year kicks off with sending four teams home in this play in a New World Contest
in South America versus North America here on the mainstream.
Get up and get loud. It's game day.
It's my favorite week of the year.
The World Championship play-ins about to get underway.
The hardest pro, taking the field here against Bogoges, James, got a lot of experience, land experience on the Bogoges team, the hardest pro, recent land experience, and what?
To see a comeback if you're on this team.
Great start here for VP.
What that, you see that attention to loss backwards, great to GPs, two-piece and beautiful 50, setting up the shot for talk.
It cannot have a better start for Virtus. Pro wonderfully done
You talk somebody if you watch North American regionals you are very familiar with and had a whole segment
Where we just have a top five
And it's a beautiful shot here because he's unable to find a safe. I'll kick off again right to talk and it is
an early episode of the talk show
We saw that quite a bit at the beginning of the year when this team was under the name redacted
Looking for that sponsor where they were unsponsored. They looked like maybe the best team in North America
You can heard talk mentioning that in his interview backsliding a bit in the second split
Well when this squad was firing on all cylinders derby they were a formidable force
And you're seeing a great start here. You can understand why the desk was so one-sided on the pigs
Waving in two-piece most slouches on this roster
No more experience than talking they picked up talk
They were expecting to get those similar results that they had that kickoff weekend more top fours in their future
But turned out to be a difficult road for them
near side bends
And the coach is trying to get something going they got it down with it go straight to them
I haven't played that in a long time.
The shot placement has got to be better than that.
That was a great opportunity.
Could have been a goal there.
Fourth to go, Jays, but they come away empty handed.
See if they get punished on the other end.
Dems used a lot of moves just to get that ball out.
No midfield move spawning for him.
Wavy avoids that bump.
Dems, good patience.
Four of them spawns for him.
and he gets the play ball didn't get the reset they didn't know it felt
Truffino nice 50 but doesn't matter defense for vertus bro stands firm and
waiting to get another clear he's just gonna go for a 50 put 50s of it
working out quite well for vertus bro
two-piece shut down there by Truffino
So much for the good of these needs to step up.
They've already had a chance.
They can't let this one get too far out of hand.
Only best of fives on these plans.
Does feel tight.
Trafini on the other end is going to try to cut off two-piece.
Got the bump as well.
No one wanted to commit.
They saw two-piece was in danger.
And you're up to nothing.
They decided to play safe.
Oh, that's not a lot of boosts.
He wasn't going to get a follow up on either way because he gets the catch down field with a 50 but nobody's there.
The ball just can break back the wavy.
No play, the first throw up all over the GoJs right now.
It's two-piece.
They'll let that ball come the whole way back.
GoJs happily take the challenge.
Ben's trying to get something set up, but every time I'm looking at Boost,
on the GoJs side, James, it's empty whenever they're on the ball.
That's what I was going to say, they're just struggling to get that Boost.
That can't even make contact on that ball.
Benz not going to be able to do lunch there. Couldn't even get the second touch because he's on empty Truffino on empty as well.
I finally having possession with boost but that shut down quickly. However, this is still a dangerous attack.
He's fine. Back to Truffino and that shot is interrupted.
It's a good idea though. That's the biggest threat that the players have had on that so far.
Outside of the missed opportunity from Benz, that's a fast down field talk with the hat-trick.
Just start game number one, Virtus.pro. Continue to fight.
An actual little tip there from Wavy.
Tok didn't have much boost, but still a perfect slot.
That is tough to do. We don't have anything in the tank.
Still hit the mark. Great start for Tok.
Tok, a player that, you know, if you've been following N.A. for quite some time,
he was on your radar.
And you're going to wonder if he'd ever really, you know, be able to reach that elite player level
on the international stage and he is showing up right now in this first game.
Trofino had an opportunity earlier, maybe it made two great saves in the net.
Goj's just too long to get anything going. Whenever something does, it ends very quickly.
This is exactly what Virtus.Pro wanted to do.
You know, Gojace, there is a lot of experience on this roster.
It's not a team that you can sleep for.
The Verzbrough want to prove that they absolutely belong
and that that kickoff weekend wasn't a fluke of their ability.
They need to take care of business and do it convincingly here.
Game 1 is up to the task.
Oh, he got past that!
Wait, we gotta see Top POV on this.
We'll get it.
Top threatens the double.
The end of the backboard cleans up his own rebound.
This game has been all talk.
The epitome of the talk show.
Front row seats. Enjoy it.
Absolutely. Welcome to the World Championship.
The play-in, at least, for talk.
What a way to start the owner of all four goals.
And certainly the talk of the field is,
This one comes across, bends, no boosts.
That's going to be something that the Gojes are going to have to figure out.
How do they protect their own corners?
How do they make sure they have resources when they actually move down the field?
They're not winning those canisters.
Curtis Pro doing a great job managing the field
and keeping those resources at a minimum for the Gojes.
We've only had really two or three opportunities on the net
that Trefino tries to get something here at the end of regulation.
And I think just looking back at the best opportunity that we go to his head was that shot from Benz
Ended up shooting it right at two piece who was in that needed better placement than that you saw
What kind of placement talk can pull off when he's got no boost
talk really but also
credit to
Memory for preparing the team right off kickoff
Perfect kickoff strat leads to a goal
You know they had two goals that were a direct result of their kickoff strats that were executed perfectly
Very good performance from Virtus Pro
Who have shown up in game one talk is looking brilliant yet two peas on the back line made that you know
Maybe that there's the biggest save of the game. It was shot again right out of easy print the handle
But two peas you don't need me to tell you how good he is on defense
But all-round, great stuff from VP.
Absolutely.
Getting it done, maybe had those good saves, like you said.
Talk, still finding a way to score electrifying goals, and that leaves a lot of questions
on the other end for the gogis.
Now, Trefina on this team, formerly of Furia, actually ends up getting kicked off of
Furia and finds a way to qualify for the play-ins with this roster with, again,
Two players, Benz and Knight that have land experience.
Knight is even getting a top four,
which was the whole way back in 2022
with the Rotterdam major.
Oh, yeah.
And the Gen G win.
The win against Gen G and then they lost to Royston
in the semifinals.
Well, Gen G winning that one in Rotterdam is what I meant.
That was crazy.
Oh, yeah, and the Gen G winning.
Crazy split.
But you're right.
That's a lot of experience here for the GOJs,
but I think, and Jeremy, you're the one
to set me straight, but Sam has not been able to reach the heights they have to pass.
There was a moment where Furia was maybe the most tight team outside of NA and EU, and
now he's juicy.
Finally, the first goal for the GOJs.
That was the one to get it.
Very nice challenge for Knight, and a much needed goal here.
Finally on the board.
Finally on the board, it's Benz and Knight.
Knight, excuse me, Benz, his last land.
Mr. Phoenix pointed out in the free game
was in Dusseldorf three years ago.
And you talk about South America, the struggles
that they've had where it's just been with the task of fury
of kind of carry South America on their back.
You have MIBR with Razeball coming back
to South America now.
I've got to go on a game on that side.
Like that.
Made it Brazil on the cost of getting
some really solid results.
But yeah, like I would say before,
it seems like Sam in a position where they're really
needed to prove they're worth it oh it's talk again talk that's been the only goal
scorer for Verdes Brode he's been doing so much look at this control flipping
into the ball the ball still parking the wall talk deep to possession does so
much work all on his own incredible stuff from talk there was a slight
confusion about what was happening there on the dojo's end to figure out
The key thought his teammate on the corner was going to get that challenge, but Tog just absolutely destroyed him on it
because Ben's left to go get corner boost, so he wasn't gonna be able to play defense.
They were wholly relying on Tog getting challenged in the corner there, and he made them look silly.
Yeah, to be able to get the touch pass, but also control the ball.
That is not easy to do.
That one dangerous.
He's got caught again, just don't have the resources to catch that one.
That's a good boost to get there, look at him.
Trefino, nothing, nice.
Oh, he missed it.
I mean, even if he tries to go get that corner, even if he gets it, he's going to be too far out of position.
He wouldn't be able to boost and get back.
But you saw that, you know, he was creeping over there.
He's got no boost, Watson, so bad.
But then, out of position for that fall.
He starts feeling the frustration when you're on...
When you're going on minute seven or being unable to do anything and being starved constantly
You're just trying to get to the ball and get it cleared out. The Goja is clearly feeling the stress right now
First row freewheeling right now up high here comes talk again
No blues, but it drops right back to wavy
top shelf perfect placement
Yeah, maybe doesn't even let it bounce it's it's tough when a ball hasn't bounced yet to get that right amount of
I'll fight on the ball to be able to judge that so perfectly to get it by the defense. That was well done by wavy
Not a give me by any means
Gorge's
They get the ball off the kickoff Ben's missed it. He's got a follow it and he just can't put it in
That's two opportunities now in both games from Ben's
It's his job to score that goal and it's not been that easy
That was the easiest one so far for the door J's they couldn't convert
If you know with some space here had to lose as well and for a flick pass, but that's intercepted by talk
He blasted it off his own backboard against help clear downfield by way B
That's again, how much boost let's get help
You know being contested all up watch out for talk talk off the ceiling
Talk we just might have to give up another top five segment here after the play-ins off the ceiling catches it on the reset
It just drops it in the bucket!
Oh yeah, I mean, I'd be smiling too if I was TalksT-Babe.
He's in shock like that.
Wavey all grins.
At this point, for VP, it's just past the ball to talk.
That's been effective.
He'll find a way.
A good start as this one comes downfield again.
And you talk about the rest of the field and the playings, James.
And there's one team in particular,
probably going to be pretty difficult for anyone to get by.
Falcons will have Falcons foot after this match for no doubt.
Many people waiting for that one.
Well, Vert is pro, really making a statement right now as to why
they might be a potential threat moving on that double tap.
Talking almost do no wrong.
Now you can't score the wide angle double there.
I like the idea though going for the fake trying to let Truffinio take that shot came close
But I hear you Jeremy, this VP team looking like a real threat to make it through the uppers
right now on a collision course with Mate Toppup.
John, not going to get back to the ball.
Ben's leaving it, but Knight has no boost.
The Rugglesborough had to respect it. They didn't know how much they had.
Still they get the ball back, talk off the ceiling.
You're going to look at it this time.
Benz was able to get that touch off the backboard because you saw Tuck had it lined up.
Now two-piece.
The ball back down.
Benz will go again.
Has to use everything for a 50.
Trefino waiting for a moment to strike.
Back into the corner. They stole the corner boost as well.
Two-piece.
Wins enough of the 50s. It goes lateral.
It will go straight back tonight.
The Gorgias are effectively out of time here down three.
They'll score once every 10 seconds at this point and they can get it downfield, but they can't shoot it on target.
Right.
Trying to get one through the road.
Mr. Koday's, this one feels over. This series is not the one that they were hoping for.
Vertice Pro, Dominant Games, two-piece, to die.
And he's on a collision course with Montaignee Toppo.
We saw him right hand side of the screen.
They're currently up 2-0 against five fears.
The expected result coming through there.
And the expected result just may be coming in through here
as the ball touches the ground.
But Gojax down 0-2, still looking for the first game win.
Yeah, this is such a solid start for Verdes Pro.
You'll wonder if they handed in him.
We knew that at the start of the year,
they were a force to be reckoned with,
cooled off after getting picked up by Virtus.Pro.
But from what they did earlier in the year,
the levels that they were playing at,
they were competitors to win
North American regional events.
You know, you felt like if this team kept improving,
they could be a serious contender
on the international stage.
And we're seeing right now
that they are head and shoulders above.
We go just right now. This is a dominating performance for VP, but most notably, in my opinion, for talk, talk has been insane.
Off the ceiling, flip reset. Goal of the series could possibly be goal of the day.
I feel like his recovery off the backboard to dish it after his double tackle.
That was good. That was good.
But to me, when you just beat the whole defense, they don't even get a hand on it.
Yeah, that's a little sweeter than picking up your own rebound.
But that it does not diminish the play because I agree with you,
Jorvi talk has been jaw dropping.
He has been the best player on the field by far.
The eye test holding true because as we'll use their timeout,
which we added to best of fives this season, give themselves an extra 60
seconds to figure out how in the world they're supposed to stop talk.
They were able to get a little more possession, probably when the game was already out of hands,
Vardis Perot up 4-1, but we saw how many times on defense talk, he had that goal where he
got that pop up along the side wall, ran it around to tip it in, that was one where you
had a hard commit, two players commit in the corner for Bogoges, expecting them to get
the 50, and then the one where Knight, he turned around, missed the corner boost,
You say he probably would make out to the guy. I think he bailed out right before that second and first man again
Both going up and acting as if they're gonna get that 50
They're trying to play aggressive. Nobody seems like second man doesn't really seem to be
Accounting for support on these 50s. They have to adjust the way they're approaching their rotation on defense
Maybe it helps to get more boost. I don't know
They got a lot of work to do to stop talking company here for this problem one game away from a three game sweep
Another back right does find its way over to talk with. Talk with the demo.
Should we go and just flip the script on that kickoff?
Gravino even if he's been corner past the 10th with that shot right back at him.
Gravino will find the corner boost and there's a demo on the back line.
This could be a goal and it should be a goal!
YAAH KABAAAA!!!
AH! AH! AH!
Got bumped off!
Respawn, that was so smart!
Couldn't get to the ball in time,
but you could take out the shooter.
And theee Gorsos are the only worst enemy there.
The bump doesn't even matter
if Trufino just hits it on target!
It was such a good demo on the back line as well.
And you're right.
Trufino wasn't the easiest read,
but certainly,
Scorval could have got that on target.
Probably wasn't expecting that bump either,
that was so smart and well executed.
Vertus Pearl can't do no wrong right now.
If they get control of the ball, no double tap.
All of Vertus Pearl waiting for a two-point section.
He might just know he's going to score this.
Drops it, sets it up, and it's off the bar.
Wavy will try again.
Holding is flipped forever to get it to talk and wavy.
Just dangling, but carried in front of a net.
A smothering pressure. Good option here.
gets the reset.
They used his flip and you could see the panic
in every member of the GoJs.
They were trying to get up to him
and they knew he had the reset.
They saw that he had it.
They were trying to deny the goal
but maybe able to just get that rebound
in a perfect spot for Tark the clean up.
It's crazy because when you flip into the ball
you're trying to add power to the ball.
But maybe he's still trying to finesse it.
He uses the reset.
He still flips into the ball
but he gets finesse on the flip.
I mean it was just excellent work.
He's going off from talk here at it perfectly.
Why not?
Why not throw a dunk onto the pile?
Dog might be right up there, Benz.
Going to want that one back.
That's got to sting.
It's got to suck knowing that your opponent can see the future.
I mean, it just feels like you can do no wrong at this point.
Talk and just reading the game at the binary level.
But finally we see the gogis get one.
They haven't scored very much.
This one's big moment.
They're a really nice bump on top.
Finally a bit for it for the gogis.
Only scoring one goal total in the series up to this point.
I have now doubled that to two total goals.
See if they can tie things up.
A little bit of spark or flash,
but they gave up the ball again.
and you cannot give talk free shots on net.
Not with what he's been doing to you all series long,
and that's a gimmick.
Another hat trick for Tuck.
Tuck blasting that one 80 miles an hour top shelf.
The Gojays just have no answers.
Bens will try for the hit down field by some time.
Trifino and Knight both have four counters. Knight safe ball into the corner, Trifino.
I had trouble getting back to that read. Knight comes back around to it.
Actually flipped off the 50. That doesn't work out though. Wavy just almost dishes it himself.
Double commit from Bevro just as well. Trifino has to build him out. We'll buy him a little bit of time.
Benz. No boosts. Wavy. From the corner. Tried for the recent.
Going for it. And that shows you how good they're feeling.
Two-piece. We'll leave that for Toc on the dribble. Toc the bigs. The 50. Unstoppable.
Toc adds another goal to his tally.
I don't think you can do against him right now.
Reed Strophenio Knight playing in case Tok pushes it to the far side of the post.
It goes back side, Knight can't recover.
And Tok is just unbeatable right now.
If Tok is on your fantasy team, you are in game well.
It's 4-1 again.
That happened quick.
The Goj, the Goj has not really what they were hoping for, not over for them in this
plane, so there's a double elimination bracket.
They will have another chance to reset.
Well, Virtus.pro really smacked them in the mouth this series.
Not quite out of the woods yet, Virtus.pro.
They've just got to take care of business for one plus minutes, but talk the story
of the first series of the day.
back to that form. We know he could take over lobbies as Matte Itapas take down five
fears three nothing and they will advance to the upper centers. Yeah I mean you felt
like that was the likely scenario. Now I'm curious can talk keep this level of
gameplay against a team the caliber of Matte Itapa. How does VP stack up against
That's the LCQ team out of Europe.
Right now, they have been looking very good, Jor-Bee.
I think the thing I really like, especially with two-piece,
two-piece usually conducting a couple of fakes.
You saw a lot of really good team play.
There's clearly been a lot of focus for Virtus.Pro on field management
and a little more on chemistry and obviously letting talk be talked,
but it wasn't all talk.
It was a lot of time though, it was all replaced.
It was not all talk, but it was a lot of talk.
It was a lot of talk.
You know what I'm saying, the filet mignon is definitely talk.
There were some bad things on the side.
That's exactly what it was all talk.
That one goes in.
We got 24 seconds.
And Bologna is going to need something off the kickoff here to buy himself a chance.
Doing a chance here, but it will require some magic off kickoff
This pro has had the the edge in the kickoff department in this matchup
there's
almost
Almost a goal, but regardless that's a lot of time going to be wasted off the clock by British pro
And they need to go now
One of the least five seconds we could fake and the shot was not good enough
If that was a part of the story here from a goal today's against bird is pro
Well, it might not have been reading it, but first pro and talk take care of business easy done
Bring nothing on to the upper 70s. Yeah for
Goals each game for bird is pro. They were light enough to scoreboard especially talk talk
I think if you are Virtus Pro, you could not hope for a much better start, they start out on kickoff, very strong, getting some early goals, but then taking that series into his own hands, that was unreal from him.
I mean, you could fill a top five goals
if they're just top plays from that series.
My favorite one, certainly though,
off the ceiling, catching it into a flip reset,
slotting it past the defense.
But I mean, he had to dunk as well
or predicted where Benz was gonna hit it.
He had that rebound recovery goal as well.
So many good moments in.
For Bogoges, this is a tough loss.
I mean what they scored two goals or three goals throughout the entire series
Really struggled. They are gonna have to go back to the drawing board. Absolutely
But vertus brawl standing tall at the very start of the day what great tone-setters for the world championship play-ins
I'm curious what they're gonna say here in the post game interview. They had to be up for settings
Let's go down with leaf and talk to the boys
And I'm down with vertus brawl wave you congratulations first win of worlds this year, man
I'm excited. I'm super happy that we started off with such a clean series our prepper screams been going super well
And I'm excited that we're able to show some of that here in our first match
I don't know the other series is going now
We're putting this yeah, the I don't know the other one was 3L. I believe it is done
Okay, it was maybe the one yeah, but I didn't look at the bracket house. I've come over and talk to you guys
Focus right now because that was a great series. I mean, how many close it talks for like 8,000 or something
Yeah, maybe a couple billion here and taker.
Yeah.
That was a good series.
I mean, I think Jorvie said it just before.
I'm wondering if you agree with the assessment.
He said, easy job.
And did you power level were you guys at?
I don't want to be like overconfident
or have like too big of an ego,
but I would say that was a pretty easy series for us
considering like.
Expectations.
Yeah, we expected them.
We expected like honestly,
like that to be a pretty like hard series
to get adjusted.
Those were first series of worlds.
You're not gonna like some chaotic stuff
just gonna happen it's guaranteed so honestly for us to go through that again
comfortably I don't want to sound like I'm a huge ego but you're gonna go to go
through that series comfortably talk with clip farming super big confidence
boost to us especially going into our next series against who's most likely
made it up yeah well I mean it because you were going in with the
expectations of like you're talking about the two hours that you're
feeling I was having right now and so you're you're expecting something maybe
to push you a little bit more do you like that it was a kind of a cruise
you guys like it shows where you're at or would you like something to push
a little bit harder. I mean, I'm not complaining about a 3-0 here or there, but I do expect our next
opponent to go as a lot more of a competition. Right. I mean, so I guess my question before
letting you go is, how do you guys carry that over? I mean, obviously it feels good. You've got that
adrenaline going right now. You're like, hey, good start to worlds, but you want to keep that
up going into your next matchup. So how do you stop that fall off that death of the energy?
I mean, memory is literally telling me right before I hopped on the interview, don't say too
much, but I will say this. We have a lot of confidence, especially with that last year.
It's very easy for you to get like over to like go too far in a way. Like if you lose your footing
because you're too confident, you just keep running. So we make it really clear that we have to stick
to our game plan before every match, regardless of if we're extremely confident, stick to the
game plan, obviously be confident. But yeah, I like your confidence, man. I love the energy
guys are bringing and hopefully that carries through in the next ones. Congratulations on that
first win there and we have so much more Rocket League to get you is just the
beginning of the world so please stay tuned on the other side of the break
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Not like the ones you're thinking of.
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No.
I gotta blow in the cartridge.
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Username, huh?
How about Keith underscore 9914?
The bathroom coat?
That's the only number I can kind of remember easily, so.
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Five NA teams, four points qualifiers and foot esports as the region's last chance
qualifiers, go into an NA LAN with the three players who won it for the region last year,
still very much together, but can they hold onto their trophy?
NRG's win last year was followed by a respectable top four of the Boston Major this year, but
since then, ugh, it's been rough.
With respect to TSM, losing to the APAC team was a serious low for the World Champs.
But that was EWC, this is Worlds, and maybe an extremely friendly home crowd is precisely
what Daniel, Beast Mode, and two-time Dickies Arena silver medalist Atomic need to bring
back the good times, as long as he doesn't face Monkey Moon in the final.
But it feels like forever since you've seen Wavey, Two Piece and Torque strutting their
stuff on the big stage, you're not far off.
Top 6 in NA Open 6 back in April was their last RLCS run out as a trio, as this online
MRG loss condemned them to fifth in the region, below the cutoff point for the
Paris Major and Esports World Cup.
But wait a second, this was a team that finished top four second second in NA Split
underestimate them at your peril.
It's almost tradition at this point for Beast Mode, Daniel and Atomic to be North America's best team.
But in the last few months, something has shifted.
First, Space Station won NA Open 4.
Then Rebellion won NA Open 5.
Then NRG won NA Open 6, that doesn't suit our narrative.
But then, both teams finished ahead of NRG in both the Paris Major and Esports World Cup.
Narrative restored, I rest my case.
SSG's second place at EWC, including a fiery game 7 against Rebellion in the quarterfinals,
puts them at the top as it stands.
But as you may have mentioned, a world championship does funny things to teams.
We'll have to see how North America set up to the pressure this time around.
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It's new wonderland
Oh, man
I have to get out of there
Who can put on me, but
This kind of chemistry
Has no wonderland
I'm running out of time
I'm almost locked in white
How come my life's seeking a color?
What's the fuck you're looking at?
You get through my mind
How come my life's seeking a color?
So far gone, I've got a bit graduated by a symmetry.
Feels like before now, I was so clean off of me.
Thought that I had figured it out, never felt depresionately.
The direction of me, look at this sensitivity
Pass me by the bridge, look back
I have figured it out, look then
Could get through to me, look at this
Kind of chemistry, pass me by the bridge
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The
2026 Rocket League World Championship starts off with dominant performances on both the
the mainstream and the alternate stream with both of our teams,
Mada Ethapa and Virtus.Pro, getting their wins in three.
Yeah, Drew, Phinear said he wanted to warm up.
Maybe you should have warmed up before the game.
Maybe that would help end up.
But Virtus.Pro looks fantastic.
I thought T.O.L.K. looked like Split One T.O.L.K. again.
Like if there was a breakout performance of this year,
T.O.L.K. would be on that list.
And he looked amazing in the match.
If he keeps that up, Virtus.Pro could go for it.
I mean, I think to kind of, I don't know,
Give a give a bone to dr. Ufi here warm-ups is the time when you look bad
He's saying like hey for a world championship. You're gonna have some early matches
You're gonna have to kind of get your feet under you
What a great way Peter feet on and they're not eliminated from this tournament yet
They will have a match later on today. They are not eliminated. I have to bounce back quickly though
Virtus. Pro showed them levels, but good as they have the experience. They have the talent
They have to put it all together and they have to do it very very soon
They will have to do it pretty soon
I mean it was it was some spectacular gameplay though from beginning to end I think they went up 4-0 in game number one
Virtus.pro for one in game two. They also pretty done like five seconds in in game one as well like VP
They managed to when it you took a headset stuff like right. Let's go back to the green all this cool
We had the shouting right behind us
So they started as they meant to go on and three are very decisive to kick the day off
I mean as we take a look at some of the highlights here
We were talking about talking how good he was was there was any other notable players notable moments from this series
For as we're learning about this world championship rosters. It was just a full team effort by VP
I don't think like talk with a great double tap there, but it's just like they have full control this entire time game
Three took a little bit to get going
But besides that like VP just look incredibly comfortable out there. I mean there is comic opposed talkers
We're coming in the series everything a highlight. He's on top of the ball
He's going and it's exactly what you're talking about. Yes when the season began talk was taken over on redacted
That's what I'm having that great great major and in this after that kind of like a lot
There's like VP kind of fade into the background.
What kind of took their place in the top 14
run on the America, but if he's playing like this,
I don't think they're going up against the Godes.
But they play at this type of level.
It's on the end of the night like, yes,
they can beat anybody and they know that too.
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and Virgins probably will play against each other in that upper semi-final.
Whoever wins that goes through to the groups.
The loser will drop down to the lower semi-finals.
They turn themselves two opportunities to make it through the groups.
Yeah, so now we're going down to the brutal part of that quadrant
where we're talking about all four of these teams have made waves throughout this year.
So we'll see how it pans out, but we'll see how the all through the sheen later on.
Five years in the grow days.
So we'll see how that one pans out.
The loser will be going home.
The winner will still have a chance on the a-stream later on in the day.
On our mainstream, we have Monty Toppin versus Pro coming up after the conclusion of our next match, the one everyone's eyes were drawn to the moment the playing bracket was solidified here, but he sports with Justin returning back to the World Championship taking on the Falcons.
Exactly. And then the moment it happened, they're like, whoa, this is a big matchup. But then two months later, Falcons came out and EWC and they performed and a lot of question marks were answered by Falcons then, but I see WC now back at all CS and foot has been looking really solid.
But not only that, we saw what Drowley like.
He did an interview.
He was like, we would have swept our old selves.
We have figured out how to play Rocket League.
And it showed they were so dominant throughout that EWC.
They 4-0ed KC, 4-0ed Space Station.
Now they get foot.
Yeah.
And I think that ultimately, when
you look at how Falcons played at EWC,
they were completely faultless.
I think that a footlegged needs to be
up a really good performance to make a dent in the Falcons.
They looked unstoppable on their day.
They've won the most recent LAN.
And we've talked a lot about Monkey Moon returning to Dickey's arena.
Last time we held a trophy on this stage,
Jirali was there as well.
And he's returned to defend that title.
Boston Major was pretty good overall.
Almost made the grand final.
We were one go away.
And then split two, we didn't make the major.
So obviously that's the lowest low in my entire career.
And then right after that, we bounced back and won EWC quite easily.
the expression highs and lows sums it up perfectly.
As always, we're going to have to be the best teams in the world,
which isn't always easy.
I think this time I'll be even more prepared than I was last time.
Last time was my first RLCS LAN victory ever.
This time I'm even more used to it
and more dangerous than ever.
If I win this one, I'll be one of the three
the greatest Rocket League players of all time
in terms of achievements.
That would mean a lot to see Falcons win this
because it's the greatest achievement in Rocket League.
This World Championship is Falcons 2-1.
You guys know this logo and this team,
the Falcons, I'm here with coach Darum.
Man, it is an interesting position
for the Falcons to be in.
Usually guys are on the top,
but now you're playing through the play-ins.
Does that change the dynamic for you guys at all and how you prepare?
Of course, being in the plane, it's not the spot that we were like to be from the first
of the season.
But because of our struggles earlier, we are here and we have to earn our spot in
the World Championship.
That's good.
I mean, all the teams that are at Worlds deserve to be at Worlds.
But looking at the planes, you guys are definitely, in my opinion, and many others,
one of the strongest teams.
Are you guys concerned about the play-ins?
Did you have to change anything against the teams you're in?
Or does it feel like it should be easy for you guys to clear?
It's not going to be easy. We have really tough teams.
Against us today is not really easy.
So we just have to stick to our basics, our play style, and keep the confidence high.
No, that's fair. And that's all your job. You have to keep them together.
How is the confidence right now? Obviously Wade just mentioned or someone who's mentioned on desk that you know
Jolly, you know last time was here raising a trophy. There's a long journey
Has the confidence been tough given that they're in play-ins or do they feel good?
No, they feel good, especially after running the adbc everyone feeling confident. That's good. Hey, that's that's good to hear man
Any any words right now obviously because falcons fans are always going to be strong and and look it out there
Um, how any words for like the falcons fans watching you guys have to go through the play-ins and
and have this dip.
Falcon fans are the best.
Man, I want to thank them for all the support.
And I want to tell them we're going to do our best
to bring the trophy home.
Hey, well, we'll see if you guys can do that.
But it starts in the play-ins for now,
though, we've got to take out your opponents
across the field here.
Foot's years so far is very interesting,
considering we restarted the season with zero points.
The foot team was built for LCKU.
We didn't have that much pressure.
Besides maybe a few couple teams that, you know,
maybe the Gen Gs and stuff that could maybe sneak in
like a game or two here and there.
So it's definitely a little scary for sure.
But we had nothing but confidence.
We know the abilities we all have individually as players
and as a team and how good we can be.
So we just went in there confident and it clearly shows.
I think coming to this world,
I want to do very well considering the past events
haven't been too good,
but we've shown that we have fight in us.
We've been showing very good scrims
against the top, top teams.
I've been to a lot of worlds.
I've won Worlds.
I haven't lost a passion at all.
I definitely am, I would say, a veteran in these situations.
So I know kind of how to handle it.
So I feel like on stage and when it matters,
I could be the leader for Cheez & Chronic.
And Chronic himself knows as well, because he's won majors.
So I'm just hoping to get out of play-in
and I think whoever we play first out of the play-in,
I think we can confidently beat him
and hopefully top eight.
And then we'll just keep going from there.
Well, I am now across the field on the other side here
with a foot and Adam Begat, the coach, back in the squad, you know, I always love chat
with you, you always have a good positive vibe to you. Have you been able to translate
that with the squad? Are they also emanating that positivity right now?
Yeah, absolutely. I think that the squad's a very happy right now to be here. Obviously,
I think the matchups that we have in front of us might be more difficult than we anticipated
initially. Overall, we're all really happy, excited to have the opportunity. Kronik
is qualified for every LAN since he started being a pro player. It's just in seventh
of all championship, so we're all really happy.
Yeah, I did mention, I looked across there,
that's the Falcons over there.
Yeah, that's the Falcons.
Well, what was the talks, I guess,
going into this matchup with the squad?
You know, was it a, we'll see what we can do?
Is there is a, no, we'll do it?
Like, what's the reality in the talks
when you go into a tough matchup like this?
Yeah, I think our entire season
has been riddled with difficult matches.
I mean, we had twisted Vitality KC in a group
and then making it through the WCLC we played,
twisted in the upper shop in the lower.
So we've always had difficult matches.
I wouldn't say we're approaching it any differently.
I mean, in all the series that we have played against the top teams,
it has been close.
And I know that we are all capable,
and we know we're capable.
So there's no change in mindset, not just because it's Falcons.
That's fair.
And speaking of change, a lot of teams
will probably want to come into a world with some consistency.
But do you take the opportunity with these plans
to give them the second life that's there or the extra games
you play to try something new,
or do you try to avoid that risk?
I think we have a good thing going.
I don't think we felt the need to try something new.
Outgames have been pretty close against the top and I don't think it's the time right now to change it up
Obviously we've had an issue with closing things out and I'm winning once you're close to the finish line
But in the past two months, I think we have done a really good job of fixing that
Hey, well, this is a real big test to you guys and I hope it goes well for you
But we'll see falcons you on the other side. Good luck in your matchup. Thank you boss
With this matchup so many different angles we get approached from I want to start with talking about
foot here and some of the things that Justin said in that little video piece.
He said that the team was built for the LCKQ.
He said that this was an expectation for them to have to go through that qualifier
to make it to this point, which makes sense.
It gives me talking about the fact that this team was built after the Boston
Major and had to sacrifice those points.
Oh, absolutely. They built it like we're very likely no matter what we do
for that power split, we're going to have to go through the LCKQ.
We have to be good enough and our nerves have to be there to do it.
Not only did they do that, then they go to EWC LCKQ.
They also win that tournament as well.
So these guys know how to win when everyone is fighting,
but when they get to the next tier,
it's always been a little difficult.
They've come so close.
We talked about it earlier.
KC and Vitality in Paris, they went 3-2, 3-2.
Lost on Champions Field both times.
Back in EWC, they made it to that main event.
They lost to Twisted Minds 3-1.
They lost to Rebellion 4-3.
They lost on Champions Field three times against these teams.
They know they're right there.
They just need that one extra thing to push them above.
I mean, the fact that they were built for LCQs,
we've seen them now in two LCQs, win those events,
means according to them, everything's going according to plan.
But the problem with being built for an LCQ is what comes next.
And so far, we have not seen them take that next step,
which leads me to the second thing I saw, Stubbe,
that was surprising and notable to me that Justin said,
was that he's so experienced at this event in particular.
You heard his coach say that his seventh world championship
and that he's ready to step up
and be the leader for Cheese and Chronic,
which is not a role, not a characteristic.
When I think about Justin as a player,
I think about him as the pop-off guy that the leader,
the team captain's having to bolster up emotionally
so that that player can be on fire.
He's saying he's ready to pick up that leadership mantle,
which is a surprising new chapter for Justin.
Which I also really liked when he was saying,
you know, I'm not trying to be this flashy player.
I'm not trying to be all of this on the field.
That's so opposite to what we all are
through Justin with being.
And it's really interesting to see how a player
can develop throughout their career.
They're saying about how well they do through our LCQs
and the fact that Kronik has been to every land that he can qualify for since being a pro player.
Fortunately for him, there have been issues once they reached the big dogs.
During the RLCS 25 season, it was 56.
That was the last really good result, a certain kickoff weekend, we could have a lot smaller.
Otherwise, it's been 13th to 16th or 9th to 12th.
It has been disappointing for Kronik unfortunately
and trying to get him back in that swing,
I think is something that mentally is going to be tough, but what a great time to be doing it. They did so well through the LCQs
They must have a lot of belief in them
But they need to look at this as its own tournament and then continue how they play into when they do play the big dogs
Of which by the way falcons are because is one of them and their foot had to get the LCQ for
Falcons won and they absolutely
absolutely obliterated every opponent in their way. Falcons were the perfect team about a
month and a half, two months ago, whatever it was. And I really do struggle to see what
Falcons are going to be doing so rapidly differently that means that foot are going to be able
to really make a big dent in them.
I kind of want to, like, just while we have a second here, while the players are getting
ready, let's talk about Falcons. Let's talk about Mina. Let's talk about this
roster. In general, base, I feel like everybody's been looking at me like, oh, Falcons
kind of fell off. But did they? They placed top four in Boston. Yeah. And then their region
has just stepped up. We had with two teams and stallions and R8 that have come to play
and have shown their ability to play at multiple events now. And then they are the LWC winners.
Is this team actually struggling right now? I wouldn't necessarily quantify as struggling.
I was just saying it's different when we showed all the players across to see the
twins, their best RCS worlds finish was second. That was last year. They had
They brought in Drolley for these type of reasons.
You know why his best RCS world's finish is first and also his best EWC finish was first
and at this point, that's the big question mark for Falcons.
You made these changes.
You made the TRK for Drolley switch for two reasons, EWC and RCS world championship.
You got one.
None.
Now you're trying to get the second one.
And not only that, we talked about Falcons.
It's been a disappointing year.
Not internationally.
The only reason why they weren't at Paris was because of RA.
So R8 is the only team that would take them down.
And then, but when they go to international events,
like we talked about Boston Major,
what the game went all the way to Champions field,
lost to the Mates.
So they could easily won that tournament as well.
Speaking of which, though,
R8 currently playing on the alternate stream,
dropped game one to TSM.
TSM 1-0 in that first match on the alternate stream,
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Make sure you have it up so you can check it out.
How much is it depth?
How much is TSM popping off right now?
Oh, I love that we get a key
Continue to ask these questions.
I mean, yeah, that's the big question mark
about Mina in general.
Because Falcons, I mean, you have
such a chemistry on the old team at TRK and the twins.
And that's what you were trying to replicate.
You had to build something new, I think,
with Drowley and the twins.
And that took time.
And then Drowley talking about it
saying, we would sweep our old selves.
That means something.
The way he's talking about it is,
we just simply want that level.
We had all the pieces.
But we hadn't put the puzzle together just yet.
Now they're in sync.
And now they're looking really great.
And it's going to be a big test, too.
But I'm going to get some push squad.
It's nice as well to kind of hold up the mirror full.
last season, especially when
you look towards Charlie on the
previous BDS roster where BDS
last season have quite
disappointing start of the year.
They were having issues and
then they went through and then
obviously, Charlie with that BDS
team, one EWC and then they
managed to all two years go
rather than managed to take
down the world championship.
They did that back to the back
to back and then you've got
it this year trying to enjoy
new team that has a little
bit of disappointing start
and then don't make ages,
which is crazy and then they
would need to be C and now
that you can draw between. So past Charlie and now I want to point out one note here though gives because I think a lot of people are looking at EWC.
They're looking at Falcons winning, especially winning that final four. Oh, they were so, so strong at WC.
I think a lot of people with a lot of recency bias will look at the falcons say they're the clear favorites to win the World Championship.
And yet they are overlooking the fact that the road to that championship that grand finals match is longer for the Falcons than it is for every other favorite in this tournament.
None of them have to play today.
Yeah, which has never happened before that are sort of a favorite plane in the playing
I don't think that hurts them yet because I think they make it through this plane that rather easily
But no matter what group they get that group is now the group of death
Because they're going to be the fourth best team in terms of power seeds, you know
So falcons are going to have a brutal group if they do make it out
So it is going to be a hard road for them
But because of how dominant they were at the university not only 4 0 versus spaces in the final
They also had the top quadrant where all four teams probably the top four in the world
They came out of that they took down twist of minds that they for okay corp as well
No, which is a huge accomplishment
They're gonna be playing into the group of death which at that point their tournament starts the same as everybody else's
But they have to play just an entire extra day here baits
I feel like you probably have the most experience on this desk that would maybe be able to speak to this
How much does playing a
Versus all right playing a five-day tournament factor into your overall tournament viability. I'm such a hater man
and stuff. You know, my bad. You're only about 16. Hey, I
know what I mean. Stay with us. I also want to show much.
We're on the same level of second. Oh, that's not what
you're saying. Wait up. Never mind. I'm gonna stop right
there. I will say that six days was five days. I'm
thinking about it. Don't do that. Yeah. Not not this
level. I don't think it's because it's the plan. It's
just different level. We're not going to get the energy
or it's how they call my right here. You're not
gonna have a strenuous day technically in a way. This
might be Falcon's toughest competition of the day and
they could potentially sweep it. It might just be a
blend and then they get really focused and locked in for
the Wednesday, aka the World Championship main event.
So I think they'll be just fine honestly.
I don't really think there's going to be any fatigue for any of these squads.
You think there's any chance it turns into momentum for them?
Momentum? I don't think it's really going to affect the momentum.
I'll be honest. I just think they kind of expect to come in here.
If I'm Falcons, I expect to come in. I expect to get the job done.
And I expect to really start focusing in on the big dog event,
which is going to be whatever group they end up in tomorrow.
Folks, let us know who you think is going to win
and Beressa Fambo will make our picks on the desk.
Stumpy, you got to write the first time around.
We all got it right. Congratulations, Chad.
If you picked, let's throw that first match here.
here. So who you got here? Falcons. Wow. I think that it would be a very, very large upset if Falcons
ended up losing this one. And then they've got a lot of experience, etc. Blah, blah, blah, Falcons.
I mean, the fanboy Falcons are my favorite team and they will even better than last year at this
point. I'm going Falcons. Okay. Has he always been Falcons? I think he's picked Falcons a lot.
My heart really wants to go afoot. God, I think they've had some great
stories throughout the season, but my mind, my brain says to go with them Falcons.
So I'm gonna pick Falcons right here.
I think it might go game five.
I like that.
I would love to see it go to game five, but there is a clear favor that EWC
champs are in the building.
I've got Falcons there as well, folks.
How does the coin feel about it?
Put on one side Falcons on the other end of the air and
it's gonna come up for Falcons a clean sweep twice in a row here on the desk.
Will we be correct yet again?
Or do we start off the shenanigans of the world championship on match number two?
It would be fun.
It will be fun.
This will be the time you watch Falcons match one,
maybe they come out a little cold and see what they can do.
Because they're going to have confidence.
They're going to be going into it,
the old energy style, laughing while they're scoring.
So that is what foot is going to try and do here to Falcons.
They know they're massive underdogs.
I do feel like there is a weird mindset difference
between these two, like the mindset of how seriously
these two teams are approaching this matchup.
One to say, hey, let's just have fun.
Let's do that.
We must win this match. We offer no mercy and wildly I think it is the correct decision for both teams
They are in the correct mentality for each other have they been able to line up or it were to find out your folks
52% says Falcons that tells you how many people want to see Justin Kronik and cheese pull this one off
Can they do it here folks on match number two?
An incredible way to start things off. We've had sweeps so far
are hopefully the champions feel here in match number two Falcons versus foot for match number two
World Champion
We do not award the world championship to the most consistent team of the year
We award it to the team that peaks at the right time
And so often Johnny Boy does that end up being the winning team
We saw that two years ago
We might see it again two years later
Game one brought to you by progressive
Progressive. Yeah, so last year as well, and he describes very much every world championship in the open era there
We've had many teams that the start of the season at the best team and end there
Maybe BDS became back in but even they had a massive blend and also a lot of roster change. Yeah. Yeah
It's never been twice in a row. It's so hard to win two lands in a row
With how Valence at home, but apparently we've got in the process now
But I think that we've read a good summary of them from the players themselves, very honest
with their own assessment of where they are in the scene.
They've got potential, they've shown signs that they can take games and be competitive
against just about anyone.
And they expect them to do that against Vulcans here.
But this is a tough draw for them, and it's the worst possible draw against the
UWC champs.
He's already got the reset, he's going to go into the fight right?
Cronik infield, Justin, how brave is he to feel by diving in on that one?
Not great enough, that is what we want to get through, I don't know if that's even a better position.
Drowley doesn't get the reset, instead leaves it for his teammate.
Good possible sense for Cronik, that should be safe for now.
If a foots, I mean, they've just always had to try and climb to that next level.
Think if you just change the naming of this part of the tournament, as said,
Okay, it's another last chance qualifier. They might actually be 5,000 this one.
With that wins, it's the last set before the World's Elbow Pay chance here for Chronic.
Double tap, no descendants in for 1-0.
He takes it!
But...
Decisive, they didn't force this attack at all. They were so patient.
With the build-up,
Anklers couldn't get the save on the overhead.
One-0 to the underdogs.
It was a very rare occasion while I got to stab those boosts, so there's a running lot of them.
Falcons had nobody back for it. Everyone on the goal line...
I play like price can see that just go okay I'm going up there and you're not
gonna be able to reach me. Kill us. Just try to test cheese. Who believes that
for just in great touch. More and more devils are coming through.
This could get me just way a little bit. Not the best option cheese. Actually it's a fantastic pass.
Just it. Lovely. It's just me so fast at the moment I've got it.
and I'm not waiting for invitation.
Yeah, perfect.
Flickle so far.
Hardly put.
Any wheel drunk in the midfield.
Just seemed to defend exceptionally well,
and they put the stronger part of the game as their defense,
so this could be tough for Vulcans to come back.
It's almost two.
Justin threatened with a reset.
Vulcans have also shorted up on their defensive weaknesses
that were previously widely known.
Drally on the roster.
Barnhardt is a score off.
F***ing...
I mean, ass there in the middle of the first half!
That's gonna be 2-0!
Jeez!
Genshin's felt his absiton!
And they've been warned about this!
Well, this passing play is not the first time
that Foot have gone for this!
2-0!
And I've got to say, Drain,
the way Foot are challenging for each other,
there is always just...
I'm gonna lose the 50,
but I'm gonna make your life so much easier afterwards!
Okay, this is where I fake kickoff Foot.
I'm just sitting on the ball, air-gibberish, it was drally.
Vulcans completely come out of position as foot passed the ball out of defence.
They've done so well, widening each other in the pitch,
and like you said, losing 50 backboards each other.
I was really impressed by some of his back passes at East Boys World Cup,
but, you know, they went last, they went to the back,
but it was against Shopify, it twisted my,
and said, they're looking at the door for looking for a third.
Vulcan's a bit completely outplayed for three minutes.
I do not care about all the recent results, uh...
Don't be arguing, yeah, we've both won tournaments at EWC.
Yours might paint a little bit more of that.
Still wet and difficult to work.
Still beat stallions in my grand final.
Now Cronik, the Palace is just on.
Oh...
Didn't like how on too much though, it gives a little bit too much of the ball.
That was a killer's.
Lovely.
It's just good.
You should always lose it, just straight to an enemy team mate.
They did such a good job moving about laterally foot,
switching the play left to right with 50-50s as passes.
They've got options in both directions in a lot of these transition attempts.
The pumpkins are having a hard time.
Keep it footboxed in, they can't seem to pressure them for an extended period.
They're going to keep that confidence up there because
if it ever goes wrong, it can be very easy to stop the shell up again.
not allows him to be in position to be passed to.
But a remaining cop for that has Justin swipes away the opportunity.
2-0, I-1, I stand corrected and just don't remain at left.
It was an extended period of pressure, the first one that Coppins have had.
Justin, although he easily downed the initial chance, he didn't get back to the ball and that was key there.
He probably thought it wasn't in a strikeable position.
Jiralli makes him well aware of the opposite.
That could be super hard.
It's Ryus 50's that low that's gone wide.
Cheese gets down on it.
Justin has to control this again, but he loses it.
Oh, Justin's really struggling in that corner.
I don't want to stop.
But Justin's got to stop being, I want to say, lazy Rocket League in that corner.
He's popping it out.
He's not falling.
And it's always got his team core twice in a row.
Stuck in the corner.
Pounces out.
Ryus hasn't got the boost to go for this.
Cheese does.
He's going to watch some sort of fear now, but no, he's going to him.
He goes to the backboard, but Ross will cover.
Just 30 seconds left for Fertz to hang on.
Gun ball in a good position here.
See, just tried to make it to the finish line.
He's got a great force there by Cheese.
Justin should have this, and he does.
Ross, booseless at the halfway line.
Unable to get back in, it might be three.
It is!
Adjusted!
He'll tell me go light.
But it just died, you know if you're watching, you have to try and send something.
Nobody back, having close.
The comfort, the cushion, back in their hands.
Vulcans are gonna have to do something off the kickoff.
And it's written about the barrier of the kickoffs, in my opinion, so far.
This isn't gonna go Vulcans' way either.
Already, Upsets coming through the play-in.
The DSM taking game 1 against Arley, but taking game 1 against Valkyrie, the meta teams, the favourites to make it through, both struggling early on.
What a performance from PUT Esports.
Again, I think it's just all in the way that they are trusting one another right now. The only goal they conceded, yes, it was often extended bit of pressure, but it was silly from Justin to give it away like that.
the other. They've not actually
shown any other weaknesses. No,
just looking just again. Just
don't do that again and we're
okay. Yeah, but they didn't
really make many mistakes.
Falcons were extremely consistent.
They were very solid at EWC, the
event that they won, especially
when it got to champ Sunday
shot every single time we get
here is gonna be 50 that goes
straight back and then that's
the key play because Justin
the game. The game is going to
be a very, very, very, very
important. The Falcons story,
but Falcons were caught out on
transition to country title
to escape. What passing play
one chased down from Justin
three once a. And it is all
best vibes. It's been like this
can happen very, very quickly.
I understand that people say,
Oh, luckily can be very
reactionary sport. It's 15
minutes to lose. That's it
when you get some of this
and it could be an awful. I
mean, losers of this round.
Play against each other and
But let's say this timeline continues and we have an R8 Falcons, the first round elimination match.
I think that's a nightmare match for Falcons to be honest because they've had tricky times against R8.
They've been growing online, they've been slowly improving, they've been on event.
One of the youngest teams in the world, but well played by Justin.
Got my favorite player, Gazi.
Focus needs to try to look out for those foot-counter attacks.
That's mostly what caught them in the first game.
The ambivalents stand against this foot.
They light up, they cover rotation for each other really well.
They challenge really well.
They back-pass, they pass out defence to a very high level.
And you know, they're just not as bad as the results were suggested.
They're actually a really good team.
They're trying to get me to play their playing right now.
A lot of that Copenhagen gents makes team.
Ah, one out of them. Just always wait for one another, just in his loitering back there.
As I came there, right, maybe that time like it's not as much to worry about the heart.
That was an interesting example there by the loiterers, does manage to get the ball towards thralley.
And like I said, the best of five just beats this such an important game too.
As foot again, look for that lateral movement, and see, advance to the ball.
Well kids are in a pretty deep position here. Doesn't look like they're confident leaving their goal area
That's what a couple of counterattacks in game what'll do
They help his lineup down there afraid to push more a great demo again by foot who can see it's only about the better team in the matchup
They're gonna drop the block. Drops down is a really good job there from the defender. Relax
Pumped it away
Drop down pass yet again. That was just straight to draw. Okay, chronic, maybe a little bit too half-mazzards
And now, it's all with Gs. That's well, what's the follow?
I'm able to, can this done very well with this?
Just to straight back in, and Gs once again have dealt with the problem.
Rally! Shot a lot of that, and has he fired it again?
Yes he has! Just the outpace!
Well, just inside. Two minutes gone.
So Raleigh beats Jeezy a bunch of clears, quick to follow as well.
That was speed from Vulcans.
He'll consider himself some more mechanical team in the matchup.
He'll consider himself some more mechanical team in just about any matchup.
That was quick though.
I think the pause barely moved.
There's Bison in the center circle.
Here comes Justin. Good 50 by him.
Oh Jesus, Bruce. Let's get up for this.
Her last bid to Raleigh.
Good jump shot down there by Jeezy.
Stayed in the play.
He's completely zero for a moment.
I was going to try and find a way to get this one somewhat dangerous.
I'm trying to just play around with everybody, really picked up his level.
If he's just going to start adribing this, I don't think that's a bad idea at all.
It's not going to have to find its way in, jeez.
I'm trying to get the follow.
It's fine, but fuck, it's not going to have to chase this right now.
It's going to make them really difficult to break down.
Instead of fucking with the lead dodge,
I can't get the outplay to relax this side to trolley.
This is very similar to the previous goal to save in the touch and then use it
It's getting the ball fast defender big mess of my cheese
Probably the first big mess you've seen from foot in the matchup and it's cost them another goal
We'll see now what that does to their confidence
So they now know those mistakes are there
Now does that play that's been a lawyer and start thinking maybe need to start heading back a bit quicker
Nothing would be the right decision
And now he's doing stuff like that.
How can you not try and follow him?
This is what it brought him in.
He's going wrong.
We all want to draw him.
And now everybody's stepping up.
And so far, the first half of the plan,
the EWC islands to the trophy cabinet,
just lacking the world championship.
Already had a major from last season.
last season, Falkins with TRK on the roster had them, they've already got a VP, they've
got close to no collection for the art. I think they have a lot of respect for food in this
matchup, it's clear by the way Falkins are playing this, they are not just trying to
dust fruit to everyone, they're picking their battles and that makes sense because
Footer are a very well-respected team in the pro scene, they've not had the
LAN wins or the series wins on LAN I should say, so you feel a lot with that but
Everybody respects them, they know that this is a team and you have to take it seriously.
Game 1 going to Fert is not, it might be due to Falcons underestimating the Falcons though,
that they're in for a long series here.
This has been a big adjustment here for Falcons.
Just, you know, playing the ball up high, a lot more, allowing the challenge to come in good for the out-flight.
It's also, it doesn't make any ego to a lot of broccoli players, where the victory you want to be is faster than yours.
Yeah, as we're not at that moment, but we are all mechanical, and Charlie, especially, is lethal right now, and he's got the setup for the loss.
Well, they're all in the square sheet now, Falcon's starting to heat up here, but have not been able to match them.
It's not the end of the world, of course, but this is still a serious score that they would take if you gave them a 1-1.
We're talking about that as if I want it.
I mean, can't do something here.
They've got some cheeky kick all over.
I mean, you've got the second corner.
They need to get one pretty quick though.
They're gonna need to take a risk and score.
Oh, it's not looking good here though.
Well, it's just going one again.
Into the backward rematch.
In fact, with a hundred boosts.
Handoff from third.
No good.
Yeah, these edgerolls I'm not liking actually, in first.
Wow.
But this game's a bad touch.
Okay.
There's been an awful lot on the get-the-ball,
but technically edgeroll will get in the reset.
I would like look to start taking those 15s.
They're trying to outplay too often when there's two defenders back in the park and time stand there.
There's a different situation you can't really afford to waste any time.
There's more of a general observation.
Nice.
This could be launch.
That's a f***ing pop-off somewhere.
They don't-
They will have realized, I'm sure.
They look like they were talking amongst themselves.
They've already started their effective timeout. They know this game's over.
They all know that Vulcans are just trying to go for the outplay.
Vulcans haven't really been relying on resets to get the ball past foot in this game.
So foot diving in exactly where the ball is on challenges has allowed Vulcans to put the ball over their heads.
Multiple clenches, so we'll last do that as we saw.
we saw. And D'Rally do the same thing. And even at the end, they were the double-tet relashes,
goes high. So, they'll know, and they should know, Falcons are going quite high on all of
their outplay attempts. So, they've got to do the same thing in defense now, but need
to go a bit higher on the challenges. But if Falcons predict that adjustment from foot,
they might start going for the recess, they might start going for the fakes, they
might like, say, go for aerial fifties. So, really interesting game three coming up.
Who's going to be smarter out of the two teams currently? You look at some highlights.
The horrible bit here is what the Flut is.
What was maybe their best thing
and their best attribute in Game 1
was what cost them here in Game 2.
Because like you said, Falcons adapted to it.
Riley really did a good job of adapting to it.
He's given that first goal.
What I'm curious about here, Joy,
is given the goals that we did see from Flut in Game 1,
their ability to chase a game.
Yeah, they were very good
when they could bring the pressure towards them.
If they go down by one,
I've got a lot of questions about whether or not this team can do something about that.
I think both teams, like I said, I think they're both stronger on the defensive end, even though
Tholkens have got some very good offense as well, they're one of the best in the world.
I think their defense is what's stolen the show in the EWC win.
They're very good at preserving a lead, even 1-0 leads if you salt any types in their
series against KC in particular.
But the foot are the same, if the foot can get in front, I think that brings
best to have them as well so getting the first goal in this match up it's always important to
rock blue but it's especially important here. Killers, here's the back pass over to Rewas,
sends it along, looking for a reset that's what it's going to be threading the needle.
Alright, pass one, probably just going to try and take his time to the awkward to get my bounce.
I've been having to see a teammate Justin because I'm sure that it's going to need to just be
I mean, God is gently over into the corner.
Thunder Goats wall is my net.
Please don't go to wall with my net.
Oh, no!
Thunder Goats wall is my net.
Yes, cheese, sure to see this one coming.
That bounce is just so easy for an attacker,
like you're asked to go for.
Cheese, he didn't slid out that much,
but he slid out just enough to leave the ball open.
Big dunk, and then go for Falcons.
You've got to see that coming.
If you're hitting the ball,
any kind of strikeable position,
And all of these are going to be on that, just like they were for their only goalie game plan.
Yeah, that corner is a problem starting right now, but it's very strange, yes.
So we have a flying edge here, from last.
Reset gate, gets the block.
Crawling on his way in to try and take over.
Incapacitable, not quite.
They're on their way back.
Cheese.
Oh, I'm going to show the last scuffer of everybody.
Drawing up the easiest shot.
Because then, recovery.
From last, I wasn't trying to finish you off.
Well it just got to the inside. The response save from Gronik was just not for the underlings.
Yeah Justin needed to do the same thing. He had to turn off the spot and go straight for the goal.
He was hoping that that save from Gronik would go a little bit higher.
So he would have taken the boost to make it back to the goal.
Do some defending but it's all bulkies now. The momentum is absolutely shifted.
And this is what good players are worried about.
It goes in a row for Vulcans.
Raleigh.
To the last good catch.
Doesn't kill us.
Available.
Goes to the edge of the map.
Oh my goodness!
Our Vulcan's offense has really leveled up
in the last seven minutes.
What is no longer available right now, Johnny?
When was the last time we saw that passing play
out of defense and fun?
It is not there anymore.
Well, yeah, they're panicking a little bit.
They're not taking their time with their touches.
just like they started the series and you know so well fighting each other in defense
any team falcons in falcons are not falling for it look how deep they're sitting because they
go away whenever foot got the ball that's a long better oh it was happy to see that one
well okay so that was a rifle this is exactly as we expected the team that goes ahead
He's able to run on the score, both teams very good, very effective.
Letting the opponent come to them and then using the space on transition.
That was a bullet out of the shot from Drowley.
Thorie now put in big trouble.
It's looking like it's just going to be another one of those series where they've played well.
They look like a world-class team.
They're able to take games, but ultimately they lose to one of the sort of the favourites at Falcons.
They're just running up a score.
It's looking like Falcons of old.
It's the Hope, the Genshin, and FUT Esports.
They provided a lot of hope in Game 1.
Now they need a lot of answers.
This is consistent. This is a problem.
And with FUT Esports,
they try to edge-dribble out of there outside of the field.
And I just, I don't like that as a strategy
against Falcons of old.
Oh, my God!
Oh, oh my goodness!
Just did that, bro!
How did he, how did he put that hit from here?
What the hell?
I like the ceiling!
He just gets over it and drops it down.
I mean, Valkyrie said no idea he's about to try to shoot that.
I'll take it back entirely!
And you will all you want, mate!
What the hell?
Oh, jeez, I'm shot!
There's shot type of bits that work with me, and they've got another chance.
Dronik, he's past one.
Oh, Charlie's got control of the 100 boost note.
Bulkers are not going to make this easy. They're not going to get put any easy looks through.
If you're going to score them a just in this thing, you didn't sit fair enough, that's all right.
We'll let them have that one, but we'll see if we can get anything off of that momentum that Justin's just given them.
Tron is just on it the entire way.
Justin, back pass. He's really like that. Geez.
Up on the corner. Crop is going to bridge out and challenge you for each other right now.
Ooh, lovely.
It's cool off ball.
That's where our killer's up, so early on the free jump.
There's Justin, just get up there.
It's available, it's right there,
and it's not quick enough.
That's where the band of players,
Justin couldn't really see where the players was.
The players is hiding behind the ball,
just shadowing in the air.
And this is the most dire little shadow defense
I don't want to know.
Oh yeah, these guys are, they're shadowing in the air
just as much as they're going now.
It's crazy to think of,
back in the start of Justin's career,
That wasn't really a thing.
I was wondering what Johnny's saying.
He's like, not only is your car hidden behind the wall,
so is your name tag.
And that just makes it so different.
So long players play off the name tag.
And corner.
Jeez, with an immediate miss, if I don't like the corner,
I come first.
That is a problem area.
One minute remaining.
But it's something they needed soon.
He's in a fighting touch just in order to accept.
doesn't get there in time.
25 seconds and every play like this.
Oh wow.
Oh my goodness, they're still going for it.
No goal.
What a play-out loss.
Yeah, they're great if they're from Falcons with the aerial pitch attacks.
And it looks like it is going to be more than enough,
but conceded far too many early.
Still in this, but it seems like they're hanging up by a threat here.
Two dominant wins in a row for the 20-in favourites and EWC champions.
We look forward to this.
Oh, he's got the set-free.
That's 10 seconds remaining.
Let's see if you can add some style to this.
No boost available here for Ronny.
Now, two dominant victories.
The T-Sports need some answers.
They need them soon.
Because as good as that goal was, Johnny,
the big question we always ask in these situations
is, is that something you can keep replicating?
Yeah.
I hope not.
Otherwise, the skill level is way too high.
It's just about staying calm and defense for a bit.
I think if we go all the way back to the first goal in the game, she's rushed his touch
towards his back corner, the ball bounces off the wall, and then he doesn't get
back to it in time.
I think if he just plays that touch to the back corner a bit more carefully, gets
the ball rolling up the wall, he can easily get behind that 50 at NSA's location.
Because he's rushed that top's there the balls kicked up and then he doesn't get a full side of it for last
He's into it, but it's all going back. I think to that touch to those sorts of partners
Not necessarily the ball play that's just a you know a symptom of the the actual problem here
It's a good jumping to our they're not controlling the ball in defense like the word before
Justin the goal in the tournament contender on day one
All right that one down make sure you remember it
We do have time-outs here in the best of 5s, very reasonably new, and we get into this
and I don't get, I'm just going to have to really put something together here, because
it does look like the levels have started to be established, and one of them is a
CQ winner, other one is a tournament winner.
Yeah, it's been a foot story for Paris Major, EWC as well, and now here at the World's
play in. They were competitive against Vitality, they were competitive against KC, Twisted Minds,
Shop and Fire Rebellion. They have great runs online in North America. They're clearly that,
you know, top of the b-tier level. Looks like a quick nap there for...
They haven't been here for a while, right, so they're not going to be yet left.
It's actually not. It's actually close to Kevin.
I mean, this is also the horrible bit of their seeding. And this is what they get in a lot of times they go into is when you are the lowest seed coming in from your region, you're going to get horror matchups. And because of the way tournaments work, you kind of don't get to progress beyond that until you get a victory in one of those horror matchups.
On that until you get a victory in one of those horror matches, the good news is, this isn't everything.
You don't lose this end, you're out, and I'll say that they are going to lose this end,
I'm just trying to put to give the entire tournament.
It also means that they haven't got to worry about playing Falcons again.
Yeah, basically what you're seeing from Foot, do they still have a very good shot of getting through regardless of the result here?
Oh yeah, I think Foot qualified.
I think they'll have to go through lords the way this is going.
But I do think they'll qualify to Worlds.
Let's see, what do they have left in attack?
Did we get game 5?
Wow!
Just then we absolutely agree.
He scored the only goal last game,
and he's open to scoring this game as well.
The Hawkins, they're backing up,
but they're scared of the legend, the veteran.
Farmer rookie of the year, almost nine years ago, still at high level.
Listen, there is one thing that has been a consistent for 9-8.
Something like that here is destroyed.
Does get a number 1-8.
This is sort of a horrible bit right now, you can't go get anything going, you're just going, yeah, yeah, I've got both, I've got the boost, I'm just going to score.
Yeah, fuck, it's getting on the curve there with the kickoff.
It's, uh, predicted that we're going to go for the back corner, probably I can see.
I clattered it with the opposite, uh, contact to the ball.
That's one thing you can do about adjusting the kickoffs as this went off.
This game one was a bit of a horror show, now on the kickoffs.
I mean, it's just something that overgrows the series goes on teams come in with the initial strats
and then the adaptation begins, that's why they start to see teams switch things up, but this could be another one
She's back or shot some point, good play by relaxing defense, Justin's respected and though he's sitting deep and he manages to take the ball away from free
Just gonna pop one on target, but we'll see the results of that goal as Khaleer's got fun
Well, I know she's a meanie, but for the player,
Johnny Clark, very similar idea as Chronic.
Oh, wow.
Can't do anything!
Getting Castle harassed and backs.
Yeah, she's not.
He was going to be the one disrupting physical in it,
but actually it's Chronic,
and each time he's getting boxed out in the play,
Falk is rolling full steam ahead,
and for the first time in the series,
they've managed to come back from the deficit.
That's every team that's opened the score.
Up with the score, it gets eventually 1.
Well, it's a good thing to re-establish control.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we're gonna see what he can do again.
And he's gonna do the whole way.
He wants...
Right to go!
And he probably just got the...
The hint for that a little bit too late.
There he has it on his jump.
Oh, he's out of bounds.
He's just gonna power long.
Just in.
Way down.
And he's very horrible trying to catch the one
on the backboard when the ball is already heading down again.
What's going on, man?
What's going on?
How brave are they going to be?
That's all good for everybody.
All is slowed up, jeez.
Grouping himself for the time being, needs to get in the center.
Roast straight up, Justin.
Goes back to the ceiling.
Can he get there in time?
No, he can't.
Roast full second.
Yeah, great challenge for Roast, dude.
Cut to self, Justin, early when he's been close to the goal.
He's been scoring.
still elevate to this game with every match shift and for me he's been the outstanding player for
foot for a while now. Oh that's going to make it, go on and get there, Jiralli makes it 3-1.
His clear's faking the high challenge, we spoke about that earlier on. Game two,
Falkens went for high outweighs again and again but it started to challenge a little bit higher
air in the air and Volkens have, as we feared for foot, seen that gobbled, started to adjust.
So they kick off the bottom. Justin, heavy first touch. Wanted to back down for a teammate.
And the Valkyries have improved their transition game so much from getting on the ward.
Running good angles, Justin. Every single touch is always a pop. You know what his first
touch is gonna be. It's the other ones that you need to worry about. Back out,
Relax plenty of time
Shots! Oh, we had killers to go for it!
And you wanted killers to try and pre-jump him!
Didn't happen
Still with two gold league cheese
What's the player?
Now he just got on the trolley nine with a quite wide
Good news, TSM took our rate to game five
Our rate were able to get the job done there
TSM continuing to have a season full of surprises
It's always great to see them performing well.
Remember that the loser of this match will play against CSF next.
CSF who were able to beat the world champions at UWC.
A lot of teams have been underestimated.
That could be first next opponent again.
A high challenge outplayed.
Falcons are just too good.
Yeah.
That's really impressive.
And Falcons just how quickly they are spotting things.
I'm just like, we are going to go after the same thing
over and over and over again.
I'm going to keep scoring.
And now it goes we back here in game four.
But look, the exact same for Futs last player.
I'm chasing back and being unable to make it.
Yeah.
Everything in Rockleague is a mind game.
You can see that mostly, of course, with 1v1.
And Lesnar sent twoes, but even in 3s,
everything's a mind game.
Is that going to be 1-5?
No.
Kalleers denies it.
The challenge game from Futs started well.
Falcons made the necessary switch to start out playing.
And then they stay one step ahead of Fooks, attempts to counter them and really with that disadvantage
there's no way you're going to beat Vulcans, you need to be winning at least the mental battle or the strategy battle
I don't think you're going to beat them when it comes to mechanics, but with it on that, of course people then
just weren't able to stay at one step ahead of Vulcans, they were completely ran away with it
So if it's just another ugly body and then there's gonna be another one, great 50 back,
players tapped it and it's 5-1.
It's the sort of score line I think that doesn't quite do justice to what's applying.
They have been going for it, it's only they've sat back and just accepted their fate.
It's the fact that they aren't setting back.
Yeah, the reason why this has gone run up is because they're just counterattacking so, so cleanly.
That's probably just gonna try and find something.
Everyone's looking a little bit silly.
That killer's got plenty of time on the ball.
Maybe he wants to turn high like three set gains.
Two players required trying to keep that one out.
As Gras didn't miss that 100.
He's not gonna mind that too much though.
Gorgias arrives on his hoods.
It's brutal. It's absolutely brutal.
So while they should be finished, they have to get their heads high here.
Get the jigs out. They don't need to worry too much about this.
It's not the result they wanted, at least they would have wanted, it's some closer games.
It's both of what happened pretty ugly from a foot's perspective.
But now they go to the lords and the run continues, their chance is to qualify.
Although they've only got one more to go and make it through lords, this is their only life they can throw away.
So they're going to do a lot of meaner matchup.
So qualify for the main event.
R8 Vulcans is a story matchup for the season.
R8 have had Vulcans number online.
Vulcans have had R8's number online.
That's going to be Vulcans next up.
Nice qualify, remember.
They've got two opportunities, but will not be eliminated.
But they've got TSM who, from the sales of it,
are certainly not able to show that.
Oh, yeah.
That is going to be a head of a match to launch.
They've got to be careful. They really do.
I mean, NRG lost to TSM. TSM, they've worked.
They've got to scare Shopify Rebellion in Paris as well.
So, I've got to lock in for their lower bracket match.
They've got to just re-game.
That's fine. You've lost to Falkus.
It's no big deal.
That's going to be a problem for another day.
Today, their job is to make it out of the play-in.
And they're going to need to do it through Loars.
Falkus, they're looking scary credit to them.
They've shown up. They've taken that EWC form.
and they are continuing to roll with that event.
Simple justice.
See you right there, we got that.
But we know justice is not going to be the end there.
That's it though, as well, it's booted up on him.
Congratulations to Falcons.
This is for Flutey Sports.
It is all about just regrouping.
Going next is a brutal day that we've got
because the entire playing is played in one day.
So you've got to bounce back.
We've already seen from this team,
you know, even during that LCK,
but they managed to get through for EWC.
They lost a few times in that tournament.
The last place, what's Stallions wants to help me with the name,
because it's on the C and I've got the rest of it.
Criminals.
Criminals, that's a crime, but I was hooked off there.
I think foot make, they're around now.
They're going to need to beat TSM,
and they're going to need to beat the loser of Matta Icapha and VP.
I'm predicting that's going to be Matta Icapha.
I think they're going to need to go through the European LCQ winners.
But that's something foot have already done.
They've already beaten that team in the EWC LCQ.
I think Fitt's run ahead of it is actually very winnable for them.
He's got to regain from a tough beating and against the Falcons.
Still, some pilots are dusted along the way.
Yeah, we saw the hardline for them. We saw the peak for them in this game.
But after that, it was all Falcons as expected and predicted.
They are marching on and they're now over.
Wibbley is stuck by their victory.
Well, as predicted, for most people is accurate here.
here to whom is back with me now again bit of a challenge and you said it
before but is it good team and they proved it there by being able to take
some games up there yeah they started really well and we didn't start the way
we wanted but I'm very proud with the way we bounce back so in in a match like
that when you said you don't start the way you want who takes control to
get you where you want is it you do you step in between a game or do one of
players step up. It's a team work. Me and all the boys, everyone says what he thinks.
And we lock in. That's not a lot of time for everyone to say what they want to say in between
a game. How do you make sure the communication is concise and straightforward? Yeah, for
sure. During the game, I'm in charge of the combat. So if I speak between games,
the boys listen and I give them a time to say what they think right okay well I
mean now looking at where you guys ended up by the end of this matchup do you
feel like this is full stride or do you feel like okay a little bit more to get
where we want little we have a bit better a little bit more yeah a little
that's that's fair now I guess before I let you go just thoughts to the to
the rest of the play-ins teams.
Are you worried about the next match-ups coming up here?
Do you think this is, okay, we'll clear two groups?
Everyone is here, it's competitive.
He wants to qualify, nobody's really easy.
Okay, pardon me, you know what, that's a good point.
No one's really easy.
Well, I'm gonna get back to the team
and make sure you're in a good spot here.
Thank you so much again, congratulations on the win.
And as you said, there's so many teams here buying
to be the best, so much more rock at League two go.
And I gotta say it again, stay tuned
on the other side of the break, with some great rocket leg.
Because I can't change it, what you're wasting.
Now the check case is falling right to the ground.
OK, the plumber is fixing that burst pipe.
It should be all set.
Good thing you're protected 24-7 with your home
and auto bundle from Progressive.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to figure out the right caption to post about this.
Maybe something like, I have protection, just need a lifeguard.
What about that emoji with a shocked face?
Or maybe flooded with emotion.
That's too much. Try, uh, Tuesdays are crazy.
You know, technically, you don't have to post everything that happens online.
I totally believe you. Life is meaningless with that affirmation, am I right?
Milk can help you grow!
Milk can help you grow!
Milk can't prevent your ride from blasting into space!
He has a chance to kill it, he goes for the ceiling, he's got the race, he's gonna get
The 2026 RLCS season is coming to an end.
But fear not, for we still have three world championships to look forward to.
2v2 and 1v1 will be amazing, but for now, let's see how our good ol' 3v3 teams made
it here.
Shock horror! Last year a European team didn't win Worlds. Here are the 16s trying to change that this year.
Wait, EU has 16s?
Mattia Tapper reached Fort Worth in Europe's last chance event.
But of the regular qualifiers, Manchester City best have calming call from the Christmas card list.
The extra EU spot Casey earned by winning the kickoff land back in December 25 has now got City to two lands!
Cheers guys!
Guys, it's been a crow brought in Seiko after missing out on the Boston Major to his GK team, and it's been a master stroke.
After top five EU in split two, they finished top six at the Paris Major, winning their group along the way.
A similar start here would do very nicely indeed.
Jorias, Oli and CRR have been a top eight-ish land team all year, but in August's eSports World Cup, something clicked.
Sierra gets a double, Jory is better alone today with a bar.
That's it, Sierra!
Third place in Paris at EWC, not the major,
netted Nip a meaty 100k prize.
But can they go even better at an RLCS LAN
and win it all from fourth seed?
Well, just ask the org they knocked out in the quarters,
or a player they beat in the third place playoff,
they'll tell you it's very much possible.
First off, French teams are still really good.
They need to tough see each other in the center ball that's coming through.
You know what I'm saying?
But at EWC, France's powerhouses all took some serious beatings.
They see, ironically, losing track of the one guy they played with the most is on the kickoff.
And instead they just run into their own grave.
There might be a fourth goal coming here.
Alexander Goldgoals!
Welton and EWC are very different things,
thinks that dirt years ago fellow Frenchy monkey moon taught us gold in one can springboard
huge success in another. Vitality, calming corp and gentle mates arrived here wounded.
Will they buck the trend to claim the one everyone wants?
Europe is still dangerous, but the region's top teams need to reverse some poor form and
quickly.
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Round one of the upper bracket for the play-in has concluded at RLCS
2026 World Championship here Falcons and foot went to game four all right and TSM went to game five champions
field already here as we've kicked off the best week of the rocket league year.
Ultimately though Falcons do get work done after game number one exciting stuff
there from Fletch, but 6-1 in game four, a bit more expected here James.
Yeah you know I think for a moment we were believing but then what the fuck?
Yeah that's one of the things I think Fletch did exactly what they had to do in game one obviously.
They had to come out strong, that was their only chance and they just had a home.
The Falcons just never woke up and that did not happen.
games two through four. We're just pure domination that the
greatest team on his name broccoli history of running up the
score. I mean, you heard from chronic early on cheese. They
came out with passion. They play a great first game. It had
focus on the road. So we like, okay, but it's here. They
could play against them. But it really just happened on any
team. But it's going again. And we see this quite a bit
from footwear. You know, they always seem to beat the
teams below them. But once they get to that next
caliber of competition, they just cannot find a way to get
for that hurdle wall.
Thalcans are a team of that caliber.
These guys, they just won the eSports World Cup.
Yes, they missed Paris, but I've been saying this
since the very beginning.
If they come back with the World Cup,
with the World Championship, that's
probably did what he was brought here to do.
Oh, absolutely.
And that's what he did two years ago with BDS,
and they're showing up here.
The last three games, 14 goals to two.
Sure.
Yeah, Thalcans woke up a little bit late,
but it does not matter.
They come out and they play their games two through four.
As long as they didn't wake up by game four,
they were fine and they looked so incredibly good.
There's one to score against you every single time.
How many shots did they have?
Did they show it?
They didn't know it doesn't.
Now I'm still paying real attention.
Can we get that graphic?
I want to know if anybody really truly
never reaches nine to eight shots
in all of this these days.
You see the percent of time spent ahead.
Falcons 58% of the time.
That's simply too much over come.
And really quick Falcons at 33 shots.
They shot 45% in that series.
Other shots were making cat in the through.
They are now into an upper bracket match against their regional rival, RAP Sports.
This is a grand final we saw many times regionally over the course of the season.
This time it'll be for a spot in the groups of the World Championship.
And the loser drops down and has a second life as well.
So they have earned themselves some fantastic Google Room here.
All right, we'll take on Falcons a little bit later on today.
And now begins elimination.
Elimination is on day one of the World Championship here.
over there on the alternate stream, but by taking care of five years versus the
Galgians, we will also believe have TSM versus foot esports. Those will be the
final two matches of the alternate stream here for the Tuesday broadcast of the
World Championship. Meanwhile on our broadcast will be covering the rest of
the matches. So we'll see RAD sports and team Falcons a little bit later on
and then we will see those final two qualification matches from the lower
bracket. But to kick things off for right now, let's get two teams that
have already seen on the stage and who have yet to drop a game,
Virtus Pro on one side, Mata Itapa on the other side,
both went 3-0 in round 1.
Yeah, and I will say, you know, there's no disrespect to
Five Fears, but SSA continues to struggle at the
World Championship, picking up games.
Meanwhile, you know, for Big OJs, they're a real contender.
You know, we've seen, like all those players play on
land, but Truffinio on Fury are the kings of South
America for a long time.
Obviously no longer on that team, but this was not a
gimme for Virtus Pro.
But in that series, Virtus.Pro was monitored specifically.
Talk, it was the talk show.
If you tuned into that series, it was the talk show
from kickoff to series end.
We'll see both these teams here on the field once again.
Let's meet, Lothar and Tom.
The team formed at the beginning.
We were with Doritos playing in the regionals in Europe.
And then we decided to change our third.
And we decided that we should be with Atomic at the third and the harmony as a coach.
And there we can qualify in the H&M.
And the truth is that we didn't get too complicated, I see the end, but it wasn't very complicated, right?
It was a moment that I think we're going to have in our memories.
Because in the end it was very stressful.
It was like a book, to be honest, that I will never forget.
And I think we are where we started from the beginning,
knowing that when we were little we didn't specify for a long time.
For me, we should have been here for a long time.
For me, the Worlds are the biggest thing there is,
both in the Rocket and in any sport.
It's a place that anyone wants to reach and want to win, especially, but they only get the best.
And that's what makes being here so important.
It doesn't matter to us, they haven't lost as many chances as they did in the World Cup.
And we're going to show the world.
I was asking you before how you're feeling, I was always asking about 5-10, you already
stopped the bets and a little bit nervous.
I mean, yeah, of course, when you're at this stage, you cannot afford to lose, so you're
kind of nervous always, that's a good thing though, because that means that you care about
it.
But overall, good.
I think the team felt good last year and we are feeling pretty good.
I have to ask again, we're joking about all the names in the, with Astromic, Akronik,
Akronik, Atomic, Harmonic.
Did you guys get confused at all?
Yeah, I mean, sometimes it happens.
It's a funny mistake, right?
You know, the names are close to each other.
Who are they calling again?
Yeah, it sometimes happens, but it would be crazy.
If all of us made a team...
I want to see that happen one day.
The casters will hate you, but...
Anyway, it's talking about the squad now in the matchup coming up here.
You're nervous. How are the players feeling?
Because obviously that matters going into your matchup.
I feel like the players are feeling confident.
We had to face Verdez Pro in the LCKQ of EWCR.
We lost that one, but it's okay. We have to win the important one, which is this one.
And yeah, I think the series, even though the score was 3-0, it was really close.
We couldn't score when it mattered.
But yeah, I'm feeling confident and I'm sure the players are feeling confident as well.
Did you watch that series back to see what specifically would work against them or did you try to avoid them?
Yeah, we've watched the series a couple of times now and we also saw how they played in the first series today.
So it's kind of similar.
And yeah, I think if we do the thing that we have been practicing to counter them then...
I'm excited about that.
Okay, I'm excited to see what that thing might be here. Good luck in your matchup.
We have to go take a look at your opponents on the other side now.
Thank you.
I think our year from the start we started out very strong.
We just formed as a team, as Redacted.
We're probably, I think, one of the best teams in North America.
We unfortunately had a kind of bit of fall down after split two.
Now going into Worlds, we feel the best we've ever felt after all our practice
and everything we've done as a team, so we're really excited.
We know no matter what, eventually this time is going to come
and we're going to have to be the best we can be
his worlds is everything at the end of the season.
My dream has always been to play in front of a crowd and two-piece away in memory.
Also, I haven't played in front of an LCS crowd yet.
That's our main first goal, but after we get that we want to obviously make it into as
far as we can go.
What it means to me, I think it's definitely by far the most important tournament of
the year.
I mean, this is everything, like this is what you want to get to.
Well, I'm looking to prove that we're still just as good a split one, if not better.
I definitely think we're the best group that we need to prove it on the stage.
We were just kind of alluding to the squad in their side, and we're here again with a
memory from VP.
We talked earlier today.
I talked to Wavey after the match instead of a little easy.
He was happy for that, actually.
For you as a coach, do you feel like it is better, though, for your players to
maybe be pushed a little bit coming into future matches?
Yeah, I mean I think we were pushed a little bit in that series. We just did exactly what we wanted to yeah
I think they were still a good team. We just played well. So what's the what's the game plan between them to?
You know I asked him how he maintains energy
But for you as a coach you try to like actually not say much because you don't want to get in their heads too much
Like what was your go-to in between?
Yeah, I mean most of the preparation for games like this happens way earlier
Sure, I think you know after like the first match a lot of it is just like it's rehash a little bit
Make sure we're we're warm, but we know what to do. We talked about a long time ago
Yeah, no, that's that's really good now looking at your opponents across from you deal they three out in their matchup
But they're in the other plane five years. How do you feel that maybe I?
Guess sets up what's about to be across from you guys on the field here
Do you feel like this is going to be something that will cause trouble now?
Or do you feel like you're gonna cruise like you did before that's for this match specifically? Yeah
Yeah, I mean, I think they're a good team. I think that again, we're here to win
It doesn't really matter who we play and I think you're able to do that against any team as long as we
We do what we talked about.
I think players are already good.
And here's the cheeky little try that I know will be a no.
But what was it that you talked about?
We talked about hitting the ball, playing rock.
I love it.
I'm going to boost that kind of stuff.
I love it.
That's my favorite stuff.
Best game playing out there.
Hey, memory, thank you so much again for chatting
and good luck in your matchup.
Thank you.
10 years for coaches to realize
they can just say something there.
They don't have to say, oh, I can't tell you.
They can just say, oh, we're
probably going to hit the ball hard.
Ash on accuracy.
That's what every other coach in every other sport does.
Congratulations.
He's probably not lying either. They probably were talking about boost and
Okay on the other side we heard them talking about you know that they've specifically developed a counter
This is a rematch from the EWC last chance qualifier where money you thought us did get beaten by a vertus pro
They've studied that match. They studied the match earlier. They said that they've got a counter here
Give me what counters vertus pro so I was looking back through the numbers and the AJG kind of
We'll see if it will change because when they played five years AJG was the first man
He was moving up the most he was spending most his time in the offensive third about 25 percent of the time
Normally like in his career. He's been a defensive third. Okay, and when they played last time back in the EWCL CQ
He was the most back. So he was only on the offensive there about 18 percent at a time
So maybe they're trying AGG upfield more,
call some chaos, and they're changing up their rotations.
We'll see if that pans off here.
Maybe that was only for five years.
We'll have to see.
Keep an eye on AGG.
Is he upfield more often there?
Let us know who you think is going to win
in the progressive fan vote.
Sounds like the B-stream match.
The alternate stream has already begun,
so make sure you've got that stream pulled up as well.
James, what do you got?
You know, Europe's traditionally been the stronger region,
especially at the World Championship,
but VP was so good last game.
specifically talk if talk can play. Yeah, even half as good as he played last
series. I think VB takes it. So give me VP. In the history of Rocket League, I've
always said that there's just more depth in Europe. Europe has always been the
depth region. I think the EWCLCQ has changed my mind. I feel like North
America really has the depth now. I feel like VP is one of those teams that
can definitely win this one. I'm going VP. I like the way Guss is talking so
far as well. It's like, oh, no, it's trying to say a lot of good things. I kind of want
to hear any VP as well. Talk to the best player. Three people from VP here. Look, I do think
it's pretty close. I do think this is an upset pick, but I've talked about it with my stream
weeks ago when I was looking at these two teams and I felt like I really liked what
I saw from money that was in that you lcq and we saw a trend over the last two tournaments
of teams that had that lost to a team at one tournament beating that team. The next
tournament, I think that they've got a chip on their shoulder specifically against
Virtus Pro where Virtus Pro might be like,
oh, we've got these guys we've been before.
We don't need to study them.
Give me Mother Ethapa, folks.
How do we feel about it?
They don't have a logo,
so they've got the RLCS logo on one side,
Virtus Pro on the other.
For the coin, it's gonna go Mother Ethapa over here for me.
Let's go, split desk.
Split desk, man.
That guy's gotta end up being wrong,
and that's just not this guy.
That's not this guy.
87%, 87%.
I'm calling this an upset.
I'm calling it an upset here,
but can they make it happen?
Can they prove me wrong?
Talkin' the boys.
going at it again here. Second time playing already at the world
championship. And this one for all the marvels win here straight
through to the group stage tomorrow. So it's money you
thought versus bird is pro for spot in the group.
One match away from qualifying for the world
championship. Not they thought us versus bird is pro. It was
the talk show earlier on and a three oh as well for my
The top was against five beers
Virtus Pro on one to prove to the rest of the world that they belong with the best of the best and VP
They've already had a decent run through the EWC
Play into that last chance qualified. They couldn't get it down there
And they've got that third place and I think the VP they're gonna feel on our first mattress a lot easier than they would have
Anticipated so she's seeing if nothing at that by getting up against five beers early on to a quick reset from the top
drops it down into the box. Pretty lazily having it as far as Dorito. It's gonna be interesting to see
as ever how such a unique team ends up playing. AJG with NYT really is so interesting to me.
Yeah, I mean AJG is a world traveler when it comes to the RLCS. Qualified for lands
in at least three different regions, North America, South America and of course now
Coming over from Europe with the renal atomic
Long experience in European rocket league talk
His world's debut at least at the plane with the mark to get a shot at the group stage, you know two-piece even didn't really have to
But pick up pick up his control in that last series
So we haven't really seen the full power of what this VPC was capable of as two pieces come across
I think available in net there and might be that person would get the clue.
I mean I believe that in that last series as well, two-piece Ashley didn't get a single goal.
It actually came down to all 12 of them, were either tall to all wavy,
and the tall had like 55% shooter percentage.
He was on fire.
So far, a little bit quiet as explained, he was early on in that series,
was a quick look from the return, he goes as far as a terrific ceiling tall has gone.
What a view this is looking like from that headlamp.
Good catch there from AJG, but they've lost the ball.
Dorito back over.
Talmick was hoping to get a play there.
Tog just drilling the 50.
Neither team really getting the better of the other.
The VP been lurking on that blue net
and it seemed real quality opportunity yet.
Tog runs into his own grave.
Tomic will take control, neutral hop, stabilizing, pop, reset up, and nice job from two-piece.
Get on top of that.
First in mid-start, it's so far, a Tomek though, into a 2v1 as Dorito tries to go for the
buck from the back line.
Not a crush on it, so far they will be incisive and the victory of whoever ends up coming
out on top here.
Tomek, there's it, not as far as he would have wanted us to have thought of dying
himself in the way, but without anybody joining him, Wavey takes to the skies
and gives the ball over towards Dorito with a double tap chance for Atomic!
Crossbar early doors and again!
Double whammy on the crossbar.
As we get Atomic, Debra going to let that double tap back.
He can't shovel the ball back out to AJG.
As Tom comes across, that was a big opportunity for Mande Toplus.
VP struggling to get a handle on the ball though.
Atomic just sends it and waved it with an excellent controlling touch.
Touch puts it over AJG and gets the follow-up 50 but right to atomic drive for the soft catch
Third man getting demoed on the furnace pro Dorito comes across
Diving stop
AJG the great position just find yourself exactly where the ball is unfortunately for him
It was about point one seconds too late
Be clear from him yet. They get the catch in the midfield two-piece for burst of all over towards tall
The good is, on the other stream, I managed to take game number one versus five beers,
and on this side it's going to be a long clear, all the way down the other end, as Atomic breaks the deadline.
Atomic no longer has to think about missing that double tap earlier.
He gets a pitch back the whole way to the other side.
Most rock and lead goal ever right there.
After all and nothing for the first three and a half minutes,
Of course a pitch on your own back wall just goes straight into the net. Yeah, I'm not a tapas. We'll take it
That's the one that you need to sometimes intelligent just think I don't challenge that because I've angled awkwardly and it will go back into my own half
Kind of a horrible situation to try and defend. It's not a great touch though in the midfield by VP
Just a wavy
Slashes the crossbar little bent and nobody follows up as full of VP end up retreating if you are inside
It was a good shot from waving
We've seen exactly on target on the bar, but the net was well covered.
Here's a hide one for two, he was up early for it, off the ceiling, trying to dive for it again.
No boost. Atomic is the clear out. Second man was going somewhere for VP.
Tark, last line of defense, comes out into space.
Wavy gets there in time, you can feel the panic settling in.
Four-vert is throw, AJG slaps it, and it slaps right back to the midfield line.
Wavy, quick pass, quick shot, denied by Dorita.
Every nice in-game play there from VP, adding a new angle to their arsenal.
With my defense area towards Torque, they've got 30 seconds to make something happen.
Because the man who's been at the centre of all of the offense attempts to air drum up, doesn't get it particularly far.
Straight to the scene, and two-piece up again, and two-do commit from Mathe Tapa.
Mclare from there, does lead into the final 10 seconds, ball is in VP's court.
Dark, having to shove a couple of my DT attackers, now Wavy down the field, weak reset, still through AJG, they got to keep the ball up, off the side wall, talk, bumps AJG, shocked from Wavy's way wide, and it drops to the ground, not DT, taking game number one.
And I thought that the warmup for VP would have been superior.
Playing as Bigode, so 5'5", that is a better team ultimately.
And despite both sides free owing, I think the VP's free owing is a higher quality one.
And yeah, Matej, that's how I come out.
In game number one, managed to just sneak one past.
A low scoring game, different to what VP used to so far in this competition, even though it is early doors.
Oh, and Tomic almost had it early there too.
He was like, oh.
Instead of it being the talk show, talk got shut down.
He didn't really have any space or any time to do anything with the ball,
which is kind of the European classic whenever North American players
end up playing against these European teams.
This is the depth match, right?
The proof of depth between both regions.
Well, Sean, you're not going to have a lot of space against these three.
Yeah.
I think that when it comes to VP as well,
What they've done so well, I've loved seeing from them, is how they're using all of their experience of the game modes.
Wavy in particular, he's a very good 1v1 player.
The way that he controls himself on the ball so frequently,
Mateo Tapai have not let him have that space that normally he would be used to a little bit more.
And I think being brushed down just means that, yeah, he doesn't have that time.
He gets these lovely touches, but then there's a man immediately diving on him.
And now Speed is something that I think these European teams, South American,
I've been able to re-bring it to the front end.
How many seasons have you played in Europe before you're an honorary European?
Oh, give it half.
I don't know, give it half a season and I'll kill you a European.
Very fine by me.
That doesn't take much.
Doesn't take much.
Virtus.Pro.
I'm gonna try to prove what Gibbs was saying on the desk,
which is North America down.
Oh, great save to start.
I don't know how in the world he bounces that off the crossbar now.
That's an incredible stuff as a wavy finds talk, but no play there
I think ladies initial touch you wanted something with momentum didn't get it
But it is marty toffas bring in some early heat to this vertus pro defense
I mean it was a great sign for material cover
Opportunities for them already arising in the team pretty not actually having anything going their way particularly
Here, creature for the mid-field for two-piece,
going to be shutting down Marito.
But nobody's to follow up.
We saw that before when he's got a couple of passes mid-field
and they just didn't have that third man, I guess,
believing in their second man to make the pass happen.
Close down space again.
Mathias Atomic, stealing to AJG, trying to thread the needle.
Dorito diving across, talk, just beats him,
and gives Virtus.Pro a little bit of breathing room.
A.J.G. daring in the challenge.
Wavy gets there quickly on the follow-up.
Atomic there to meet him.
Wavy thinks underneath.
T.O.K. picking this one up off the corner.
He's got no boost left.
Two-piece has to wait.
Wavy coming in to support.
T.O.K. right behind him,
but they have to concede the midfield
right back to the corner.
A.J.G. jumping forever and over there.
T.O.K. holding the reset.
Wait, N.A.S. holding it again.
And the two-piece!
First power by Woy.
Shemate and Kappi just didn't know when to bite.
Torped held them, they're so close to each other
that as soon as both dive in,
2P's from the blind spot can barrel it out
versus Pro, their first goal over after seven minutes
and they've not been able to score in so far.
That's a brilliant opportunity for VP.
And it's been one goal to sign in this series so far.
One, just above the crossbar,
dropped down, 2P straight to Wavy on target.
accepted by the defender atomic could save from atomic
Dp a little bit of energy after that call and the demo
for atomic ball rolling away and everyone else was still playing catch-up just couldn't take advantage of the demo
wavy
Right back the other way gets fucked off the play AJG get fucked out of the way
Atomic is there and talk saw it immediately didn't over commit atomic throwing it over the edge
Go ahead bump attempts from both teams on this series as AJG comes across
Trying to fight for possession in the midfield, maybe trying to beat Atomic to the play.
He finds his way back to talk, VP's slow, we're moving their way down the field with two-piece on the wing.
Having to stretch into the sides, here's what we're going for.
The late goal in the other series in the alternate streak in 30 seconds left.
Pagode has only just taken a lead with a lovely double tap from Daphine here.
Make sure you've got both open and all of your drops.
Make sure you can deck out your car with all of the best looking items in the game.
The two minutes here, but they have to tap up.
In one pass, Dorito to Atomic, that fabled duo.
H&G, the last man following up,
and Dorito breaking a rule one in the backcourt.
Understandable, you're trying to play into
the group stage of a world championship.
Maybe they got the extra life,
maybe you could afford it up for Black, if you won.
At this time, top.
Downfield, double tap, no good.
And no booster, Atomic can't follow that.
That has to lead in the ball to HHG and Dorito.
He's too rich for my blood, then it's up shying away.
90 seconds Dorito is on a murdering spree.
Dorito, many seconds.
They look at the clear, he'd be holding on the lead
despite Dorito going into rage mode.
Here's HHG, stays on the ball.
Dorito and Dorito were locking heads there,
Demo's
Whips out to the side might be top are trying to get back downfield top of the bubble
Lady of the Winston just gets the 50
Bell shot denied by two piece and still surviving just underneath a minute two piece wants some insurance double tap two piece
Two touches two piece one goal
And that's gonna be the second the Virtus Pro a lovely play just kisses the crossbar
And VP under a minute now, getting their second, and it's looking great for them.
A two piece, picks up the controller in this series and hits an absolute banger.
Now it goes for another one, but the dunk goes that wide.
Duck slips this out to the midfield, back the way, he vs Pro.
Completely different energy from game number one, Tuck.
He started it with a beautiful assist.
Now it goes up high and VP just might add a third to their total,
Nobody was ready for that bump
Two-piece will help cover the clear and actually maybe create something
Fucking towards to read up interesting choice. It's wavy. No done for him
They're talking a very slow shot. I think it's realizing if I just put that much momentum on it
Hey, they're poor can't bounce that far back out and I'm wasting three seconds of the property gets into positions like this
Game two is done
So walls as well
VP2 nearly the game and never the possible.
You know, we talked about talk kind of being the centerpiece of this team.
We're usually seeing him score insane goals when he is peeking, but I think what I love the most
is watching him enable his team to be great.
That play that he had to open the scoring for VP, the only goal they had going into the final minute
you love seeing that from talk. They're gonna be successful.
That's what you want to see. You want to see them be able to play in different ways.
It shouldn't have to be the top show every single time.
He's got to be able to facilitate as much as he can just take over a game.
I mean, this goal was holding it, double faking it, and opening it up for Two Piece, who came alive in this game.
If they won Two Piece in the first series against Bogodes, he went completely scoreless.
Didn't get anything on the board this time around.
He does manage to have a really fantastic impact.
And he just shows exactly what they've got going for them.
They are able to have a multifaceted approach to any given game, any given scenario.
And Matei Itapa never much hoping that that was the outlier game.
Because I think Matei Itapa in the first one maybe felt like,
OK, we've squished by there, let's try and do that again.
But VP came out with a real vengeance in the second.
They were able to get things done.
But I mean, Matei Itapa, despite being unable to score in that game,
They were creating a lot of havoc in the midfield.
It's a Rijo spawn camping, getting a double demo in the same player.
And then getting a couple other demos later,
and they were getting bumps downfield.
AJG was going for it.
And AJG, and Gibbs talked about this on the desk as well,
jump in more of a frontman role.
A guy who's usually used to sitting back and finishing off whatever his teammates developed.
He is sitting downfield a little bit more to try to create space and opportunities for his teams.
for his teams. Still good ideas for Mati and Tapas.
I think the issue is, even with all those demos that Rito got, it didn't lead to a goal.
I think it barely led to a chance, to be honest. This time no, Tomek finds the Rito
crossbar to commit to it and Tupi's great clear away to leave it a lot of that pressure.
He's still away, the unsuccessful. They can't carry off with this attack.
And even the boot teams still are suffering with above number one 2G's goal.
The fact that you've got a couple of chances you need to commit your next man closer to it.
And it now will be a real difference maker.
Whoever can really be brave with their plays coming forward.
He peers just faster right now too. They're getting cleaner touches.
These 50s aren't the best for Montee Toppo, but they finally get downfield.
Get a boost steal, Dorito helps AJG, makes it a 50, to Dorito looking wide, and Atomic opting not to no pocket, no boost.
That might have been an opportunity for Atomic to just rip it. He decided instead to concede it, that would AJG stuck with no boost.
What a demo from Atomic making up for it.
This is a brilliant demo. Definitely a ghosting opportunity there.
And I'm jumping nips in right at the death, the 100 second run-up pass, so again!
Maybe just that big, big man that I've wanted to exist in the midfield,
that they're sitting at the little bit too still.
They're getting to that position a bit too early, they are not right on cue.
And it means that the choreography for the NYTs, you'll be able to smash them off the pitch.
OK, AJG won the demo there, and it was off of a really good pass from the 82.
You're right, gotta keep their camels on the swivel.
Try to find ways to create these opportunities with pace,
because Mati Itapa are hunting, whether it be for the ball or for a car,
double tap, trying to squeal, and two-piece will get around it.
AJG challenging, no boost, no one can go.
Dorito is playing deep beyond the midfield line. Atomic on the far side. Now Tupi is going wide.
Sets it up in front of the box and it's cleared right back into the lead.
That's such a silly dive in from D.P.
He was the last man. Tupi's great pass central.
Tork dives in but he knows Wavy has just gone to the top left boost.
He's not going to get back in time. Tork should never have gone there.
He was third man and it's completely dived in. A massive error.
Gizmate, tempo the lead.
Definitely can't let your earlier confidence you've built up
cause you to take a risk you can't afford to take.
To their credit, you're only down one.
You're going to take a risk at any point.
As will be then, AJG flips it around.
We'll talk about what gets you far in the world
championship, especially when we've seen the action of a team
like Falcons today. Discipline is of the utmost importance and to maintain it throughout
the course of a series. Any single mistake could cost you an entire series. Way to go.
Back pass on the respawn and AJG tracks right with the Mataetapa doing what VP did to that
last game holding on to this corner goal lead.
And I think a big part of that discipline is knowing that you will get a chance later
on to score. Trusting that you have the ability to not that, oh my god this
This is our one chance, we have to take it now.
Again, never should have gone.
But they beside all of them commit, and this time it worked.
Brilliant pass from Tocque.
Everyone's thinking shot, they were even diving for the 50,
but there was no way he was going to get there.
And Atomic knew he was dead.
He knew either way, if Tocque shoots this,
I'm gonna have to make an incredible scene.
If he passes it, I'm dead.
Well, Tocque passed it, and Atomic died.
And the Virtus Pro,
get the time go
He said you know can't always rely
I'm being the faster player the faster team got to pick those moments
Talk again showing the brain on that play
As he gets shoved around the side wall and
We are in the final minute as VP looked to try to steal this game away
I think at the top of our holding this lead, right up until we got to that final
minimum. In this final minute is mostly the goal already falling in the previous
game. Great demo from Thor. He used it at an angle to get it and it's a close touch.
A pitch at 10. You see two-piece Geary up for it. The time of popping it
towards the side will let me pre-jump from way below. He's a lot of boost
there and he now has to follow down the other side. It's kind of insane to
Jump floor honestly, good.
I respect it.
It's two-piece, gets the pinch straight down.
Wavy gets a T650 out in the space,
AJG getting to the better of it.
Wavy gets the boost steal, holding the ball.
AJG right there with him.
Well, two-piece, missed the ball, got the boost.
Could have been a free chance.
It's still like a chance, he flips off the ball.
Wavy's still there, racing back down field.
Explosions everywhere, I can barely see.
And the regulation!
And somehow we're going 0-2.
My goodness, he ended that regular time with a brief intermission for a transformer's moving.
First five seconds in, he's floored towards Wabian, another 50-he's midfield, two-piece, but another double save from AJG.
He's not there to have a save.
AJG was floating there, Torino missed the corner boost.
Tonk just swings one at AJG, gets the midfield.
Atomic, not a ton in the tank.
I come straight back, 2P's makes the touch, allowing a boon for Wavy.
Talks, stealing the corner boons, but counter coming from Dorito.
Another clear out.
4VP and they'll get out of dodge quickly.
As Dorito up in the air, free touch off the ceiling.
Dorito trying to stretch across and it's just no play.
Atomic makes the 50, back to AJG.
They run into each other.
Talks gets a little bit of time to think about this
and gets the 50 back as slowing it down.
two-piece. Get off the ceiling, but Maté top all racing four.
The charge is just not good enough. Tom didn't even have to leave the ground.
Close chance there. Nice little redirect opportunity.
Torg wants to get the same musty that Atomic did earlier on in this series.
A miss from Atomic, well from Dorito. Makes his defense all good as
Maté has to have a boost. He's going to be gradually depleting and he's
Discussing soon as VP find themselves near enough of 300 boosts a big offensive push will be
RJ talk to two days
It's still waiting to save away
I'm surprised it got through
Turned into a chance for VP
It's a demo but talk still has to fall with a deathly fight
Oh ho ho ho ho ho
That was disgusting Lord Proph talk
They pick up one. That's crazy the alternate stream
You need to be keeping an eye on what is going on over there over half the game played to the gorgeous struggling
Yeah, and this it was a game number four
Go to five if I can't keep it up, but here on the main stream
Virtus Pro what a lovely couple of guys they have that passing play is
It's like a prime app Jack Flick back in his proper 1v1 days where he crisps, yeah he just goes and it's in, it's in your neck. I'm so good at Flicks that it will just end up in your neck.
a bad game for Mati Tapas. You just, you know, tip your cap to that, you know, fine talk.
You could have that one. They're still in this series. They call time out. Mati Tapas,
they say, well, they got to figure things out. But there's just GG go next on that flick.
Because I thought they played well in that game. They had the lead. They held it for a little
bit. And like you said, beautiful passing play from talk. And then talk again on the flick.
the man will not will not let this go easy he wants that world championship debut
proper not just the playing if you get a little bit further on obviously it's
through these stages there is a crowd awaiting you later in the tournament
you heard that's what VP were really after they want to see the crowd but
want to see the crowd all of our teams do and North America there are two of
your teams sitting in the play-ins and there's a lot of North American
I know we're filling up Dickies Arena. This is our third time here. Every time is a dream when we get to see all of you
What a chat of course if you are going to be coming to Dickies Arena
Two if you aren't be wish you were and three if you're watching in an AMC theater near you and four if you just want to be included
Yeah, that's nice. That's a lot of numbers. Yeah. Good luck. I
You're capable I believe in you like you my Tapa also capable
I'm trying to force this into a game five, but Verna's pro, they wanted to prove that
the kickoff plan was not a fluke.
Here comes Wavy down the field, an extra touch on top of it.
I thought they were moving so well together down the pitch.
A lot of the short work, a lot of the demo work, a lot of the hard work.
Todd gets the goal here, but all set up by two-piece.
playing from two pieces well I think Matt has happened thinking he's playing the ball here he's
going to try and tap it on further and in the last second uh-oh he's going straight for the defender
dog fighting in the skies removes one as VP game oh my goodness from the ceiling another chance
it's like wrestling immediately in game four only playing from the ropes
maybe we'll get the corner I think he was expecting a demo there because he took a little
bit of time to go for that ball. I wouldn't be feeling scared of the demos. There's another one.
Dorito, nice soft catch. Somehow that 50 goes straight in between the rotation. AJG forced to
the side wall. Wavy again. Actually loses the touch.
Talk. It's all of this on the 50. Wavy trying to take advantage of it by hitting a bump.
What is pro attack? Slowly dying out here. It gets cleared out back to their half.
There's been quite a boost discrepancy from the eye test at the moment of
to VP and Mateo Atapa. VP have been winning that in the previous game especially.
It really fell on Mateo Atapa. It's like how close it was.
Just a little bit later to boost. They were starved down to 30 frequently.
Keep an eye on what VP have got in the tank across this game because that's what allows them
allows that high-flight fast-paced accurate gameplay.
HNG, back over to Dorito.
Dorito again, neutral hop down.
Just can't get a 50 that actually puts VP under threat.
Tauk slows it down again.
Atomic, they want to recover.
VP actually gave him the space to get through.
It turns into a chance.
Now, Wavy shuts them down.
Great 50 from Torch, sweet zip line, he's in the roof of this car.
Gonna boost Steen in the back as well.
It falls now towards the toilet.
Gosh, I do think he picked it up instead of the VP player.
Pass the centre, Dreat it, doesn't this place gonna carry on?
Put the pressure on AJG this time.
It's his game and it's turn to go for demos on VP's back line.
But can it pay off unlike how it hasn't in this series so far?
Catch from two-piece.
Trying to set up a 50 top, didn't wind the feed back towards two bees, but he looks for the extra touch.
Wavey will cut them off, bumping AJG, kind of into position.
Zero to demo talk, Kit, Mathe, top of down, field, looking for some kind of play.
Wavey's been avoiding every single bump attempt.
to Washington especially off ball they are going for a lot and he's getting the
better of the two times than not a lot of contested balls and that one even two
feet gets on top of it it would have been a chance to do that stuff
yeah guess the way a little bit I would have joined it personally it wouldn't
be an RCF world this for any land and we didn't complain about not
That point in the ball. Flicks off far too far.
Nice chance for an NJG, however.
It's VP. They are holding on, but it does seem like there is a goal in the making.
On the other side, pass out again, two-piece to recede.
And they'll happily burn a couple of seconds, especially when they're on the attack.
That's an open net. Open enough!
Underneath was definitely open.
The ball not placed well. Also weak. That could have been insurance for VP. Chance for Montaigne Topper to get on the board.
Trying to force the issue here and force the game to fly.
VP sitting on the backboard. AJG trying to squeeze, but they're not getting the bounces they want.
They're taking too long to get back to the follow-ups. AJG another catch.
20 boost and just not the metallic tries to squeeze he gets fucked down to play
HHG boosting towards it. He doesn't get anything. Atomic he's next up 50 just
keeps it locked into this corner VP wasting time happy to play in the
orange corner for as long as Mati double walk two and they get another clear.
It's a lot harder to score from those corner positions all three though do go for this ball final 30 a reset from Torch
it's against Sinai by Dorito but a boost stolen and a matter of news makes this
He'll be even harder for Matanetapa.
That'll be clear.
They're not playing on the blue half as often,
but they're also not commanding anything in the orange half.
And then the only thing is they're doing, that's a huge win.
Tuck, 14 moves.
He's got a hit on Tuck.
Tuck just pops this up.
Tuck is in trouble right now.
No chance. Now, counter maybe, but Wavy stops it.
Get pulled. Tuck in the air.
Let's hit Tuck.
And Atomic can't get anything going.
Furnace Probe holding lead.
Tork trying to drop it down, and Verna's Pro is qualified for the World Championship proper.
Tork's first time of asking, making it into the top 16. It's going to be the best result
the two pieces have had at a world championship as well and wavy alongside them. They are going
to ideally for them and a lot of their North American fans are going to make a dent when
that we see who they're in a group with.
I'm really excited for North America in this tournament.
Obviously we'll see if NRG can bounce back
that we want a bit of a down time.
The rebellion are always gonna be in it for entertainment.
It's entertainment no matter what the result is for them.
Space station, their recent results
and how they're looking exciting to see
how they will do now.
Vertus Pro joining them as well.
It's very exciting time to be a North American fan.
And who knows, one of these teams
might be able to go deep.
Virtus.pro certainly with talk, but it wasn't just talking this time, was it?
Wavy and two-piece getting a lot done.
And Wavy as a, just as a facilitator in general.
You don't get the points for facilitating for your team a lot of the time unless it's an assist.
But man, being able to avoid bumps, being able to stop momentum, being able to create opportunity is great.
Let's go down with the interview with Virtus.pro.
Virtus.pro qualifies through for the world championships proper and I've got two
pieces now with me. I was saying that's got to feel good and he says it feels
great. Of course, yeah. I've never made it. Well actually, the group save was in Boston, I guess.
But now it's like, yeah, I can add a group so I feel much better. Yeah, like it was like a
weight just came off you? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, because like I guess we heard earlier from
From talking like a pre-recorded interview, but you saying what like his goal was like to get to the audience days
For you yourself though, did you have like different personal goals?
Like what did you want out of this besides obviously resume?
Yeah, no first first goal is definitely crowd and then second wedding. That's right. Yeah
Yeah, so so I mean like there's still I guess a little bit of weight on you if you're saying
Okay, we're still got groups get through we're not at crowds yet
But I imagine you're still gonna try to rebel in the fact you've made groups now
Yeah, 100% honestly I was more nervous for plans and I probably will be for groups yeah because plans is like
We feel like we're better than the teams that were in our path. Yeah. Yeah pressure almost. Well, you're right
That's good, okay, that's good because I I always wondered and I was talking to a couple of them in the lobby
They'll tell a lot of the game. I was saying I
You know, do you feel more nervous coming into the planes because you're like you're not quite there yet?
Some of the guys were saying they treat it like it's still worlds, but what was your mind saying?
Because it sounds like you weren't quite treating it like you were there yet.
Yeah, I mean in a way like we said before we're playing like we can't underestimate any of the teams for sure because I mean they
They're world sure. Yeah. Yeah, but it's like
We feel like we should have already been in groups. So the fact that we're in play-ins. It was like
If we lose we're not playing well that good that kind of thing. Yeah, so it's like, you know
Well, you didn't lose yet.
You guys are on a good run right now.
I want you to talk to me about your teammates right now,
because all three of you are looking so good.
You're synergizing so well.
Tocque is an absolute monster up there.
And I flick that he got earlier.
What's comms like whenever someone scores,
you guys make a good play?
Are you trying to keep it chill,
or do you guys just get really into supporting each other?
What's the comms like?
I think I'm the one that keeps it chill.
I think they're more like wavy-zive one.
talks kind of too, but he'll,
I'm usually the one that keeps it like,
you check.
You gotta keep him centered, right?
Yeah.
And well, I'm gonna let you go celebrate with the team, man,
cause that's great to get that weight off there.
Congratulations on that win.
And hopefully those wins keep on going forward here,
as we do have more on it.
Day number one, the play-ins continue on here
at the RLCS World Championship.
So please stay tuned.
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Username, huh?
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The bathroom coat?
That's the only number I can kind of remember easily, so.
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Teams from around the world have qualified for the RLCS 2026 World Championship,
and this year, for the first time, a non-EU-NA region may well be top of our power rankings.
Nina's headline will inevitably be Monkey Moon going for the Dickies Arena 3 Pete,
and second place in the Paris Major, before losing to the eventual winners at EWC,
suggests Ole'Evon is cooking something spicier per head of Worlds.
Monkey Moon caught up to himself, scared him to death!
Tell that to the Falcons, the team who did win EWC.
While Twisted Minds are first seed, Falcons are Rocket League's most informed powerhouse.
Their move to bring in Monkey Noon's world champ teammate has finally clicked, just at
the right time.
But tell that to R8, the team who stopped Falcons qualifying for the Paris Major.
Sure, Falcons made light work of them on LAN, but Mena's last chance qualifiers
are a team who've had the best of Falcons throughout the season.
now they have LAN experience. All in all, this is a region every team they will be afraid of.
South America's main headline is that Furia are not the region's number one team.
Between them, Furia and number one seed made in Brazil have won five of Sam's six opens.
Overall, they're separated by a massive two points. Oh my goodness, look at the difference.
While offline, MIBR's top 12 at both majors is more consistent than Furia's top 16, top eight.
In truth, this hasn't been South America's best season on the world stage, except for beating the reigning world champs.
But these are experienced LAN players capable of beating anyone having an off day.
Chuck Knight, Benz and former Fury and Drafino in the mix as their last chance qualifiers,
and no one will be underestimating the Sand teams in Fort Worth.
Oceania sure does love its tiebreakers.
This summer round, after being unsplittable all season and making one major each,
two teams' chances of glory came down to a single best of seven to make Worlds.
CJ CJ, money informal, take it away.
Does he get that last touch with Fever's there, but then head boosts as well right behind?
In fact, it's a fake to be head, and that's how they retake the lead.
I guess, he's a cross banana head, huge preach, I could see fine too.
He is! Oh, what a jump from a banana head!
After last year's top six wild turrets, Wildcard are back to try and match,
or even outdo that accomplishment.
Kevin, Catalyst, and Stinks have utterly dominated APAC all season,
winning five of the region's six opens.
Although they'd come close,
what they hadn't done this season was claim an international win,
until the e-sports world cup rolled around.
I love that. It's starting for TSM.
Catalan's gonna get another eight!
Okay, got it.
Six fine trunks find Kevin.
He does go high with it.
Kevin fancies it.
I want to go!
Daniel tries to get the way.
TSM back.
He wants the pass, turns around.
Daniel!
The upset of the tournament!
APAC's TSM are pre-jump kings who fear no one, while arguably keeping a bit too much humility.
When all lose, TSM will be everyone's second team in Fort Worth.
They start their tournament with a match versus meanest, dangerous third seed, R8.
No region has gained more from the two-thirds rule than Sub-Saharan Africa.
Local Snowy and Guns join Spaniard Tekos in theirs and fight theas,
3rd RLCS LAN this season, their realistic target, take at least one game,
something they haven't quite managed to do in any offline event this season.
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A close upper bracket match, but North America gets the job done again, and Vertus Bro have
punched their ticket to the group stage of the 2026 Rocket League World Championship.
We're going to continue things on with an interregional battle between Falcons and
the Mates.
My thought was as a drop down to play the winner of Flut vs TSM, they are getting
We're going to play that match right now on the alternate stream
to assess you, because ROD supports.
Make sure you got it pulled up if you haven't already, folks.
But we'll make a money top of that match there, kids.
I thought it was a great match for North America, though.
I will say that because of the depth.
We always talk about Europe has always been the deeper region.
But lately, EWC, we saw in North America kind of pop off.
VP does it again here with a big win.
And it was a lot of clutch goals, I thought.
So money top up, I think they played them close.
VP, though, just when they needed to score
And they needed to make a highlight goal.
They got it.
So they really came out and just won this match.
Better team.
Better team.
They're the better players.
I think Talki is the best player in that match in particular.
I mean, he showed how we needed to.
And then two please had a couple of big moments as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, huge goal.
Yeah, for a bit of tempo.
Two fees, two feet.
That's what you call it.
He did.
But we were talking about this team
this way at the beginning of the season.
And then there's just been so many coming up.
Had you thought they were the best players in the pitch
here, Joey, but then they weren't for so much of the season.
It's so good to see them here in the play-ins getting back to that redacted.
Yeah, and it does go to show that the struggles that VP have had in the second split online,
it's not because they fell off massively, they maybe slowed down a little bit.
This goal from 2kies is absolutely ridiculous, that's one of the best goals you're going to see alternative.
And it's such an important moment in the series as well, but I don't think they fell off a lot.
It was just footsteps up and took their spot.
So VP are still looking really consistent.
I'm really happy that they could do it at the Worlds play-ins.
We saw first wavy into these last year.
Really disappointed Worlds play-ins.
But nothing made it through.
I mean, that's sometimes how to cook your problems.
I mean, you gotta have a little bit of experience
your first time around.
Yeah, talk to see what you're doing.
Everything's in time.
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That's what we need to do.
You saw a frustration though from Atami.
That's the frustration of a player that knows
they could beat this team.
They felt like they were in it.
They felt like it was right there.
Just didn't quite execute in the matches when they needed them there.
And they're now in the lower bracket on their tournament life.
Yeah, very defensive series from both teams.
Obviously it was 1.25 goals to 0.5.
But then it just comes down to who can get that highlight?
Who can get the ball just over the line?
And we saw that from two-piece and tall throughout that match.
The bracket continues with our first team
through five years also on the other stream.
They get a win, their first land game
win of the season across any major land here,
but that is the end of their tournament.
Thank you for playing at the 2020
6 World Championships.
TSM versus foot is getting ready on the other side,
but Virtus.Pro has qualified through that upper bracket.
Monita will have one more chance down there in the bottom.
They'll be one of our last matches of the day.
Finals being the final matches of the day.
We're going into the final one of the alternate stream.
TSM versus foot.
Esports are getting ready to go.
I see them here in front of me.
Getting ready to play that match.
So that'll be a very, very important game.
Honestly, Johnny, no idea who to say who's the favorite in that one foot looking kind of strong, but we just saw TSM take right to game five
I surely got I think foot will win that TSM or you know an awesome team
I love watching the play. I love the way they play but foot are a legitimate, you know, very legitimate team
I think they can take games off any mobility seen that against Falcons
So I think it's a bit too big of a task for TSM who needed to go through that uppers against R8
They did to be fairly nearly did it, but yeah, I got through there over here on the main stream
We have money E papa taking on the winner of that other match and then let's get into our next match here a fun
Regional battle that has been played many times here Gibbs
All right taking on Falcons again in twenty-four years. Yeah
We talked about the Falcons are tournament favorites
But the only teams they could not beat throughout the Paris split was twisted mines and RA esports
already these four to beat them twice.
They beat him in open five four to three,
then they also beat him four to one back in open four
to take that spot away for the Paris major.
The problem is when they play on land,
it's a different team for both sides.
R8 kind of crumbled under the pressure
and Falcons, they rise up.
I like Falcons, they've shown that experience
and the way that they just played against
has been feeling extremely confident
for this match up here against R8 today.
Abdullah and Ghazi returning as LCK champions here for Mina.
They have picked up the world's rookie, Mohamed,
and they're looking to make it further this time around.
I would describe the 2026 season as the dark horse season
because nobody thought that we would do something.
We didn't do great at the Paris Major,
but like we got experience from it.
We learned that we can be at the big stage, we can do our best.
The World Championship is the biggest tournament
because I mean every professional player wants to be a World Champion
and like it means everything.
Like that's everything I'm aiming for as a player.
I'm proud to represent the MENA region.
I want to earn a very good place
because the MENA deserves it
and the MENA players are so good.
Our team, they give me energy that's like they want to win.
They motivate me so much that I want to win.
I want to win like their energy in the game and their comps.
I'm so lucky to have them in my team.
I think that our rights will prove that nothing is impossible.
A lot of confidence coming out there from RA.
Let's see if that confidence continues.
Avadoula with me right now.
You sound very confident in your matchup,
but I guess whoever you face,
Falcons on the other side though,
not going to be easy.
Are you still confident?
Yeah, we're confident Falcons are not an easy team. Everybody knows that they are a big team.
They're one of the strongest. They just won AWC.
But we'll do everything we can to win it.
Yeah, okay. Well, I want to go back to the plans earlier you played TSM.
And that went to game 5. Did that make you guys worried or were you surprised that TSM brought you to game 5?
I mean TSM is a very good team. We didn't start that series very well.
Like we lost the series ended 3-2.
But, like, the one gave us confidence that we can beat Falcons.
That's great. So, in between with your teammates, what do you talk about after a match like TSM,
and then going against Falcons? It's a very different pace.
It's a different pace, but we know Falcons very well from the regionals,
and we know what we can do, and we'll do everything we can to win this game.
So the question I'm going to ask you, do you think you can do it? Do you got this one?
Yeah, I'm very confident.
I love to hear that confidence. Keep that up in the field, Abdullah.
So thank you so much for chatting and good luck.
Let's go take a look at the Falcons.
Boston Major was pretty good overall.
Almost made the grand final.
We were one goal away.
And then, you know, split two, we didn't make the majors.
So obviously that's like the lowest level
in my entire career.
And then right after that, we bounced back
and won EWC quite easily.
The expression highs and lows sums up perfectly.
As always, we're going to have to beat the best
in the world which isn't always easy. I think this time I'll be even more prepared than I was last
time. Last time was my first LCS LAN victory ever. This time I'm even more used to it and more
dangerous than ever. If I win this one I'll be one of the three greatest Rocket League players of
all time in terms of achievements. I would mean a lot to see Falcons win this because it's the
It's the greatest achievement in the world championship is Falcons 2-1.
The Falcons on the other side here and I'm hanging out again with the whom we're getting a lot of time together.
This is fun.
Of course, R8 on the other side of the field, a familiar matchup, a team that you know.
Did that give you confidence to be able to see them or did it make you more worried?
worried.
R8 is a really big team that we struggled against for the whole season, it's not an easy game.
We are confident because lately we were dominating against them, so we are confident.
That's good, and they are also confident though, so this will be a good matchup I think.
For you guys when you struggle against a team like R8 in the season, do you study them
specifically or do you try to just work on your own stuff?
It is a little bit of both, working our stuff, and what are they doing that makes us struggle?
So it's both of them.
And by the sounds of it, by the end of the season, you kind of have that figured out?
Are you worried maybe they got a secret weapon that they're going to come at you guys with?
Of course, they might change everything, so we are ready for everything.
Yeah, okay, I mean I guess for the team as a coach, do you have a certain speech
speech or a certain thing you like to say, what is that last thing you say to the team
before they go into the matchup and play?
I like, in Arabic, and I probably understand this, it's called chilling.
Chilling, I like it. Relax and calm. I like that, that's good, that's a good philosophy.
Hey, well go tell that to your team right now, so you can get ready for your matchup.
Thank you so much, and maybe we'll see you again later.
Thank you.
So is Drolley big chilling right now, or is he feeling okay?
Seems sleepy. Is he asleep? Yeah, he's big chili. Yeah, calm for sure
Come on, let's go. I mean again, we know what the Falcons it can do doesn't matter what their postures are
We know what we need that didn't he in the match against foot mid-series
Yeah, during the time out he just took a nap, which is very impressive
So I'm interested to see if that's gonna work out for him
I'm also very interested to know who the other two players are that Drally's referring to when he says winning
We're all to put in top three all time
We assume a monkey-menace to be one of them, but I don't know who you're talking about
Probably wins this for turbo. I thought it's turbo. I thought if you include turbo you go include K-dup of ice Marcia
So maybe it's here. I think it's very similar
K-dup K-dup stop more of everything else everything else I've received word that
Maybe not feeling particularly well. Okay, but who knows flu games are a thing that seems to be common across sports and eSports here
I don't know that it necessarily lessens the threat of how good of a player he is and I mean Johnny
It like speculate with me here for just a second like I bet the back at the beginning of the year when this was one of the
First roster changes was made a falcon's drop here. Can you pick up drawly one of the most aggressive moves?
We've seen like in the history of RLCS roster moves
Having seen how the seasons panned out now, right?
Not as not the results necessarily you thought they'd have in the middle of the season
But coming up as EWC champions one of the strongest teams coming in here
would you, if you were to go back, would you make the change?
I, well, it hindsight is 20-20, of course, but I think yes because it has seemingly fixed a lot of the issues it had.
Falcons always had issues with the defense side of the ball, and that's not something that happens anymore.
They looked really good defensively with Raleigh.
And the TRK, of course, during Twisted Minds, he's elevated the offense, but the defense is against the lacking.
So I think yes, overall, also seems to have weakened KC briefly.
So like overall, yes true. Yeah, maybe the weekend enemy just lateral move for you. I work on your favor there
You know chat let us know who you think is gonna win the press of fan vote Johnny who you got I've got falcons
Like I said, I'm confident because of what we saw from them against foot whereas R8 struggling with TSM
Doesn't look like they've got their best form today. Yeah falcons are my tournament favorites
I haven't won in this entire thing. The only way to do that is fighting a short day for drawly so he can get some rest
So I'm going Falcons as well.
R8 hasn't been in Falcons since April of this year.
And the last three matches that they played against each other,
Falcons have been in every single time.
Falcons will be in for a fourth time in a row by a year.
Falcons all day, baby.
Drolley was feeling the same way earlier,
and he looked very strong in that matchup as well.
I've got the Falcons.
How does the coin feel about the Falcons on one side?
R8 on the other end of the air.
He's going to come up for R8 on this one.
The coin picking the underdog.
Coins now had a good day when it's going to get fast so far.
By the way, bye.
Yeah, you have it.
You have it again.
I missed one.
Hey man, get perfect.
Can we get a kid?
You're there all are you
perfect so far to John?
Yeah, of course.
OK, thank you.
Come on over here.
Let's give you give me a little bit.
Yeah, I had a little hit.
I was looking.
I was looking.
I was looking.
I was looking.
I was looking.
I was looking.
And a doctor over there.
And a true true.
I mean, they gave me a lot of reasons to doubt.
Of course, the season was really good to see him
bouncing back so far.
I would love to see that team continue to pop off here.
Malcolm's very they were popular in chat earlier.
I think they're a big reason why the fans have been up
and Adam and chat and they're going to continue to be a
favorites here this rate this battle went back and forth during the regular
season but lately the birds been flying higher falcons on one side r8 on the
other and a spot in the groups on the line only one team can continue from
this match the other battle later on today falcons versus r8 and the RLCS
world championship so it's a regional matchup to try and qualify for the
main event both these teams have got two opportunities lose this and you
remain in the tournament that as we have heard very recently Falcons have been
the dominant team in this rivalry. Game one brought you back progressive. Let's get
into it Jay. Now they have as of late chugging, but if you remember back heading
into the Paris Major, R8 got the better of team Falcons. Two times in a row team
Falcons didn't even show up in Paris. So I think that is going to help the
confidence for R8 knowing that they do have what it takes to take down team
Falcons is actually at a best of five.
I think I've been in an incredibly good team as you guys can turn around for this.
From the online split. I think there's been a lot of questions about that there,
but to translate that into the live event.
Paris was not a fantastic show from them.
EWC they were out pretty early on as well.
Just need to be able to translate that.
It can be difficult. Oh wow, power clear.
And this is something that football will tell you all about.
Now, the Falcons counterattack is unbelievably difficult to try and deal with.
I mean, every player from Team Falcons is very difficult to deal with.
I think for R8, their big challenge has been doing what they've been able to do online,
on land, when the stage lights are on.
So, we're starting to see that the more and more experience could be on the precipice
of a breakout performance, but, oh man, that's a good one.
I can't say about that, but I'm just like a really bad shot.
And Abdullah wants some of the challenger.
Killers not going to give many of it.
Come on mate.
Just early.
Dangerous to show your hand early if you're going to go for those just-pure spawns.
It's happened to always take a low of 15.
Oh wait, and that's somehow pinged one of its way back into position.
Gazi's low of boost. Has he got the set?
Abdullah thinks better than diving in again for a while.
Just shut down that play. Press load things down.
Thomas, not much movement will get a pass attempted over to the middle.
So far, Shogun, we've seen both these teams well matched, but T-Fuckins do have that slight edge here on possession.
And there's the bucket temp well done by Mahomet.
And Mahomet's trying to break away against the 15.
Garzi, first time shots. That's not going to trouble killers too much.
This might, though, that's very awkward, but see all of our aims stuck in the
other side of the field. I need to be a little bit happier to just go for that and
this is actually a good chance, Gazi. A little bit late, you don't really want to be
catching those on their way back down. Makes the air dribble that much more
difficult. But it did allow a team to get that boost, try to move up field,
get some position. It's the same spot every time, Falcons.
19 Falcons knocking on the door here.
Adola so many times has been there to close the door.
Trucking down those attacks.
Adola is tough to read.
Fingals are really nicely even.
He's able to stay behind that ball to get the 50.
Defensively both teams playing so well right now.
Oh!
Oh, we won't give out it.
Don't jump early.
We can put on a big side.
We can play over on a siren
Stick it right on to your monitor people do it anyway against the last oh, and they still concede
Get a mean of pause. Do you get me to pause?
So we'll figure out what's going on there
Yeah, yeah, also, we'll see if the goal stand it seemed
like
It would Raleigh. Okay. That's good news file. Yes good news for Falcons does appear to be drawly
You're trolley, and you're ill, how bad is it gonna be where you're just like,
okay I do need to fix this, but you do kind of just want to get off the stage as quickly as possible?
Well, you know, I don't know, because maybe he's locked in, maybe he lives for it, maybe this helps him to live a little bit better.
I can't tell you if he was locked in or completely locked out.
But I want to talk a little bit about that Roa school that we just saw.
Abdullah has been doing such a good job of shutting down those attacks, but on that play he's a little late to the play
Rwass showing like he could go for that flip reset and
Abdullah is trying to cover both angles Rwass so smart so good in those 1v1 moments
You know he shows the flip reset height instead just goes for that low 50 classic low 50 one of the highest percentage plays in the game
It's not the most beautiful, but it works, but it works. Yep. One of them gets you a trophy
the other one gets you a top play.
I know which one I would rather.
Yeah, I go into the point about Abdullah.
I do like his positioning,
but his positioning is good for snapshots.
The way Falcons have been playing,
that a lot of them have just been,
we've got the ball in the midfield,
we're gonna set the shot first time.
Abdullah is a great spot for that,
because he's quite deep.
For those plays though,
you give Rahwas time, he's already up in the air.
You know, Abdullah has been on the goal line
for all of these plays.
The problem is you've got an air-tripling
Rahwas against you.
The last thing you need is,
I have to win this 50,
All the bull is in my net.
Yeah.
And the closer that you are to your own net,
the worse it is for you as a defender.
You want to be getting out.
You don't want to be challenging the ball in the goal line.
Because if you even make the slightest mistake,
that 50 goes backwards, you're going to get scored on.
So I think it was just great continued pressure
from team Falcons not cracking
under the pressure that they've
been facing, which is a little more limited.
We've seen team Falcons with the majority
of the possession in this game.
Looks like this team Falcons squad does have the edge so far, but it's very early in this matchup.
Team Falcons though, you know that they are surging in confidence after that huge e-sports World Cup win that they just had.
Even though they didn't make Paris, I think that win has reinvigorated this team.
By the way, if we have any further pauses, the way you're going to be able to tell back the players,
as we do get first on shot, we're not going to be able to go back in, is just watch for it while it's camera.
The moment he starts leaning forward, that's probably a good...
Hell.
So 1-0, yeah, you could be right by the EWC, because we saw it two years ago as well, when it was, uh, BDS, all season for the most part.
Really? Yeah, I'm not kidding. Why an EWC? I think that was the year that they had lost to pioneers, and got knocked out, and that made me the greatest upset.
Okay, okay, okay. That BDS. That. Which one won over here?
Yeah, I'm pretty good. The one with trolley.
Oh, he's, uh...
I'm sure the accomplishers that he's got, you wouldn't think that trolley's career has been as sure as it has been.
First one's of the same time as Nas, Nas took a little bit longer to really find his footing in the pro scene,
but you can see that he's very recently.
Two Moroccans still competing over who can win the most trophies.
But an interesting comment there, somebody, if Drolley does get interviewed and he says top three, you know, which other players does he play for, but three, two, would love to know that because I think Drolley making a very strong case for greatest of all time with how difficult things are and the eSports World Cup wins that he's had.
Orino, the only move he ends is that he wins it.
One minute left here, one goal still to difference.
I'm doing that, the new track shakes that, drops down.
Fake from Gandhi, he's got the tip right in one run.
Judge Lima, put the habit!
Well that ball was still in a tight frame.
Everybody wants to reset, are they going to punish them? No quite.
It was the right play call, it was just a shot, needed to be there just a second sooner.
I don't think anybody could believe that he has the gall to just stay right still against the falcons.
It was a long fake set up, that was a very long time.
They're still trying to go for the blockbites, I've done this so far back.
That is a heck of a 50.
I've done this for a man positioning, it's incredibly deep.
They're going to have to try and sense something though, they have run out of time here.
I see.
50, that's nice for them up there on the chase.
Try and shut down the options in field.
From the right, saves!
Huge save on the last play of the game.
Team Falcons closing it out.
And that's what I would love to see on the highlight reel.
We're in the replay package.
That was a close call.
The demo was there.
It looked like the ball was in a dangerous spot.
But man, clutch defense.
Closing things out for Team Falcons.
second-naked game, majority of the time, keep up it's...
It always seemed like they had the initiative, but...
R8 were right there, nipping on their heels that whole time.
Yeah, certainly, I think it was a very slow start.
You can definitely tell these teams are familiar with each other,
because a lot of respect going into the potential plays,
but yeah, here's the one who you've got to avoid.
Rolasse, their drill, he's not going to complicate it.
He knows the right place.
Here's this final play here, Rolasse.
Sneaks up, gets on the back wall, and then you know the tunnel vision was there for RA.
The ball is sitting there at 0 seconds. Tunnel vision kicks in, Roas is banking on that,
dives through to shut down that angle.
He was able to get in that win, but it was not an easy win.
They're not routine talkers by any means.
If anything, actually, you can see, RA had a very good advantage in the latter half of that game on the challenges.
They were delaying it a lot more, they were losing it into their own teammates in good positions.
I think I just, I want to just keep high enough that I was positioning right now.
Does he stay deep or does he, you know, take a few more risks?
There's quite a few occasions where I'm like, we need somebody up here as we last look to try and do it yet again.
And he had the double, yes, he countered, that was on his way.
Has he got any support around? He's got Charlie left to try and get through.
And yeah, that is one step too far.
But you're right Shogun because on that big kickoff plate, they were playing a little bit tighter, a little more aggressive.
X-Shark comes out one second sooner, I think they're scoring.
He has a lot of wait-and-see, I feel.
Oh, alright, and usually wait-and-see against Falcon Beans, wait-and-see the ball in your net.
As they do the demo, can they get another buff around here?
Double's on his way! Looks to go for a shot off, but no cringe today.
Very good help there from Killers getting back just in time, but we have seen a lot of demos connecting for RA even last game
In the midfield and in their attacking half. Well, it's very good demos
simply
Opening up opportunities
So just
So on those two players on the back wall zero boost between them
Almost zero communication, but I just call teammate off at the right time for the reset
Killis is at no boost in front of him, he's still got rid of it. Now he's picked up the 100.
Look to the passing play, Abdullah. Straight into the path. Over the last first time shot from here.
Just looking to try and make it awkward, realizing he didn't have any support.
Like you can see though, from RA, many of the demos, you saw that call-off as well.
It seems like the comms working out. Abdullah going for gold then, but it seems like every time!
It's a long boost! Die! For the same! It's somehow Team Falcon to make the same!
Yeah, alright, I'm gonna have to just be brave on one of these and say,
Okay, if I believe you've got this outplay, I will be there!
Right now, they're getting them, and probably just send their next person up to try and get rid of it.
Is there really no charges at any point?
What? They're kind of late, and...
Alright, uh, I'm against a lot of defense right now,
so he gets full and a voice being demoed after this particular one of the boosts.
I saw Paul, Mohammed against Travi, who's the fast one?
Here's Mohammed, how's he going to reset?
No, it just gets away from him.
Still, all right.
Starting to get chance after chance, another tip.
If they can't capitalize on this,
I think that might be the wind out of their sails.
They're going to have to figure something out.
Maybe a fake shot or a changeup.
Because when you've got players diving in on low boost,
that's what you want, is the off-speed shot,
to fly by. The Deep Falkents have been flying in for these saves. Yeah, Falkents don't give
up for any. It took Justin scoring top ten plays to get anything past them in the Lanna.
Ah, what a storm! What does it take? They're on the verge that they still don't care. The
defense is rock solid. Unreal stuff from Deep Falkents. Stacking the backboard, stacking
the goal line. It doesn't matter how much move they have or though it seems, just finding
ways to get stop after stop.
Yes, it's impressive to get a stop. It's the way they recover from it. They stay relevant.
You, I, anyone else, we get the same. Okay, we'll be back in about 30 seconds.
Valken's just bland and already ready for a second stop.
Jiralli on the pop, with no support, so it's going to be hit by himself.
Once alone, 50, 30, four of us.
Who just puts off, I think you realize he gets done for that.
He's in a lot of trouble.
Good speed from Jiralli again at the midfield.
Mid moves picked up, he's going to go for a bump.
Trying to take out the defender.
You can see things awkward for Ghazi.
The 50, also contesting.
And there, ball down, is Jiralli with the shot.
And team Falcons, they've been playing defense all game, but they get just a sliver.
And they work their way through.
We saw at the start of that replay, it's the exact same way they are picking our way apart.
Just go air dribble, get the 50, and watch the panic.
Mohamed, looks to try to drop that down.
I'm still not on the way. They realize they're running out of time here.
They still have not put the goal past Falcons.
Matt needs to change sometimes and his drive is an argument of the floor. The floor was winning.
Right now their argument with the scoreboard is pretty one-sided.
Just one goal. Last game, one goal. This game for Team Falcons.
I hope so, yes. Yeah, R8, they've done enough to at least earn one. However, we did see a team buff there.
He has that again on the goal line by Drolley who has plenty of boost and gets to beat there.
Zilla, we're gonna try and fight away.
Out, lovely fage.
Getting some success with that. How much further can they go?
Oh my goodness, it was off target!
The last one's gonna make sure of it anyway. 20 seconds.
Off the bounce. Look at that Reef from Drolley.
That'd be enough up.
Double.
And it's...
Reef from Killers!
That's just brutal, R.A. sent everything, but try too fast.
Manabit's got zero in the tank, they've got zero on the board.
And they are out of time here to really do anything about a two-go lead,
unless they have got something unbelievable off the kickoff.
And you see Falcons have actually covered that.
No ballboard cheating, we don't want to remove an open defense,
there's just double grab boost.
Team Falcons, defense.
They're showing you how hard they are to beat.
I mean you had so many quality chances for RA, they landed bumps, opened up some shooting
lanes, but it always seems like someone is there, even if it's 0 boost someone is there
and they're fully committing, like they are fully committing to this line, you've got
no boost, you've got to maintain your speed as best as possible, your trajectory is
predictable if your opponents are watching you, but Team Falcons, they're
swarming and R8 has not been able to find an answer to this goal line defense from Team Falcons.
I mean we usually see, you know, whenever we've got zero goals across 10 minutes of Rocket League.
Okay, cool, go look and go, we're gonna have two shots. They're not just only taking two shots,
all right, I have a good quality chance is they're creating possession. You said they
probably had more opportunities throughout that game. It doesn't matter. They still can't get the ball across the line.
And then on the flip side, you've got team Falcons who, you're given an inch, they take a mile.
That's horrible, but imagine being a goal down against this team. You know you've got to go,
but you also know, oh, if I just lose this at all, this is in my net.
And they're already a little bit hesitant, as you saw in those first game, Shogun,
The positioning far back in if you were a little bit too far back
You got draw Lee who will turn on anything and he's so fast and we saw that happen on that second goal for killers
He cuts beats by two car links the the challenging player and then boom double tap in your neck
Dr. Lee is too ill to second-guess anything he's doing today
It might be a great flow state. He's just seeing the ball going for it. You guys can figure out around me
The timeout is good
Yeah, Charlie, that was a great freeze frame there.
I'm actually usually Charlie's getting in at the moment.
I have no idea.
He's playing fantastic.
He played so well earlier on as well, especially for esports.
He looked so good in Game 1 against Falcons.
Falcons really had nothing for them for a good six minutes of that.
And then, Charlie dribble.
Okay, yeah, we're just going to take this team all the way through.
That's why they got them over here, because Falcons have won events.
They've been to a lot of finals.
They went to a Worlds finals.
They need a winner.
I mean, and they got second in that Worlds.
They made it to the finals, came up short.
They brought in Drolley for one reason,
and it's to get over that hurdle.
It is to get those wins.
And, you know, this is the stage that has been set.
This is the stage where everyone who's a Team Falcon's fan
is looking at Drolley to see if he will be able to deliver.
It's ridiculous how quickly narratives can change.
Two months ago, this would have gone down by a lot of people that I saw online saying this was the worst changes ever.
It's not that anymore, but Mohamed's got one.
So the perfect swing's off the ball. Let's worry about the first one now.
Well, it's what the other works. It only had 10 minutes where R8 is not able to score 10 seconds in to game three.
They get one. You saw the trail of that ball was orange.
The challenge was going to ride there four team Falcons.
A good punish there for Mohamed.
And a little bit of weight off their shoulders now that they can at least avoid the perfect sweep.
The more likely the thing ever is R.A.S. scoring six goals.
He seems to walk that way.
More demos, they've been connecting on those demos all day long and the possession's been there.
So maybe this could be a turning point for R.A.
Yep, well that was very purposeful.
What's the fuck out of Garza? You passed the bomb on it.
Some skinny straights, the pump of Charlie Garza, he's like that bomb.
Yeah, I know you're going to hit me, I'm going to hit you first.
Wait, Russ, over there. He's only got the chance. He looks for the hookshot and he hits the crossbar.
That was tough, the ball was bouncing on it.
Knew he had to place it just a bit high on the shot.
But that is one opportunity that if somehow T5 can lose this one, right look back to that chance and think maybe it could have gone differently
I'm just saying that, well, we've got a kind of map position, the hookshot, oh that's it every single time
Gela's low boost, Scythe's not worth trying to follow that
Gali wants to try and go coast to coast, but he has to go west up there in supports
Definitely required after that 50
You see
So he, Rwass, he's going for a ground pitch, disguises it, delays it, and it completely
surprises Gazi because alongside you see the ground pitch players try to use the
nose of their car down into the ground but Rwass, maybe they were thinking he was
gonna go for a 50 on that, so you saw the big challenge but no he was going for a pitch.
And I thought I was made a big mistake there and these guys, he's trying to get rid of it.
Yeah, like for a watch scored earlier on trying to set up that 15 well already just scared of it
I'm way from us without that son of five over 50 me. I'll take a 50 against the ground yourself
Wow, that was not a goal you see every day
A bit of time twice
Now he's gonna in and out on his opponent's net as it does on his way.
Good 15 out by Trutronin!
Mohamed on the phone!
Mohamed!
Only goal scorer so far for R8.
Young Kuwaiti.
Nicely time flipped there.
That one is gonna get secured.
And R8 back on top.
We've not seen nearly enough of that Mare.
They've had good wins on those plays.
There's never somebody to follow it.
And if you two down in a series like this, suddenly you'll start doing things that you don't usually do.
Killers must unlock now. Dullo takes the 50 early.
Really? Is that 100 ping out the window?
Does he want to try and go by himself? Is anyone going to be able to stop him here?
Here comes Killers.
Alright, Dullo. Great recovery from him. Just drops three down.
Right in front of a challenge.
I'm on it. I'm trying to...
Whoa! It's up giving the ball away!
Well, the big side was there and he said I'm passing to Abdullah.
And you saw there was no chance Abdullah was going to get there.
No, absolutely not.
That's very much just going off muscle memory.
You know you want to pass there but just did not spot the danger.
And R8 have been their own worst enemies at times.
And it's got a lot of players trying to deal with it.
I don't think that's the worst outcome there, Barak,
because it's not really much you're creating in the initial position.
Good demo! Good ball! What a goal!
And that's a hard trick from Mohamed.
The demos have been connecting all series long.
This time it finally results in a goal here for R8.
And you know what? You have to give respect to R8.
T Falcons keep leveling the score.
R8 keep getting back in the lead.
Yes, gonna be one of those frustrating ones if R8 do lose this,
because they'll think,
R8, we figured it out, because we figured out two lanes.
Oh, that's popped up.
I thought it was gonna get something good here.
Straight up.
But, Jolly, no on there!
R8 run!
And T Falcons will not let them escape.
Jolly had to take a very quick shot here.
Saw the Hobbit on the backboard.
We need to keep it low as well, but you see Mohamed also backflipping well placed, well executed shot from Drolley.
And team Falcons are making this so difficult, but we do see a kickoff strategy come up from Maury.
He's already got three goals. He's going to need a four. He's going to need somebody to put something in.
Minute 14. Falcons just waiting. They do not dive in, but anything other than something no they can win.
win ceiling doesn't matter what's already there guys he looks for the side
skin you're going to speak to those a defender that really messes with positioning
as Abdullah who's there they tried for it but not quite zero boost for everyone
on team falcons they got nothing moving two killers every spot off the
demo somehow team falcons don't concede all right breathing down team
Gazi again looks for the skim, a bit better this time but no real power and it tries taking forever to get back to his side of the field.
I've got the double, faked out, kill us on the way, leaves it for Tirani, Gazi should be fine.
But they're just pushing it straight back into Falcons here. Now it's outfield for us. Straight over to Gazi.
I'm not gonna try to get one.
I'll not play the knots.
And Strolley's got quite a bit of time to work with.
Straight to Abdullah.
Yes.
He's not just passing it between each other right there.
It's worked out just fine.
It's on time and it's in!
Oh man!
Strolley was trying to rotate back
with the boom ball back and forth.
Final results and the golfer R8 killer
is getting dunked on by Ghazi.
And now it's huge.
Use that dunk!
In a key moment, got to do more.
I think your killers stay behind that ball anywhere,
but towards your own net on that one.
In RA, hold on.
Surely the fourth time of having a lead
is the time they can keep it.
Killers goes long.
Abdullah wants the catch.
It just has to be a 50 afterwards.
Realize it pretty quick that he pulled that one down.
All the infield grew us 30 up, and so was the defender.
This is a game of pre-jumps right now.
Who can get there earlier?
Killers played around 400 boosts all the way back to their side of the field.
What will be their last floor in this?
Jiralli to the corner, once in that field.
Silver was, who needs it to drop the killers who can't get there in time.
It was the right play call at 0 seconds, but the player just not there in time.
Thing was Killers trying to come in for the shot, just a step too slow, couldn't get there.
And all right pick up their first game winning man. It was a battle the back and forth on this one
Muhammad scoring a hat trick
The demos connecting they finally break through this team Hopkins defense
And now you have to worry a little bit shall get if you're team talking because even in the first two games
All right had a decent amount of possession that decent amount of opportunities this time. They've been able to
To overcome a pretty challenging game with you know
Making some mistakes, passing the ball away, giving up some easy ones, but they still battle back.
Time and time again to get this win.
I mean the big difference is that they want having to chase this game.
The moment you give up a goal and you're a one-goal down against Falcons, it's a completely different ball game.
Just they sit on that lead, they know you've got to try fresh forwards, they know the opportunity is going to come.
But this time around, we've got to see a more open game of Rocket League.
And if there's anything that meaner Rocket League does well, it's an open game.
We're going for the 50s, we're going for the out plays.
That was a very entertaining game overall.
However, I don't know how much we're starting this like,
okay guys, can I not have scored a hat-trick
for every single game here?
Maybe we can just keep a lead?
That would be great.
And the other thing is, is I wonder if RA
will continue to have as much success
as they had on the demos.
Team thought it's tough team to pin down.
It does feel like they like start every game
on them and then they forget of either reminder on occasion as we do ourselves into game number
four maybe champions field is awaiting maybe and then just in case it's all down to all right
in the moment lovely thought they needed that the perfect well the way that is on way up for
Roulas Roulas not only has to get that save but he's having the dock of a player barreling in
try to target it. Very big save early by Rwaz.
See Rwaz on that and just say, oh here we go, it's my back corner.
Oh, I'll try again later. This one's clearly not happening as
he was going to say he called that as a back pass.
That's risky as that one was. Nice outplay there.
Alright, great job here at the transition game.
Getting the ball out there so it's out of the field.
Damn it.
Let's push.
Your killers gets ripped.
The last not fast enough power since you get set up.
Ground pinch attempt in two place.
Went down.
So now you're going to try and scramble back killers on the ball against Mahabit.
He's the last one back hit.
I think killers just took that little bit too quickly.
What they did, managed to see us a boost on the way.
This is a good position for Team Falcons to be in.
Still on the attack killers.
Trying to go towards net.
There's the shot.
It's high up the back.
double commit again. You can see R8 not feeling comfortable right now.
The R8 work absolutely sucks. Somebody was following him. Nine times out of ten, they
probably be right, Bahamut. Needs to catch what he does! What a start!
Oh, Bahamut scoring. Hatricks last game making massive saves this game.
Dusk is demoed, this attack is still going for Team Falcons.
And how do you get out? They're gonna need a 50. They're gonna need something because
That boost is not around straight back into the path of Falcons.
Wave after wave of offense.
It has been two minutes of it.
Still, R8 are holding on.
He's just getting, there's going to be a matter of time.
Here's R, Rwass.
Now, Gazi, up to the slow boost.
Stressed a leader for a teammate, but I think R8 will take this.
Just a moment to breathe.
Now, good 50 up the ceiling as well.
Rwass has to boot it down field.
And you can see everyone boosted up from R8.
They survived that onslaught from Team Falcons.
Let's try and get block.
That's free for everybody.
Guys, he just didn't get the call that he was going to try and hit it a second time.
Nice play.
Alex got options.
Oh, that's all good for every bomber.
Charlie, great read.
Got there early.
And then he goes for the follow.
So annoying if you're RA.
Trying to deal with that as Abdullah's looking for the outplay.
He's called for a loss he's dead to deal with.
Now that was really well done from Drolley.
Impact plays on low boost, gets them at boost as well.
They're gonna try to find their way out of their own half right now.
Plenty of boost on Bahamut.
Gonna let this roll up the wall.
Bahamut's been so good on the attack.
It's a piece of that one as well, but Drolley still stand with the ball.
R8.
Alright, to get some space.
That one almost got a boost around here, can't really do anything with that.
100 seconds left on the clock, zero goal scored across both teams.
Back board, oh what a touch man, don't realize it now.
That might be open, God damn.
Kazi just did not need that touch.
Would have been a much better position for Mohamed, another whiff, that's rare.
This is what it was for a while.
And for the edge of a bump, the side-back just touched you late.
Over a minute left now, still no goals.
Lots of bumps attempt, as that's going to drop nicely, but
Alas didn't have to boost to do anything with it.
Trying to go up high, Bahamut wants the cross.
He's almost got them, but Alas stick around.
Here's to the back, Alas, you lost twice.
Alas get another touch on that ball.
Alas stepping up on defense,
once more for Team Falcons. If we are still scorelets in this final minute. Back down.
I'm done. A couple of dashes over on the wall. He's made his way through. Can't get the bump.
Roas. All he looks for the low 50 yet again. That wasn't quite work.
Alright, they've got somebody trying to harass Killers back there who does a state.
Now Killers, the other thing he's talking about that. This thing is going to go for the
the center, but how many need some help here with that amount of boost? Oh, he doesn't need
to be spying.
How did that look? No one. We caught. Just there in time. Falcons looking at them all threatening,
but now they have gone for defense.
He's off of Dullwood. He jumped from a reverse position. Now, Trolley, light shot towards
net. He's trying to break up the defense. Last second opportunity here for Team Falcons.
It's kept alive. Trolley going towards goal. It'll hit the ground. A zero
0 overtime a chance for team Falcons to qualify for the main event.
Rwas takes the shot as the number was out to the boost instead.
Very heavy touch there from Mahmed. Rwas got such a great ability I think him and
Draleigh have done the best job of like always following their own touches.
As that's on the backboard.
Yeah all right cool Draleigh you just go and do that all right.
Right.
Time to clear away.
Mohamed in the corner.
What can he create in this position?
Come on, I think he was expecting.
This is a big opportunity.
Well, Drani's still there.
He's stolen as well.
This is looking grim for Team Falcons.
Killers using up all his boost for that touch,
but it's still being pressed towards net.
He wants to leave it, but...
All right, decides to set up again.
Killers is looking for Killers in the backside of the field.
Hey, I've got it!
Killers again!
2v1, what does he care?
The Zero Boost dies and come through clutch for Team Falcons so many times.
Exercise, Bump.
Muhammad almost bounces the ball. Good demo.
The loss is out. Kill us.
Dump it again!
Welcome to the main event, Team Falcons.
They get past their regional rivals once more.
more R8 an inspiring comeback attempt by team Falcons powered through and I think
for me the theme of that series for team Falcons was defense yeah all the games
they won their defense world it was remarkable the amount of safe that
they were making on zero boost so three to one all right we'll be looking at
seriously just going well we've got we figured this out just far too late they gave up those first two games with good opportunities
But the team we saw for the first 10 minutes and the team we saw for the last I want to say 12
We're very very different squad are a key to lock in on what they had in the latter of that from the rest of this
Time because they're not out. They've got that low bracket
But it's not the result they're after two thousand so the QWC champions do much on
They certainly do, they qualify for the main event. R8 will be moving down to play Vigojus
for a spot in the main event and after this series, I mean I would put R8 as the favorite.
They very easily could have won this series against Team 9 on the second best team in
this play. But we have got ourselves our first team from over here. Falcons are moving
on. Let's go and speak to them.
The Falcons have made it through, and I'm here with my best friend again, one more time
and you guys can finally get away from me.
I have to ask him that, it was obviously a tough ending to it, and we did find out, you
know, Drolley's a little under the weather.
Do you have to adjust the other two's playstyle maybe to compensate for a player that might
not be feeling as well?
We'll just stick to our basics.
With time, he will get the momentum and he will be able to.
Do you just tell him, just get through it.
Yeah, he just play normally and...
What a beast, that takes a lot of energy to do, very hard.
Now, looking at the fact you guys have just qualified, congratulations.
Is there a weight that comes off of you?
I was talking to Two Piece earlier and he said it felt so good to just make groups.
Same for you?
Yeah, same for us.
This is what we came for.
We came for the World Championship.
The Blins, it's disappointing for us to be in this position, but after we finished this
phase, now we are ready to go.
And just one last word before we go, talk about your opponents R8, obviously gave you
some trouble at the end there.
Talk to me about your opponents because they look good too.
Yeah, they play really insane.
I hope they do well in the level bracket.
They are an insane team.
Hopefully they get through with us.
Exactly.
You made it through.
That's all that matters.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Go celebrate with the team.
We're going to head it off here, though,
because we've got two more to go.
We're almost done for day number one here
at the Rocket League World Championships.
I hope you're having fun.
We'll see you in just a few.
Thank you.
Good stuff.
See you next year.
Change, change, won't you please stand?
Now that your gaze is more on the ground.
Okay, the plumber is fixing that burst pipe.
It should be all set.
Good thing you protected 24-7 with your home and auto bundle from Progressive.
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to figure out the right caption to post about these.
post about this.
Maybe something like, I have protection,
just need a lifeguard.
What about that emergency with a shocked face?
Or maybe flooded with emotion.
That's too much.
Try, uh, Tuesdays are crazy.
You know, technically, you don't have to post everything
that happens online.
I totally believe you.
Life is meaningless without affirmation, am I right?
Welcome to the end of the fight.
Welcome to the end of the fight.
It was close until it wasn't, over time on Utopia you're going to get sealed by a fantastic
shop and killers and the Falcons are through to the group stage.
20-26, Rocket League World Series.
And 12 teams that are in the main event are very upset right now.
The Falcons have made it through, they were really open.
They wouldn't have to worry about them
and we'll find out what group they get later on today.
It'll be exciting once we get there.
We've got two more matches to get through,
two more teams to send home, only one spot
and two spots left, two spots left here.
We'll be sending one team home and one team through
with each of these matches.
Yeah, and I think that it's gonna be interesting to see
If Mena can end up getting another team through, if R8 can get it done,
I think the fact that they lost to Falcons is unfortunately their trend.
Whenever they end up facing them online, so not too surprised there.
But it's going to be a tough match, I think, for Bogode to try and get it over at R8.
They still look really strong.
I mean, these two teams, in particular, I mean...
I got to talk about it.
Obviously, we've lost to them in about one, two, three, four months.
It's been a long time, and they've just progressively
got him better. R8 though, they didn't have a fudger's
chance, they had a moment. My Alton and Kroger are just too
consistent at the moment and she's thought over them.
But I did like what I saw out of R8, at least the final two
games. I felt like it took a little bit while to get going,
but they had a lot of scoring opportunities, but Falcon's
defense is top tier in the world. And they found ways in
2v1 situations to get out of jail. And except for this
game where the scoring is crazy, but R8 kind of finally
woke up towards the end of the series, which is a good
good time for them to try and make it out of this play.
I mean, of course, the Falcons are off ceiling,
top right corner, man, overtime to finish the series off.
That shows that you're playing at a high level.
10% of the time spent ahead, both of these two teams,
basically deadlocked off of the demos.
Ari has more of that possession.
50-50, defending 50-50, 1%-1%, a very close series.
It's a little margin of error, made all the difference
for Falcons, and they move on, but Ari are still here.
All right, Ari are still here.
The Falcons are through.
They can close it out for the day,
but Ari will have a match in those lower bracket
We've got one NA team through, one MENA team through Stumpy, we now have, it's looking like there's a really good chance we're going to get both MENA teams and both NA teams out of our playing.
Yeah, there's still a chance for us to get one of each, which would be very cool. That would be very exciting.
I think it's going to happen.
But I think it would be cool if it did. I mean, you know, anything can happen, especially when the pressure gets on.
We've heard so many players talk about how important different worlds is here, and this is one of those moments.
And really quick, I just want to mention TSM, they're out of the World Championship.
They were a team that was really fun to watch all year.
I felt like they were so close to leveling up to that next tier,
they just barely couldn't get over that hump, but they were a fun team to watch.
Yeah, but I think also they've had such market improvement
between every single event, most in particular,
A-WC when they managed to take down NRG, an incredible achievement for that side.
So, looking forward to seeing what TSM can do in the next season as well,
because, like you say, they're now down for 26th.
It usually is that we see the kind of one pop-off event and the next one's like oh, they didn't quite go well
This is now three events in a row that they've been competitive at exciting CTSM play in the future of
Now let's talk about the remaining matches on the streams if you've been enjoying the alternate stream too bad
It's all over that's all done for the day
We will see more of it at another time the mainstream here though two matches left to go
I'm not at the top of versus foot e-sports gonna be our next match here on the mainstream here
We go money top again face off against another North American team
It's European depth versus North American depth which one will come out on top last time and they want it
But money top has got two chances that
And they have two chances, but then you had two chances because Bp
They lost too many WC they couldn't get the job done
They don't have a game plan for and it ultimately did not come out in their favor
Now they're gonna be going up against a foot squad that over the last about six months or so has been playing consistently
Better than Bp. Yeah, very one. They're also first thing lost today has been to Falcons who have just qualified
That's a loss that we kind of all expected them to take by our predictions at the start of the day
And since then they went over a tier 7 that still looks good
Compared to Mateo Tapa that I went through five years again thinking that was gonna happen. That's that's almost
Written in already and then they looked I think alright there's VP, but I wasn't particularly impressed by them
I think there's still a lot of room for them to grow into and I think there's a little bit of a worry
Especially when they go up against foot who are pretty much at level pegging with VP
A few teams have been on the stage a few times so far today, but one can only one can continue one will be going home
Let's talk to Marty Topper again
The team formed at the beginning we are with Dorito
when the regionals in Europe and then we decided to change our third
and we decided that we should be with Atomic at the third and the harmony as a coach and there
And we were able to qualify for the H&M.
And the truth is that we didn't get too complicated, except for the final, but it wasn't very complicated, of course.
It was a moment that I think we're going to have in our memories, because in the final it was very stressful, it was 27,
and it was like a relief to qualify for the H&M because it wasn't going to make me forget much.
And I think we are getting closer to the beginning,
beyond what Candelito and I have explained for a long time.
For me, we should be here for a long time.
For me, the Worlds are the biggest thing there is,
both in the Rocket and in any sport.
It's a place where anyone wants to reach and win, especially.
But only the best come.
And that's what makes it important to be here.
It doesn't matter if they don't trust us as much as they do here in the world.
And we're going to show them everything.
bring into this next one?
Yeah, I mean, I don't think the strategy was bad.
It was just the mental what she's not there.
Really?
Yeah, we won first game, one nail,
and then the second one just went their way.
And yeah, from there, moving forward was just every time
it works.
Yeah, so I mean, I guess speaking on the mental,
I feel like sometimes that's a harder thing as a coach
to deal with, right?
Because if it's like, oh, you made this mistake here.
Just fix this a little bit.
That's an easy thing to point out.
When it comes to mental, do you find that harder
or do you find it easy to be able to get them back
in the right spirits and know how to handle it?
I mean, yeah, it's definitely way worse to handle
than just gameplay.
Right.
Yeah, because like at the end of the day,
everyone can see when somebody misses the ball
or just doesn't miss the ball.
But working with mental, it's hard.
Not as hard with these guys, especially they are old.
Yeah, they're old, but we're back here.
But yeah, I think it's definitely way worse to work with that than just gameplay work.
Well, I guess how is it coming into this?
How is the mental?
Are you guys now feeling confident that, OK, we're going to qualify?
Yeah, we've been talking ever since we lost.
We went to the practice room, we were talking and stuff.
And yeah, we came to the conclusion that at the end of the day,
we are all going into the same direction, right?
And hopefully not all at once.
That's exactly it.
Exactly.
And if we go separate directions, it's just not going to work.
So like, we're just going all the way.
You know, hey, hopefully it works there.
And the metal is strong because it's do or die.
Good luck in the matchup there, I'm on it with the squad.
Now, of course, we have to take a look at their opponents
on their other side and see how they're feeling.
Foot's years so far is very interesting,
considering we restarted the season with zero points.
The foot team was built for LCKU.
We didn't have that much pressure.
Besides maybe a few couple teams that, you know,
maybe like the Gen Gs and stuff that could maybe sneak in
at like a game or two here and there.
So it's definitely a little scary for sure.
But we had nothing but confidence.
We know the abilities we all have individually as players
and as a team and how good we can be.
So we just went in there confident and it clearly shows.
I think coming to this world,
I want to do very well considering the past events
haven't been too good,
but we've shown that we have fight in us.
We've been showing very good scrims
against the top, top teams.
I've been to a lot of worlds, I've won worlds.
I haven't lost a passion at all.
I definitely am, I would say, a veteran in these situations.
So I know kind of how to handle it.
So I feel like on stage and when it matters,
I could be the leader for Cheese and Chronic.
And Chronic himself knows as well, because he's won majors.
So I'm just hoping we get out of play-in
and I think whoever we play first out of the play-in,
I think we can confidently beat him
and hopefully top it, and then we'll just keep going from there.
We just saw them on the B-stream now, on the mainstream,
I'm here with Adam Begat once again, you know, you guys just came off another match there a win
Maybe a bit of whiplash from the previous match before that
Did you guys feel that that kind of tug-and-pull there between the two matches? Yeah
I mean in going from Falcons to TSM is obviously a big shift, but
TSM, I mean we saw what they did at EWC they got a lot of energy and we've given them scrims in the past as well
They're not a team to mess around with they absolutely deserve to be here
and you know while it was easier than Falcons it was still difficult.
Yeah absolutely now coming into this one I feel like it's not going to get easier as well.
This qualification you know these guys are going to be coming at you with everything they have
because it's new or die. Do you guys have a plan for things? Do you get scrappy and you have to
readjust because they're playing maybe different than you expected?
Yeah I think in everything that we've played we've had like a wake-up call
a loss that was pretty bad.
This line, it was Falcons and we spoke about it
and now we have new things that we're gonna adjust to.
Obviously, line is the criticalizer.
Everyone kinda comes out of the level,
so it's difficult to execute on ideas perfectly,
so depending on how the day goes,
we adjust, modify, and now we're executing.
Right, and I asked him as well
and I wanna get a yes from you.
Are you guys feeling confident?
This is a win and a qualification.
Absolutely.
Okay, good.
That's what I was looking for there.
Adam, thank you so much.
Good luck in this match up here, and maybe we'll talk to you later on.
Awesome. Thank you.
Confidence from both squads who have had the longest days so far.
The only teams that have to play three matches here on opening Tuesday.
This match in the next following one, these squads that locked in,
and I think that there's a case to be made for both of them in the
performance they've had, but how do you tap this?
They're only win so far today, Stumpy. It has been against five years.
Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be such so annoying to both these things to be all excited to come to worlds as a brutal day.
You've done all your screaming, you've got your boo, you've been hanging out with your team for the last week,
and then it comes down to a single day. And if you do end up getting knocked out, which ultimately 14 needs to,
it's gonna feel like a bit of a wasted journey. It's really hard, I think, mentally to be able to, I think,
I think lock in and really be able to, I mean basically you can be disagreeing here.
I think if I was competitor I find it really hard to lock in and think oh my god I've tried
to push away all that pressure.
I mean you try to push her out of pressure but that's what you signed up for.
That's what you live for man.
You live for these moments.
Maybe I'm just a scared listener.
You prepare for this moment.
You knew coming into the plan that you were gonna have one day to prove yourself
to make the main event.
You know what you signed up for.
You probably knew that you probably end up in this match right here in particular.
You've been preparing for this match for months on in.
Now it's time to go out and blow it up.
And here's the thing, Mali Atafa, I hated their last match.
Planting against VP, it was just a defensive battle.
I talked about AJG, he might be moving up.
He didn't.
He was like, he was just playing back again,
playing like oneself.
They put in two goals on 30 shots, less than 7% shooting.
That is not going to get it done.
They have to fix that quickly.
The problem is you have to do it in the same day,
within hours.
So you see if they can fix it.
But at the same time, you look at foot,
They have tough match against Falcons, but those last three games Falcons absolutely destroyed them as a 14 goals to two
So they have to find a way to play clean defense. That was two man. I was two matches ago
They just got off
They just beat TSM in four games Justin had a worldly goal in that one
It feels like they're gonna have some momentum coming into this here
They're gonna feel red hot and all you thought was been sitting back there having to think about that loss
Well, I will say that for the defense is a little questionable
TSM match and last I'm thinking six five or something like that and if I was also scored a lot to and one thing
I'm not a toddler they score a lot of goals. Well chat. Let's know who you think is gonna win
I'll make the predictions up here on the desk Stumpy you got
um, I
Don't really back my European compatriots here. I'm not particularly impressed with the vibe today. Come on over here
Yeah, I've not I've not been very impressed with them. I said earlier on I didn't love that series first Bp
I'd be being that and I just managed to get it done. So yeah for here. I've got foot. They've been more exciting
that being, I think, better on the front foot, on the back foot.
Overall, they're just their best team on the day.
It's a high pressure match.
You got to go with a world champion, Justin.
You have to go with a major winner in chronic.
So I'm going for it.
I'm going three up.
This is a good thing today.
I want to say that my body top of those.
They're a good team.
But I do think it's a little bit better,
especially coming in there in better form.
Give me foot Eastports.
Probably about three weeks.
I'll let you know a secret,
but he says a lot of good things
for the last decade.
He's pretty smart.
I also have foot Eastports on this one, folks.
How does the point feel about it?
We got money topic here with the blue. We got put on the other side into the air. And
is it a couple of foot to sweep so far have been a good thing, a good omen that the predictions
have been correct. A small data pool so far. But you know, sure, we'll see what goes again.
We talked about foot. They won the EWC, L CQ and VP. They took out money top. They'd
lay in that tournament. Money top was there, but they failed to qualify. So head to head.
You have to go with foot, but it's a high pressure match. Anything can happen. I
I mean, we heard Justin in the little video piece saying that this team was built for the LCQ.
Five percent.
Made it up, but also built for the LCQ, and put together a little bit.
Yes, but literally built for the LCQ.
After Payor, I said, all right, let's put together a team.
And they've made it to the same spot.
Only one can continue.
I'm curious, I'm curious if Europe has woken up, and no, not.
I think they have.
I think actually they probably have, and this is just our just a little while.
I think it might have been.
They might have gone.
They might have gone.
About 12 hours.
Justin Jee's probably also very popular players here have been all season.
Can they continue to the good vibes get to play in the group stage folks?
Only two spots remaining in tomorrow's competition.
Europe versus North America and a tail is all this time.
Marietta versus play.
Things getting scary here in the lower bracket.
You're one match away from qualifying for the World Championship,
but you're also one match away from being eliminated.
Mati Tampo versus Butch trying to get in.
This is it. One more chance. Butch already got some momentum in the lower bracket.
Hold Desk right in him. I'm picking him as well.
I expected him to make a lower bracket run after losing some bulk. It was a tough loss.
These guys have been extremely consistent in the last half of the season.
If that TSM matches anything to look at, it might be scary.
as Dorito and company are trying to get things going and okay in the start of that
Virtus Pro match but slowly lost control of the match really tried to emphasize
the physical game see what they go for. I'm already it was foot threatening she's
going to turn tail quickly he does get to the touch.
Oh they've got to be careful moving back to their corner against Vulcans
We did a little bit of ultra-treaty control of all the defense at times, but we were able to punch all over them.
Now I don't think we're going to be up against as much pressure in this series.
They tapped our solid squad, but the one sort of a comparison to go up against your teammates,
he's course broke that latch as well.
But what not, now he tapped our fourth, and they weren't close to taking down any of the top three.
3. Oh, that's all posted out. It's all clear. It starts a strong early good one.
Quickly again, AJG with no boosts and almost slipped it in. Opened it up for Cheese and
put it on the score. The mental game highlighted by Matthew Tapas coach as the weak point in their
They're probably lost, it's being tested early here by foot who have made sure to yell as
lengthy as possible, maybe sneak some celebrations through the noise-castling headsets, and tilt
the Spaniards and AJG as well.
There's been on a bit of a world tour, AJG, very successful player in multiple regions
now in NA, Sam, and Europe.
Qualified for RLCS lands as a member of each of those regions as well.
is definitely World Traveler in the RLCS.
It is an impressive resume for sure.
Actually qualifying for the Groups partner,
getting to the foot of the next task.
And it's proved to be troublesome so far
in the opening two minutes.
Almost zero offense to Speedkill.
They get a free 50 back in the middle of a great shot.
The tie rings up.
Good speed by Hazel, but he needs to be the guide
for this team.
He's had a series of the pastries really taking over.
Got a lot of help there from AJG, all putting the goal for him by taking the goalkeeper out.
And that's really the match I've been looking for.
You've got a player to watch on Mathew Tafeut would be Atomic and I think it's Justin for
foot and he's been outstanding for this team.
And already today he's been playing some of his best rugby.
He's some dunk there from Jeeze Justin.
It's up from behind, adding a little bit more power than he was hoping for.
Not to any top low, will keep things even.
Geez.
Sweeps the ball quickly, 50 right back in front of the midfield.
Burrito cuts in front.
Ball comes out for free, though.
Put off the ceiling, and it bounces off the car as Atomic is retreating.
Yeah, it's only Pete Justin to the ball there.
Justin actually skipped it backwards, so he tried to get a reset double.
I'm sure Justin was landing a reset double,
had it on the third time he's entered.
He's been on points today,
where she's been punted to the ball.
It's actually a fast play for a foot.
That's what he's happened to.
It's when we equalize that they feel pressure
the foot had on them early on.
Oh, big outplay to here from front.
Way over A.J.G.'s reading.
No boost for Atomic, he's having to watch that
go out to the corner.
Justin got to a quick reaction.
First of the ball, free pass to the top of the ball.
That foot take the lead.
It's a two quick, Justin,
free flip, arms involved here.
Getting onto the ball a little bit quicker
in the defender.
Chronic attacking in the near post.
That's the kind of face that you've got to have in each other.
You've got to follow up quickly at this level.
Chronic did exactly that.
Just when it looked like Mati and Toppo were starting to get somewhere,
you talk about them finally equalizing that big build pressure
and even getting some favorable bumps.
Things turned to disaster really quick.
It's one down field.
Another good challenge to stop a quick counter attack.
to attack. JJG still tries to throw bumps, just not connecting on at the time, and AJG
you know he calls and gets a very neat and quick. Both teams actually stretch a pretty
thin there for a while. No goals either way. Still, not one goal at a time since Paul
of it. He's made a name for himself with his defensive ability, restraining some of the best
teams in the world. All right, live events throughout this calendar year, especially when
they can get it from Justin Pickett, everybody. Good defense on the goal in there for Matthew
E. Kappa. It's almost a repeat of what talk did to them in their game versus Virtus.pro
It's time. It works in their favor.
AJG reads that touch perfectly is.
Jeez, misses the ball.
He quickly gets there in time.
I don't think he had a chance.
That's all.
McHannam beat clean.
And Masi is hop-up on the game time door.
Yeah, AJG.
Just ran, just it.
Hit a heavy first touch.
Got intercepted.
And then, all of a sudden, it's a tight game.
And that was against the run of play.
They put up at the advantage for the majority of the game.
But two key moments for Atomic, just a bit quick to the punch.
Score twice.
AJG plays that challenge in the ceiling.
A great idea.
Atomic, you saw almost find a way to sneak it in before you
get the clear.
Alamand downfield, going for the double tap.
Chronic is defended by AJG, cutting the space.
Dorito has no boost.
Atomic also very low on boost.
Don't go for it.
Now, pushing foot out of the way.
Chronic has to buy a little bit of time,
He was given the space for it. AJG thinks he's going to go, but Paak has no poops.
He has about 20. He's not going to push it.
The foot.
Well, keep things tied up for now, but AJG quickly up the side while passing.
To the show.
Paak denied.
In the way was Kromek.
And we found seconds. He wants to play ball, but it's cleared away.
Got to be careful because here comes the Kromek.
Paak got pulled up.
Adjusted Grounds it for overtime, now it's head to head stop, Bum Deeds had chances, hit the 0-second sequence, great kick off by foot.
Cheese gets down on the left, Doritos up early, looks like Dresden's not sure what he's done for Bullen for about a second.
He's been trying to slow them all down in defense, just to not take over.
Justin got another reset and somehow got it on the corner I think. That was interesting, by the way, on the corner, nobody can come in.
Justin has to get bailed out and he will. Chronic, they're bailed out.
Yeah Justin, didn't get the first step to one, didn't know if Chronic was there to help him out.
He dropped on two. Don't look at it eventually.
Obviously cheese
Okay, first teammate in the middle, Atlan buffed once already, he's done really well so he's on that one
They're stretching white bar into the pitch, well here's the whole way to safe, off the post by Gronik
I think the first, you know, they're really pushing to get goals, more than we used to see from them
And it's worrying me, because Marti's that quicko transition
I've come straight out for cheese, went straight to the dirt.
Chronic has Justin behind him.
Actually, cheese is going to turn.
We'll get a chance at it, Justin, next up.
Tomic will go up high.
It has been Masi Itaba, really denying anything.
Put him tried.
This one comes out, slips around.
That could have been an oh-goal.
Could have been a lot of things that slipped right by Justin, though,
and foot will get the clear.
This is good pressure.
Matti, definitely gets it right back in.
He's fine.
Chronic trying to control the back corner, but again, he's lost it.
That's been a bit of a problem for Pitt today,
where they just lose control with a heavy touch.
Had a key moment, presented opportunity to their opponents.
Can't feel like they're going to get away with that for too long.
Lossy Toppa keeps sending it.
Justin off the ceiling, and wow, he gets the 50.
Now for a charge around, and a free throw!
Foot take, game one!
And it's an absolute tilter for Matai Tapa.
What a play by Justin, who continues to impress
in what has been an outrageously impressive year for him.
Big tank dunk, he assisted the second goal as well,
but he's the difference-naked.
He's the guy who's surprising Matai Tapa.
And he's creating goalscoring opportunities
for foot and cronics.
He could have missed that one.
He had a long time to think about it, probably too much.
That's one you're really scared about.
You take a breath, right?
Yeah, it's a bit easier when you just have to go for the ball,
but you can make sure to hand it in.
So close calls as well, Atomic had a very solid game,
had a chance at the end to take the lead,
and Chronic came in at the last second to make the save.
Here right there, Atomic just clean-beat and cheese
on the play.
And then at the end, the demo for Justin,
don't see on that replay, but critical to giving Chronic
that open net try and foot.
Now everybody kind of looking at them
and Falcons, I think, the most in this play-in.
And right now, these foot fans are probably
stressing a little bit right now.
It's not been the easiest go for them in the lower bracket.
Yeah, of course, especially being down in the lower.
So you only got this one last chance.
But Matthew, that bullet was stressed.
I think, you know, I'm not a body language expert.
Don't play it to me, but we do love to analyze.
There's a lot of looking to the stars going on.
Physical tilt at the end of that game
from the top, making the middle.
You know frustrating for them because they've already lost earlier on today to VP now they're down against foot and
You know, I think we talk up the reach of rivalry more than the players do
But this is definitely something that they will want to prove to themselves. They've been second best to VP
But for quite some time now, you know, you see flashless football world's playing
And again more strudels
See what they can get done now
And they were able to respond twice
Tomic a big factor in those as Dorito
Make sure he gets that midfield boos these 50s go straight out
Target with Doritos there to knock it away. Oh fair play. What a save that was from Dorito Justin nailed the reset double
He really went for that as well full power didn't hit the exact you're seeing anyway
They're picking up where they left off, they're placing the radar off the league at the moment.
Justin forcing high-cheese with a double-tap of defense.
He can play that one safely.
That's going to be the key. I keep talking to my teammates.
They're really to get trolled about in those defensive plays.
It's been a bit of an issue for them at times.
There, they're going to be with it.
Masi Tomek and a double-tap Dorino finds the net!
And Masi Tomek with the first lead of the series.
The cronix just didn't get control again, same idea, hitting the ball into the corner.
Here it comes, right back with interest.
It's a retail.
Let's say it was a nice double tap.
We improved our series as we thought we might.
I'd like to put chances for coming back to a little bit more than what they tap up.
Wow, that was...
Hey Justin, what is going on with you, man?
He's hitting.
He's got crazy stuff right now.
He's got Ford again.
Ford can't play on target.
Chronic.
He just freaks it off the phone just to get back.
And somehow just wins all that ball against AJG.
But he's got no clues.
He can't play ball.
Final minute, Justin nearly scored.
Goal of the tournament again.
He's already in the contention for that.
But that missed the easier chance afterwards.
At least it looked easier as the ball came back across to.
Chronic creeped the post for point-like range.
They're dead chases, and so, Seagull, out of this stuff, right?
I think the goal is coming eventually.
Sometimes they can't hold on,
cause they avoid your C-Dig in the meantime.
He looks dead in the water there in the box.
Somehow gets the save.
Justin is going for the 50th.
A lot of them got from so far back.
They're still winning it.
AJG though, right in the spot.
Atomic gets a demo.
Opens up another chance.
Off the box!
What a god!
AJG to nothing!
It's passing from AJG and Atomic.
Atomic has just done demo in his office.
Actually gets the pass back to AJG in reverse.
But here it's coming, but they couldn't stop it anyway.
It's just too precise by Matai Dapper.
The Dapper closed calls for Justin.
They cut away empty handed.
And now with a two-goal deficit,
G's with a failed reset.
Tried for the pump on AJG who's been avoiding it.
getting back to those 50s.
Thorita on the carry, atomic.
Now it's on, excuse me, cheese.
I'm getting pulled by colors here.
They do like to cover rotation, and it almost
looks like they're attempting on those attacks.
This is something that the football team's doing a lot of
teams do in the first few days.
Playing them all while rotating back.
Yeah, you rest if we hit the towards the back part,
it will hit it hard towards the back part
if they see space to do so.
He wants it now. He's upset he didn't get it earlier.
It should be on at the end. It's far away.
They'll do this to get something going pretty soon though.
Oh no, that should be on.
It just wins.
Is it?
It is. It's just gone through this one. Get in.
And do get the press call.
All the simple outplay from cheese.
The classic sight one to the wall.
Recover fast in the second man.
I've been able to hang on, but just a quick roll, double in.
We talked about not just protecting the ball, just being able to control out.
Wow!
And double up!
Ball game here in game two.
Oh, look at the faces of Matthew.
You can't believe it.
Great kickoff by Footbaking it with the first player.
Second player comes in behind quickly, dunks the ball towards the player who just made the ball.
Well, yes, it opened that.
This time, it's about to start a great demo by Giso.
Leaving it open for Karate Kuseyosubu,
since he's advanced into getting to first.
And Giso, in that TSM series, has had some struggles,
especially defensively.
But in this game, in particular, it's really been instrumental
in getting foot back in the game.
Justin, with a couple of tries that he couldn't connect on.
He's kind of in the middle, very stable inside the rotation.
Slightly getting bumped, recovers.
Back to the corner, his foot get another clear.
Matte Atapa want to keep moving, Atomic sizing this one up.
As AJG will come back in a third of a hand.
Justin Bump, but Dorito with barely any boost, did not want to come in.
This one gets set straight back down!
And it's Dorian answer for Furt.
Just anything that's going to be Matte Atapa at one end.
It's hard with the counter attack.
AJG did not read that bounce, we can see that it was upward
from the moment it went to the backboard from Cheese.
It's a tap in and another lead back in frustration from Matt A. Tapper.
Lots of chair movement.
They need more ball movement towards the only tap.
It's Cheese, Mox and away.
It's there, but AJG is ready this time.
Gives his corner boost, a still foot looking for another goal.
Here's AJG, a real high challenging foot defense.
They're up to the task for now. Atomic pops it up again, not going to get it too high up, was easily challenged by Kronik.
As he gets him out off the ramp, Johnson gets there, clearly back to Cheese.
Cheese with the shots up and trying to dive on it. Kronik will come around quickly, there's not a lot of boost.
For Dorito, he gets pushed on and Cheese will help out for a second, but Maté is up against the goal and we've got a tie game.
Oh, that's a big miss from foot.
They were on the home straight, the game.
Justin might have missed a jump, but it's like he didn't want to there.
He had a player in front of him and he had to jump over.
I don't know if that's put him off.
We've got to see his POV to be sure, but he's blown way too low at that.
Missed right in the bounce.
And it's an easy go from that thing he can't put a type of game.
Oh, the kickoff with the fake AJG.
Not going to get much out at the top.
I can't believe he gets another chance at this ball.
Ball, but he won't get a dunk.
AJG comes quickly.
Montaigne's off the tries.
Kick his lead back.
Mr. Ball, Justin avoids AJG.
Gets the save.
Now, Kwanak has cheese downfield.
He steals the boost.
Cheese off the back wall.
Justin, he's not going to hit it.
I don't think he liked the angle of the shot there.
He's just left it.
For fear of shooting at a goalkeeper, giving the ball away.
Yeah, Justin's kind of lost his flow for a bit here.
That thickness in defense is like to more widths.
Oh, and now he's under the ball.
There's a no-minds-line that bounces up the backboard heartlessly.
Yeah, but he just sit back in the game.
He's been their best player.
He's been absolutely phenomenal for them.
But he's had a minute or so there where he's just lost.
Lost his bearings a little bit
and then ended up on top of his box over and over again.
They thought having to survive
for the first 30 seconds of overtime,
Dorito gets enough on the reset.
Barely any moves, Justin.
Here he goes down the field.
What's the dunk?
He does Bump 1.
Cheese, looking for it.
Maybe Chronic there, but he loses the ball.
Didn't have a ton of boost.
Atomic's got nothing.
Here's Dorita from A to P.
Fights one defender out, but can't fight the second.
Atomic, he's next up.
He skips away from Chronic.
Not a ton of boost here.
Matta, he's top five.
All length here to do what they want.
They've got advantage in resources.
They're winning the 50s.
They can't quite come up with that quality shot
opportunity.
It hasn't materialized just yet,
AJG's hunting for it, coming down, they're challenging, looking for a way to break through, no chance just yet.
I like the flow play from Chronic, sweating the balls, sit there, in the back corner,
rotate, tap a genie, do anything with it, even though they had territory on the page.
Now, finally, quick to out and back to a midfield, back and forward.
Critical game here, feels like a much quicker game for the European underdogs in the match.
Their mental...
Oh my goodness!
What?! What?! What?! What?!
I'm absolutely beaten!
I don't wanna watch that either!
What's going on?!
I don't wanna watch that replay either!
I don't know what in the world happened!
I was just expecting the ball to go clear,
then suddenly the team on goals!
I got to go for him to touch that!
What?!
What are they doing?!
I don't know, I just gotta get you cheese,
I just say wrap it up, no, there's no coming back.
Why are you playing another game after that?
They've got to be absolutely in the bin mentally.
That's insane.
I can't believe what we've just witnessed.
Honestly, that's the only replay I think I want to watch now
when we go back.
I just want to understand how in the world,
Tirito, he was coming back.
It was a difficult save to make.
But you didn't want to just save it.
You wanted to probably control the ball.
Put it up and up and on the wall right?
Into the backward in a way that he can follow up with.
But it probably looks more awkward for this POV.
We always have to remind you guys of that.
But, being said, they had multiple goals at it and they couldn't get it clear.
That was a nice little 1v2 play there by Cheese.
And then they kick off right after, sub-foot, coming back in the game.
Got their noses in front, and then it was Matai Tappa who came back, right here.
This is unbelievable.
Yeah, Dorito just takes his time.
Don't knock it, because if he wants it.
And then Atomic comes in and swabs it into the net instead of clearing it.
I mean, that was a cool panic from Atomic.
he sees that he knows that he like he has to get there and just pay for it.
Serio has to, I mean, he's got to put that into the crossbar.
Obviously, he's trying to wait for the ball to come over him so that he can get
height on it when he flips.
He doesn't want to just hit it back to the attacking player, but he waits too
long and doesn't get the contact he wanted.
He did a thing, a lot of newer players will do, which is the balls directly
over your head, but your brain says, Oh, boost when you flip, cause then
it will hit it harder, but you actually boost too far under the ball.
And you're hitting it backwards now.
So, a bit of a brain fart there by Dorito.
Can't believe your luck, but all things being said,
I think the better team in this 10 minutes that we've seen,
or 12 minutes we've seen, Mati and Tapu look,
yeah, they look shaking.
I mean, before that moment, Mati and Tapu were spending
how much time and overtime in the Orange half?
They were dominating the midfield,
but they couldn't actually generate
any shots of big nicks.
Yeah, exactly, like the defense was excellent
from foot that whole time.
I think that's been my main criticism of fit today's and giving them all away in defense a bit too much, but that was excellent in overtime slowing the game down, waiting for the backup to come with boost, ideally.
But wow, I mean, an all-time blunder by Matai Tampa.
One game separates them from elimination, but one game separates put from the group stage of the world championship.
Justin has a pop up there.
Who plays just yet? Dead ball in the corner.
No boost for Justin. Brought a cut.
Once the blue steal, he gets it and pops it up for Cheese.
Whoops, with the whip, he was all in shape for Justin,
who had an opportunity there.
Cronik will go in, Cheese will go in, and Funt will score first.
It just, it's just not what you want to see from Matty Taffa.
Off the bench, it just looks completely out of sync.
And for Funt, this is just what, perfectly, you know,
they started off the tournament with the toughest matchup possible.
It's actually started at favorites, but what were you getting from it?
They are comfortably in control, decisively taking down the TV viewers as well by really toughen.
It definitely says something when you're not necessarily playing at your best and you're still coming away to winners
and still able to adjust, clean up your play, and get the job done.
True in that series against TSM and even true here in this series against Matej Davos.
We've got four more minutes to go through that!
We almost had a second on them!
It's all a lick! And it's off the post-it for Chronic!
It's so tough. I mean, that takes a far absolutely finished.
This is just...
The most finished Obscenity 1 qual 2-0-9 to 4 minutes to go.
They just don't like their heads during the game.
They've got their heads in their hands.
But their heads haven't been in the game for a while now.
Yeah, I think you could probably make a montage of all of Atomic's different reactions
after every flip goal. He's not been having a good time over there.
You know, nothing wrong really with having that like a recent emotion.
As long as you have a lot of practice, it doesn't matter.
You see Mark Cuban do it all the time.
He said, you know, the great player of all time.
Yeah, he's a kid to lean back after every goal.
But then he locks in again, and he refocuses.
And that's what Matthew Tampa have been, you know,
I think falling apart today is they've had those moments
where something goes wrong.
They react like something's not wrong.
And then they play as if they're still thinking about that.
They can't walk back and again, this consistent problem
of a foot and by each team are going to completely dominate you
and do it again and again.
The foot got to be feeling great after what had to have felt
like a really tense game for them.
The series starts going long.
Mati Taba has a little bit more confidence right now
with a two-goal lead.
Two minutes into this game.
It's going to have to be Mati Taba forcing foot to feel
anything but good right now as this goes down field double-tap.
And then that G-spines is too easy.
Yeah, it's been over.
It's just the most over.
I've seen a match before that should be over.
We're saying we're like flatlining on the it's so over chart.
We're never going to, we're never going to, we're so back.
You guys sometimes, you know, you get,
nearest will be asking why don't we,
just why to tell them this is a cool series,
but I've got the chance to get more confident in a series
it really shouldn't be. I mean, Atomic is a fantastic player to reach to an energy
of success in multiple regions for a reason. But right now, it's just all going wrong for them.
I think that their failure is in multiple events now against, well, I'm talking about mainly
eSports World Cup, last year as well. And now, here today, against VP Foot, even Stallions
from Mina, you know, it's clearly gotten inside their heads a little bit.
They could beat European competition.
I guess that ain't Mina, not so much.
Oh, Justin finally gets himself a nice little goal in this series.
That's a beautiful double tap.
Probably from Justin.
AKG couldn't get there.
Zario needed him to get there too.
Never gonna read that.
Yeah, I mean, how many times can we say it, this is just GGs.
It's not going to be easy with that team on goal again too.
And the words of one of my favorite coaches of all time.
Never say never, but...
Two minutes in this game left.
You know, I think that reminds me of, and I don't want to draw all the attention to,
oh, Dorito, you know.
You're going to sacrifice a Dorito in Dusseldorf.
The topic on that team as well, they're eliminated from wild card.
Is that the CRR still playing with them?
I don't think so.
CRR would put complexity in the game.
I've said it fully, but these guys, when they're having a bad day, it's a really bad day.
This is not, of course, a good thing.
I believe it's not the first time they've just completely hit a wall in the last step before World Finale event.
They can't seem to recover mentally from it.
The coach said so, and it looks to be true.
update the office for not saying it's off but it wasn't too long ago that the story with the officer when we talk about the regional library
like oh nice pre-jump from AJG but usually it's the European squad the European 5 to 8th seed getting the better of the higher NA seed
And we're always talking about NA depth questions,
I mean, granted, there's a lot of, like,
chronic and just and far from, like,
as far as the depth argument goes.
It was a long time, successful North American players,
but she's definitely, for a long time,
was all that, come on.
Joining this squad, but it wasn't just foot, right?
It was first pro as well, getting the better of them.
That's absolutely the depth one that,
no doubt, lots of these times,
it feels like they had a better chance
of taking down, which just hasn't been their day
really struggled to get anything going as even then what's not connected
nothing here at the end on the attempted comeback but put strong
performance from them in this series 45 second one it was indeed atomic to
reach on only that similar struggle at world's wild card to start so you know
we take only out of the picture but in AJG it's a similar story part of
they just can't get through the best of the rest and Futs are finally getting that big
land win.
I'd say it's probably already a pretty decent land win, it's just interesting to have a
lot of us respect now as they've put on many impressive performance but Futs have shown
the science of their capability for a long time.
It's absolutely brilliant to see them putting it together under the additional pressure
all the world's play in, and they are going to be advancing.
Mati Tapa, head and hold.
And Justin, Kronik and Cheese qualifying
for the World Championship.
As soon as this ball touches the ground,
Flood, move on into the pools.
What group will they find?
All I know is that Justin's back officially
at a World Championship.
It's just amazing to see, you know,
they deserve it.
They seem to have been so consistent.
I think they, they might be at some sense,
even in the world, it's just the competition they've gone up against in Paris at EWC.
It's been tough every single time they're up against serious contenders in every single
match it seems. Now they get to go against other teams who are in the bubble, look at
the nation, do look like they're a level above. Futs are closer to Falcons today, and that's
a tap a word to them. So, credit to foot. I think this really does prove that any
depth is stronger than it's been at any point in the open era, I'd say.
Maybe make a case for LA major, but that was a bit of a flash in the plan before and we were we were we were
Deuced out by the European depth that season
There's a little crossover between leader before the original NRG's fall off and the new teams that would come up
There's there's LA majors that one event that looks like you have five teams
Now any I've got five teams
Everybody's got to take seriously and that's the first thing we've been able to say that in years
because it seems like foot, because it seems like VP,
it seems like PlayStation, and they could not step up
and join in for our skillar and energy.
Have you talked enough about set or do you have a different plan?
Some of the crowd favorites here have made it through,
and I'm with Justin. A long time, this is seven World Championships for you now.
You're an old man.
Oh, don't even bring it up.
I'm bringing it up. I'm holding it here, so I'm alive.
Yeah, it's been a while, man. You've been doing this for quite some time now.
Did you still feel that excitement?
You wouldn't imagine it of course. I mean with cheese on the team this guy's like as loud
He has like god-tier energy like yeah, that's insane like he's an atom as well
Just nice just like yelling super loud like I can't not I have to get how do you not get
No, it's exciting though. I mean I've talked to some other teams about the plans and then looking at you know
The groups tomorrow where is the real world starting for you and your mind?
What was it because I know some teams said they don't feel like they belong here
Are you in that group as well?
Yeah.
I think with how our season started, we took a gamble.
And I think the team was built for the LCQs to make it to LCQ.
So we kind of expected it.
But we were low key dreading it a lot.
Because we knew we should have been inmate of that, honestly.
But no, we're really relieved now.
We're super hyped.
We're ready to play tomorrow.
And we're excited.
Oh, that's so.
Now, I want to talk about in-game there.
There were a few strange moments.
One was, I think, an overtime-owned goal.
Yeah.
Where were the comms like for you guys for that?
I was just like, oh my god.
And then I was like, oh, like that.
You feel for them, right?
You feel the pain.
That's like an iconic moment, but just in like the opposite
of the wrong way.
Yeah, it's going to make a top list for all those other.
Not the one you've necessarily used.
I feel so bad.
That's always just a really bad way to lose.
Yeah.
For you guys, though, there's definitely
just a level of relief.
Thank you.
And also how that game started, we were down 2-0.
So making the comeback as well was just like,
that was like a big game to steal from them.
So it works out that happened.
No, that's dope.
And again, I'm loving the energy here.
I put it on my own Twitter.
I just ask everyone, what's your favorite team?
Or who do you think is going to win?
And who's the dark horse that's going to come through here?
And almost every one of the replies here
for the dark horse, make it a play-offs,
or even just winning you guys.
Really?
There's a lot of fan support out there for you.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, at least not mine.
Maybe my people are biased.
But either way, you've made it to groups now.
Does the game plan change it all for you guys?
Or is it just kind of like, OK, same thing
we did today, same thing we do tomorrow.
I don't think it's really the same thing we did today.
I think today was a little sloppy, to be honest, on our end.
I think we're going to hit the drawing board for tonight
and kind of just, you know, chill, talk about what
went wrong today and then tomorrow approach it differently.
But hopefully with the same ideas we had last week
during boot camp.
Hey, well, if you keep this up, just one by one,
you can keep on winning.
So we'll see how groups goes.
Congratulations on the win.
Thank you, Justin.
Thank you.
There it is.
We have one more to go.
And that will be the end of our play-ins here
at day one of the Rocket League World Championships.
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One match remains for the opening day of the 2026 Rocket League World Championship.
But esports is through. Two North American teams survived the play-ins.
and it is good again five teams doing to the group stage congratulations to
North America showing up on the plane well I mean that's not the problem with
North America we know the levels there for at least this much the level the real
question mark is can you do it when the main event starts tomorrow
hey and it's the rainy world champs man
it's not the rainy world champs I was talking to Johnny earlier you know what he said
he was talking about the energy of the world champs
Yeah, you're the rainy world champions and hope the topia remains the most America for now
But he's not budgeted with your point just stands though that we do generally the beginning of tournaments
We're all like oh, it is back and then it's
Team man, they're always there and then what am I mean? I mean here. It's a monkey
We usually a European team eliminated we were talking about Europe. We got 16 here. Well, it's only five so
I thought that series was kind of what you think I was waiting for foot to like kind of put the pedal to the metal and I think she's he opened up a little nervous but he scored five goals in a row in that series and that was absolutely she scored four I think was in game two that he scored the opener like in game three and that kind of broke everything over.
I mean, listen, he was right here, he was balling out, I think Foot has been a really solid team so far.
They've been a great story.
Justin, he played well last year, he played even better this year.
Yeah, I mean, the belief in this team, I mean, they basically threw all their points in the trash,
had to start from scratch, and they still find their way back to the World Championship main event.
They won the EWC last chance qualifier.
This team has been such an incredible team to watch.
to watch it. If you've been a fan of any broccoli, see Justin do this. I mean, I know you can see that,
but then Dorito with a big error right there own goals. Give the momentum in games where you see
just like a cheese. He said, I'll take the free hand. He has to want to give it to me. Yeah,
she scored four in that game, but one of them was a gift for sure. And then after that,
they just kept on going and then they were just pushing and a very strong team. They
They absolutely dominated Mali Atapa going home after a great L. C. Q. Run.
No one expected them to even be here, but that would go home early.
They do go home early and already cheese and Justin improved off of last year.
They played in the play in last year, I believe they did play in last year.
And they all started playing this year.
They get better.
They make it to the main event.
So big credit to them.
Mali Atapa, you got work to do going into the off season, trying to figure
things out, the foot East sports, big testament to them, five and eight teams
in the main event is going to be good.
Yeah. And that means in one of those groups, there will be two North American teams.
So automatically one team is already qualified for the playoffs.
One NA team. So congrats to NA.
Yeah. Congratulations.
Made it all the way through.
Not at the top of here.
They're their season end at this point.
Do we just with what you saw from this roster?
Obviously it was built for an LCK James, but they showed some heart
through that LCK. They chose them hard here.
Do you think this is a team that's going to stick?
Do you think this is a team that's going to cry in the off seasons?
Long are never hard to never know.
But I will say it's been cool seeing AJG, you know, we've seen him so much in South America.
We've competed in North America.
Now we've seen him perform really well in Europe.
So, you know, it's going to be interesting to see where he lands.
But I think all three of those players, whether they stick or not, they're still going to be stapled in the state.
I mean, my big thing is AJG.
I wouldn't mind going back to Sam, where he's from, going back to Argentina
and then teaming up with some of them Sam players who have kind of been
Sam's been kind of on the downtrend.
But back in the day, all CSX, AJG was the first player for the end.
That was really bringing it back up.
Wouldn't raise more than like so.
It might be going back home.
Might be paying big dividends for that region.
Story of AJG continues.
We'll see it evolve next season, folks.
One match left on the day.
R8 Esports taking on Bogoges.
This is MENA 3, South America 3.
The third team from both those regions coming up
head to head and on one of them has to go home.
And I will say, MENA is the new Sam.
There was a time where Sam was like,
oh, maybe they're going to do it.
maybe they'll be this person on in a EU team to win a major with a huge thing.
Well, Mina kind of stole their thunder and I will say that Mina has continued to improve this region is is a major region now.
These are all contenders. Even RA, you watch them play against the Falcons who just won the Esports World Cup.
They were they were hanging in there. They could have won that series had a few possessions gone differently.
So I think for Sam, if they can take down Mina here,
this would actually be a huge step forward for Sam,
who has been on the back slide.
Mina has become the new hotness here in the RLCS South America
trying to take that title back.
I would describe the 2026 season as the dark horse season
because nobody thought that we would do something.
We didn't do great at the Paris Major, but we got experience from it.
We learned that we can be at the big stage, we can do our best.
The World Championship is the biggest tournament
because I mean every professional player wants to be a world champion
and it means everything.
That's everything I'm aiming for as a player.
I'm proud to represent the MENA region.
I want to earn a very good place because the MENA deserves it
and the MENA players are so good.
Our team, they give me energy that's like they want to win.
They motivate me so much that I want to win.
I want to win like they're energy in the game and their comps
and so lucky to have them in my team.
I think that Rite will prove that nothing is impossible.
Once again, talking with R8 Esports and Abdullah in a qualification spot yet again.
You guys were there before against Falcons.
Didn't quite go your way.
What are your thoughts on that match up and have you learned any lessons coming into this one?
Falcons match was a bit tough, Falcons played really good and we didn't play our game
But yeah Falcons were really good at that match. Exactly now. I guess coming off that match. Were you guys
Worried about anything? Did you feel like something was missing or it was just in that match Falcons had it?
I mean like we had some things missing but like Falcons were really great
and they played really well and that's why they won.
Okay, now here did you guys sit down and work through those missing things?
Are you confident that now we've got it on lock now or are you trying to still figure it out?
Yeah, our coach is an extort us our mistakes and we learned from them and now we're gonna win.
That's okay, we're gonna win. That is a confident statement. I was going to say looking at your
opponents do you think this is going to be a little bit easier than a Falcons match?
I mean, no, they're a really good team.
They won the last qualifier in Sam.
But we learned from our mistakes, and we will win.
Sure, he keeps saying, we're going to win.
We'll have to find out, though, after we take a look at.
It's a moment.
The road to come here to the World Championship
was tough for us.
We were not the favorites, but we were confident,
coming into it.
My last man was in Lyon.
Thames, that is my other teammate, his last LAN was Dusseldorf, 2023, and Knight, my other teammate last LAN was Dusseldorf, 2023, too.
We have the experience and we are confident that we can do a lot of work here.
The pressure playing at CQ is much bigger than playing at Regional, because if you lose, your season is over.
We've trapped a lot in these two months.
Like the cough dance and the mantle,
I think it was the key for us to qualify.
Qualifying for it was the best feeling possible.
The team is trying to prove that the region is good again.
For myself, I want to prove that I have the level skill,
so I want to show everyone that I still have it.
Well, let's see what the confidence level is here
on the other side here.
I'm back with Truffino again.
As always, you've got a smile on your face.
Even though there's a lot of pressure on this,
it's do or die qualification or not.
How do you maintain such a good attitude
in such a high pressure situation?
I don't know.
I think I just love to be here.
Yeah, fair enough.
Hello.
I love to play the game, and I love these environments.
So for me, it's cool to be here, and that's all.
Yeah.
Honestly, that's the best attitude to have, really,
is just enjoy the moment while you're in it.
But obviously, once you get into the game,
you're going to have to forget about being here,
to lock in. For you and for the team, what I guess has been talked about, if you can talk
a little bit on it, between your last matches and this one, knowing what's on the line here?
I think we just need to try and control the nerves, because the first match, they were
lost to VP. We were so nervous, we couldn't do what we trained to do. But against 5
We managed to do it like not all but we managed to do something at least right yeah
But we are coming with a confident mindset and trying to keep the nerves
Low and low low low. Yeah. I mean it's hard
I you're playing on the first day of world championships. I'd be nervous as well
Do you feel though that like maybe after five years? Okay?
Now you you guys have things on lock it's smoothed out now or maybe do you still feel a little bit of the jitters?
I think we we managed well to to be here. So I think we're fine now
That's good. I gotta get your last five here because I've talked it up do like his final words work
We're gonna win and it was very definitive. Do you have anything to say back to that in your own defense?
Good luck
Hey, good luck to you there in the match. Let's get this match going. Why don't we know we're talking? Let's get to the games. Oh
You're gonna win good luck not gonna roll over without a fight here and drew
I mean, I love what he said there James. He's like, I just love love the game being here
Yeah, and you could tell just from the way he was caring himself
Talking to leave he needs it man. And that's something that you do have to appreciate. I think a lot of us here
you know, we appreciate the love of the game and
Yeah, and so to see Grafino coming back here doesn't have a sponsor that he's repping
Playing for the region playing for himself playing for his teammates and he's loving every second of it
off. It's hard not to be a thing.
I mean, it is hard not to be a thing.
You talk about a lovely game.
We got three old veterans on the desk right here.
All y'all look the game as well.
That's what y'all keep doing.
Doing everything.
That's what I'm going to keep doing.
But I mean, looking at the matchup in particular,
don't mean Sam three.
Trefino's got a lot of experience,
but the RA boys, they've been playing really great
rock league this entire season.
To have.
So it's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough.
It's going to be tough either way.
Final prediction of the day, folks.
Let us know who you've got in the chat, James.
Bagoges on one side, all right on the other, here you go.
You know, I will say in that falcon series,
R8 had a lot that they were doing that look good.
I don't have to give it to him here.
I think Mina has been stronger than Sam.
They're going to prove it again here
with this matchup, give me R8.
Yeah, Bagoges, they played five fears.
They won all three of their games,
one goal games versus five fears.
The only one that series three won,
not as convincing as I was hoping.
So I think I have to go with R8
based on game three and four versus falcons.
It was very good.
If they continue that, then they should win this year's.
I mean, I've just been piggybacking off
and giving the whole entire day.
I don't have to say he really walks through the home
back the whole time.
They're just thinking, all right, there's a better team yet
again.
That's how the play is worth.
The four best teams on the play
are going to make the main event,
and all right is one of the four.
I love the attitude from Drew.
He's got so much experience, but he didn't grab the mustache.
Like, come on, the team name, it's a team thing.
It's obviously, I do think, all right,
it's going to be the champion here.
So they're representing Brazil, folks.
Can the Geologists get it right here?
And they will get the coins prediction.
Will they prove it right?
And will they win it here for the region?
Three teams from Mina, three teams from South America
that is on the line here.
Yep.
And I think this is the opportunity.
If Sam wants to prove that they've still got it as a region,
Truffino still got that level.
Well, this is a perfect matchup to prove it.
Yeah, we talk about nerves.
And we talk about it with Pagoges
that they were a little nervous.
If R8 loses that game one, we know R8's not a great land
team.
So it is true.
True.
True, absolutely. Muhammad Land Rookie or World Championship Rookie here.
Can he make a difference in this moment?
This is a win and in match.
All right, the favorites on the desk as well as the chat of the coaches.
And they're excited to be on this stage.
Final match of the opening day of the Rockley World Championship
comes under the coaches.
First, R8 is won.
So only one spot remains.
Who is just taking it?
We were about to find out.
R8 looked incredible earlier on.
Unfortunately, the red is one of the tournament favourites over in Falcons.
They've got one fun opportunity, one final chance at this.
Who is getting on through?
Game 1 brought to you by Progressive.
And with R8, they've definitely had, I think, a better look towards
the quality that we're wanting to expect from these main event teams
when they get to the World Championship proper.
They've had a not a very romantic way of playing I don't think. I'm not going to
particularly excited by what I've seen from them. I think there's a lot more that we
can see but ultimately this is the last chance they are going to have to do it.
It's been two different regions hitting in two different directions for quite a while now for
both Mina and for South America as Mojavez. That's already got one now.
This is not saying close, they're clear, it was not good enough and then Avvila, he does
all of the work, just gets tapped home by Mohammed.
And it's the kind of stuff you'd expect from RA Esports, they are growing up in a region,
there's been dominated by the Falcons, there has had twisted minds taking down some of
the tournaments there in the regionals, we look for the Saudi League as well.
And they have been learning from those kind of teams and sugar the way the RA have really come to there before in this
Season in particular. It's been so fun to watch to see a region properly expand
Yeah, all right. I feel like
It might be a bit too early in the season. There was a period of time where they were the best of me up
Just the minds found their footing a lot more of this new roster
Falcons have obviously got themselves back up there. Stallions have been also
Also, right in the rear view mirrors,
not a bit of like this tour, remember?
Definitely a threat.
Goodies need to try and find something
to get the momentum on their side
because he is in best of five
and we've already seen what somebody does.
He can go so long as that's off the crossbar.
You're doing this, currently playing with fire.
And then the fire generated from them
and my helmet just removed them from the pitch.
Pops it up high, the midfield is bent, removed immediately and Poccas Cal did it from RA, a reset round one, quickly waved Ashen, gets the fast centre and a nice slow play.
The pace of play is being entirely dictated by RA.
Oh, little work with Abdobe just fine with that.
Bams drops it down, that's actually worked out very nicely, at least until his car got removed from his possession.
right pass. Begode's in need to make sure that they're actually a little bit more selective
although this is what's up quite nicely. Knight's looking for the buff. Oh they've almost got
everybody but it was just too much blue. No way through.
Halfway though, that's my helmet now into the corner. Now he just came down by Benny's.
Speed again. Garth is straight up to meeting him and they're going to need to see Begode
to try and steal some boosts really to make it hard for them. But Knight can be
the next one to it as he strikes to draw a level.
Yeah, that was just too many mistakes on a road mine.
Abdullah goes off the wall, misses the ball.
His teammate misses the ball, eventually.
The teammate at this point is always going to punish him for that.
Abdullah does have a habit of that.
He's somebody that likes to use that second jump without flips so early
that sometimes he sort of sails past them way.
Yeah, sometimes you have to use the full one and a half second timer.
He makes you a swan.
So you're going to go for that.
He will take the one time before it doesn't work.
Just to be faster.
But they're a lovely dodge from getting them.
Just to clear themselves out of the way.
The path of danger.
Trifino.
Quite deep.
He's attacking player.
The boost from both teams has been very stable so far.
Needs having a big advantage.
Trifino wanted to rip it on target.
And I've dropped down straight to nine points.
And in!
That is beautiful.
Mahame tries to catch the ball.
The video takes it away.
Comes it tonight.
Two-one.
And maybe just maybe.
We have been looking
beyond South America.
It's up to them to continue to prove it.
South America have had such good resurgence as well.
In the later half of the season.
There's obviously the
Fury of beating NRG.
Harris.
Harris, it's nice to see these regions start to have a lot more players that they can rely on for these bigger results.
Oh, dear.
He is going to be able to take big advantage of an R8 defensive collapse.
It's Abdullah again. Just bump straight into the power of Benz.
Gazi's thinking, you could have given me a little bit of something to work with here.
Abdullah really has been the standout for all the wrong reasons.
The Go-Days, they're taking full advantage of that as well.
And how my plays it very slowly, get Trio completely in.
It works out sort of fine for now, but it's just a little quite awkward for their defence.
And with a minute and remaining, a shot on target, from Benz!
It is four of the Go-Days!
I didn't see what percentage was for the vote for the chat vote.
But I'm sure a lot of you let me in, Shogun,
I'm thinking this might be R-Rates to just win.
I think R-Rates are playing it like it's theirs just to win.
Very little respect from the third man positioning.
Yes, your two goals down, but he's good for it that much.
That's going to be another one.
And the Goanets are running away with it.
How many is that now for them?
Is that his third?
His fourth?
That's a lovely turnaround from just being here.
Completely catches the fenders off guard.
So used to, I think, seeing people take it up
sidewall. Yeah. Which we need to take full advantage and say, well, you think we're at a sidewall, I'm just going to
make it hard towards your net, lad. It still works. All this time later. So one minute, four goals. Good luck, women.
Maybe three. And there immediately is that wall. Almost found it right. Brunegas has got away a bit.
Or it's shot down again! What is happening? A defense! I mean, one more.
go days absolutely up to their nation a fantastic offensive push from the go days
and if there's a club of regards even in right let's recolour to ourselves and boys
and he actually slams it into the ceiling just a little bit of a first killer against the
I was wondering if we'd all at last two was going to go down.
I'm a better man, I won't go there.
Stumpy Goblin.
I was playing for it.
I was playing for it.
But now we've obviously won for Brazil.
We've obviously won for Brazil.
We've obviously won for Brazil.
Certainly on that wave 4 at...
Oh, that's good.
I think the ball goes to Brazil.
He's going to pitch out like that.
Oh, that's nice.
I almost wanted the skin.
Alright.
And they've had this issue earlier on against Falcons.
They did not start well there at all.
They can't afford to start slowly yet again.
Damage was done.
Hulking's Falcons,
the damage is more than done in game one here
as we're gonna get anything for it.
Time to stick to weight.
And our eights just have been reminded
that this tournament can be gone in 10 more minutes
if they don't fix this.
Yeah, both these teams are completely aware
how much this series matters.
One chance to make it through.
Although this series is over,
Gryffinia has been saying that
every time we've seen his VT.
Yeah, it's so, so difficult.
We do got ourselves through game number one.
Three goals for Bens.
Three goals for Knights.
Zero goals for Gryffinia.
Oh, Billy Gryffinia.
And Bearman as well.
It was only 40 seconds,
But then we saw the second half of the game, there's second half team, you know
In the go-day, so I don't know what the
What the vibe would be like in the team, but I think a lot of these were pretty much down to them taking full advantage
Of defense there is tomorrow, right? I do think are a
Cause the majority of those it was just not a heat check
it was just like a slow cooker
check, something like that. Yeah.
And they just threw the ball into
the ceiling in front of the path of somebody.
I don't understand what was going on there.
All right, I'll be hoping that is not something they're going to replicate.
But
we'll talk to each other, got to fix this.
Wow, R8 looks like
the team that were coming in as the favourites.
Yes, a short series as well.
Best of five, bear in mind, to make it through.
R8 have had the
the hard-to-go of things as well. I'm to go through TSM and through Falcons.
Then the day, if he was in front of you and it's going to be another nearly good start
for R8, Mohammed trying to give it a go. That's the heat chair. That's not a slow
good way, anyway. You know every play goes up certain things. I could psycho that.
You give it up for a good go.
And that's Drophinio, tries to pass back.
Just to pass it with the guys in here.
Doesn't get the one under I don't think.
And Dulla, straight over to Drophinio.
Who will not care about his luck, of course, in the last game.
What's so clever?
Alright, Neater trying to get something early here, I feel.
Just a great set of momentum. That is a great cover.
No one has to expect it.
Absolutely fantastic.
And I mean, that's so all to try and defend.
They've been given a miraculous job of keeping that one out as well.
We look at the Goles now though, very low on boost and diving at everything they have to.
They cannot get any space here.
They might have boosted their guard tap into the middle and they'll seal their fate.
Now we're on the side, instead it's going to give the Bullsgripper's over to the Goles,
but Garzy is intercepting at every angle.
That was on Tyga, I don't think Mahler would have had any way of getting to it.
Oh, sealing pinch!
As Knight makes sure that thing would be crossed far anyway, but we don't want to be taking any risks with that.
As R8 looking for those demos, Slut off finding quite a few of those against Falcons earlier on.
First of Coast, first touch, not the best ever man, he's got these a lot of boosts just to get that ball back under control.
One round from Garny, two beaten, three beaten Knight though.
Just keep it held down in that backline.
And I have to do them a little bit of gartery, but a test kit around the side of the credo.
And very much as we go there, they won't score until the second half.
They're pure like that.
Abdullah and R8 though, they have got no such concerns.
They can two minutes, but finally they break the wall.
They knew that play that he wanted immediately once they rolled up the wall.
Tap it on, let the arch of the ceiling do the work for you.
And just make sure your car is following it. One note R8s.
Just one note R8s to start last time. Nothing surely that can't happen to us yet again.
How do you think it does though?
It'd be very funny. Very funny.
It's a weird entity.
I'll say it's not going to be a very weird game, a very weird eSports at times.
As M's gets that out, Knight probably can't shoot from every contrapment sense.
Cassey realized it, Abdullah backboards. Ben trying to avoid everything but they're not going to go for this and actually have they left us too much time for the video.
And away went for the outplay. Could have gone for the 15 stares.
Yeah if he does the 50 there he takes out the last defender and he can get one more shot as Abdullah uses his speed and in the air roll just to get the final devastating touch.
Just there, right over the top of NICE, Dive in as the last man, used all of his boost.
2-0 to Arre.
That is the response.
Arre and Team Ash struggled to take their online form into events.
Weren't they at their best in Paris? Weren't they at their best at EWC?
It has been a frequent thing for them.
I saw it early on in this tournament where TSM, very very good team is TSM but yeah,
alright did look like they made a lot of it.
Struggled early on against Falcons, you know, alright just don't find their fault until they do
and then it frustrates you because you're like why is this not happening all the time?
Okay, what a save!
It's still two of them, it's still two of R8 to get that ball away.
I don't want something to get rid of it. Everyone's getting but no one's getting demoed
Bang Abdullah back, but I would love the devil fire that touches took it away from him
I'm in his chance there trust him. He checked us to take sevens up to the ceiling with him
There's just now playing for the end of this game one minute 25 seconds to see the close of play to continue this game
game, goes entirely on his own and beats all three.
And this is all night.
Who just went looking for Abdul.
Abdul has got to go so much earlier than he wants to.
What's about a position?
Leaves the bottom left open.
But Gordyce, they do not go away quietly.
One goal left to try and get this back for two each.
For Vigno, can he get this one back out?
He certainly has.
If there's one to try and go for another set,
Reset this entire play and that's why, because...
...Venice just tried to snatch to keep this one going, as they've lost possession.
Final 60 seconds, we've seen what the Goadies can do.
Popped up high, meet my fence.
There's a big dive in though from two defenders.
Alright, need to slow it down, they do up to the left.
Keeps it away for now.
The coast is chest, should've gone up before that.
Nice couple of defense from Mohamed.
40 seconds almost found behind his car
Up to the old retals right now off the corner
Play on the backboards
Benz, oh that's an unbelievable power
That's even better save
Really picked some perfect parts and another one to be the defense
But the defense stays strong
He pre-champed that one during the replay of the last goal
And still it was not good enough
reset. I don't like these reset plays. It's just wasting the possession. Wasting time that they don't have.
Slays the game down far too much. That one game passes to the gold face. Pinching very clever.
That's like a senior, 9 weight central. Instead it's Beb's actually going for the 5th.
Oh wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hook up, hook up!
Oh boy, some target into the ground!
And the R8 in game number 2. It was by the skin of their teeth.
But they get the game wins and draw us to a 1-1.
I can tell you right now exactly what the comms were.
Help me!
I'm getting bumped. I need someone.
Make sure this is not going into our net.
Help!
How good is that?
If we could just like put a sticky note on the top of their monitor, it says two and a half minutes left.
Give it the best team in Sintyre Tottenham.
Yeah, I do wonder if we can see how good they would be if it was only the last two and a half minutes to counter because they had been so good at least in this series.
I mean, R8, I think they figured themselves out a bit more in this game. They seemed a bit more like themselves. They were, again, as overwhelmed.
I will say the defense was still messy. There were still big holes in it. I think they were just covering them with a bit more duct tape than in game number one.
Well, it works. It works.
Yeah.
It's now one a piece. Quick reminder everybody that is joining us a little bit late.
This is the end of the play-ins. We've already had three teams qualified for our main event.
That starts tomorrow. Guess what? No real rest for any of these teams.
This is our last spot between Bogodes and R8.
Camino get two teams through the play-ins for South America.
Gonna get a bit of a shot for a solo and send through Bogodes.
Yeah, I mean NA's already got two through.
NA's got a good pair of 2P, they're having a brilliant day.
European team has not made it through.
So if NA can do that, there's no reason why
I'm able to do the exact same 2SAP,
or the 2DL's better going 2M,
that's what's under there from Mohamed.
The star thinks stronger, thinks he needs to do the mentality here from R8
because you know that Vigoda is going to be ramping up.
Interesting back pass there from Trefino. Full faith in his teammates.
Oh for everyone right now!
It's Mohammed. Steams on through. Can't get it into the net.
I don't know how he's doing a good job, but knowing when to give up...
The play has all that's left!
Best! Cool as you like!
Ah, just get ready for it. No problem!
I mean, it didn't just like smack that away either.
If they close Edgewood into the reset, those boots go to the half-way line, completely nullified the offense that R8 was starting to build, and again, lovely play from him, just keeping it as close as he can.
We're not the end of last game for him slowing it down, or the whole team slowing it down with these resets, but when they work, they work.
Bams was screaming at the ball to get to him a little bit quicker before the demo heads.
Bams, are we? I like that idea actually. You can do it to me, I can go and do it to you.
Abdullah now, straight into Trefino, and how it's going to have Knight on his way. Knight takes the first challenge.
So, Wandshawe's kind of straight back to R8.
Series up in the balance.
Great proven middle again.
The good is, I've had good opportunities at times.
Need that 50.
We've got two players out for this. Should be a free play to Trefino.
And again, I don't like the reasons because they're always challenged.
It makes the follow so difficult. It makes something of that, but it could have been easier.
Easy, he's not going to name it a game, either of these things.
Maybe to the right of hell right now. Femme's forced a fight forward.
The point is, uh, active as he essentially could be.
It's a bit of this game, he's doing the first game as well.
as well.
Garcia resets C, they chance to go low with it,
and Geofenio, he spots the danger
and just throws himself for a two footed slide tackle.
He knows he's the one that's got some momentum.
Players on the goth line,
this can have really struggled to get to that.
He can just side throw.
Great rotation, Knights being hassled by Mohamed.
Goes for the 50, so well played there from Knights.
They get sent to going, so you know that little
ground pitch that the player's doing at the moment.
you sort of do the little side corner, look down into the ground, he's trying to go for that,
try to sneak you past the defender to give it that instant speed,
so that Mohammed is going to be coming down the offensive, the ball
rings back into the orange side of the pitch and then another demo, just why the target that one
the bench is away from safety.
That's very well produced, they had.
Turns out fake in field, Abdulla wants to try and get that one back while we're in yet again.
But these Bugs and Demos, one of us gonna land!
Took off!
That was not good enough!
Somehow, the key forgets a hand to it with the tip of his fingers.
Keeping this game level at 0-0, one and a half minutes to go.
How much can you play a game like this?
And not be thinking every single time, this could be my season.
It changes you at this level.
It's all about playing as close to your maximum as you can.
Abdullah wants to set up Bahamir just trying to keep that play going.
But Knight, over one. Straight back down.
Dems can have his opportunity. He decides to just go for pure power.
One minute and the nerves will be settling here as Mahamir.
No one's challenging him.
Everyone would have been all over that earlier on.
I think he's good for Gode. He's had low on boost.
They've been struggling. They were sitting here about 30 each.
they can't do a full commit and in the R8 no that Muhammad's going to be there!
There's R8 that plays and builds me up for a minute. Muhammad just had the read on it.
I don't think Dems is really going for the intent of playing it. I think he's just trying to show
we have boost. Don't come diving. Oh no you've actually you can't dive. Yeah Muhammad
0 a respect for that opportunity
45 seconds and the devil the next player up
One chance cause it gets its central nice low again. Angela and the 1v1 does miss this flick unfortunately
His boost totals though nice the unawar of anything
Then starts missing the 12s and also awful odds
High challenge Abdullah to try and put this one away
20 seconds because it can't afford to be on the outside of the field any longer
3 years going to try to make sure that doesn't happen, but Garzy removes Nite.
A quick turn around, that one is wide, and they get boxed!
Finally!
Garzy makes it 2.
And gate 3 will vote Sam and Mina 3.
They will be going towards the mid-least.
That demo is so, so, so good!
Especially when the goalie's already got their flag locked in.
I'm going to leave it for you. My team. It's clear. Where is my teammate?
Oh, they're looking at my screen.
Oh, no.
Oh, dear.
My screen opened.
They're not just gone off the team play.
So, all right. Five minutes away from joining Falcons in the main event.
As we said, that would make it a two and two for North America and MENA.
It has been excellent to watch all of these teams fight it out and to come down to these two
Though we've had lots of expectations for realistically
Waiting to see just what they can put forward. They're putting everything on the line season ends
The go-to if you don't win in the next five minutes
Everything that has to do to get to this point
He's a long long season
I think it's the best of five
and right now it is all about remembering that money you five minutes away from being eliminated.
You're ten minutes away from making it.
That's the joy of these best of fives.
You're so close to everything.
It is very much on a knife's edge for every team in this event.
Yeah, absolutely.
I don't think on any given day pretty much all of these teams could have made it in some variation.
You know, Falcons could have been dropped below it by R.A.
Especially in a best of five.
the ones that you will watch like the open qualifiers for and just go okay yeah I can see how
you know it wasn't a very good series for them or this result might have gone against what I would
expect you can't do that here it's the world championship there's no such thing as oh will
be better next time what next time next time is next season boys that's them when we're ushering
in RLCS 27. The good days are, it almost looks dejected at the moment. I kind of want a wider
shot just to see, hopefully somebody's talking, obviously with a timeout maybe the coach is
just yapping away. Yapping away. Okay, cut short, fine. Alright, we'll come in. Alright.
I'm saying, yeah, I'll get another hat-trick. I'll get another one too. I guess I'll
save it or whatever.
I'm not sure if I'm going to
get a goal or something. Alright,
look, you look stressed. They
did look at the only person
who didn't look stressed today. I
think was a trolley. Oh, I just
haven't got the energy for
being stressed. Having a little
map far way through. Yeah, a
little bit L, but he'll be
happy for the earlier time
off today. Shipping to its
good to go. You don't be a Coliseum and maybe check it's field. Either way,
Bagonis have got to win or they're out.
Next five minutes is absolutely crucial. Garcy immediately wanted to team up
with his sellers. Try and get a kickoff goal.
And what can you show? What are you able to put forward?
Look at Sam. Oh, realistically, because there are errors from RA on defense there.
Now that hasn't stopped happening!
Yeah, I'd be looking at most of these guys. I mean, they might though.
Yeah, cause he check them.
Just he check them.
Actually, no, don't do that cause they do well against the cheques.
Give me a moderate check.
Look at that.
Slow, keep going.
Floor check.
Yes.
I'm not just trying to get out.
This has been a consistent problem though, as my eyes...
I don't have to do what I'm saying, as me stumpy.
My eyes are constantly on the boost totals right now.
There it is.
Ooh!
Well, it's been their problem right now.
Trefiner's got to get back up.
Doesn't exactly that.
He's got a lot of boots here for go-tags on defense.
Garzi in particular, he's a midfield demon.
He's getting in their way so frequently.
He's died near across the ceiling.
Mohamed removed 9th in the equation entirely.
And now we're starting to see this
arborist sort of a game really takes shape.
Trefiner got that one.
He's going to have to use it all for it.
Straight back out.
to Gazi. You saved one, you've got to save another. Alright infill pass, oh they went for the 1-2!
I didn't have enough communication, but I've still got another chance! That was a sit-up for a while!
There was one too many, and the shot was on. They're going to give it their go. I don't hate the
ambition at all. Another attempt, Mohammed! Finally! Guys, respawn please! I need the help!
The longest three seconds of the go-to lives as Benz has to get a nose to it,
tips it over the bar and then gets slammed the home eventually.
R8 is set a couple of times before they take the game advantage.
I mean, it's an entirely different class at the moment.
F1 versus F3 and it's not quite because of the skill level.
It's because of the pace they can play at because what, see, it's got all the boost.
And look at those totals again, no one's even above 50!
You go to RA, it's a wealth of them all the time!
Three minutes!
The Godes, the Shrens, saved their season!
Godes, you can flick on DRX.
Speed up a little bit, get this ball out of their half.
They've not found the zone for a little while.
Garthy finds a free jump in my hand and ceiling pass back to Garthy.
Where's Abdullah?
With the reset!
There he is!
But it's not last the most backhanded compliment right now for the Go-Days, their defense is
excellent and they don't walk out of goal!
Another huge save!
They're just following saver of the season.
I get it guys, it makes sense, it makes sense to maybe get a job while you're here.
Jovenius gets a turn, tries to cut rotation, Abdullah knows it as well, just takes the
50, it's a big win, right?
Follow it and it saves!
The fence on target, after that clears it away.
Garzey's breaking into his own box.
Oh dear!
Another one!
Oh no!
In!
Benz gets on the end of it, and that was an all night!
Garzey tried for the reset,
and I think he just had eyes on the ball the entire way, didn't understand
that there was a player coming towards him with evil intent.
One-one!
And that came out of nowhere as well.
Fagode's shot-closal is going to be considerably less than what R8 have put up.
And yet, they all count for what, no matter how much pressure you've had.
You've got to keep an eye as well on that R8 third man.
To make some interesting decisions at times.
One each. The big news here is Fagode's have not got to try and chase this anymore.
It's not the panic. Nice pass. Can they get there?
They can! Begones are not out!
A seasoned saving goal potentially.
And it is left to right, good night.
What a pass to Walthbens. Sinks it bottom left corner.
Begones not dead.
Two shots, two goals. How do you like that? Maybe three!
Talk about the efficiency. Begones are up by two.
I can't believe how this game has turned around.
A quick cut in, tonight with an even faster flick afterwards.
And now they're cleared by two, only 90 seconds.
And R8 must be thinking, how has this one slipped?
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, it's back down to one!
A five-goal thriller in the Coliseum.
Oh, you're not entertained!
South America versus Mina for that final spot and they're just throwing
haymakers for good is with more goals and they've got average boost and they're
still staying in this but how do they now process now they've got one goal lead
I'll tell you how they approach it as they always do.
The thing is the way that they're playing doesn't feel that different they are now just completely exploiting R8's defense
These holds have been there. They continue to gate.
And there are two goals separating these two teams.
Gonna be another kickoff into the back corner as Abdullah receives it.
Mohamed gets the demo on Traffinio.
What? Now, an R8 gonna do.
R8 have got to figure out how to get these pops and stop putting them on as time for the go-days.
Little bit of time, low 50.
Who's the next one? Abdullah's on the same side, he can't chase it.
Both teams have got their flaws. Both teams have got unbelievable strengths.
Looking for another one. Wait, OpG's trying to get here.
I've done a level 100 turns over the perfect time.
Looking for players and they know that. They've got to try and get away.
And oh, that's not all to end up. It's still dangerous.
But Benz has always, stands tall.
The Hammond chance pass at 5-1. It is there.
Clear the way, but yet again, Alther, the only man back to be no chance for a flick.
Flick is going to be on target, he's declared away by Mohammed.
Beb's up high, central only 20.
It becomes new or die and right now the go-desert, do it!
Infield pass, Ghazi can't get anything for it.
A dollar straight down the pipe but it's still no good enough.
Seven, six, champions field.
Here we come in our final match to decide our final qualifier.
The Go-Days have turned it on when they needed to.
In a game shogun, they felt like it was gone, they felt like the boost was not going to be
there for them, nothing would fall their way.
And yet they turned it around and they smashed it in the end.
Yeah, but one thing happened Stumpy, the clock went to 2 minutes and 30 seconds left
in the game.
So of course the Go-Days are going to pick it up.
five champions field just everyone and I want you to just imagine you put hours
after hours. I saw earlier on this is the most amount of game play going into an
event for these profiles. They have put in the grinding of this watch. We are
talking hundreds of thousands of hours for this.
Bems drops 937. Wow. They put this thousands of hours in. Five minutes.
That's the important bit right now. That's your season. It's five minutes.
I think it's going to be up to the coaches to make sure that they're keeping their players
with their heads on a swivel.
How would you even go about coaching that?
Are we seeing what, please, an awful lot?
I do think I would really cry and run away.
I can't deal with this pressure.
Earlier on I was on the desk and I was saying I couldn't do this.
But my goodness, these players can.
All right, Esports versus McGonagy's, who makes it through?
And when it comes to these gamefights, it is all about not making mistakes.
Backbott!
Garzi couldn't get there!
It's off the backbottom!
Get a good, available follow-up!
Garzi realizes it, tries to go back for a bury.
But now he's got nine!
He's got options!
He's got trafina!
He doesn't want it!
Instead decides to take the ball, but he passes it straight to Abdullah.
And my immediate thought is, what's gonna happen with the boots in this game?
Garzi!
Just left that little bit late, Garzi!
What a bit full focus, full focus even.
It's just all about the moment he wants that 50, absolutely nothing, none of it.
Like a seal with the ball on his hood.
Just a little bit of a second, there's been utterly electric.
All the way back, Giovinno tries to take another 50, does get that 50.
Everything is going to be challenged, no quarter is going to be given.
Benz is waiting for it. I've got to re-nice that.
Pops him to the top one.
No one's gonna wait around that 100.
No one's trying to run out of play right now.
Nobody wants to be at all responsible for a mistake.
When the sheer amount of what in this lobby you have to do,
you have to get there.
You have to beat Garzy.
And I think this is the nerve showing
because they left that for so long.
I feel it was sad, the goaler never thought it was relevant to that play.
All right, I've got one goaler, but the time is going to keep ticking,
and we know when the Goalers comes into form.
They've got one minute until the Beast is unleashed.
The Oat is ready.
What kind of form can All right get themselves into?
How many goals can they score before the Goalers...
RQ!
They've done it ahead of time!
Take a look at this pass!
And I think Abdullah just can't even believe it's over there!
That's an unbelievable strike!
The synergy of the Goles comes early in game number five,
and they manage to sneak one pass.
And all right there, less time than they thought.
Or maybe the time is the exact same,
and the rest of it is just that little bit better. What each? So early as well.
Abdullah, wants to try and push it into the corner. There's no real opportunity
available here. Abdullah on the turn. wants to try and get the read, almost had it.
Knight makes sure to get there. Gazi, Abdullah is considering it, decides to
get the 100 instead. Muhammad's around. He's got so many passing options.
He wants to go for the low 50. Almost gets it back out there. So well read by the defense.
And look at the foostos of Agode's ult, the video's got 100 now.
The attempts joins the club.
That 100 club is gonna be too far to swing.
Oh! My goodness!
And it's still not good enough.
What will be?
Knight goes back, boss!
They tried to get rid of Garzi's car, but they couldn't try hard enough.
And the haymakers keep flying.
The mortars keep landing.
There's RA in the goalie, they take chucks out of each other on champions field,
Trafigo, his chance to work it past Mohamed.
An opportunity as Antelope, their defense,
then fall a little bit flat, false did, they're not able to get out of their half
when they had the opportunity to.
Garzi Ashi from those ball, loads of man, and I love that decision
because look at where the ball ends up, right in for both days, back third.
And one of those will set, another demo,
Benz is out.
Mohamed, ceiling, low, drop dollar and jump video.
As we said so many times before, is in the way.
The chance here, Garzi, off to go for a skim.
It's going to be a pass, and Mohamed does jump forward.
Benz stays strong on the back walk.
Clear the way again by Jephenios,
up to the loose ninth of the equation.
Wait, it's going to be a 2-view walk.
There's an opportunity, even if briefly.
for those who would know these have to make Fino pass it by Snipe on target but Garthi ain't get it wrong.
Knight just couldn't get them on the right angle.
Mahomet with the clear. Who's available? It's Knight, clears, straight to Gravidio.
Well he passes straight back though, there's just no boost.
Brilliant drop down though, Garthi to receive.
Now Ben, they're passing between each other. They need every single touch to be perfect.
60 seconds, which cali down from hundreds of hours, just 5 minutes, just 60 little seconds for your tournament.
Bent on the way, once the 50 can't get it to finish his books.
Chance to compete against the absolute biggest teams in the world and that will not be go past these guys best.
Woodson and Wanda Garzi, yet again, he stands firm and torn in his way.
from 9 to 3, no weight and looks, opportunity is best to get a double, but they get Garzy with a save on target, it's 9!
And it's a 3-bend!
It was just too much! Garzy's got something! Abdullah couldn't get there!
And what a time to hit the target! 30 seconds or R.A. will be eliminated.
South America are not dead yet.
They stay fighting as Trefino works his magic,
tries to get another and then plays for any possession that they can.
Going back on, Darcy, that's all good for everybody.
Who can read it? Nobody on his team was feeling up to that one.
Ten seconds left.
One chance, an opportunity. It may well go flying
and R8 need anything, something.
something, the Gondes, they see zero, they see the play-ins, they see their chance of glory to the form of them.
And only one touch has to happen.
And as it does, the Gondes throw out our bracket.
World 2026 starts with a buy.
The Gondes have done it.
And it was just a series where you start to believe more and more with every single minute
that this could very well be on.
Alright, yes you can.
It's one of those tournaments, we've had three of them in our old Paris, EWC and now the World Championship
where you look at them and say, you're absolutely talented.
You're so, so good and you're not there yet.
I think yes is the imperative word, if they will be, they will be. They absolutely will be.
And opportunities like this is what brings these teams to the forefront of everybody.
And so they're assuming new R8 fans in the chat.
To be honest, mate, he's what's going to stand. Everyone learns to be a doctor.
Uzi is in the house, and he is taking patience.
10 things you don't want to see when you're trying to score a goal and guarantee you right
up there is Truffinio.
5 out of 100 boosts.
Give me 10.
Give me 10.
It's still not getting over there.
They're having somewhere in the way.
They're going to have a quick sleep before we see them later at first to see what
they're going to see to leave that.
We've got some mustaches in group stage now.
Truffinio congratulations.
and the exciting end to that series.
Yeah, it was a tough series.
They are a pretty good team, that's Mina team,
so it's kind of hard to play against them.
Yeah, I mean, at one point I was playing in Mina ranked
and even just that, it was aggressive.
I can't even imagine at this level,
they're always in your face
and it felt like at the end there even,
they had a lot of pressure and you guys broke out
and then you held that momentum
for the last few moments there.
Did you realize that that moment,
oh wait, we've got this,
like they didn't feel like that was yours in those final moments.
Yeah, I think so.
Like we just parked the bus when we scored the goal in the game five.
So we had the momentum to like they were pretty like sad.
I think if the goal that we scored like out of nowhere.
So, yeah, I think we got the momentum there and everything shift.
Well, I was going to say sometimes you can feel it in the game that it was.
Was that the moment maybe I guess that you knew you were winning
or was there somewhere else early in the series
that you felt confident was there,
or was it kind of just that final moment?
Well, I think the since game one,
that we did like 6-1 against them,
I think we were pretty confident.
Right.
Like they won two games,
but we were pretty confident in what we were doing.
So I think like since game one,
we were, yeah, let's gonna win this.
Yeah, that was great, man.
And again, you said, you just love to be here.
Now you get to be here a little bit longer
going into the group stages.
We'll find out what those are later.
You know, looking at the group stages,
are there any particular teams that you're actually
looking forward to maybe hoping having in your group
and playing just because it'll be fun?
Maybe all of them?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all the teams are good.
So every team that we play, it will be a nice match.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Now, just at the end of the day here, obviously,
this was a long day for you guys
from beginning to the end.
You must be exhausted.
Have you gotten better over all the lands
that you've attended at being able to maintain,
I guess that energy pool going throughout a day?
Or are you feeling exhausted?
No, I'm exhausted.
He's done it?
Yeah, I'm exhausted.
It's tiring.
Yeah, it is.
Like, I'm up since 7.30 AM to now playing Rocker League,
screaming, communication, everything.
Like, I'm always dying, bro.
Yeah, this is crazy.
Well, I don't really want to take much more of your time,
And I want to let you go rest celebrate with your team. So I'm just gonna say drew in your congratulations
And I'm happy we'll probably get to talk during groups tomorrow then. Thank you. See you tomorrow guys. That's awesome
Good stuff. Hey, well, I'm gonna go over the desk because we are done for the day. That was our last matchup in the play-ins
Wave I thought that was a really good way to maybe end the day so my energy
I was about as good as I could have possibly gotten. I'm curious if with you
I didn't tell him I wasn't asking this question
I'm curious, I think you'll like this question.
Like, you've interviewed a lot of winners today.
Yes, I have.
Has there been like, like an X factor, a through line with those players in those interviews
where you're like, wow, this is the thing you're noticing that like is making the difference
right now?
I mean, well, it's hard because everyone at the end of an interview feels loose and
happy because the relief of a win is there.
But yeah, it tended to be the ones that were just kind of loose and happy to be
here.
I mean, we saw Justin earlier.
He felt great to talk to.
from the very beginning felt like he was just he just decided to play Rocket League. So I think that's the key thing. Have fun when you're playing Rocket League. It's a good time.
That's it. Have fun with your interview. Rocket League players too. You know what I will. Just for you.
At least I'll be talking to players all of it. A lot of fun. Thanks. I'm thinking for being here, Gibbs. Yeah. It's like it's the have fun.
I accepted for you like the Falcons. So you're like we're going to win this whole tournament. We're coming serious and just dominate everyone.
So it's not necessarily and again everyone's gonna be having fun for a win, but hey Corp
I feel like a corporate
Right, you take it pretty serious, but this was the one where I think most the matches went the way we thought throughout the day
True, but then go days like seven nowhere
They show up at the right that game one was huge. We were worried. Are you would be nervous?
They absolutely were leaving that first game. Yeah
If they did look a little nervous especially got the youngster of doula just a couple times even in game body
You just look hesitant like you didn't want to make the mistake.
But when you play like that, when you play too fast,
the mistake ultimately happens.
Even in game five, you'll see the clear
into the redirect by BIMS.
It shouldn't have happened, I'm telling you,
he was in two different matches.
I go shot, not go, ultimately end up going,
but BIMS had no boost, it should never be a goal.
And he didn't gain another five as well.
On the game winning, game series, game clinching goal.
I'm doing this a little too slow,
unfortunately for them, but big win for the goal.
Yeah, and just going back to the bigger picture,
This is a big win for Sam.
I think we've got so much time talking about how Mena is the major region.
Mena is dominant.
Maybe we should give Mena more spots.
And then Migojase comes out here as the, you know, the Sam three seed with our
and Sam has been struggling like this is a really big win for Sam to get over
Mena and just I think for Trefino as well and his teammates, you know, this
this is an important one.
Yes, we're at the plains.
Yes.
The main event is whatever we're trying to get to.
But even here, the play is big, big win for them against a very strong R8.
I mean, look at the stats, how you lose, all right?
You got 15 off of the demo, you got 71 big boostpats stolen.
It's the little moments where you just, you have to play.
But it was the same story against Team Falcons as well.
They were landing a lot of demos.
They just could not figure out how to convert off of that.
They are eliminated here at the World Championship.
Three teams from South America still remain.
We had eight teams in our playing bracket for have been sent home for our through to
our group stage that begins tomorrow.
We can look at that bracket how things went again.
I mean, obviously kind of the biggest I believe that we just had is maybe the close thing
we had to an upset all day.
Give so what you're saying things went pretty down the line.
Was there any other match that really stood out to you that you feel like you've learned
a lot from?
I thought like money is hop on like I thought they would play a little bit
better versus the NA squads.
I felt like they came in just a bit flat, but credit to the North American boys
both Redis pro and foot.
They really look good throughout this.
Obviously, foot had to play Falcons early on,
but both those NA squads as your NA4 and NA5
are gonna be a tough draw when we get to the group stage.
As we take a look at the contenders here, Bates,
we started off with so many teams,
four already sent home.
The great out logos have been eliminated
from contention with the World Championship.
And most of them are for me, Europe.
They had six teams, they only got five.
But those two many teams,
those two many teams now, now it feels a little bit more.
It is no more around me tomorrow.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, we got a car.
Mind you, gentlemen, you get by Tautie.
You're not PNRG.
I can just go through the whole list.
All the big boys come to play tomorrow.
Monkey Moves, I'm gonna be placed tomorrow on stream.
Mom, guess he does play tomorrow on stream.
Unless he plays tomorrow on Dickens Arena for the third time.
Yeah.
Trying to become a three-time Dickens Arena world champion.
They come to play tomorrow.
And not only that, it's groups.
Like, you want to win your groups.
You have two lives for a top four chance.
If you lose even one match, that's probably done.
So every single match in this home for you.
Yeah.
And I mean, you talk about depth in North America,
I feel like as a whole, the parity that we've seen,
there's so many contenders now.
So many top teams that really have what it takes to win.
All bets are off.
We might see some crazy upsets tomorrow.
We might, folks.
We will let you know the groups as soon as they are set.
Check out social media for that,
as we will be talking about a lot on tomorrow's pre-show.
So if you want to hear the full breakdown of the groups.
And if you want to watch the action,
which is what we all really care about,
you're tuned in Brighton early tomorrow morning 10 30 a.m. Central is when the
pre-show starts 11 a.m. is kickoff of that first match. Thank you so much for
watching the greatest weekend and Rockin Lee has begun well we'll see you
tomorrow to continue.
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
And we can't go so far together
We are all alone
And we can't go so far together
We are all alone
And we can't go so far together
We can't go somewhere we can't find
We are
We can't go somewhere we can't find
We are one
And we can go so far together
We are one
And we can go so far together
I'm sorry, I know it's so, so easy for me to fight as lovers in your eyes, running around
There's a thousand enemies
There's a fire that ain't nothing to do
We're gonna watch them fall
Because if you need a little while to cry
I'll be the one you call
It's alright, it's only human
When the feeling overcomes
Look at me like an other girl
I'll be the one you call
Ooh, I'm sorry, you're so human
When I feel I know the right
Gonna take me to the night
I'll be the one you call
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I'll be the one you call the water watching fire.
I'll be the one you call the water watching fire.