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No more running out of time
But the hands of myself
It's an uphill climb
No more, no more
I see you take me high
The stars are bright
Then we can't leave
To hear lies
Nothing in sight
As we leave the side
The world from distance, from between us
Take it all and go
Take it all and go
Oh, I'm gonna let you feel it go
Take it all and go
Take it all and go
Oh, I'm gonna let you feel it go
I'm gonna let it go
I'm gonna let it go
I
The stars are light and we have everything to heal us
Bring my fear and my flight as we go inside
But above the distance, nothing is real
Let's take it all down
Take it all down
I like to let it go, take it all out now
Take it all out now, I like to let it go
I like to let it go
I
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One day down and five to go with the Rocket League World Championship here in Fort Worth, Texas.
Plans are complete and four teams have already been eliminated.
With 16 left, today marks the start of group stage where we'll find the best teams to
showcase when you join us in Dickey's Arena this weekend.
It's going to be a blast and I'm leave and I'm so glad that you guys decided to join
us again for day number two.
Brackley's better when you have friends and speaking of friends, these ones here told
me that they have some very important opinions.
They got to tell you about what I got to say.
My expectations are very low.
But why don't we hear from them anyway?
It's 30 minutes here on day number two of the World Championship Series.
Rockin League fans around the world welcome back to Fort Worth Texas for day two of the
2026 Rockley World Championship.
We had 18 teams, 20 teams in the building yesterday.
We lost four of them, 16 still remaining in the hunt
for that title of World Champion.
And we are going to start the group stage today.
Shogan, how are you feeling?
I'm absolutely fantastic, mate.
Good to be over here.
Good to be back doing what we love the most, which
is watching directly, seeing the best in the world,
do what they do best.
And now we get to see the best top 12 teams in the world.
We didn't see them yesterday.
So the big heavy hitters coming out now.
We got the game corpse the gentlemates and our G the wild Cod will see yeah, the wild cards as well
They might be we're gonna see them play a little bit later on lots of action lots of teams here in the building
If you pick today to become a fan of the greatest e-sport in the world, you pick the great time
This is we use this the biggest week of the rocket league year and we've had quite a year
We played a kickoff land way back the end of point 25 then we had Boston
We were we all got snowed in together then we had Paris one of the most spectacular events in the history of the game
We had 1v1 qualifiers
We had for the first time in the history of the RLCS to be two qualifiers
We'll be playing some of those 1v1 games later on today
Yeah, that's gonna be a lot of fun obviously 1v1's high pressure moments right now
Not as much pressure because not in front of the crowd
But still is very difficult to sit alone by yourself in those events
We'll see the 1v1 action today.
We'll see 2v2 a little bit later on in the week.
But we have for 3v3 still the bread and butter of the competition.
16 teams from around the world still here competing for that title.
OCE will play today.
We'll see the other South American representatives as well.
Notably here baits three teams from South America.
As we saw Bogota's take out R8 Esports yesterday.
Yeah, me and Sam have always been competing for who's the third best region in the RLCS.
I think Sam might just beat the third base region in terms of that at the moment.
Now it's hard to win him because you already know what Swiss Divert Falcons can do.
Of course, Falcons made the champions, the WC champions.
A lot of accolades for them.
There were so, so many.
Now, if you picked just now to start becoming a fan of the greatest e-sport in the world,
that means you missed yesterday's actual.
We had our play in teams from the last chance qualifiers in the bottom
seats of many regions competing in this bracket.
We had eight teams, only four spots left in the group.
So we had to eliminate four teams on day one of the 2026 World Championship.
And we have some fantastic results of few out what one surprise in particular here Gibbs
But let's start up at the top bird is from
The most impressive team I think throughout the planes and talk the MVP of the planes
1.71 goals per game is on the herd of talk really looks like this split one cell
Two-piece also followed him up VP are firing right now
Yeah, let's split one for him truthfully and then look at the look at a teamwork the chemistry between this team
I mean, I didn't top it, they played solid, but Burnishpro, which is a little bit better in every aspect.
And then to talk to them like this, that's not what you really can do, so locked in, they're ready to perform in the actual tournament.
And now we've got the Falcons of course, Drogi.
Yeah, the Falcons were pretty much the lock-in for a lot of people coming into this tournament, they've got to make their way through.
Definitely made a bit more of it against R8 than maybe they were hoping for, but eventually got their form up and running.
I think it was off-drying as well, despite the fact that he did look a little bit ill, obviously.
I think it's allergies that I think people have been saying about that.
But I mean he's playing fantastic
It's about time because he's had a very quiet season in the RCS itself. Yeah, they were not flawless though
R8 did challenge them in games three and four but then we go back to the North American side when they get E-sports and foot coming up
It's money top up on as well
Dominating their foot was a lot of fun to watch they played 11 games. They scored 31 goals
The problem they also gave up 30 goals high scoring games from that
They did, but also one of the goals of this course,
technically, the Rito, right here with a great own goal
by himself.
That was another mistake, but listen,
what didn't care.
They were happy about it.
You see Cron's right.
Look at Justin right here.
I can't believe cheese doesn't care.
Hopefully, I'll end up finishing up that series.
And last one I need is the last match of the day.
Sam versus Meenam.
Agode versus R8 did.
Agode.
The last team to get here, the 20th seed.
No one expected them to make this move.
When they played five years earlier,
it was very close.
Everyone was like, R8 is going to do it,
do it but the code is coming up big down to one of the series battle back and
Ben's shot over 50% in that match he was fantastic they shot I've never had any
boost this never above 12 boost at any point from this entire series did make
any difference whatsoever they've made it and all right the shock on day number
one there might have been a few inspectors in there's a few people in
the billion told me that they saw like game three go down and all right was
doing so well yeah they effectively turned the series off and I'm gonna go
do something else don't worry I know where this is going what a surprise we
got us coming up and in game five on champions field party the Drew said in
the book in the game in the interview after he's like we got that second goal
we just parked the bus locked it down experience paying off here for Drew and
the boys will get to see them play a little bit later on today but that
wasn't that was the majority of the action is all you saw the results but
we didn't show you every single great fantastic moment you might have are
the top place. Oh, we might have a look at it again. The best one. Yeah, top five
place. Listen, I could have talked for every single play. I'm not gonna lie. He's
playing this that sensationally. But of course, that would be, come on. See,
target is in place. I gotta spice up a little bit. We're gonna start off with
a good looking for a double touch. Get my family. It's all it's all what
talk was doing so much great. So much power through bad touch. Talks that
don't mind if I do. It was a great play from me, especially in the back
You got to keep your head out also going at number four
We're gonna stick with BP and I like a talk so dancing goes right by the real here comes way
The all three from BP will get involved in this play and this just shows the chemistry the synergy that they're all be so
To peace bottom right corner, of course, that's what you want to see talk right into the retail atomic face
He fries and chow's right there too little too late wait comes in AJG bad
Check from him to be with a vision throws right the talk right back to two pieces to give a go special
That's a beautiful play from now for wait. You're still talking about talk
I think we keep it just at the top for them.
Tarkas is up high, looking for a kind of a Zen ulti
in the way, throws it off the ceiling, gets to read that.
Bang!
There's not much else you can do.
Two goals for VP in 14 seconds, in game number one.
They came out swinging, Tarkas the main part of that.
Two people up, not enough.
They might need it all, three.
Looking at number two.
Now listen, there's a goal that, honestly,
it could have been number one,
or it could have been number not on this list.
I'll tell you what, because Justin came all the way up
with a death touch right there,
and he just rolled for a five, two.
I guess the Falcon's team
that hasn't sensational defense,
But of course, you didn't cut the lead to only 60.
Yeah, it's a 3-4.
That's no different.
He's like 40 years old doing that.
So look at him.
Hey, man, hey, hey.
He's mad.
He's 40.
And then look at that.
Look at that number one, of course.
Two P's, but two talking to him as well.
He tried to copy what he was talking to in a way.
Going up, off the seal.
Two P's, look at that double touch.
The angle is clean, the angle is clean.
And nobody, not a single person from the money at top
was going to be able to get back to that one.
Beautiful play.
Yep.
I don't know if you like number one by line.
That's right.
like North America had a day and most of the top players are from them.
So congrats to North America.
But now do it again in the group stage.
I mean, I know this part of the broadcast is technically a talk show,
but you're turning it into a talk show with how much of that guy.
I mean, that's that's what he does when he's popping off.
It is the talk show.
And if you can do that today, tomorrow, maybe moving on to the weekend
and repeat, it might be a pull off something we'll see.
We'll see folks.
We finished the broadcast yesterday knowing what teams were eligible
for the groups, but we did not reveal the groups on broadcast.
I can do that now and show you guys.
The groups for the 2026 Rock League World Championship Group A.
Carming Corps made in Brazil, Space Station and Falcons.
What a crazy group that one is.
Twisted Minds, Ninja, Zephyr, and Foot make up Group B.
Group C is NRG, Rebellion, Manchester City, and the Gojas.
And Group D will be gentlemates.
Vitality, Wildcard, and Vertus Pro.
So Vertus are talking.
The boys are wanting to keep that action up.
They got Zen in front of them.
They've got Nast in front of them.
Thor's off the inevitable is still here
Like that the monkeys pull cold energy just went all right KC Falcons
We need to not get them in the semi finals. When do we have the oh, we're still gonna do it?
These groups are pretty rough, but the seeds were mostly normalized throughout this
There was only two swaps to avoid regional battles as team Falcons and the go days
So go days was supposed to be in group A but made in Brazil's there
So they are not there and the other swap was furia and Manchester as well
Well, that was a swap to avoid some regional matches.
I mean, this is part of, you're looking at that group,
and you're like, how does this happen?
Well, it happens because Falcons isn't the number one team.
Falkins, Mina, they just have to come through the LCK.
We talked about this yesterday that like Falcons,
yes, they're one of the favorites coming in after the EWC
win, but their road to the World Championship Grand Finals
is so much longer than everybody else is having
to play that extra day.
And there's no chance they get a Mickey bracket
because they're going to be such a low seed in all
context.
So Falcons, so much work in front of them,
teams that have been a thorn in their side or that they have had to fight
against four grand finals like space station and WC in their group. Now it's
a trial by fire. But honestly, Falcons, they knew that going in. They were going
to be the fourth seat of any of these groups. So it was going to be very,
very hard. Well, it's I want to play a little bit of a game here with these
groups because there's probably a lot of people watching to go. How good are
all these teams? How's all this work? We've been watching the players do
this on social media. Let's tier list all the teams. Let's let's let's
put them on a list. Lee's going to help us out here on the side here. The
This is gonna work gentlemen. We're gonna reveal a team leaves gonna show us a team
We're gonna go group by group you three you're gonna make arguments
But you're not to convince me what group to put it in I'm the one who decides where it goes
I don't make the arguments here. So show us the first team here leaf. We're gonna go with Falcons Falcons
That's a good thing. I mean they won the last tournament. You have to be as a
They made a real difficult time against Ari didn't make you say you're gonna
It's a perfect eight. No day in EWC. I'm going as I want chapter
Participate as well, but we all know where it is going as please as to do you have any argument? Are you saying s?
Yes
But there's no no no there's not there's no team in the all see all CS or any other term and outside all CS
It's gonna win if they're not asked your team put them in s. That's I hear I hear the arguments for s
I hear the argument for a as well my only thought because we just said about how long their road is
I think in this situation their chances of winning the world championship
If it's an easier chance, I'm gonna put them in a
This is her
Oh my god, that's like already
We're talking
The melon's going over here
Put up another team
Okay, we got it, we got it next year
Made in Brazil
It don't even matter, put them in D
I would say E
E?
Yeah
I think we're used to thinking of D. Dira is very, very bad in this situation.
I put them under Africa because that group is so chaotic that they could sneak away from everyone taking wins off each other.
Okay.
Honestly, they can get one match with.
They might actually be able to get their way through if somebody else has a horror show.
I feel like there are about 14 in these groups, you know, in this top 16.
So I think bottom four, I'd put them in E.
Well, not.
Well, you're talking about the top 16?
Yeah, top 16.
Well, it's unfortunate because you got the 14th that eliminated.
They were like EFT.
I feel like everybody's top six team is the least team.
This is the tierless of just our top six team.
We are not saying these are awful, terrible teams
that run.
I'm hearing a lot of letters.
What are we hearing here?
I'm thinking EEE.
Put them in EEE.
We have a consensus on EEE.
Next team.
Get away with every one.
Harming core, the blue wall.
So, Tom, you're going to put them in S tier,
but you're going to put them in S tier, obviously.
I'm one of the favorites to win this alongside Falcons, so I would have them in what time I why you don't talk about Falcons road being so hard
So you have Falcons in eight years
Give like if we put cake see yes, we want to move Falcons like this, please
I'll be happy to what you're all like you guys have to make arguments or you're already decided to put them in
You're logic. I'm sorry. Do you I did is anyone have an argument saying as a reason they should be an asset there in the same group
Is they have a group of death here?
Because I've just realized if we don't have KC mess
If you do this it's a kicker for the two best teams here. Yes, I we have to do this leave leave
We have to make a red that they're on there convincing me your losses put a bolt in this put them both in a
We just keep going. We got a lot of teams to get through here. Don't see what I mean. Who's next? All right, who's up?
Alright, S.S.G.A.
Station Gaming. A. No discussion.
I would go B.
B.
I would go B.
Maybe EWC Final.
Yup.
But they were also in the weaker side there. They did 3-0 K-Corp.
I need to see it twice.
They have the potential of the A.
But I think they are still be I have two teams above them at the very least terminal. Maybe even three
So I haven't been well you already literally have two teams above them. No, no two more teams above them
Okay, like in this tournament, so I would have a minute here one for be a base you have anything to say other than a decision
Hey, they want to eat it was he final and it looked good the whole entire year. They've constantly improved
We make the argument that they're in a one like a
I'm not gonna money that these two got good arguments
I'm gonna let you choose between these two on what they said because I'm not as much
I'm gonna put them in B. I'm gonna put them in B. Just because kids is actually trying here. You can't just keep saying
Here come on give me give me a better argument all right group we have done we finished group a here
Furia furia show yeah, well ssg's beat and you guys would fear you see yeah, I'm gonna see
I have an E as well. I could see a D
I could see a D. Actually, I could maybe go. Yeah
Very close MIBR is higher seed than furia, but furia is a better land team so I could see a D. I yeah V
mates
Whatever
I like as well
Okay, they are okay. We've put them over at my bitch. I do agree. I do agree the land experience for fury
We'll make a big difference here. That's a good argument next. We have ninjas in pajamas
We were contentious one the results at RLCs may be a little bit different
Great me WC
Space station I need to see it twice. I haven't been see see I haven't been see I love CRR. So I'm gonna put CCR
I think they're a good team, but they're one of the bottom North American teams. Oh, yeah, I'll detail. I'm just watching like the life
I think D works these all right they have they have struggled early they've
struggled against teams above them but they have been red-hot in this last
part we're up in the hour she twisted minds ladies and gentlemen hey they're
one of my top eight top four teams I have them in a that's one of the teams
better than space this is the runner-up to mine it's fine fine I think I mean
by the format I've laid out I have to put them in a because they've not
given me another option is on the team there you go monkey moon is on my
That is an S tier team, but I can't do those works. Okay, what we got?
Burgoges sorry, but F. Yeah. Oh, okay. Sorry. They were the 20th seed. That's often upset. I
Do think they're the weakest team here at F works
Are you blue the most slept on team here?
I think they're D, they didn't look good at the Paris Major, they had the group of life
and then they just fell apart.
I think they're a D tier.
I suddenly have an opinion on this, I didn't know that was going to be possible here.
I'm going to say, do you have anything to go with that opinion?
Yeah, it gives us wrong, okay whatever.
You think football is worse than Man City, okay?
Absolutely, I think football is the best.
The building you want is world champions. You've been put them in C. Lee
And we have
D tier
one win this year and it was against NRG. NRG and the Paris Major had the group of life
and they couldn't even come out of that group and then that whole entire group lost the rest
of the tournament which included Manchester City. Then in the 2v2 tournament, Beast 1 Daniel,
they can't even make top 8. The aura is gone. The aura of world champions is gone. No one fears
NRG. I have them in detail. Bates, you have anything to say? Put them in D master once.
I didn't do anything about it.
Put them in D.
No one else has tied anything.
No, put them in D, bro.
Please don't.
You just put them in D.
I'm not gonna stop you here.
Put them in A, bro.
Put them in A.
Are you putting them in D?
Are you putting them in D?
At this point, yeah.
Do you want to make an argument?
They're the same level as Twisted Minds.
Are you kidding me?
What?
Yes.
So we're gonna have time.
Put them in D.
Put them in D.
No one else has made an argument.
No one else has made an argument.
He goes.
The reigning world champs for lack of a better case against them are in D here.
I hope they show up.
I do.
Cause you stop talking shop a fireman
Word it was shop fighting shop fine. I had in B, but uh, yeah
But as it's just to I mean, I just two chairs loaded into both of them
What have they done in the past six months so good
Leave put them in B and then give just tell us the rest of the list apparently
What is that?
Virtus Pro.
Virtus Pro, I haven't seen.
D?
The same level as...
D!
The same level as...
What?
The same level as under shot?
Wow!
They keep saying what and then not saying anything else.
Alright, alright, alright.
Where do you want to go?
Where do you have him? E?
You have the 3D.
E?
I'm going down.
Did they really the best play in team?
I'm not here.
Okay, fine.
E?
They're the best E.
I mean, we go just...
It was also pretty good when we put him in the middle.
Yeah, we put him in the middle.
I don't know.
You kind of see...
You hear who you got left?
Yeah, this is the final group here. What are they? I haven't enough. I haven't enough. They do you think oh
She's into anything the sormit
Have to so much on the block. No, that's me not f-tame. All right. Do you see a VP played wild card? Who are you picking?
Sorry again
I've already picked wild card for that. I'll put them in either. I want them indeed. I want them indeed. I want them indeed
D with energy
You can't go around and just go oh, I'm sorry. I put like just paint all over this
E for the balance
And then I think one or two teams here two teams gentle mates
They're better than space station they're better than rebellion they've won a major yeah
That's that's easy. They're off from the pattern. What face is shaking his head, but that's not quite an argument
I don't understand what big one a major is they looked so good
They're an SD or T this is my this is
So the TSM is is a double S. Oh, so we have a little bit more time
We just we can argue some of these that okay, okay, okay, let's just do the first draft here
This is the final team. Yeah. Yeah vitality team vitality
He's just put it in the I gotta remind you by the way leaf is off the belief that Zen is the greatest player of all time
Sure, that's not a terrible leaf. It's getting better. He didn't say this a year and a half ago
That just means he was smart back then too
He's definitely proven them wrong more. I think they're equals. Okay station. Okay. They cook boy
You go game seven car mind everything time. They play. All right, thanks. Okay
We're gonna do because we have time for this all on one. Okay, we're gonna fix this because apparently we need to fix
You get to move one team none of us could say anything about it. Who are you moving?
Minimum a
Do you want to say anything about it? I mean it's a rain of world champions
I understand that the form hasn't been the best but the talent is most definitely still there
Like there's no expectations that they're gonna come in here and still perform like it like it would be absolutely like
Kind of like asinine in a way to expect them this coming here to kind of did fall over
They lose the teams in one time that happens that happens to great teams BDS four years ago lost the KCB and London
Absolutely, they couldn't get the job. They came in her dick is written and won the whole tournament like you lose the team
These teams are not bad, but they've done it two tournaments in a row
BDS did it two terms in a row. They lost three matches in a row on land this evening won the first one
This is twice in a row. They have
Showed me twice that they are not a top 18 as a new event it happens
And then you go off the pedigree, am I going off the whole entire three years they've been together or am I going off this blip of three months?
You're using these three months like oh my god, I got 36 months of resume and you're using 33?
No, that's not enough.
Energy's minimum topic, minimum topic.
You know, just probably a lot more.
I'm not gonna let you move NRG.
You can move one team on this list, are you moving?
That's your list, by the way, Gibbs.
Which one are you moving?
I didn't mean for that to happen.
You could move NRG.
You know, I just couldn't move NRG.
I wouldn't want to be hilarious.
move vitality down to be here.
OK, I feel like vitality has been too inconsistent to win
this tournament.
I'm coming to think that there are times when Zen is carrying
maybe a little bit too hard.
So I think vitality I just can't trust them right now
because when they lose games, they get blown out sometimes.
Yes, they take K Corp, like all the way to champs field,
but the four losses they had were by like four goals or more.
So vitality to inconsistent for me.
So I haven't been.
I have multiple times on no cheats over this year
when I've been talking about Vitality just instead of rating Vitality just wrote down Zen and I feel like I'm really just kind of a
value in how good is Zen going to do here. Can he carry that heart?
I hear you that like as a player as an individual as a result. I think it's there, but as a team
I think it's great. I understand like that. Yeah, he has a good tournament, which he has had good tournaments
But he has a good tournament, but it's just it's too inconsistent for you to go this to the S2 team
I can absolutely look this in. I'm very confident on it. So I
Okay, okay. Well, I'm okay. What team were you moving to?
I've looked at this like multiple times and the worst part is everyone's like this tierless is tierless tierless so I've looked at it and just gone
Watch out, I kinda like it!
It's not this!
I think I'm good actually, you're good!
I'm actually pretty happy with this!
You think you're good?
Wait, okay, you want to move anyone?
Yeah, you can move somebody away.
We have a chat, I think we're gonna see how chat feels about it. I think a yay or nay.
We'll see how much they agree with us here.
I think Twisted Minds, I think there's an argument given the group they're in.
They're in to put them into S here just given that they I think they're gonna have an easier road
We were so close
Like I could race and go in the grand finals. I just constantly winning
I could see them winning this tournament, but I think
The way I've been thinking about this tier list is percentage chance of winning the tournament
That's not how a tier list works though
So if you heard the sentence I just said the way I was thinking about this tier list
The way I was thinking about it working is percentage chance.
So in this case, that was part of how the jail is working.
That's what I was thinking about it as.
But I hear where you're coming from, and I'm fine with it.
I'm fine with leaving them in A.
I think this is a, this is a, would I move?
Well, if my time is a bit low, in my opinion.
Okay.
Vitality low?
I would put them in A.
I would put them in A, because I'd be like them next to Space Station Shopify.
I'm not, I'm not ecstatic.
I think those are comparable teams.
I'll tell you they're comparable.
Look.
I'm thinking more.
Yeah.
It's a 3.
This is the 2 to 2 which are 3V3.
This is 3V3.
Alright.
If we were going off waves like, think of this, and you would say, okay, equal chance
of winning this entire tournament.
Are you telling me space station and Shopify got equal chance of winning this is vitality
dude?
Yes, I don't trust vitality.
I don't trust vitality.
Wow.
Where to result in this?
Ney, I don't trust vitality.
The chance doesn't like it.
Well, I guess, you know, like, one eighth of the teams is in S, so all the people that are fans of the other teams are going to vote no.
I mean, like, 30% of what we play, so.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
I think, guys, give ourselves a round of applause.
Yeah, I agree with that.
We nailed it.
We solved rockin'ly.
Unbelievable.
We have solved rockin'ly.
Congratulations.
We have solved 25 streams.
We've done.
Well done, sir.
Well done.
Well done.
Okay.
Well done.
Well done.
Well done.
What a list of a method just watch that be the results. Yeah, watch watch us be that smart folks
We have these groups now having thought about that tier list here
I mean, I do think we can still agree that group is group is group of death group C actually means Care Bear
You know group C that is the group of life
Energy and man city in the same group again for Paris
Which was the group of life then and then they all lost afterwards every single match the rebellions in there
They should probably win that group but energy if they show up and I think that is a big question
They can absolutely make a run. It is the big question
I feel like everybody whenever we're trying to make worlds predictions the question was okay
Do I imagine that it's been a blip the way that Bates was talking about it for energy or do I take the last six months and say?
This is this is representative of where they're at now and then you don't know you can't you really we have to why we're playing the games
We're fine now. How good is energy right now?
You get a lot of hate on Twitter. I think that's all right. That's all right
why we come here to see the questions be finally answered and again like last year I thought energy had no chance to win the world championship
What a story it would be to go back to back finally win it in Dickie's first place
First team sends sends the legendary dignitas
So can we make it happen folks?
We'll see we'll see lots of so many teams that have a chance of wanting to hear if you make it through those groups
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Not only that, for groups, it is head to head tie breaker first.
If there's a three-way tie,
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We're going to be splitting it up amongst placements, but also with accolades and MVPs, finals MVP.
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rewards across the course of the greatest weekend of rocket league we've got a lot ahead of us here
lots of teams in store the players are getting ready we are going to open things up with
fury versus ninjas and pajamas to kick things off and this is going to be a long group we play
in best of fives or best of sevens best of fives okay so we still have time out but still
three wins to get there kind of a more of a sprint than a marathon for now yes and again
group tiebreakers are head to head so normally that's just if you win a match but again if
If there's a three way tie, that means everyone beat each other.
So if you get a 3-0, you're very likely
to win in those tie breakers.
And we saw how important it is to be first in your group.
You get two chances at a top four spot.
If you're not first in your group,
you have to win three in a row to get to top four.
So it's a massive difference.
Super big.
Super.
So much is on the line in this.
There are going to be so many matches, which I'm
excited after the term is over.
And with Dustin Settle to go back and look at like,
what were the most important matches out of the groups?
Because we think about it.
We think, you know, with, with, with vitality and calming cores and the coming core and falcons being in the same group.
Like, oh, that'll be the most important match. There's a chance it won't be a chance.
It comes down to some other part of the group. That's the fun magic of groups.
So we'll begin in the action here shortly. The players are getting ready.
We're making sure that they have a competitive league and tech role environment to digitally compete in this video game.
Underway here just a moment.
You always want to play some yay or nay?
I always love to play some yay.
Let's, let's, let's, let's chat. You guys can play along with us.
Want to put some statements on the board in front of us here.
We're going to decide whether we agree with them or disagree with them and you at home get to vote as well on what you agree with them statement number one here
We pop it up. Oh, yes. I I agree. Yay. Oh yay. Holy energy takes it again. Okay?
Reduction is just baiting us
That is that that is that is the that is the most we need to get 10 minutes
It's like 90% Nate does that move him back down to D. Is that how this works?
Energy versus the field
I mean you could have said I know are you going yay what me on on energy sure man
I said that go I picked the one this time I give him a green three percent chance three percent chance
Space station I would give like a
Eight or five percent less than space station
I basically more likely to win the space station about the team right now. Oh my goodness. I was freaking wall to this note
It was hate right. You don't know what was going on. She's good. I think just based off of the quality of time
I'm associated with him now and I just want to say.
Might be well, might be well.
I'm going to say, here's my thing about the space station
is they have not played in a grand finals of a world
championship before.
They might be the best team in the world.
And then get to that match, which we saw at EWC.
They were playing very, very well.
And in the moment, the lights were really on,
could not live up to the pressure here.
We've seen that for a few times.
Group of staff as well.
So it's going to be a little bit more difficult.
25% of people going and taking energy to go back to back.
I like that.
I like that story a lot, man.
about it. Tommik's gonna have to be back in Dickey's ring to get a gift for the third time.
They're calling it the third time to Tron. Maybe that's what you need some time.
I do kind of like though about this something like this feels like it's something that we've got where it's sort of
We could be crowning a new best of all time. And there's a lot of people that we're sort of naming towards it
You've got Tommik, you've got Batty. He's sort of up there as well.
We're just missing that one.
Maybe the greatest team of all time. If we're going off of storylines, I'd say top two best stories here is
and Dickie's getting redemption for the loss to BDS, to a loss to 2024.
Yes, technically two losses of BDS in 2022 and 2024.
That would be amazing.
For me personally, number one story, Karmicore Vitality and the Grand Finals with Karmicore.
That would be good.
That would be good.
The champion has to lead that championship as well.
That would be, it was, yeah, I want that World Championship for Vati.
I want, and then that kicks off the super team.
The age of Zen continues with the super team Korman afterwards.
And then we have the super villain,
then some other reaching can come and knock them down.
That's what I want.
Let's take a look here at the next year in a SSG,
Avengers Falcons.
So that's not gonna happen today.
Like they give revenge?
Yes, Avengers is nice and correct word there,
but that's okay.
Yeah.
Do they get the run back?
Do they get the salty run back on Falcons
after getting embarrassed in that great one?
I feel like Falcons have a little bit of an advantage
playing in the playing.
How much of that's match one?
Do they play each other?
Because it is a play game.
match of the game. I feel like Falcons have quite a bit of an edge, not only because they're the
better team, but they also got two warm-up games from yesterday on these PCs. I'm going to say,
Ney, on this one, I'm going to also say Falcons have started slowly. Every series they've played
in so far and Space Station will not do that. So, and it's best of five. Yeah, best of five,
lowest stakes. I think Space Station got a much better chance of winning this one than they
did over at PWCS. I'm saying Ney, but it's not the most confident Ney I've ever had. And this
This is the first time in a while where like Zach could be the best player in North America right now
He's played phenomenally like in split-two. He retired for split comes back and obviously he might be the best player
Now who's are you going? Yeah, you're gonna name. I'm gonna name, but I think there is a chance, but
I'm going to this is this is spoilers for predictions
I'll spoil my prediction never know why I might go to a clock later. That's true. Okay, folks
Well, thank you so much for playing along with us, folks.
We are moments away from kickoff of day two of the World Championship.
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Yeah, I've already seen tweets.
people are saying that they're going to sit next to the new people and they're going to
be the best buddies.
They're going to become best buddies for the next nine hours.
I like that.
I love that.
I want some more of that.
It would be fantastic to see it there.
Folks, we've got two broadcasts here.
Twitch.tv.
So much RLE Sports is live with the B Stream full schedule over there.
So we're going to be cranking through these groups over the next few days.
They're going to kick things off with Twisted Minds versus Foot E-Sports.
It's a fantastic match.
You're going to have to make sure you have that one locked in.
Over here on the mainstream, we have our 1v1 semi-final.
finals at the end of the day,
Shogun. That's going so so good.
KB won his Napa. I think everyone
like the biggest surprise to come
from that but also by very big
underdog the reigning one V one
world champion and then to end
the day Diaz representing North
America over on Space Station
Gaming Space Station that gaming
had a fantastic time both in
the twos and the ones events.
Now he's up against NASA who
unbelievable show. I can't wait to see what the result of Diaz NASA's gonna be.
Diaz for the 1v1's and then Zack can reveal for the 2v2 space station
arguably the best chances of any organization an A or an S level team actually not that we
know about. Pretty high tier team there. They got a lot on their shoulders though.
A lot of different competitions they're playing there. You'll see they're
playing Falcons a little bit later on today. But to kick things off let's get
the ninjas back on the stage.
Let's see Furia here representing South America
for the first time in history with Furia in the region.
They are not the number one seed out of South America
having been fully dethroned here.
And yet they've won more online regionals
than their competitors.
This is when they lost and they lost harder.
So here, trying to take that number one Sam spot back
and going up against a recently rally
ninjas of the Giants.
And Furia we know when they're on land
They are a threat.
They usually pull off an upset somewhere along the way.
They beat energy earlier of this year.
But Ninjas and Majamas, red hot team coming out of EWC,
making that top four finish.
Jan Lost and Swift going to have their hands full here
with CRR Oli.
And Yori is so much better in experience
at the World Championship on both these rocks.
Exactly. Coming off of EWC as well.
NIP looking really good.
CRR, I mean, a real contender to come back here.
He's elevated to win only in
yours on the squad.
It's truly sensational.
Looking forward to watching him play.
Question is like we know what
Jarrus can do over his alley.
It seems to be like that's
played plays out here best.
Oh, and Paris.
I'm Paris. Yes, absolutely.
It was basically WC will go with
the EWC.
Thank you very much for that
pickup, but I also want to
really put out yet.
Yeah, four years ago since he
entered this arena and made it
to a semifinal taking down
moist e-sports and he is
still here playing at that
top level. You know, drop that one seat. Yeah. I think a lot of people will take that across
four years in a very competitive environment, especially with like the way that South America
has been in a couple of teams, swapping over to North America realizing it didn't really
like that. Gonna go back to South America after that fact. So I mean, well, well played
for him, but care about that. He wants more than semi finals. Well, the players
are here. The players are ready. It's time to kick off the day two of the World
championship. Oh over here with ninjas of pajamas before their match here with
LBP you know I was just chatting you before seeing on a Bible it seems like
energy-wise you guys are doing well but I want to talk about I guess the history
leading up to this looking back at Paris results EWC seemed a lot better yeah
you feel like a lot of the work's been done given that result or was there a
lot coming into that I think we can be happy and proud of the result but I
think I speak for the boys that the result isn't done fully like EWC WC
this is worlds. Completely different event, completely different mindset going into it.
And yeah, that's the event sort of we have to carry through towards.
Nice, that's cool. Yeah. I mean, again, it's a little nerve-wracking, I guess, for teams playing their
first times, especially playing yesterday. I saw that from a lot of teams. How are you guys,
you know, how are the players feeling, I guess, you know, a lot of experience from them playing
in these kind of environments? Do you still see it creeping a little bit on these guys when
it's that first day of playing? I mean, for today, it's always going to be a bit of a warm-up
as we ease into the tournament. Obviously, we're kicking off the series, kicking off the day,
But ultimately confidence is key and that's the key director we have to pull through.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, just as we go through the roster here, I mean, is there anybody that was standing out recently that you're like, okay,
they've got something new to show us here, or has it been just kind of working on their basis?
Yeah, I mean, for sure. I think Sarah, I definitely stepped up. Like, these moments, you know, we say it was crazy.
Like, I can feel the energy, I can feel the confidence, I can feel the identity being born for him, and I think that's exciting.
I mean, it's easy to build confidence with you, Bonham.
I'd be confident, too.
That's only good to do, yeah?
The squads feel like a good five, especially with you back there.
So I'm guessing you guys are ready to have fun
or are you going to be serious game for us today?
Ready to rumble, but we're also going to enjoy it.
That sounds really good.
I'm going to get back to the squad.
Thank you, brother.
That match up here.
As I go, check out their opponents' side.
And Bruno is joining me now.
Hey, what's up, man?
You feeling good?
Yeah, good, good.
Curious about the squad here, you know, throughout the season.
I was just talking to LBP about their history for you guys,
maybe not been same thing, expectations, maybe a little bit.
You've been hitting below your expectations.
But you guys have stuck it out.
The squad has stayed the same.
Why is that?
What maybe has been so strong about this roster
that you guys keep sticking it out?
We know we are the best team that can be formed in South America
For us, these two players, they are awesome, I can say nothing about their mechanical skill, they just play perfect.
The only problem that we lacked this season was a little bit of inconsistency.
And this showed that we have the struggle moments, the good moments.
We are a team that had some good fighters, good teams.
But at the same time, we lost to some, like, for me, lower teams.
And then we worked a lot on that, on, like, I have the will to play every game, like, the last one.
And, like, show the passion inside and outside the game.
And that's what we've been working on, and, yeah, I hope we do well.
I'm not gonna lie. I mean, when you say passion, this is a team that definitely comes to the forefront of my mind.
passion at Tenkuria, right? So it's really cool that you guys have stuck it out. You feel like
this is strong and you guys all believe in what this team can do. For you, I guess the work going
into it, do you feel like they're there now? This is it? Or is Group Stage going to be a little
bit more of that tinkering to get to where you need to be in playoffs? For me, as I said,
this consistency. We have to show our game and show our passion in every game as it is
the last one. And that's it to make sure the playoffs. Well, I hope the consistency
starts right now in your matchup. Bruno, good luck. I'm going to let you go and hopefully
it's a fun match. Thank you. You heard Bruno say it there. The team has had everything they've
need. There's just a bit of inconsistency over the course of the season and I mean gives
that that is the thing that differentiates the good team from the great teams in Rockland.
Yeah, but he's also said these are the three best players in our region and they built
this roster over years. They acquired lost then they got switched to join Yan and
Now they're ready. They got top eight.
They kind of broke that curse back in Paris.
They even wore up two overs to twist the minds in that match
and then fell a bit short.
So they know that they can compete
versus the very best in the game.
It's just about doing it every single time.
I want to put on the other side as well.
Just how relaxed the other guy looks now.
He looks a little comfortable coming in here.
Obviously, LBP also selling into his shoes
over as the coach on that side.
I do love this OCE coach thing, by the way.
Hit and Jim are both doing the exact same thing.
Always fucking the shirts.
It's like always I see coaches have got to do that as they're trying to get the team talking whilst the players on the other side
Now it's as well over on the beach. Yeah, the B stream match has put gun
Just going off of the yells we've heard so far. I believe it's one to one in game number one
doing twisted minds and foot these sports, but we'll let you well
We'll keep you guys up there and honestly you just have a
Picture-in-picture these posts. Let us know you think's gonna win in the progressive fan vote shogun. We got a
I got a stick with the Europeans on this one. I just they are a little bit
Inconsistent on the side of fury. I think that if we're going from form as a play and IP are the better team
I'm going and IP
So you are you used to playing Sam as well and I was having a lot back then I really love how he plays and it looks like
He's elevated his game to that next level. So I'm gonna go with ninjas and pajamas as well
I think an IP is just been a more consistent team
I think and starting off the tournament and I just a base level low 50s clean gold
No mistakes. Go be minimal nip's gonna take over fear. I mean it is fine even even without their EWC performance
I think ninjas would be the favorite in this matchup
So fury up internationally has struggled to find the wins
They will find one here and there but not consistent up for me to feel like I can predict them here
I'm gonna go with ninjas and pajamas on this one
How does the coin feel about it?
Ninja pajamas on one side fury on the other and into the sky for fury on the coin here
We'll see if they got the coin up. I got the goodies
Congratulations, Koen.
Koen's on the win streak.
Sit there, Koen.
And these two teams have not played yet.
Neither of these teams in the play-in.
This is like the two and three seed out of their group.
So a very important match.
See how it ends up.
Interesting fact to do while the players are getting ready here.
2023 seems to be the year the majority of players
who didn't play in last year's world championship.
Their last world was 2023, not 24 for some reason.
CRR in this competition is the last one was in 2023.
Ole and Yoris on Ninja Pajamas played, uh, what?
Is that kind of wildcard?
Uh, yes, I think it does. It does got wildcard.
Uh, the, uh, 2025 last year, Ole and Yoris did play here.
Fun fact, Ole eliminated Yoris.
That was GK on Dignitas, but now here at the Artub, working together.
That world championship.
Folks, Ninja Pajamas is the favorite on the desk,
so the favorites in chat will debut the favorites on the field.
The kickoff day two of the Rocket League World Championship.
We've got two fantastic storied organizations clashing it against South America trying to regain their titles ninja pajamas trying to show that you
See wasn't a fluke get up and get loud. It's game day
Nick juzip pajamas versus furious kickoff the group stage here at the world championship gas and stacks here
Stacks game one brought you by progressive between two teams
looking to get a quick start here at Worlds.
And two organizations who have become very
familiar with each other with, of course,
very different rosters, ninjas, and pajamas.
Previously, once upon a time, a South American team.
And now they are the Europe 4C, up against Furia,
who comes in as Sam number two,
a team that's name is synonymous
with the South American region,
but they are second fiddle to Made in Brazil.
Trying to make a big statement to start off group play.
Yeah, already has a lot of quick offense here.
Furia looking for the first right.
Swing can't get around it!
He just announced first goal goes to Furia.
Well, it's so important for Furia to get off to a quick start.
They have not had particularly great lands as of late.
But for this Furia squad, they get the ball rolling.
It becomes a giant snowball very quickly.
Lots of pressure here on the world stage and you want to be able to get off to a quick start, great drop down and loss.
Looking to follow it up but just couldn't get around it. Nice little touch up as he plays that into the corner and more pressure for Furia early.
Want to see what Nick just looked like on offense.
That one I don't even think registered for the first shot. Gory is playing to high. Holy, again just gets barely beat out.
So keep it a possession, but not get able to get anything second.
Ken, NIP, outpace, Buria.
There's a lot of teams that just on raw skill actually can.
Ken with flip reset brings that to ground.
Have Dory just kind of dancing in the goal,
and it's Ole who comes in to bail out Nip.
And now it's CRR.
Pick this spot, blocked away by Swift,
rebounds it out as well.
You can only get that to the backboard.
No further follow up and Burio, weather and early score.
Good pressure from NIP, but Burio doing a good job.
Not getting too caught up, not over-committed,
even on defense, so looking at physicality,
he ain't lost both command and swift.
Able to just get back in time,
close here and get past to overshot.
Or target, but lost, able to get a save against.
His eyes won't lost as today continues on.
He was the best performing player in Paris all over the field.
Ninjas and Pajamas had plenty of good opportunities,
but they're going to be down 2-0 as Swift watches on two defenders.
Look at the patience. Swift took a shot.
Jory has had to watch out for the initial shot.
Then when they realized it was a fake, everybody can it,
but Swift played the 50 perfectly to just multiple pass two.
Swift out to a fantastic start. Hard to be any better. Two goals in the first two minutes plus.
CRR all the way across to Oli. Soft cuts to try and keep possession. Swift is all over that.
Dory has had to avoid contact and therefore can't really get a also good center ball
And this is going right into an open net as Furia running rampant all over NIP.
There's just control in the game, CR gets demoed, no one back.
This is something that we've seen from NIP.
We saw it a little bit in EWC. Sometimes it could be a bit too aggressive.
You have a lot of time in the game.
Halfway through is a two-goal deficit.
And sometimes they just get caught too far forward.
Furia lost especially on that play, recognizing the space.
That was a great win.
They come in looking like Kevin favorites based on this first few minutes.
Three minutes is not a full series bank, but it is a shorter series here in the group stage.
All the best of five and a four-nil lead now with Pump and Fred and Yan makes it four.
They are taking over Swift, especially nice touch.
He was floating in the air, still was able to control his car and get the bump on CRR.
He was already in a low boost position.
Wow, this is a level of control you want to see out a period to start this tournament their tournament off
We'll see if they can continue so plenty of time left to gain
I got a little nervous
It's still 4-0
We're in front and only can only just sky it up to the back for the
The opportunities have presented themselves from into the pajamas. None's better than about 90 seconds into this game
And then they still did not score. They didn't have one last follow-up to get by the defense of Furia and from that moment on
Furia has completely dominated this opening game final 90 now of game one
This one headed to an open and now it passes off the post and Yan will track it through
Five unanswered goals to start the series for Furia
Wow, so all the way downfield all he could have read the best of the post
And again, had enough time to we look back at furious past land performances, again, their
best one was a top eight in the Paris Major.
Laws had their best goals per game, saves per game.
He had 81% participation, which was the most of the tournament.
And then he had a 22 shot percentage, which was the highest on the team.
Fury had looked like they're playing much better than that to start this series off.
The question is, is it the same as the coach mentioned in the interview before the game? Can they keep the consistency?
Judging from this performance,
Fury had looked like they're in world championship form to say the least. Yeah, gets around one.
Looking to get around all of this. Bring that down to ground. You don't have to do anything anyways. This game is
is pretty well in the bag for the South American squad
who have made an emphatic statement
here in the opening game of group play.
Of course, two other teams in the group foot
and twisted minds playing over on the old stream.
Very entertaining series happening over there.
And these two teams hoping to at least
match that level, but right now
it is a pure highlight reel.
Only finally got one down
and they take advantage of an understandable lapse
various defense for the five goal lead. Yeah it's still important those for
NIP to get one on the board. C1 go in. As this game trickles trickles down.
They won't have of course a no position to bring this game back so you do need
to start thinking future facing against this very mental game. You know what NIP
is capable of when they're armed. So recently at these sports world cup this
is not the start they're looking for at all. It has just been the furious
show. Great offense, great defense, not allow it that one even. As time takes down and for Furia
two more games away from having a great start here to the group stage.
Utterly dominant. There's really no other way to describe what we saw out of Furia in game one.
You can't start a world championship any better than what we've seen out of
Swift. Two goals, two assists to lead the way for the furious South America.
And now for Ninjas and Pajamas, how do you answer that?
Well, you gotta just remember it's five minutes.
It is.
Five minutes on the clock.
And you come out stronger than you did in that last game because, I mean, to be fair,
that's not a hard feat to do.
We gave them a lot of space. We gave them a lot of the midfield
You just kind of overcommitted when you didn't need to it just felt very sloppy out of the start
I think NIP all know that and when they get ready to go into that next game
It's just coming out in their own form because snacks
It just didn't feel like they were settled in at the last stage
They weren't settled in at all
But the good news is as you mentioned clean slate for game two you start with another fresh five minutes and
And for ninjas and pajamas again, it is a shorter series
So you don't get as many of those mental resets as you would if you were out there on the stage playing the best of seven
Now we go to forbidden temple for game two. Well, things turn around for NIP
Well, both teams do have their timeouts. That is true. There is a chance, you know, they really need to take one
they can
Coach LDP decides not this game
And that is a very good sign, I would say, from NIP.
Because there at least means that they understand what they've got to do.
But that is not what you want to see, Jorius.
Just get back in time.
Can you hold it? Is that one? It can!
Pitch is straight to only at NIP. Strike first.
Oh, this couldn't work out any better.
For Ninja Zip Pajamas, what a 50 by CRR with only already downfield.
You can't even say that's bad defense out of period.
How do you expect only to be there?
That's the biggest thing right? I mean for an IP, Oli is going to be the one to look at as he just gets up one way off the ground.
Okay. I'm cheating. They're not. I mean, also about to do his garage floor. Perfect time for the shot though.
It's great. I mean, listen, you can always get the ball first off the cheat, but it's about where you place it.
And that was a well-placed shot.
Well, after all that, yep, what a great start for Ninjas of Pajamas and it's gone.
Yep, no work to do.
Well, they tried to chase down the end there and still could not catch up to him.
Apparently, literal fastest player in the world.
Yeah, but, you know, one of the things, you look at when you see Yan go for a ball like that,
you almost expect him to get a flip reset there.
He was low boost but he still, that's just the caliber of player he is.
Even now, just seeing them in the air, you're wondering,
can you catch up to these two to make something happen?
They're not these very smart, but making sure Yen does not
have time for the ball, because they know how well
he's controlling it.
Shogun touched on it on the desk.
The career longevity of Yen still being
at the top of this game even four years
after making such an impactful performance
in this very building.
Chestnut has not lost a step as Yan now taking to the skies again trying to drop one down.
It was expertly done. It's Yan sending the table. Lost finishing.
That's a game you'd want to keep that Yan off the ball because look at what he can do.
Flip, preset, pass. Only try to put a hand if he was just too slow. He already gave
him enough space, perfect pass to loss. And like I said, loss is such a valuable
striker for this period of being he gets another one.
I understand everything you say about a mental reset and it starts in LL and you get a clean slate.
Well, game two as Torius is right there.
It's gonna wear on this team eventually though getting outsmarted by so much.
This is huge though for Nidz and the Pyjamas of another wild 50 in the demo for Molly.
It really does come to the demo for Molly to be able to open up the space
and get what you're trying to say stacks.
And Nidz and the Pyjamas, this game feels like they're holding on by intensive their fingers.
They need a more grasp of the situation because they're given a lot of space to fury it, but right now they're still holding on and still a tie game if you go either way.
Oh great setup by Jorias, but CRR shot might have been a fucking lie.
Now Holy will take to the skies, he's got Jorias over there but lost is up way early to contest that ball and now Jorias right at Swib.
Another 50 that goes out towards Holy, this time he's not going to jump for it and lost will just gather this to the corner.
There's a demo that relieves all the pressure that was incoming on him and
Yeah, and just a little too slow to that passing in field now. It's a little dangerous for ninjas and pajamas
They have to depend up in the skies as there comes lots back down the ground one, but that's true
Yeah, it was a little awkward. He says get around for the pump
Then just keep it with control of the ball
You can see it now they're fighting for it if your passes towards each other trying to force period
to just get big bang so they can get rid of possession
and then after you can play it close,
play it 50 and play pass one.
And, definitely, got a stronger football
that's the most you've ever come out from only,
but not enough to set up a score and change.
Statistically, not a great season
for any player in particular from Furia,
especially on Leanna,
as that's going to find its way into the net.
Everybody just very awkward in front of the Furia net.
lost especially not lost he did get a real that play at all he expected the
50 to go completely different and you get to all things to see our art the way
he controlled his car put his nose down and allowed the ball to pinch and it
just threw us all the way off that's not what you really want to give up
now it's very plain to behind here as Jory is just went off the backboard
and CR is too far forward.
Oh, he doesn't have boost either.
CR has to definitely die.
This is not a good situation for NID.
Lost place to pass one.
CR finally will suppose to eliminate the danger,
and maybe they can counter?
No, Swift stops.
I got players all over on either side
that are more than capable of contributing
to a Highlight Rail in particular Jorias.
Haven't quite seen it yet.
Does have a goal here in this game.
Now Swift, turning on one, nothing behind that shot at all.
Here goes CRR.
Jory is due his right-hand support.
There is Jory's big-to-spot, set away by loss.
A lot more pressure here.
Here he is desperately trying to get control of this ball.
In, trying to put one on.
In!
He got it!
And we're tied!
Just completely out of position.
where Ninjas and Pajamas, they're all over on one side of the field.
Nobody thought to guard the back door as Yan, from the sidewall, gets Furia right back in it.
Now lost, trying to go through CRR, Swift will take charge.
Final minute of regularity, Swift knocked down and with a save on the goal line.
Lost follow, couldn't connect the end, no boost, only pitch down field,
and Thorny's going to win this, Thorny's down, flip, we want to stop there.
Jory is one up early for that, not enough, we're still tied, both teams fight for the ball,
fight for this game. Oh, we're going to see another one out of NIP.
They don't add to any kind of highlight of real Jesse yet, now it's only through the corner.
He stops the end, carries that CRR to trigger the counter-attack, not much quite in that
attack, but he just goes through the crossbar, goes in and out, and in, and in, and in, and
in, and in, and home!
Man, waiting to feel how a number of trucks here have lost to get the pitch out of the
get NIP too far forward and get punished for it.
Now, one goal lead, 12 seconds left.
You just have to watch the kickoff.
NIP, maybe they can make something happen here.
I'll take one time out with a side of Ryze, please.
While NIP is trying to figure out
how to stop giving up open nets to Furia,
Gioria is knocked out of the air.
Emphatic, cleared by Lost.
Yeah, no branch of ground,
but there's still a second left for Oli.
Who's got to try and trigger this from his own back line?
Might have fought Buria as C.O.R. has that fall wayward.
Nourius can't keep it in the air.
It's always at midfield.
That'll do it!
As Buria hang on, they get a couple of gifts from Ninjas
and are one win away from a sweep to kick it off.
Ha ha ha ha!
At that last few seconds,
Fear gave the bar an IP twice.
and then with the ball, he thought it was zero second.
I think that's all for this controller down here in this book.
And then he's realized that only stood at the ball and
the pick up his controller quickly all else caused the man.
Wow, the area, the way that they've been able to out pressure.
And I think the trouble is based.
They've shown up here at the World Championship.
An idea of getting better as we're getting more settled,
but just go fighting for these games to the nail,
and we're staying a little bit on the same stage
over and over again.
Look at how often there was anybody anywhere
in the same zip zone as the net when Furious scores.
Not as often as you would like, as Ninjas and Pajamas
will take their time out.
And, I mean, a major focus out of this time out
has to be getting their rotations kind of reset,
getting back on the same page defensively
because there's a breakdown somewhere, Daz,
where there's an expectation that somebody's gonna be home
or somebody's gonna be rotating back,
somebody else is just getting a little too antsy
and moving a little too far forward
and almost like kind of like ball hawking,
just a little bit,
kind of getting a little too close,
drawn into where the play is happening,
not where the play is going.
Yeah, I mean, and then for ninjas, this is such an important series for them first one of the day, of course, but what really you look at their group twisted minds and foot are also in that match up and they're currently in a game, they're going to game four, I believe for NIP.
I don't think the competition really gets easier. It's going to be kind of like around that same pace, if not harder, depending on who their matchup is.
They can't I just don't think they can afford to lose this series. Otherwise, it spells trouble for them in their group
Remember earlier in the year we saw twisted minds in a group and we thought all right
They're gonna be fine in that particular group. I believe it was Boston. They showed up and played no defense
You can't rely on that to happen here at the world championship
This is a matchup both teams are gonna be looking back and go it's an opportunity that we look by the way side
If they don't come away with a big win lost five seconds after the timeout by NIP has another kickoff goal
I mean just a great kickoff gets you right off the back wall defense can't get there time trying to read it
Wow what a start there lost with the first one
One loss has been incredible this series as he's needed to be for Furious to succeed.
But everybody here for Furious has been stepping up here like you said,
Stash their world sport.
With oldest ground, but it's only who comes away with that over one.
But not through yet.
Final boss at the back.
Garius left it for one.
It's only CRR scrambling back yet.
Nothing in the tank initially, but is able to catch up and
bring this all the way across.
That buys the teammates time to get back
with a one goal deficit,
but facing even more pressure
out of the South Americans from Korea.
And I see, looking for some adjustments off the time now.
So far, not being able to control the ball,
but just to get, kind of pick up that space,
not leaving the opportunity to get it blown through.
Lost again, but swept with a great setup.
Look at this, Haces' time was so comfortable.
One, two, two, no, no, it's an open day.
What's the vision there?
You kick the ball out, there's nobody there.
We even had a play on it to go after it.
Was he gonna go himself?
If he didn't get demoed, two demos later,
Gary is back in their nap.
Oh, and more demos to start off.
Lawson has a lot of time here.
Dory is trying to take away that time.
What a free jump.
But even then, they get this back to NIP, back out.
It just feels like we're waiting to see something from NIP.
Dory put a double flick reset still.
Just not enough loss.
They were going to stop there.
You're going to need more than that here at this stage.
Seeing good passes across.
Out of ninjas and pajamas, they're
not resulting in any quality shots.
They've had a lot of shots that have just
had no base behind them.
And the deep interferia easily able to catch up.
Dory's will try here.
That's easily blocked away by Swift.
Then he gets the bump there.
Can't get the ball through the next best thing.
Stop the follow through.
Yeah, this offense right now from Heddapeach is so flat.
It feels like it's my turn offense.
Like, we're all jumbled at our opponent's top half.
And we can't get a shot through.
There's no passing.
It just feels like they're trying to pull the defense out
and see what they can work with.
But here it is, because they still
said the communication was fine.
and it's really made the NIP's offense look slow.
I get a disagree with you slightly.
It almost looks like your turn offense.
They take a shot and go, all right, your turn.
Here's Yan.
Oh, great recovery by Ole to get back
and keep this just a two-goal deficit.
Now lost.
Try to delay NIP leaving the zone.
He's done well enough.
That goes over CRR.
Gory has all he could do is 50.
Here's lost.
tried to keep it close but it pounced away too far.
There he is, flicker of a one.
Need to score with some time.
He ain't bringing us to the side wall,
hit straight down.
Here's Oli, looking for the bump, all the sweat.
Wow, got around it so easily.
There with a high ball,
you are in a little trouble
but it's maintaining control.
The NIP is controlling the ball a lot better
as they try to move up the edge.
Only nothing doing there as Lost will have it,
which without a lot of the tag doesn't matter.
He'll still rip one down field,
and that's powered off the backboard,
but only as far as Lost, right at the backline.
Nobody else can get onto it.
More NIP.
Only can only slow them down.
Got this ball across, though.
CRR has Joryus.
Two is left.
Paul is on number, and Lost is there right at the last
right at the last to make yet another save opportunities abound for ninjas and
pajamas but they have not been able to capitalize thanks to the incredible
defense from urea as another safe comes up from loss it does feel like they're
starting to park the bus here a little bit they want to pull an idea out hit
them with a counter maybe a chance here no sir i doesn't have a lot of boost
but she needs to play the 50 jorges though in a good position for the 50 and
The offense will kind of fall apart final minute.
Furia, happy to play the clock here.
NIB needs something they don't have a lot of time.
That's a bold play by Ole taking a little extra feet
to try and wait out the Furia.
Kind of attacked.
Now CR, good ball in front, but Ole can't get to it in time.
The defense from Furia too good again.
Now Jory is asked to stay on this one.
But it's deflected away by Swift.
And Yan sends it out even further,
Swift open that midfield boost response form.
It didn't, so he'll take some low net IPs.
And now down to 22 seconds.
Yan looking for the knockout blow.
Back forward, and CR can only do very little with it.
Yeah, I thought that Yan might have had a good shot
when I saw Yan take Swift's corner boost.
But they got out of it, and there's 4-4.
male in the pocket and they're standing up light in the period.
Furia, it's just in total control over the person in series against NIE and man.
We waited so long for this.
Furia, Dominic.
When all is said and done, it'll be upwards of a 12 to four score line.
Furia have laid down the cartlet in Group B.
go ahead match this what a statement from the recently unceded Kings of South America.
The aerial start this one off with a sweep and my goodness like you said Stax it is a statement
that we will follow for you for the rest of the tournament. What a performance they went up
up the scoreboard game one. NIP gave their best chance at a counter punch and still could
not stop Furia. Their striking was efficient. Their communication was great. They moved along
the field sharing the ball and they also got physical as well. Lots of demos to open up the net.
This was a mix of Furia setting the tone but also NIP had a lot of concerns. I mean you talk
about not be not looking comfortable on the ball and then even off the ball with
their positioning. Lots of clean up for them. They look better in game three
defensively the biggest problem that came from game three was first of all
the kickoff ball. You're already started behind the eight ball with your back against the wall
five seconds in but also the offense just looked completely empty. It was
just completely uninspired from them. They could not hit anything going and
and say as much as you want about how that may reflect on ninjas and pajamas
Furia afforded them no quarter whatsoever
Yeah now furia away
the
Shortest series so far out of this group b of course twisted minds and foot still playing
And they'll end up having to find out that result. Wait what furia with a sweep
How many goes this word that many? Oh, yeah, that's gonna put everyone on notice
They scored 13 goals in that series.
You didn't say what you wanted about the last goal,
just kind of being in garbage time.
Well, NIP had set their controllers down.
It was an impressive offensive showing.
Outscoring Ninjas and Pajamas, 13 to 4.
Yan drops in six of his own.
Four more from Lost.
And another three from Swift.
That is wild.
Here we are, in a sweep!
An incredible start for Fudia, and I began with me.
Wow, I mean, that was fast.
Were you guys expecting maybe a little bit longer
of a series to go to Game 5, because that was quick?
This was really quick.
Did you expect it to be harder to play against NiP
or did you expect it to be like a 5-game?
Dude, honestly, I think I expected that
because we know our potential.
We know the way we are training
as we were seeing on the screens, so it was nothing new for us because we knew the potential, so I wanted to do it.
and I saw it at the end there.
Is that, again, just a Brazilian thing?
Do you guys, uh, I saw yelling at them?
Was that them specifically, or is that any team
that's across from you?
to be independent of the team, to do more with the space flow.
That's our team. We function that way.
It was not for them, more for us than for them.
And we know that we have a dream to win this competition.
We have to have a passion and show it to everybody
and show to ourselves that to go there and win everything.
Well, it shows. And you guys had a great start.
So again, congratulations on that first win.
Lots more to go, though.
And as per usual, lots more to go here at the World Championships as we start our
groups and we're going to our next match in just a bit.
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something like I have for Texan 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.
But I totally believe in your life
is meaningless in that affirmation, am I right?
Got it.
I
No, Ken, help you grow.
Milk can't stop your monster's dream of being a nail tech.
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I read that.
See who can be very difficult to score on when they get into their rotations, and they're into it.
This is far from a chaotic situation to establish
burst on multiple players.
Now they can just get behind the ball and avoid double committing, challenge for each other,
She takes it the whole way, that's what we want to see from them, just control it and defense it.
They can waste time, you know if the Subites are going to get frustrated.
Start really trying to force it, and if the knob wasn't already broken,
I'll twist the mic mic and rip it off to try to get their first goal.
Go back to the corner, Justin, make sure he gets his own boosts.
It's really happy to just move the young down the field, but you get free rebound, CRK diving, avoiding a bump as well.
Gets a demo, but it's chronic, it's going to get it off the ceiling.
With 22 boost, he missed the 3-set.
He's not just to get bumped, it should give a little bit of space for one keeper and a demo downfield.
That should be easy.
Oh, yeah.
On against the run of play as well.
Twisted mites.
Several times looked like there might be a bunch of Casita 3rds.
But CRK's upfield down will get them back into the game.
Monkey Moon double taps on the open net.
Two minutes to go, but have already lost to Tugoli.
Once this series has to log in here,
they've had a few mistakes at critical moments
that have immediately costed them goals
in earlier games of series, but can they produce the goods
when the pressure reaches the climax?
Chronic next up on this challenge, Justin uses the ceiling.
Extra touch for Justin, keeps thrilling it.
With the last defender keeps it locked in
and TRK wins a huge touch.
Forcing foot back into their own territory.
Chronic gets a clean touch, cheese pre-flip,
but nobody can go for that.
Well, a nice strip on Chronic.
Justin has to be careful here.
He will try to control this, and he does.
That's a huge 15.
In the back corner from Justin, catches the ball,
and he knew that there were the impulsive might
player on him immediately. So he had to get go side. Swung truck down to the corner.
Twisted will collect on it. Well, he tried to fish it, but could not
reel it in. Here's another one. What a match. Twisted might come back again.
What a dodge shot on the takeoff there. As he sets up the double attack,
Munchenon just for straightening the goalies a little bit. Distracted him.
Well, the double comes in, another tie game.
Twist defines the foot.
Slugging an iron rung one at the group stage.
Well, the kickoff, chronic Boston.
Couldn't bump Monkey Boon, just in weak shot.
Oh, three go for that, all twisted.
But there's no threat coming, no hard done.
As Nupo, high off the ceiling, TRK, flying tight.
Monkey Boon's right there as well.
And now, foot, all of a sudden, on their back.
Oh, TRK, that would have been a sick play.
They almost get caught monkey moon diving back and this is play downfield a lot of demos TRK getting cheese as well
This is a pie another free touch
Yeah, just a bite to try to outpace them we wonder that this would be their play style it is they're sticking to us with market for them all season
But foot are providing more resistance than they did in previous events and other double commit
They're fighting to double the triple commits.
They're coming in for just a bite to defense.
Whatever works, sending.
Justin sends it back to the blue half.
Maybe another overtime woman.
At the end of regulation, Krona can't play ball.
Cheese will try to force TRK.
He gets bumped.
Justin's out there.
Justin with the save, overtime.
Another overtime, Fertinand but with the last one.
They've won two games in a row.
They're calling you.
Justin to the backboard.
TRK cuts off the play.
TRK saving the series.
Justin.
Tuck ball to handle off the post.
Fucking Moose there!
But they can keep on getting the save!
There's another one!
But the Moose steals a company for twisted minds.
This one's a little longer and they get a bump.
And Justin will keep them alive for a little bit longer.
New Boat wins another touch.
Cheese just trying to get a little bit of space,
a little bit of time.
Justin actually prevents this and gets the clear downfield
field after all that came on!
Chronic with another 50!
Oh boy!
Thanks to Secrets by Foot, they were really on their own there, but they survived.
Here comes with Semites again.
Bukimut all on the ball, pressured off of it.
So Semites can't get through the foot wall of defense.
But can they keep the pressure off without overextending?
No but double commit, but Bukimut might just be in position afterwards.
Chronic has a lot of space on the right side.
It's through a monkey move, gets the midfield boost, gets the 50s, but it looks like it's TRKs to play with.
Must have feather his boost back over a new bottle out.
It's just coming down!
The games continue, folks. That's happening over on the alternate stream.
If there's a way we can watch that game up here and see the end of the game,
But we got him up here in front of us. We're gonna know who wins in a moment, but my goodness the action
Continued and this is the game five overtime between twisted minds and foot not the only surprising thing that has happened here
The beginning of day two as fury it comes out and sweeps for opening the game's intention pajamas. Let me go my goodness
I'm just looking at the players right now.
Look at the players, I'm here with them.
I'm here with my matches.
That's one of the streamers.
Let's go, let's go.
There we go, that's better.
Yeah, we talked a lot about Group A being that group of death,
but Group B, all four teams can definitely make it out.
So before they start...
Oh!
Big save.
I love that Gibbs is trying to give us like, group information.
Ah!
What's going on?
What's going on?
What's going on?
Look at all the man in the corner!
Chronic.
Okay, okay.
Uh-oh, ooh.
Oh dear. Oh dear.
It's puts on the back foot, then you can get some boost.
You got some boost for Justin there.
Oh, I'm boosting up all the time, it feels like.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't have to run for the part.
Oh hey, Chuggy, come.
Monkey Moon again, that was a great challenge.
Oh my god, the Rattata!
Oh!
First happens again in Paris lost against two high-quality teams three two three two here again
Don't be a twist of mind one of the favorites to win this tournament, and they lose three two now
We can do it that segment
Five two oh, they're up to oh, I'm not going I said the game was over
You oh my goodness he did he was in the green room. He said the game was over
They're like why would you curse it like that?
Oh, no, but fans and chat, you know, you know who to blame right now. My goodness.
I mean, so we will obviously that one was fantastic.
If you want to hear more coverage of that match, go over and watch the alternate stream
which is these are all eSports.
Let's talk about fury of though, coming out of the gate swinging by oh in game number one.
I mean, at this point, I just have to expect them to do something upset somebody every single land
and it hits you when you least expect the gifts.
How all of a sudden you're up for a winning game.
So it goes like you're scared of like you keep running up the school and credit
a period to show up immediately. That is the thing we're going to see through group stage.
You have to show up in game one.
Absolutely. I want to quickly go actually talk to you about this one, Gims, because I think
NIP will have been looking at that match that literally just finished the game. Oh, thank
goodness for that, because SwissDMine is losing. It might have been the worst thing for them
because NIP have been looking at this game. We need somebody we can leap from now,
and they need now to beat foot later on in this otherwise they are in massive trouble.
I mean, they shouldn't be worried about that. They should be worried about where's
the offense because 3 0 shut on game number 35 look at that game number one
you said they had a bunch of it so in game two they actually had some leads and
they just they kept it away they throw it away so fury again you got to wake up
early guys you got to wake up for these matches which is so unexpected from
nip2 because that's what we're talking about they're consistent they usually
don't make mistakes that's not to me tactical errors but even like game number
two up three of three two in that game yeah it shoes off the sidewalk
corner and I should never have a CRS non-position then they're tied up
3-3 zero opposition again is that easy yet reread 14 seconds left. They're like, where is the defense?
Where's the consistency they were just out of place out of mind and
One of that last performance isn't a very long time. Exactly. It's very it's very scared of your NIP fan
NPs got some time. This is obviously just managed one of the groups so they could take some time to lock in here
But you got it. You got a wonder again that the question coming out of EWC was was it a fluke?
They got so many huge wins in that in that event
They took out Shopify rebellion twisted minds gentle mates
carming corn that third place match.
I mean, what a roster.
That's a that's a world that they tournament winning streak.
It sounds like them only come in third.
But was it a fluke?
This is not the result you wanted to see if you're in a beefing.
Yeah, absolutely.
And again, Group B all four teams are very good in this group.
Every one of these matches is going to be highly entertaining.
So while ninjas did lose and they lost the real, which is also huge
in case there is a three way tie, but they still have some room to work.
They will play later today as well, so...
That match, the bottom middle, has just become ginormous for both of those squads.
NIB and Fux. Loser of that.
I mean, what do you do at that point? Is it as good as over or are you just hoping for a miracle?
I mean, if put losers because of NIP, I think Fux can beat Furia. I think that's reason one.
I think NIP, I mean, did they beat TwistedMinds over there at EWC?
Exactly. It's not over necessarily.
I think the game difference, like, give us a mention instead of anyone about game difference being a team.
Oh, yeah, that's the group starts getting all kind of which is the type of the fact that we just saw foot go to game
Five could be the thing that puts them into the playoffs here
I mean fast isn't it to quickly talk about to talk about foot there in that matchup
Obviously that is something for the B-stream to cover but did this seem them go to game five drop the overtime is that does that are did they
Do they have more does that give them more power rankings here?
Is that do the less brand did not move at all is exactly what we thought they would do
You don't play these teams close, but they just can't leapfrog over these guys just yet
DTS look like they listen you do well, but you're not gonna make it to the top
Yeah, they're close
They just have to find that one moment to capitalize on it
And who knows like they could win this group still there could be a three-way tie for first and that 3-2 could be absolutely huge
So we'll see you later today versus ninjas of pajamas again a huge game like chokin
So an incredible series to start things off. They're gonna continue things on with the surprise from the LCQ or from the
I guess they're also from the L.C.Q., the South American L.C.Q. Champions there,
Bogoda is going to be taking on the world champions, NRG.
That'll be the next match on the alternate stream, push.tv slash RLE Sports,
or just the other broadcast here on the YouTube.
On the mainstream, we have a full lineup coming up here.
Vitality and Virtus.Pro waiting in the wings for the conclusion of our next match.
Let's get into it. Manchester City versus Shopify Rebellion.
The rebellion up and down a little bit,
but North American number two at the moment, Man City, EU number five.
Maybe the most slept on team this season.
A team that I think everyone continued to look at and say,
well, they're going to be gone.
They'll leave soon and then they continue to sleep on.
But definitely not ignored.
They have been one of the most sort of talks about teams in the region.
Sure, because of that Seiko pickup where they sort of lost
in a way that we thought they were going to be like going a step back.
Maybe the kickoff plan was as good as it was going to get for them and even in that one, they got reversed out of the tournament.
The Stakers come in, he has had a whole new breath of life through his entire career.
But for HB Acro, why is that we want necessary looking at one year ago?
Yeah, they're right in the thick of it these days.
Yeah, those two players are definitely those breakthrough players that have looked so good throughout the season.
And they got through that EU tier of players that has always been, you know, the joyos and jacks that they just could not get over.
and they finally do now and they will represent Europe here at the World Championship versus a very good team in Rebellion.
Manchester City making their Rock League World Championship organizational debut, their coach Noah is standing by with Lee.
I feel pretty confident because obviously I do a lot of land before and stuff.
I know like it was the first of our current FB so I just try to make them really really confident
and I try to give them a bit of my experience to them.
I mean, obviously, it would be safe to get a second title at the Dicky Xayah now,
because I already won there.
I always say the same, just like it can be the last point we play,
like we never know what can happen after.
I think the level of the competition is pretty high.
I think a lot of teams can win to be fair,
like which was not the same before.
I think before you got two really good teams.
Like in Stem now, you got probably like four or five teams.
I just want to get this feeling again, to really watch attention because it's so crazy.
I didn't qualify for the last world, so I just want to show to everyone that I still can compete at the top level, and I shouldn't underestimate this.
Man City, I'm here with coach Enola.
I was chatting with you before all of this, yesterday you were getting prepared for this.
Looking forward to these matches.
matches now that you're here I feel that the squad's feeling because you have two
new world's debut players on the squad yeah I mean we're feeling good we know
the world is a different beast very different beast yeah see we've got the
major experience which is gonna help and we got previous world champion which
I think you know gives us the experience though that we need yeah well
so you said again different beats we were talking before it's a completely
different environment how do you have to prepare these two for it being
different like obviously they have that experience on there, but what was different about worlds for getting ready?
I mean the line itself playing isn't too different. I mean we got
Like Rocket League? Yeah, at the end of the day it's the same game. We got Paris under our belts now
So we kind of just built from that experience. The first time was kind of you know get up get up under us and get
That's ability now. It's kind of building from that getting a stable place down to beat these top teams. Yeah
Oh, that's again. I've always loved what I've seen from the squad
It's just about bringing it into groups the good things obviously there's no eliminations here
So maybe a little bit of time to get warmed up
Have you guys given yourself a little bit of leeway of like if we lose a series?
We're still fine mentally or no
We're not planning on losing it to know that not a single time okay
What I do need to ask you about those I saw the
Tearless dealer I've just showed it to you the desk is put you in D. Gives us
It's just disrespect man. It's disrespect man like top six of Paris you put this in there. Where did it come again?
Yeah, and when the same tourism
We're gonna get you on the desk next time they do it. Anyways, good luck in the match bed. We'll see what happens here
Let's go take a look at your opponents
The way I describe our 2026 season would be we've been just going on the upwards trend
You know, we won that first regional and we're feeling really good
I think we kind of dipped down a little bit kind of like found out the way we're applying wasn't really the way
we wanted to play and after that we kind of like we did our entire face-off. We kind of
figured that out during split-zero and I think we felt a lot better. We should have a lot better.
Looking at all the teams like they all look good but I think we also look good you know it's like
I think everyone's so close. Whoever just shows up on the day it really just depends
the kind of like the big three us energy SSG like we're all really close but I definitely think
we have the edge over them. We definitely have like individual talent. I think we compete
against the best teams better than they do.
We do have a little bit of rivalry against SSG.
They're young, they're hungry,
but they have been improving like crazy.
But I definitely think like we can show that we are better.
We just need to show it at this world's.
I mean, it's the end of the year tournament.
You know, it's like you just prove to everyone
that you're the best team,
you're the best team across the entire season.
You're spending all those hours
and you know, commitment and sacrifice.
That's what you're playing for.
Like it makes it all worth it.
the corner shop of Fire Rebellion on the other side here with a coach of violent
Panda a lot of good pedigree behind you the good experience you bring to the
squad and it's been showing for sure looking you know at the playing field
right now men's city across from you they got two new players we've seen what
gonna happen to its new players the world did that give you any extra
confidence in this or do you have to disregard that completely no I mean
they're a good team we know they're a good team even though the Casper
Monday tier. They're a little higher. They're a little higher. They're good. They're European
team. They're solid. They play smart. I just think we have the edge and we should have
the edge. We've got to perform under them. Well, I want to ask your thoughts now just
on the North American region in general, you know, because a lot of people are starting
to get the hype for the region, looking at what's been developing lately, especially
you know, with your squad, a few others too. What's your take on, I guess, North
American region in that grand scheme of things we've seen the rise in dips before where we are
I think we're in a good spot um you know it's been up and down with the energy and the performing
to where they should be but I think there's been some new spots coming up like SSG I would say also
but performing more better this year I think we're in a good spot there's more teams now
being able to compete than last year's like where it was just energy and maybe like you know
you know, the last year's first good well just but, but I think we're in a good
spot with multiple teams now. That's good. And now I just want to ask about your
players as they're getting ready. We've seen a couple teams, you know, get some
a little bit of unwellness at the land that happens here. Have you guys been
able to dodge a lot of that? I am not aware of any of the elements.
You're good. Hopefully that carries you for the squad now. I guess just in
general, was there anything extra you had to prepare these guys for? Obviously,
they all have a lot of experience in environments like this. Did you have
any new challenges with this squad coming into the world this time around?
No, I mean, we've changed our playstyle for the second split and we've been looking good
so far.
All the time it was just performing on the day and getting our mental straight.
We know what we need to do on the field, we just need to perform on the day.
And that's what we've been focusing on, even so small things in the playstyle as well.
But we're feeling ready.
Okay, and while we get to the next matchup, you want to get your thoughts as well.
You moved them up on the tier list and they put you in B.
Would you move yourselves up on the tier list?
It's a tough one.
comparing to who was next to us.
I would say it's fair right now with our results,
but I know we can't go higher.
Good call.
Hey, well, good luck in the match there.
We'll let you get to it as we get on with the games.
Didn't realize that tier list was going to be a reference
throughout the rest of the turn.
I actually love that we should leave it out
for all the players to see.
Just leave it there.
Give them a little motivation.
All shame at this point.
Interesting discrepancy, a kind of complex discrepancy
and experience in this match up here with Man City
bringing in two World Championship rookies,
I'm making a role change if you're alongside a world champion. Meanwhile, rebellion all returning players from the 20 25. Well, it's very interesting as well as well. We went over each of these players. It was in a okay. When was the debut? I think a lot of people, especially if you're a more casual rocket reviewer, you'd think, okay, well, they must have debuted last season.
season. So I bet you know
these guys been around since
RCS XO for 2021. Yeah, it's
just we've got this new thing
now where players can sort of
peer out and level towards the
bubble, but they just find
that next level and we've had
a few examples of that over
the last year. If you have
been the European examples this
year, but it's just a good
sign for those players out
there. It's like keep going
at it. It can happen. It
Greatest one of the greatest of all time turbo pulse it went out very first. Yes first world championship was a sub in the third world
Amateur but that one's up when you tabo three in a row
So, you know anything can happen there if you stick with it
The I'm so the player I have my the island actually the most in this matchup is cofre see what you're springing right now
His first world championship was in 2025. This is second
He's one of those players the faces
I think of as the new generation of rock and one like players who could potentially be household names
in the on the Mount Rushmore's of Rockley 10 years from now. He has that sort of mechanical skill. The question is second world
Championship. Yeah, the first one is your jitters. Every player said in every interview that worlds is a completely different beast. So the way I really evaluate players
oftentimes is when you make that second one. What did you learn in 2025? What sort of player at the World Championship is Kofir?
It's tough because I feel like this whole year the question mark has been Kofir. He was known for being that number one man going for
demos that when he joined the squad kind of sitting back being that third man he
wasn't unlocked he wasn't allowed to be free. He's allowed to be free occasionally
but they'd never let him off that leash so we'll see what type of game plan they
have for him because if he is comfortable you know first killer is
gonna be incredibly consistent no matter what happens put him wherever is
needed for the other two to feel free and feel confident. Yeah exactly, but
he's supposed to be in my estimation kind of filling in an Ato's Esk role
for his team. Not necessarily saying he's as good as Atoll now. Relax, calm down. But I'm saying that
in general, he is supposed to be chasing demos, creating spaces, creating opportunities for
first killer coming. That's what Atoll does for Vatira over there in Convent Corp. And it really
works. They're like yin and yang with one another. And that truly elevates them to a whole different
level. First killer has been playing his best ball I think he's ever had, ever played. He's
always played great ball against you know that this whole entire season. So if Kofi can really
step it up, try to do what he did last year in SSG where he did have a pretty good world
championship over on my own. I have a chance to be successful.
When Kofa plays best, it's not when he's trying to be like,
he's not trying to make his life for his team easier.
He's trying to make the life of the opponent harder.
That's what Ato does so well, is that you just see Ato on the ball,
you see Ato off the ball and you go,
yeah, I'm not happy with this situation whatsoever.
I think Kofa, if he can just sort of have that confidence,
because a lot of players, they lose the ball,
he's like, okay, I've got to go back,
I've got to get back behind the ball,
got to be in safe position.
I think if Kofa can just relax and just say,
I'm gonna go for demos. I'm just gonna be in the way should be just fine
Well, but who's so I'm thinking through this lineup, but if I hear what we're putting Kofa in the lineup
Like I can picture first killer sort of this all-rounder situation. Is there someone who should be
Airing towards the third man side. Are you leaning that we've got to say? Oh, check for this one
I'm not saying that has to be I'll give them say like all J's a player
I think of traditionally as an offensive player
He was a 2023 offensive player of the year at the at the world championship there
So who's who's hanging back? I would I mean modern rockling you don't really want to be hanging back. Yeah, you don't need that third man
That's obsolete lose days. Yeah, you sit back too far. You lose you have to make up to it
All right, we turn around for first killer though to be the third man because he'll play a more upfield third man and be
Involved on the offense the problem that that's been happening with rebellion. It's whoever is that third man way too passive
Then they can't get any offense going off of that. So a first killer is that man?
I think he's more confident. Yeah, we have to feel a little bit more for that is a good Christmas
We can have all five times is like what what level of play are we willing to commit on it has to be like a 90% chance of going in
Before they are willing to start to send the numbers
You know I think it's just our quality there to actually send that a little bit more often
It's just tough coming everybody tries to emulate that call me in Corp style where you can just keep a team back in and turn
Our own nerve
But it's just really hard to really find that comfortable positioning the word you can confidently continue the challenge and challenge any mistake
it's in your neck that and
The last time we saw these two teams play it was in Paris. It was in front of the crowd though man city won their group
They dominated when they played like this. They won that group nine to one
Nine games to one so they looked so good then when they got in front of the crowd
They fell apart they lost for one two rebellion. It was eleven goals to four
But of course first-killer he scored the most goals one point two
He also demoed the most on his team at three demos for game
He was literally doing everything for them and it worked out. Well, well, listen, and that makes sense too because when you got a man city
team, that's what you're gonna talk about.
Especially over there. But, um, I mean, they play passive.
Seiko is a passive player. They're much slower and they really don't really generate that many opportunities.
So when they win games, it's just a traditional Seiko as style team outside of end point, I guess.
When they win games, they win 1-0 or they win 2-1.
They're not winning games going 4-3 or anything like that because they never really push up.
And so when they play a team like shopper, our building, what a coper with the FK with even an LJ shooting from all the corners
And kind of puts them in a bind. So it was on the man city. The honesty see what kind of adjustments they've made for this matchup
And or to keep up with shopper our building because you're gonna have multiple games where SR puts a belief to but the turtle
The teams that are better at turtling that bear the same pass of saying hey
You come to us or the teams are able to punish the teams that don't think about the third man the most
However, every single team we've ever described that way. They've got a hard feeling
never said that I'm gonna go okay well you get well upset there's one baby
there's one exception there is one except which is that a man's in 2224 Seiko yeah
and that's a completely panel what you just said in Paris man city top six so
they were top six but they also were in the group of life and they did win that
group but after that they did absolutely nothing they fell out of
torment hard and that was this is the group of life they're here in worlds to
It is true they're back in that group of life and they're back in the environment where they did so well so they can
Absolutely do it here, but you win matches like that. You absolutely can you win tournaments by peeking
I don't know if man say give themselves that opportunity to peek. Hmm. We'll see
I'm actually very encouraged to watch edge being acro in particular because while we have talked so much about this
How different worlds is from other tournaments every tournament does help inform your performance at worlds and with that performance
They got all smiles every time you've got a camera on them. They are pure vives at the moment. So I mean first ones
They seem to notice it at all. It's going to be that seems to be big because
Rocking if we could talk all about like big stats, you know big things
But also, you know, good vibe rocket league is like the best way to play rocket league
Now you said that but then once again show gonna have the one example of good
Really not working out for a team is back in 2021
Stockholm
Um, where what team was having fun have fun man? It was in our G and other team was having weaker than one.
That there's half a team on that match!
They were massive underdogs in that match, so I was like, they kind of had to have fun.
The fact that it was as good, that they had fun, kind of worked in their favor, maybe.
I think they started having fun when they were one series down and three games down.
You might as well have some fun.
It's the way they really work out for them in that match.
Obviously we are waiting for the players to be ready to compete. There's something wrong with one of the...
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. There's one of the stations isn't quite what we would hope it would be.
So we'll get into that match as soon as we possibly can here
After after what we saw from group B there. Yeah with with with furia and with his group flip
Yeah, sometimes I'm kind of guys going back and I just watch you
Would you move a either of those teams on our tier list to get fearless?
I mean, I think you kind of have to for fury right they three oh ninjas
You kind of have to bump them up a bit, but the group is still early like even though you have a win
You still could come in fourth in this group.
It's not over.
So Fury can't just be like, oh yeah, we have 3-0.
We're great.
They still have to win more games.
It is going to be a difficult road.
That group is so competitive.
But it really comes down to, I think,
in this match and on the B stream as well.
That game won for the teams that have not played.
You've got to wake up.
Ninjas just never woke up for their match.
And these guys have to be ready as soon as it's kickoff.
I mean, Fury came out swinging.
Swinging against NIP.
I mean, you've got to go against NRG over here
right in front of us over here in the back. I mean, Sam did beat already. Maybe already
we do kind of judge them a little bit to have a couple of mistakes. They definitely don't
play as well as they do online. No, they're saying, but I mean, there's still a quality
team, even with nerves affecting maybe if they're playing. So be able to get that when
it gets done. Maybe that boats will for those days going up, isn't our G who gives
and people are people like gives and other people around the world have been having
a lot of doubt on that. You never know. Let's talk about that for just a second.
Yes, I'm not here anymore, but energy. This will be their first match of the world championship after what?
By all accounts was a dismal performance at EWC. How important is this first match for energy?
I think it is a great match again game
One's gonna be huge like up a goddess has the advantage ever already played they played three matches already
So they're gonna be a little bit more warmed up
But you just hope because energy has also been one of the scenes that starts a little slow to pitch it up later
So I think game one like if energy takes it. I'm a little more confident in them
They should win this match, I think, either way.
I think they are not enough to take it.
But you never know.
That's why we play the games.
That's why we play the games.
All the players just lean forward.
Seth is down in his B-stream.
Offensive football, defensive coordinator
stands down there.
And it's on the B-stream.
It's on the B-stream.
RLE Sports, go check out that match while it's happening.
And we'll be getting into this one here in just a moment.
I think if we can, production,
if we can watch that match.
But it shows them some rock at least.
Yeah.
Oh, they're on it.
I wouldn't have watched them anyways.
Masi started off the game hot.
Oh, I thought a double was coming quick.
Is there a, let's say on a G,
G wins, is there a score line heavy
you would be worried even with the dog?
A win is a win.
A win is a win.
So if they won 3-2, you would be like,
I would be a little worried.
I would be a little worried.
A win is a win.
That's all that matters really truthfully
in my estimation.
But Gones, they won this RH squad
and they have a lot of offense
and RH is going right here.
Bim's top corner.
That's a great shot.
And Bim's was that player shot over 50%
in that match to qualify for the main event.
And his shot location is perfect.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, and look at that.
I mean, that could have been better.
No, it couldn't have been any better.
And looking at the NLG squad, you think back to EWC
and those who watched that.
And when they went up against TSM,
there's a couple moments where they just were a little lack
of luster in the midfield.
They weren't really covering all their angles
and taking away chances from TSM.
A couple of times a beast mode was going in reverse.
And even looking at it first of all about films,
beast mode was in reverse again,
kind of a strange rotation.
Didn't necessarily help out anybody, no demos, no cuts.
A straight linear line on the rotation,
always put you on the back foot.
The more on this one, folks, that is,
it's gonna be very much that boost control,
they were diabolical, not boost control yesterday.
The lowest I've ever seen from a winning team,
and actually we already know today
how very good that boost control is.
Wait, anyone who's just now tuning in,
just a reminder, this is the B-stream match
that gets over on Twitch.tv,
We're expecting it right now here on the mainstream while we prepare for Manchester City versus
Shuntfire.
We're working through a tech pause.
We'll get into that as soon as possible.
Is that tech pause that we have to start?
Yeah, I think so.
I guess it's a tech pre-play?
I don't know.
Yeah, we've pre-jumped for the tech pause and flies that some playing has happened here.
So I do feel like with energy this year, the reason why I'm so down on them is
mostly like they won Worlds last year by being the team that would have the ball
have the ball on the offensive side of the field and just pressure pressure pressure wait for their
moment and score the goal but this year they've had to play a lot more defensive at 4.8 times where
they had to make the line saves compared to 3.9 last year they also through the lands in 2026
they're 31 and 29 they are basically a 500 team right now so energy has to find a way to win
more in these games compared to last year when they were world champs. Well we talked about
about this with army for that they're able to put on that pressure strictly because of
quality of touch.
If you want to play that solid pressure and never let the other team out of their half
style of play, you just can't make mistakes on that first touch moment and aren't you
struggling with those?
Wow, look at the tap there and clear the way.
Ah, zero boost.
Zero boost for Goat Ace.
That's that best form right now.
You don't gain the bullpast.
You're a boost for Goat Ace.
That's what that zero means in their name, you know?
You ain't talkin' to ask me about this.
See, once we're watching this as a whole, that's easy, I'm safe.
I keep looking behind me as well, because, you know, I'm not sure if this is for both
man's safety and for Shopify, the magic's gonna have to be played for the sake.
You don't want to get frustrated, you don't want to be like going out of the right mental.
That's the evil smiles behind us, I mean, they just keep joking together.
Someone's definitely out. I'm from a...
A posh gun expert.
What was that?
He's smiling. He's happy. I know that one.
I mean, we saw Jiralee's plastering yesterday.
It didn't matter anyway for Falcons, so they dominated the way.
Jiralee had the... Can we get this over with?
I really need to go back over there.
I need to take a break. I need to take some medicine. That's what he ate.
He had the... We're going to win this regardless.
I'm just...
Oh.
Oh, so no one's here.
Stemping these plays a little bit too much for my liking. I feel like some of these are just you can't just take the shot
Yeah, and just force a bad save right now. They just go backwards
Yeah, because what they're playing on their hand there at least even the ball in the corner and most of the time
So it's not too dangerous
Energy again is not getting that quality shot off
Oh my god
Wow
He just launched him into his own teammate.
He pops it off, pops it off, and he jumps off.
He gets the bump when Drafino comes back to it.
Drafino actually bumped Knight off of that too,
and he passed the ball in the middle.
So, he's thrown off a one-touch.
Crazy Havnick, and just Barren's wide open hit.
And that was a corner ball, but Beast mode made it work.
He got that bump to get that pass midfield,
even got it off the post as well.
That's our first, oh my goodness, bang?
What does anyone do with that? Don't know.
Gonna hit it anyway.
So far, I mean, I saw that initial, this blurry, about 30 seconds from the go days.
Then we're half of the offense.
It has been in our season.
There is the norm.
Anyone who wants yesterday, that is the norm.
There is a reason why they have such a high shooting percentage by the way.
You can see, they have that little smirk when you talk right now.
I was with Bruce at an interview afterwards.
We get the lead and we shut things down.
Now, I turned off the back, he wants to be shut down or he can't put that video back up.
Yeah, right now they're playing a little nervous on the goal line, but Benz gets a free clear, but he had zero boost.
They had no challenge in midfield though, and they finally break out a bit from the field.
Free jump. Free jump.
He gets the 50 and watch out, it's a tie game. Anything can happen here, Benz can midfield fast though.
He goes right to energy.
Down, number one.
Over time.
NRG Pagoda is wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
This is what energy wants. They played a lot of it on the offensive side of the field
They took to create a couple more opportunities, but at the same time we go this this is what they want one one over time again
One day will absolutely take I think this is their start of play. I mean energy
They're gonna start to push the pace that much to over through them on a game. They play
They'll take this right now. I mean this is really gonna be a match between the 5050s and where they end up
And go for a 1v1 play he was gonna have someone else
but just threw it away.
That's how I found out a chance.
Trapped in the midfield pass, but it was a good chance.
Like, smack that into the ceiling and stay in position for a moment.
I was overachieving if there ever was anything.
Nice.
I do like...
I feel like we can talk a lot about energy.
The one thing I do love that they do the most, though,
is that little function defense to somebody on the backboard.
Every time, it's so clean.
Barrier's doing that great last match as well,
especially when they're up in game number three.
and I feed is really just shut it down. You really utilize each other keep this
way to the clock. And that's how you get out of your own head. Right.
If you play T for a second turns into a defensive pass and play in. Now you're
back on offense as one. I was one here gives reaction. They weren't a series.
I still I have 13. I don't mind just energy wins.
All right. I'm just having me talk to you. Tears. He'll be a tough
Cheers
He's not got the boost to get in front of the house no boost
It's fine. It's what they work. This is where they work. Why is the goatee's wide tool about zero boost? Oh, right now
Now that's it
Off it'll keep us boost kind of give way was that from a different means?
And as a poor touch who is that? Oh, no
I'm having an argument as well the crossbar boost gone
I'm not just gonna set it, because these are very, very good, they're challenging for each
other.
There's very little waiting around as steps is just fine.
I think both of these teams, they're like the ideal opponents for each other.
If NRG could choose a playstyle to play against, he would be the goddess.
If the goddess could choose a playstyle, it would be NRG.
I'm not looking for another command.
Just one thing I don't want to do.
Oh!
Oh!
Ruthinho.
The doctor is in.
He's taking patience.
They score the game-winning goal to overtime for game number one.
NRG's got their hands full on the B-stream.
Twitch.tv's live at RLE Sports.
You're going to watch the rest of that matchup.
And let me tell you, you do want to watch the rest of that matchup.
Yeah.
The players are ready to go.
We have resolved the issue for our matchup between Man City and Shotfire.
fire a billion. Let us know who you think is going to win and progress a fan vote.
Who you got? I've got my analysis. I'm going man City. I like it at the moment. I like the way
they've been playing Rock League as a play. I think that they just something must say.
See him popping off. I don't mind it. But I think if this was in front of a crowd,
I'll give it to rebellion four zero. But because it's a group environment, I think it's going
I'm going rebellion. Okay, you set that up. I know him now. It's so obvious. You're
up. I'm just I'm not trying to trick you. They want to get to the match. I'll go rebellion
first killer best player on the field taking it. So you and I we both tried to make a
spicy pick yesterday. Yeah. Joining me again. Let's do it. Let's double down. Yeah.
I think there's back in the building here. I think there's something in there. Give
it to me. Shopify or but on one side man city on the other end of the air and it's
Come a man say look at that for the favorites on the desk, could you believe it folks look
at right?
It's down to this me wave coin coins, do you have a right to the right at the end of yesterday,
which means statistically it's wrong this time.
So you know, that's just that's how that's a point for the right like this should be a
good match.
So again, like this group.
Yes, we call it a group of life, but you still got to play the games and you
have to win them whoever wins this is in a great spot to win the group.
77% 76 and falling there's forces rising here for man city. It's just a lot of Americans
They're really excited to watch first killer go again. Can they get it done chronic and cold first back again at the world?
Championship trying to make it happen. His name's only he's on the field
He's got an offensive enemy via worlds before can he begin that road again right here against me and said man city versus
Well, they're calling it the group of life
brought us in from NRG against the Godes. It may be won't be that easy to escape group C,
but they can't worry too much about the other game. It's going to be Man City V Rebellion,
and game one is brought to you by Progressive. This is definitely a take-it-one step at a time
territory for Seiko. That burst I've shot on net, right off the kickoff, shot for Rebellion.
Try to find a quick response though. Something I'm anticipating a lot for this matchup.
A quick shootout. Both of these teams have the ability, like Chauvin was saying, to have those pop-off moments.
Yeah, definitely. Matt says he got top six recently in the Paris Major.
They step up for them. They've been...
He's number five, feeling very grateful towards Carmen Corbett in the kickoff landway back in December.
That's allowed them here without using a last chance pull-up fire and allowed them out of that Paris Major.
They've been making the most of these land opportunities. They've been playing well, trying to build the experience of Saco,
Come on, how much experience do you got in the fed pod?
First killer, first on the floor, and over two.
Look at this, up the ceiling, a round pitch.
Smack through the defense.
This is the version of first killer I'm gonna wanna see
consistently that, that version of him will carry
shopper, Valiant through much needed success.
But, Sanko on the flip side, he's the one that
everybody's looking to lead those two debut players
for Man City.
Yeah, fast killer, he's high.
All-ground finals, and we've had hot dinners.
And he's been building his career to something special,
and maybe this event will be that.
He's been looking fantastic for Shot Fire Rebellion recently.
He lost that game seven in the eSports World Cup against SSG,
but they were so close to becoming the kings of NA,
but he comes to S&P for Man City.
Great start for this game.
Four Shot Fire Rebellion, but they have to remember
to counter both big moments.
Acro, some strange attunement, gets it towards that world shot, their experience in that city.
Yeah, the experience, whether you realize it or not, is definitely there for Man City.
Acro and entry have been competing in the RLCS for quite some time, despite this being the day
few had been a long road ahead. Say go to that backboard there, slow follow, low boost,
all the way around now for Man City. Something to take note of Shopify.
Should they want you they will starve them out to slow them down
It comes Seiko that is so dangerous there gets his heart attack or is a big shot first killer
It gets the same one opening game first killer is having
Seiko this
third Sienna card
Was playing as an orange playing those on the blue team. We're going to have a serve for that little streak of purple
But here comes rebellion to us to get it on target. It's over the backboard
He gets an extra touch of firebellion looking far off the team.
Type of these touches, and so you rely on counter attacks at the moment.
Rebellion having more of a pressure.
Say go try to take possession of this ball, big pinch to clear it out really.
Just aiming to give his teammates some time to gather some resources.
This boost game seems to be the strategy for Shopify rebellion to slow down Man City.
They've come into this series knowing there is love of respect to HVN afro despite like I said then being debut players
there is experience playing against
at least you know
thinking you saw a crazy pitch, crazy save, the bounce out almost did
Yeah so unfortunate that our rebellion got the demo
because it's like I don't know it's a huge sound, I think it was from Seiko
But it ends up a rebellion player somehow came back into the center.
That city relieved them to only be one goal behind.
Can I get even better, say you almost get someone on target.
It would have been a goal.
It tries to help them out as you mentioned earlier, the debutants from Man City.
You can't use the booster as it goes to the ceiling instead.
It goes in the middle of maybe a breach.
I'm going to be the needy in the end.
I thought he should have prisoned earlier.
Didn't have to.
You thought rebellion was going to be able to throw an animal
a little bit quicker. If you caught it in the corner of your eye there, LJ, the boost spawned, not disfavor.
Try to reach around and grab it. Still attempted to go back on the plan, but just fast enough,
but says that a tied game. LJ sends that on forward. It's a little bit of trouble here with
no boost, and Acro has to reach up to avoid the demo. Rebellion would be pretty brutal going
for these bumps. That city had been dodging those, clearly they've been doing that homework.
Look, they're coached though and it wasn't too impressive a rating the Man City were given.
They can have you about to prove a few people wrong here at this event.
It comes from Haley and first killer.
We'll see that footage again!
And this time Man City have been watching and they can't get the save.
Chompfire Valiant doing an incredible job to working with the space that they can find.
First killer over one on past two to fake and leave for Cofer to carry all the way to the other end.
Bigs down one nice beautiful pass the wide shot though from first killer
But that level of cleanliness from shock fire belly and they keep glitch out to the end
They should be able to pull this one on. Yeah definitely their rotations are looking smooth and slick right now rebellion
But he comes out for a
Flip percent of edge of us they come still there seems to be
Loud players right now on the ditch and they keep the pressure as well man city
They have to do a lot of defending in this game now.
So, Wazir, they're really not feeling that rebellious or else it has to get a toucher.
It's another huge drop from Seiko.
As far as first killer, but look at Man City here.
They are swarming rebellion.
Maybe this is the moment Akro shoots!
And Akro gets it, and you've got to say it's been coming!
This is basically just a pressure-built-up entry,
being able to spot Akro from that high up in.
We're notably catching first killer out on that low boost.
Finally, getting her belly in on a low resource moment.
15 seconds on the clock and a one full lead.
Shot by her belly and have to do it here.
First killer.
First killer.
Big threat.
Does it land in a few seconds left?
Here is Seiko.
Well, take a look at that touch on that Seiko.
Try to see this first get away.
One, two, three, two, three, two, set the borders up.
LJ, hero in the air, reset, up, ball, still in play.
Co-fer there to catch.
You can see first killer lurking on the back of the ball.
But HellJ gets home, the ball to the other end, but it's just not enough!
Usually, Shopify rebellion happened in the team to do it, but they've got some new opponents across the way.
Yeah, definitely. Man City, get that opening game. It was tense till the very end.
It seems that he had an up, and then somehow Rebellion kept that ball up.
And all of a sudden you're thinking this could be some fire last at the end of it,
but not quite, but enough for a belly is taken to game two.
Taking a look back at this, I mean, of course,
Seiko walks away with MVP honors in this scenario.
You look at the replays and he's just all over everything.
He led the charge in the first few moments there
and he knew he was gonna be the one to step up.
However, first killer leading the charge
for Shopify Rebellion lets everybody,
Not even just Man City know that they are a team to be reckoned with here at this world championship
Yeah, definitely gonna be it's a proving it's proved a few people wrong on Manchester City
What an EU's elite teams that have made it a couple of times now
And it's you know, maybe the hardest region to qualify from they are here today
It's it's but they've got so much experience and say coats it to follow
You know players who's won the world championship before and that has such a bit
I just when you have these two players and the funny thing is I know we keep talking about them being debut players
but if you've watched RLCS in those qualifying moments for so many years back in the day in
the UHB and after our games you've heard up for so long they've just been patiently waiting
for their turn and state goes the one that has really helped them gather the experience
to get here.
On the other end though, Kofor and first goal are working together to try and take
chop right to an opening lead it'll immediately be rescinded by Manchester.
Yeah, go look at HB's results, all the way back to 2019 he's been trying to make it to
this level for years at this point has to date. Finally it's here on the biggest stage of all,
it can't take a while so keep on chopping if anybody out there is he going into this level
with his e-sport. These two are definitely ones to take note of being like hey you can't give up
Truly at some point it can happen.
Run City.
The game is good right now for Rebellion. Have started game 2 well. Had a lot of football.
Almost a half a chance earlier than that City Hall.
Koffin tries to get the slight reader.
It's Koffin who finished top 8 last year at Space Station Gaming in his day-to-day season.
I don't know if fans would take that and have it open right now.
First go lucky to 4-0 to get some height on it!
And that's not an easy finish, but he made it look so cool.
Classic clean, beautiful pass and read.
First killer, sending that back off the back of his nose from that side wall.
You can see the excitement.
It's well earned.
A beautiful play and execution from Shopify.
Once again, they get the opening goal.
And First Killer heavily involved once more with that brick back,
was just slapped it back to his teammate.
Seiko, he goes up, curves away to what can Seiko do.
He gets it all the way down towards HB.
That's an instant response.
Off that side there, that catch from Seiko in the beginning,
off this backboard is just so clean.
He really and truly is the player to slow down on men's city,
Edgeby and Akro.
An incredible job just playing their roles
in the follow-up right now.
Tied game here.
Seiko gonna take one shot, leave the rest.
Akro from the corner.
to see how Shopify can slow them down on this low boost though.
Yeah, it's what's here in the first game, it was Man City who were finishing up a lot stronger
in before they got their goal.
I do wonder if they're gonna keep throwing into these games even though Romelia is starting
them better.
It should be quite a hold of that, there's a big turn, but actually you can have a pace.
Sorry, so good it's coming off the walls and getting the ball in, just seems to
stick to its better.
Here is Teiko trying to finish it.
Pro watches in the way, it's just tense to go for that ball, a bit elated or something
with it.
Coco wants to get his team going to be such an explosive player,
let's get these demos and these bumps.
We're gonna see a Huntsman sitting down there.
But all the bumps and demos,
for many of them going for,
that's just really gonna be touching them so far.
Yes, and you said it before, right?
It's kind of this testament to Man City coming into this,
very prepared against Shopify.
They know what to expect.
I feel like most North American teams
are gonna be fairly demo heavy
when they start having that desperation
to re-grab onto the lead there.
Beautiful stop, okay, gonna try and take it to the moment.
Copper is well, Seiko and Acro each other's way.
That's a veteran experience, you can't move now.
Yeah, who's the world champion here?
Get out, I got this one.
But mind it from Seiko.
In the end though, it does lead to a rebellion pressure.
These are the first shots that come from Koba.
Elgin quite fully had boots.
He could have freezed up something, maybe.
Instead, no revenge, just go for the fake.
It is Elgin.
He's unable to get the rush on my city in the end.
I think if you just had 12 or 24 boots, you could really race them.
That one's nice, he tries to get a blip reset, secondable backwards.
Not going to happen in rebellion, but you get it away.
One, one, once again, poor rebellion.
Both teams in this game have had periods of pressure.
Wow, he looks at attention with a swing back towards Man City.
Just under two minutes to go here, that tight game.
Starting to show the pressure, time 50 well.
to take it up next around one that final little difficult to get past but LK will
try and attempt to the backboard all with Shopify or Belly and just learning
playing a very respectful game to what Manchester has on the defense
faked down no shot on target but it was a decent effort. I gotta say man since
you're looking very patient right now looking like the version of themselves
that's got four key times in the EU.
Well, none of me is as well.
He's helped Saker.
Hopefully get in touch, fits it downwards.
Akro is coming in there.
Purchase wades in, he is...
Explosive player for Man City once he gets going.
You know, they're quite so far this series.
I think it gets a couple of touchdowns here if they catch this.
The rich aren't different from Man City, the other place.
Suddenly they're full on attack.
Akro's up first, gonna get him to pass him,
and they're all convinced.
What's the way this race is done?
It's because they get half the same!
and almost finishing this game with a goal.
The patience you talked about from Manchester City is really what is keeping them in this.
Akro and M to be working together.
A commit though from Akro could have cost them.
A bottom line, Staco 50's out to the side.
It's a center, LK to the backboard there.
First killer on the commit.
Down to the quarter pocket.
They're taking their time.
Will it pay off more of the backboard, LK,
to double off the side.
first killer to follow and nobody can get through.
And they just can't get the ball right out of Man City.
Another bump comes in from first killer.
A better time to on.
Some of our Man City have held incredible defending
with no boo, Seiko slaps that ball down against the bouncer.
Can they attack and they steal this one?
Not quite.
Couldn't get the flick.
Overtime in game two.
Well respected overtime as well.
Manchester City holding up to the very, very end.
Shot for rebellion.
Looking for another chance to take some shots at the net,
But Manchester want this fall back, they want to have a give and go with their turn.
It's LJ from the ceiling, can't like it at all, target aren't.
Because I've taken out his teammate.
So first kill here, put the MF for a second, and set the spawns back.
He'll be able to get something on this bull, sets it forwards, but I've already waited for that one, Matt City.
Eventually we'll take that time, Matt gets the airtable going, we said he was explosive, he gets the bull towards Seiko.
Fuck at the angle this time.
That's rebellion using the wings.
That's sitting legally at their toes.
They tried to escape.
Oh, it goes to the ceiling.
That's to get a touch.
So they're going to want to get this ball,
and he's trying to face it downwards.
So that's to keep it more likely to keep control of all of the floor.
Rebellion only to use the ceiling in the air.
I can't split these two right now, though.
This is a fairly equal matchup as the requirement.
Shopfire rebellion definitely let off the gas quite a bit
White have been after respecting Manchester.
They have been able to hold on defensively for so long at a time.
It's got to be a different approach here for Shopify.
But for now, Manchester finally see Orange for a small moment.
This one bounced off the back of the back row.
Seiko going to try and follow it with 30 in the tank.
LJ just in front of the free jump to send Shopify rebellion forward.
Oh, come on, huh?
Do that, don't make it into the back of the man's city net!
LJ starts a watching of Paasden!
Gonna get the sideways touch that he needed!
HB now, first killer!
Can't get too much on it, rebellion!
I'll get that way slowly out, defense a little bit more quickly.
I'm looking at this Paasden perfect, I'm trying to get the flick reset!
Doesn't even need the flick reset!
Oh, come on!
Call for great composure, say you can try to read it!
Come for help, it's done!
Shuffle 5, a rebellion standing strong.
HB around 1, can he work together with his teammates to get out right now?
Shuffle 5, just aim to clear the fall, stay out of their side.
Seiko's got something to say about it.
Two minutes into this overtime right now.
Shuffle 5, have had so many shining moments,
but Manchester City is absolutely keeping up.
Keep it up!
Yeah, they've been in the backboard incredibly well right now, Man City.
So, Rebellion, when they're trying these edgeables, there's always going to be somebody there.
Seiko gets a decent 50-50 acro.
So, he used the ceiling again.
He locks using the ceiling, we give this to these solo plays.
First, they were just waiting to move for it the way he wanted.
First, they're trying to snap shot that time that Seiko would get, sent it away.
Rebellion waiting for their moment right now.
Tryna build up more Goose.
They had Man City on the ropes earlier.
Couldn't quite get the goal, and that's a couple of times.
almost gets back to the people by LJ.
This may be as bad as he's shown, sir.
Well, clears out for the other end, ladies and gentlemen.
Manchester City, excuse me.
Continue to try and get to the other end,
but they're boxed into their half-souls consistently.
All you can do is wait to see
what Shopify throws at the next first killer
to spot LJ, LJ off the ceiling here,
Great Reef from Seiko off the backboard, puts Manchester into the other ring, briefly.
Two teams structured very well, right now there's a musty click!
Great Reef from XB again, Manchester's backboard defence is blameless.
Shot by Rebellion, reaching deep into their bag of jerks, but Manchester now have a chance maybe from the floor.
Seiko needs this boost to score, and it does.
Oh that surprised Rebellion, they see it's scoring.
He goes to the sky, XB is there, we'll have a clean touch on this one.
Acro for Manchester City has looked most likely. Can they get hit in the balls from the left wing at the moment?
No boost, but you know, the current Metrux are doing a lot with no boost. Acro does exactly that.
Gets the bump on Berska. Seiko's in, but not the best touch. Berska can get it away.
Four minutes into overtime.
And while the Beliedem had the better chances, Manchester City have had more of the ball in a challenging premise right now.
They name the game right now for Manchester City is to let shoppire belly and eventually
frustrate themselves into a mistake can only play perfectly for so long until somebody
slips up.
Stick up with a shot and there it is!
The slip up from Shopify leaves a window into the net and Manchester City see a match
point against one of the top teams of North America.
Yeah, after all that, I didn't see the bump coming.
It becomes one quick enough.
And the last man was thinking, I'll get some boost.
I'll be at 50-50 in front of me.
And no, there was no 50-50 at all.
It was 100-0.
The sneakiest little bump you're ever going to see.
And look at the scores.
Edge spin.
He played huge man city in Kofa for a failure.
And Taker was actually in the 700s, like, yeah.
They go right there without a second to set the clock.
It's normal at this point.
But Mike, gonna take a well rounded performance from Manchester City.
I think truly you said it, but they have come into the series with a plan.
And they've also come into this expecting two different versions of Shopify, right?
There is that very, very intense attack heavy Shopify that out shoots everybody
and get the crazy pop off first killer.
But they've also anticipated the patient Shopify.
And they're out there, they're saying kind of like,
we're willing to play with this ball for longer than you are.
We don't need to take 15 shots to find something.
We will wait for something to present itself,
and that's exactly what they did.
Yeah, no, I think you're right.
And I think a big part of that
is because of Seiko's experience.
He I'm sure would have told HB and Acro that
Rebellion are going to come into this one at 100 miles per hour.
They're going to try and dominate.
They're going to try and stamp their authority over this series.
You know, this is the team they're against that will feel they are North America's best team.
I know they lost to Space Station Gaming at the Esports World Cup,
but SG had to get three games in a row against them.
And, you know, the drama, the emotion of it all, I think, got to Rebellion there.
So that's something that Rebellion, I'm sure, we've been working hard to avoid.
situations like this one where you find yourself two games down against a team that you'd expect yourself to be.
The Man City, they've just been waiting. They've just been letting rebellion have their moments,
giving them a lot of the ball, making sure they defend their back while playing fundamental Rocket League.
That little bump at the end, that's such a tough one to read because the change of pace.
If you play the whole game at a million miles per hour, then your opponent's expected.
But when you say, OK, now we strike, that's when it causes surprises.
I think something also to note too is you know Shopify doesn't have too too much
experience against this team like they would you know in NRG or someone else
but Manchester City one game away from sweeping North America is supposed best
Edgeby tries to get Man City off to a good start after a 700 point game.
I was saying there that it was Akbro that seemed most likely that Edgeby was quite
quietly going about his business.
Making all the right decisions, getting all the blocks in the saves, and the big moments.
First killer.
At the start, he had a series of a melee number, that pitch goal, big saves, and
he got off.
Then he started game three, well he tries to back out again.
Man City is back for defending.
There's been cost to that.
Maybe now he has to think after a tactical timeout rebellion.
He might be focusing more on that field pass.
Because going to the back wall is not working at all.
Yeah, I feel like if there was a time where Shopify is,
you know, M.O. was kind of those infielders,
they kind of started to incorporate the backboard.
And like you said, Manchester doing a great job of having to read.
I'm waiting for the aggressive Shopify though.
I don't even think you have to necessarily force the infield right now.
Same as Manchester is playing on their end.
You can see it, they're not afraid of the solo play, and I need to see that from all three members of Shotgun.
Nice backflip there from First Killer to get it away from Matt City, to pull the ball away from him.
Here is First Killer again. He's young, bold, but he wants to be.
First Killer is definitely taking upon himself right now to be the Shotgun Parabellian they have.
Rightfully so, right?
It's still first killer at the end of the day, the one that we all want to see step up and get his proper RLCS on land.
Oh, I can't wait for that. Honestly, I don't be so excited for a belly of a first killer.
Just finally, finally get that crown. Definitely a player that deserves it.
When we say Betearer deserves a world's first killer deserves something from the RLCS online.
online of my story, but here comes Man City bumping the ball.
I'm running straight in there by anchor.
It's not the attack.
Continuous code to get to these at 50-50 though.
And again, it's not as patient from Man City,
but Man City doesn't have the ball the entire game.
Man City finally going forward.
It costs all sorts of chaos.
Like that double down there, from Seiko.
They try to go through bumping net.
Shot twice to walk away, though, unscathed.
LJ
Dancing circles around say go over on the side though. You can see energy on match point against big OJ
On the side wall here is another shot in by Manchester
Yeah, it was a fake is on the floor and here comes like a show
About since you want that way forward to get another lead in this series such a clean display
to force Rebellion onto such low boost that if all they can do is only jump so high and Manchester goes higher.
Michael gets the mid-mush and the kick-off is long, he leaves it 4HP.
Take it with the help of almost gets the extra touch, because it would be dangerous there for Rebellion, but...
So put the set forward, set for him.
Set for him. Skinny does. Maybe he could let that one into the set, but...
Instead of asking the question of rebellion, Copa so far has the answer.
He has to pass a couple of the back row all the way back.
Nancy, do you always have that extra player?
And rebellion just haven't been able to deal with that third line of defense.
How does he try to break through Edgeby?
Again, they're there.
And look at Seiko just waiting in the goal.
Not rushing forwards.
They know that rebellion might win this next touch.
And they'll be there to clear it away.
We're playing a little bit further back on this one.
Inticipating Manchester.
Go out their way.
Ackerman already waiting in the wings for the pass from Seiko,
but it is red by Kofur.
A minute and 40 seconds for Rebellion to catch up here.
Edgeby, round back for it.
They're just going to try and play the high air pinball game
around in a nerve-wracking catch on the goal line for Manchester.
Yeah, and achieving one bad game over in the ultimate stream.
So we can get for them!
Oh, my goodness!
Man, you can get for a Vellion as well!
They're trying to match their compatriots!
Acro, though, booms that one forwards!
It's looking more and more like Ylbman City's day to start things off in this race for first place in Group C.
So, everybody wants to keep that extra line in the playoffs.
Elegant can't do anything with that, he sets up in front of the Vallion,
pulls a teammate in as well to help him out.
Acro tries to pitch this one over a Vellion goal.
I see that after Russia, it's up to rebellion to try and up the pace.
And right now Manchester's not allowing it at all.
Another shot off the backboard red, but all it's done is waste time for Shopify.
They need possession.
Seiko trying to play time.
She lost the wall. All their greats have it.
They will last with this in the 30 seconds left of the clock.
Rebellion has to find something here.
There's still a couple of backbashes here from Man City taking it from the Italians over in
Feetbury's, we saw it in the RCS as well.
I still so much time Man City.
Frustrating the life battle for Belian, they've got 10 seconds left to get something
going, Kopa tries to lose to the game's first killer, what do you have left in your
lock and one more touch, boxed away by Akro, it has to be now as Belian's last
chance and they cannot do it and Man City, if they go over against that guy, they
That fist drop there it is.
Looked like an absolute nightmare to play against.
My gosh, I mean, and it's not even a nightmare
in the sense of they were terrifying,
they were scary, they were so up in our faces.
Their level of patience is something that I think
was very unexpected headed into this group stage.
And for Shopify Rebellion,
they just didn't quite have an answer
for that level of willingness
to sit and play time with the ball.
They just didn't get enough goals, you know.
And then they had lots of attack,
and they had chance, I think, especially in that second game,
a lot of overtime.
They had a couple of real chances to win it.
But when Man City survived those,
it just seemed that Rebellion tuckered themselves out.
And this is such a brilliant, aggressive attacking team
that we expect from Rebellion.
But Man City didn't let them play their game,
and they just, they, they, they hopped over
so many demos.
Every time a demo came up,
they just pressed the X button, hopped,
and they were free.
And that seemed to be such a big difference to me.
At the end of the minute, it is still Seiko, and if there's one person that's going to leave the charge for two debutants, like you said, it would be him, an incredible win there from Manchester City.
Let's send it over to Lee.
Man City walking away with a victory in quite the speedy fashion as well.
Akra is now with me. Congratulations, by the way. First World's Landwin.
Yeah, thank you. Feel great.
You were just saying a moment before that you're feeling a little bit shaky after that. I mean like yeah, yeah
It's quite cold in here as well. So that's right almost doing games, but
We're pretty confident going into it, but you know first wall is for me initially, so we're trying to keep the nerves under control
Yeah, it's I mean I feel now's the time to let some of that excitement out now
I think you've got a win under your belt and a good one at that too. I mean, this is no slouch of a team
Yeah, you know going into this what were your personal I guess?
obstacles did you have any doubts looking across there that okay this is this is not
this is gonna be tough um no I mean based on scrims we've pretty confident oh yeah
yeah we've been doing quite well against a lot of the teams that we struggled with
before we've been trying to figure them out I mean we lost these guys in in Paris
and it was it wasn't close I mean the games were close but it was we lost
for one right we tried to make sure to kind of figure out how to replicate
scrims into the game.
Because that's a really big, difficult thing,
is to turn what's going on out there into this.
For you, I guess, what's that biggest challenge of moving
how you're playing there into here?
Is it just the lights and the people moving around?
I think it's just, you know, you've kind of,
as much as you try and push it to the back of your mind,
it's kind of always trying to find a way forward.
Yeah, well, you know, it actually
means something, whereas scrims is, you know,
you're there to just practice.
So it's kind of difficult.
I mean, we've dealt with it quite well, I think.
Yeah, absolutely. I'd say so.
Yeah, I mean, we got to where we had the group of life in Paris,
and, you know, so now we've actually
been someone who people have considered
to be in a decent form, so...
Oh, yeah. Yeah, so now we're pretty happy with it.
Now you get to prove yourself.
Yeah, I guess the biggest thing I want to know
is, like, you know, back to what you were saying
about trying to, you know, walk in and not get distracted.
Do you look to anyone on the team to do that,
or maybe it's you? Is it Coach Noah?
I think all of us kind of help each other.
I think Seiko always brings the experience so he gets to tell us from his past tournaments
and stuff like that and then I think we're all older players so we're competitive and
Noah's obviously done a lot with...
You said older, how old are you Gina?
I'm the youngest and I'm 21.
Yeah okay, yeah I guess you're in young territory now.
But we all help each other out so it's a good team dynamic.
It seems like you guys are always having fun there and I'd be having fun too if
I got a three over Shopify.
So congratulations on the win, man.
It was a good look for first one.
Lots more to go for you now, so keep it up.
But as I said, all the teams got to keep it up
because we have a lot more rock-a-lead
to go on the other side of the break, the same old stuff.
There's more great games, so stay tuned.
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The action continues at the 2026 Rocket League World
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Man City sweeping Shopify rebellion to start off their group. We said it would be close. We thought
it could go either way. We didn't think it'd be this one signing. Yeah, like we can see upsets
happening, but these sweeps that have come out first by Turia. Now Man City like that was a
fantastic show. And again, we took about the groups tiebreakers. Every game matters. Man City
doing exactly what they did in Paris where they went nine and one in their group stage.
And they started out three oh here on the other side of things on the alternate stream. We
We did see NRG drop game 1 to big O, but then hold on the rest of the way.
Do you feel like NRG is looking good today so far, Bates?
I mean, they look like they should look.
They have all the midfield pressure.
They win every single challenge, and they still do not score the ball.
No one there as much as they should.
So, I mean, that is the big thing about NRG that really worries you.
But for this SR team, I mean, this, I mean, we know that the Seiko team
loved the 1-0 game by me.
Yeah, it was very defensive battle.
First killer got a goal there early on, but it looked like split one
Rebellion where they would go for the pass and no
What is happening why is no one moving up? Why is no one?
The first time it's usually the one making those plays, but then we just see like LJ and cofter like it's well throwing the ball away
Maybe maybe I'm a little biased from watching the planes yesterday
But we see a lot of teams that aren't as aggressive as we're used to seeing them
You know, a lot of empty passes that aren't being finished off with quality shots
Oh, she's taken right there a great pass and play there
He was on the money every time he had the ball well done to him well done the man city getting that huge three up
I lose a teammate demo you one time on all three
That is crazy sweeping a team without having to take him off the field a single time at this little
Comp on the off its a side of all they could be there
So by me at the whole point though years very crucial in the year 2026 that you get offered to demo
So the fact that they weren't demoing on office in means that they really weren't scoring that much in office in you
Would just give them you you open up space
You wouldn't be there to help out first company pushes up an office and just give them a chance to win it
You give a team like man see a chance to win they're going to win the match so shop are a billion the jury's all in
Listen, you got a lot of work on it
You don't have much time to do man City and energy gonna start off their group
They've used here one and oh well the other teams will look to bounce back here in round number two and later on
We're going to get man city versus energy. I believe that is today. That match is absolutely huge to see who could possibly top that group
We'll see folks as we continue on two more groups to touch on before we start looping back around here
The alternate stream gonna keep the action going there with the gentleman
They can see them out here across the the way from us here in the group gauntlet area here
Yeah fun jerseys there from well, I'm Walker jerseys always pop in here
The gentleman should have some new ones.
They are the world championship.
That's going to be happening on Twitch.tv
slash RLE Sports.
That match is going to be underway here in just a moment.
Meanwhile, over on our side of things,
we're all still waiting for space station and Falcons.
They are taking to the pitch after the conclusion
of our next match.
Let's get into it.
Vitality with Zen taking on Virtus Pro,
one of the strongest looking teams we saw yesterday
are the plans.
And Bates, we talked about the MVP voting,
your first touch awards.
Yeah, right.
That was like your.
My votes were Zen for MVP personally.
I feel like he really has done a lot to carry vitality
to a consistent spot.
But we'll see what he comes on the field here today.
Virtus.Pro though, the hottest team in the playing.
Talk looked phenomenal.
The hottest player.
Hotest player.
So we'll see how his team is well.
So we'll see.
Amazing.
We'll try to match up between the two
because you guys, Zen, I mean, you know,
he brings that table.
He could have won MVP gifts.
I wouldn't have had it if he did.
The all-between the two heroes, Zen,
have not a bad pick but talk.
If he's still playing at that level, he might be one of the few players in the game that keep up with his zen on his game too.
Yeah, I don't think it's the hottest take in the world, necessarily.
The X factor for the entire run for Vitality here is going to be exotic.
He's kind of a polarizing figure with this team.
There are a lot of people that kind of look at him and go, well, he's fumbling a lot.
And then, you know, there are days, maybe not as often as you'd like, where he is the centerpiece of the Vitality offense.
And it reminds me of an old Vitality team that had a similar situation with a guy named Redo Senio.
I see a lot of similarities here with that team and this Vitality.
The full range of experience present in this match with Tachemenin as a world championship rookie,
Vitality has Zen and Exotic as former world champions.
I think we learned a lot at the beginning of the season.
We tried to integrate everyone in the team well.
I think we had a bit of time before starting as a team, but we did work together.
We learned how the others worked, so we were able to work better and train better.
Right now, we're here today, I think we're in the top 4 of my team.
If I were a personal player, I would be a World Champion twice,
even though I'm still in my early career, it would be exceptional.
And also for the club that is Vitality, which is exceptional, it would be crazy.
What I want to prove in these words is that we are going to win
and show that we are the best team in the world.
of the strongest teams after you guys have been doing scrims, your first showing today
for games.
Do you feel that way?
Are you guys feeling on top of the world?
We are definitely feeling excited and ready.
And just we want to, like we had a bad EWC, so we want to show that we can bounce back
and just we want to deliver and have fun during the tournament.
Yeah, you have three extremely talented players on your roster.
Where do you find the moment where you step in and tell them to start adjusting
rather than allowing them to figure out what they need to do next.
I think it's always a discussion.
Like, you can't really come with your ID and force them,
but it's just like directing and making them understand each other
so they know how we want to play on the field and live better synergy.
No, no, exactly.
Now, I'm not going to keep bringing this up, I promise you, chat,
but I do have to bring up specifically the tier list, the chat,
or the dusted earlier.
I'm a little upset.
I tried to throw you guys an S tier,
and they moved you down to B?
Yeah, yeah, you see that that's what I said the way they put you in beats here. That's absurd
I like being underdog. It's fine. I get your underdog vitality the underdog
Now of course the big talk right now and they will chat with them specific later Zen
Obviously has been a big talk in terms of his TV twos lately. How does he balance that because?
How does he grind to also working with the team because that feels like hard?
No, I don't think he plays that much. He's just he doesn't lose
If he wins every game, he's just grinding, but no, we have a good balance between Scroom and the two we talk to.
Right. Okay, cool. Awesome. Well, I'm gonna let you get back to team HODL right now.
So thank you for giving me your time. Let's take a look at your opponents.
I think our year from the start, we started out very strong.
We just formed as a team. I was redacted for 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
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 way of your memory.
I also haven't played in front of an RLCS crowd yet.
That's our main first goal, but after we get that we want to
obviously make it into a, 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, that's like, this is everything, like, this is what you want to get to.
While 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, we're the best, we're the best.
We just need to prove it on the stage.
Fatalities, opponents on the other side.
Of course, Curtis, bro, I'm here with Coach Memory, yet again, we've had a few chats so far.
up to play in stage for you guys.
A bit of a breeze.
You guys kind of cruised on through there.
It feels like it's gonna be one of your first big challenges.
Are you guys looking at it kind of the same way?
Yeah, yeah.
I think the teams we play in the plan were good,
but this is another level.
Yeah.
Vitality's a very good team,
but I think that we've paired well,
so we feel good about it.
I don't know, they're only a beater team.
Yeah, that's crazy.
But yeah, looking at today,
obviously the mentality has to show.
Wavey was showing his confidence yesterday,
saying, yeah, actually it was kind of easy.
that obviously the hubris can get ahead of you here.
Did you pull any of that back today?
Or are you letting that confidence seek for it?
To be honest, I think for teams like this,
you have to believe that you can win.
I wouldn't really call it hubris, yeah.
So I liked it, honestly.
I mean, you have to tone it back when you're actually playing,
so you can stay locked in.
But before the match, you have to match obviously.
Yeah, again, obviously the goal for these guys
as mentioned before, I think Taka's saying,
is getting in front of the audience.
But if you look too far ahead,
It's easy to lose what's happening in the moment here.
How do you make sure that they aren't looking too far ahead,
that their eyes are on the four corners of the screen
in front of them right now at this match?
Yeah, I mean, we've been really clear about this the whole time.
Like, the goal is to win the World Championship, of course.
But it's one step at a time.
Everyone's very clear about that.
We take it one match at a time, one game at a time,
one goal at a time.
Yeah, fair enough.
And is there a specific game plan against this squad?
Is it maybe just getting sent out or?
There is a game plan.
You know, a hit ball, a big boot.
Oh, yeah.
That was the same game plan as the other day.
it worked. Yes. I love it. Yeah. Okay. Cool. You know what? Stick with it. Yeah. Get back
with the squad. We're going to get this game going on. Good luck memory. Thank you. Memory
touch on something that I think a lot of casual sports fans, any sports fans maybe don't understand
about what it takes to compete at this level. He said you have to believe that you can
win this match. You genuinely have to be delusional about how good you are to
have a chance to take on teams at the top level. How important is that? I mean,
is any fast enough life even outside of sports. I mean you gotta believe that you
could get the job done if you don't have that true belief in yourself. Who's
gonna believe for you? If they could believe all you want. Listen your mom might
believe for you dad might believe in your little sister but you don't believe
yourself. It's just not gonna happen. And if you don't believe then you're
just gonna give the ball to Zen and then all three members gonna be like
do you challenge? Do you challenge or not? And then we'll see a triple
committee at the last second and then it'll be all right. I know you
wouldn't you know what you will be believing in and then go okay it's
gonna come right in. You don't have to believe in much it just happened
If what often what you believe manifesting there on to something there. There's just your manifesting does the enemy's goal for them
Now I do want to harp on my vitality beats here. I know everyone's talking about a
We did but I had him at B. And the reason why I did was you know, you see like a coach said was not good for them
No, one point five goals per game in that tournament
That was the 12th best offense and if you look at the comparison between Paris and EWC the worst performers
players from the two.
Stizzy less than 0.55 goals per game.
He did 0.55 goals per game worse and exotic.
0.4 assists per game worse between Paris and EWC.
That was the worst of all players that played in both of those tournaments.
So again, Zen had to do a lot of heavy lifting in EWC.
That cannot happen here.
Listen, you gotta watch them stats.
He's doing a lot of yapping right now.
I know.
Watch this, watch this, watch the prediction.
It's coming soon.
He's gonna pick my talent.
I love this gigantic sample size that we're pulling from.
I was just saying, well, at two events,
it's been two different vitalities.
But it hasn't been two different vitalities,
because I think the whole season it's kind of been,
how is Zen, like, how hard can Zen carry, right?
And in Paris, we saw the rest of his team step up
just enough that Zen's carry was enough to put them
all the way to top four.
So all eyes for me are on Stizzy and exotic
in these matchups here at the World Champion.
You got a top two in Boston, top four in Paris.
You got a top eight in EWC.
We can also call me a Corby winner game seven.
The season's been good for Vitality.
How?
There's a chance of being the world champion.
Hey, when you got the sauce, use the sauce.
Zen is out here.
Let us know who you think is going to win
in the press and fan vote.
Oh, my God, pick some of the stacks you got.
Yeah, OK.
I know they struggled in EWC, the RLCS.
They have been great in the RLCS.
They got Vitality here.
I like stacks.
Yep.
I got Vitality as well.
Hey, they're still a great team, but I need Zen's teammates to play well for them to go
far in this tournament.
But I got Vitality.
Let's talk.
Good enough for your baits.
I mean, I think it's really good.
I don't think he's as good as one person.
ZEN, give me Zen and this one Vitality's going to come on top.
It should be about 3-1, I believe.
Virtus.
Pro had to come through the play-in there.
The obvious underdog when going up against the greatest player in the world.
I have Vitality as well.
What an upset it would be if they were pulled off.
Vitality on one side.
side, Virtus Pro on the other and is going to come up for vitality. The clean sweep coin
has been hot. I think he's gotten the last three correct. We'll see if we can get a kick
gets up to four. This is going to become a statistical anomaly. It's not supposed to
beat this. But again, game one, very important. We saw Pagodes, you know, they take down
energy in game one. They were a playing team that got that warm up VP, the hottest
team in the playing. Absolutely have to win game one if they want any chance. We'll
see if they can pull it off here. Have the North Americans shown up in force.
It has been a very popular team this season, but Vitality
then is on a whole another level.
What a win it would be if Virtus.
Pro could take it down Vitality to open up group stages
here for the 2026 Rock League World Championship.
Two world championships on one side, a rookie on the other.
Biggest names in the game clashing here in Fort Worth.
Folks, let's get into it.
Vitality versus Virtus.
Pro.
Well, VP were the team to watch yesterday, steamrolling their way through the play-in bracket.
But today, they enter the World Championship.
They enter the World of Zen.
Can they pull it off?
Out of the frying pan and into the fire, Burgers-Pro trying to take down Team Vitality to start their group stage.
For them, it just gets more and more difficult.
But there's no easy road for anyone.
Absolutely not.
The first place in the group is massive in these soft situations.
You get a skip route, you get an easier way through the rest of the tournaments.
No loss is a good loss to take.
That's how it's even very late, actually, on the follow-up here.
That took far too long looking for the passing players,
when they saw the top plays earlier on.
Just how good of a beat the other.
Finding one another.
Exactly, you don't want to get on any time here, Shogun.
It just feels like when they get time, especially talk,
it's gonna be a big factor in the way this offense works.
You can expect two-piece of Wavy to get some space to kind of move around the field.
For vitality, it is going to be shutting that down.
It is a lot of space given early on in this game, though.
Both teams really trying to figure out how the other one's moving up and down the field.
Yeah, this is the most we are playing in the World Championship now, game one we have seen.
Wavy, might just go first time on the shots.
Stizzy realized it, quick enough. More bumper temps coming in for a reset. No one really to pass around to.
It was also called the challenge, doesn't quite find it. Things that went back at the top, BPM in the middle of team in the opening minutes.
And they translate that into anything. It's not really coming to any 50s at all on either side.
Yeah, it just feels very slow, like testing. It's just, okay, this is my move. How are you going to respond to it?
the type of play. You haven't seen too much. Really impio connection, just...
It's just testing both years. Someone's waiting to take that extra step. Who's going to take the first
risk here in the game? Oh, they're not risking the whole once.
Ah, not today. The stakes are too high.
Oh, but at the back, it's not got any boost. Exotic. There's him.
See, he's not going to have a boost situation on his opposing team.
Okay, still the team with the vast majority of the possession is now on the back of the
torch on his way to meet it.
You're the last one.
You might have given too much, but we're in steady wave dashes to try and prove the
recovery.
Just look at this.
My team coming to any challenges and as much as that is a crisis, the other crisis is,
but why is nobody doing anything with it?
Yeah, that's the big thing.
No one is doing anything with the ball right now, Shogun.
like when we saw it's dizzy into the air just now,
he literally brought the ball into the other corner.
I'm gonna be honest, if I'm watching Stibby
bring the ball into the corner,
I know there's no reason for me to jump
because his options are so limited.
Now with that play, of course,
yeah, you're gonna see more of a reaction from two piece.
I gotta cut that out.
Don't let it play off the backboard.
But it just is the utilization with the ball.
You put the ball in threatening positions right now.
That's a question neither team has answered here.
Probably the slowest game.
And I've seen, until we get that pitch from Tupys,
everyone is post-over-sort!
I just want to see where the power came from.
Centra, the dance is way out.
And Exotic helps it whip the pitch into the extra net.
And this is the annoyance.
When you play this sort of style,
somebody's going to lose from it.
And now you think, I've wasted three minutes.
You're right, and now you've got to get going.
You've got to get going, and you're playing behind the clock.
Exotic wants to make up for it, and if he'll pass to Stizzy, two-piece!
Game on and get that one!
Block it for Tawk, and now, Long, moving up here.
Not a lot of moves, has a flick. Tries to wave-dash it to a flick, but...
Oh, no!
Just the rate.
Respawn straight into the pattern.
Exotic's left ruined all of his momentum.
By Tawk, he's not clicking at the moment.
Stizzy on his way up. Exotic jumped as well.
Does that put him in a rough spot?
It's got a rough spot! It's a dire bottom position!
You're expecting a little bit of contact here.
Oh man, that's not what you want to give up in a lapse on the side of Virtus.pro.
Even they are like, did that really just go in?
I'm not entirely sure what is happening at the moment.
The team that's getting all the results for it.
Really, Vitality will not be happy with how they have started off their world championship.
Stacey, wants to bring this into the corner. It'll be taught, but it's not too heavy.
It gives it a free to the dive. It sits back into the midfield.
That's the problem right now. So many of these are just hits, and it just, yeah, I can just wait for it.
I hope we talk earlier on about how Niverteam is actually diving in or challenging anything.
Why would you? If we're both going to just arrive on your hood anyway.
Exactly. But then, you see, weird cases of that from Vitality. You will go back to the first goal that went right.
Why is it Xaviq shoving the challenge down, especially on Long Booth?
Would two-piece options weren't as threatening as need be?
That was a real good opportunity. Reset for Xaviq.
Look for the drop bug, he's a follow-up!
An exhaust that goes sky-ing straight past the ball.
30 seconds, it fails!
Oh no, Stizzy backflip, he can't get the follow-up as well.
Now time to take him down.
Vitality want to go inside, shot, easy block for two-piece.
Wavy, pops it up high, Zed drop down to Stizzy, follow-up.
Awesome block for talk again.
And Vitality, maybe this game won, ending up squarish for them.
They've got 10 seconds to go.
Going straight for the shot. You can't fall and take any extra steps. This one has to go in and it doesn't!
VP take game number one.
Wow! Vitality trying to get one in at garbage time.
But no, like all their efforts falls empty.
Virtus Pro with the strike here. But it does feel like Vitality gave them that game.
Well the first one was very much anybody can score. We're just waiting to see where that ball ends up.
Eventually someone's going to get a good position for that second goal.
How does that even happen?
Faked out by your own teammate, missing the ball.
And even the first one we saw was helped on by a bad angle challenge by Exotic.
Vitality.
We've not got much time to get this sorted out. It is a best of five.
Yeah, this is just not the open that you're looking for, especially after all the talk coming in.
like this. So it's just got worse and worse after it.
This is not what you want to see, especially when you're looking at Zen, right? Mr. 3000,
you're expecting to come in a prime form, only one shot out of the 10 on this team that game.
He wasn't doing a lot of work to try to set up everybody else, but just the scoring was
not there for vitality.
Yeah, they sort of got the opportunities going towards the latter half of that.
But it was technically expected too little too late. If you're the team that concedes
That first one you're having a game like that you so it's that thing stuff. Okay. What are we doing? Like we need to
Actually take this to them. I'm hoping this is a much more open game here from vitality
I think they've just realized that what they were just doing does like if they're after a match of consistency
They are the team that wins that exactly
Zane wants to start this one off your game two on your screen
Might be caught out two peas got the bouncer off the farm
He doesn't mess that one up! First bounce right first again!
Look at this one more time, exotic. I mean, Timmy's just in the right spot to make himself relevant.
Just tries to read where the pass is going to go up to.
And does well enough, but again, Vitality are just caught.
Yeah, I mean, again, exotic was long moves, too far forward.
This piece of kickoff here. Is it what the follow up does going to demo, give some space to Stizzy.
Stizzy, maybe he can set up a dynamic pre-jump, plays it high, Zed's not going to go for that at all.
So Stizzy will try to keep this in play. This is better control than we've seen from Vitality, but again, they can't hold on for it for too long.
That's awkward as well.
Well, Sprote trying to make something of it, Zed kept completely silent to this point in the series, and that's just handed over.
He has been just as up-bumped for a lot of these hit-and-hope shots from his own side of the field.
It does feel like Zin is struggling to kind of find his footing, and because I think for him, you're setting up demos to try to set the offense again, that's not working.
You don't want a tunnel vision at the same time, and which are vitalities come to forth.
They're very hectic, and Zin does kind of lead back for the most part.
If he can't figure it out, I mean that's tough for the entire team.
I think that best chance to really create something in a while, Zens!
Final pass, the first challenge.
If he equally is worried about his broken off, or his broken another counter-attacking goal,
he's just colliding through Zens' low boost!
Oh no!
Give him a hundred boost!
Give him a thousand!
He's not stopping that!
Wavey with time!
Line it up and let it rip!
Right under the crossbar!
Vitality have had nothing versus Pro.
Are dominating.
And they need to keep this going at the moment.
Two piece, looking for another one out.
Wow, I thought if they just got something on the board,
maybe Stizzy can't provide.
No, it's way beyond, and another stop from Torg.
Oh, I didn't leave that for Torg.
Not a boost here for a follow by touch.
Stizzy wants to pick this up, needs something here, Zin up field, trying to play close to the play.
Does get a quick peek, an exact potato attack, tries to outflip Zin, but two-piece still gets the block!
Another block for two-piece! It's a best strike for Vitality, comes up 50!
Versus Pro are playing a blinder at the moment. So well, always covering for each other.
A demo on the far side, but this doesn't gonna mean anything because
his weight was already on the ball and the power that Virts is
throwing getting on every single clear gave them that first
goal gets them out of here. Send reset almost but doesn't matter
gets a block over into the corner. That is safe. The
vitality is best strikes have been when the pass in field
these solo players are not going to cut it. Virts post defense
has been phenomenal communication and moments of
panic has been great for vitality to eat a little bit
more to take these balls up individually have to get
physical or absconding for your passing.
I don't see another way to score outside of it.
That's right, not taking any unnecessary risks.
This is the number one that's almost over the head
of Vitality's third man.
Reset game immediately used.
Just where is the gold-scoring chance come on?
Here it is!
And it's in!
The lead cut down to one.
Finally, Zed on the board,
wavy, tries to get that pass,
it's a good pitch from Xavi,
but also it's the threat of the bubble.
Again, that's physical,
that pressure, forcing two-piece atomic.
Guess where the ball's going to go.
Not enough time to think, and that shot from Zane.
Great placement.
That's a big demo as well, because it causes
Stizzy to be the player to take over.
I don't think he's going to mind that too much.
Looks forward to a shot, and it's off, but it won't work.
Exoptix on his way in.
He's far too low.
Looks for a pass instead.
Almost a fake from Stizzy.
No one falling for that.
Minute and 40 on the clock.
Leaders are only one goal.
And by penalty, yet again, have
Left it late for looking better in the second half of the game.
Control of the ball, you know, you talked about Skizzy when he had a chance there.
He could have probably took a shot, it was better for him to take that off.
Oh my goodness.
Meanwhile, Wavy looks over for Wavy again!
I just want to see this touch. One more time to set it up.
Two-pees!
Just pops it on over, and Wavy's got the wonby one.
It's the same play that Vitality had on the bad one, where even though it's not...
It's the threat of the buck. He doesn't know how much boost 2Ps has, so when 2Ps advance,
he's forced to go, so that he can't give him time to line up the buck. That, as soon as
2Ps 2Ps jumps, I mean, Wavy's a 1v1 expert. He knows, okay, as soon as he jumps, I got him.
It was great.
Well, let's go drop down Zen. First off, Shot Wavy's already there. Wavy is having
a stand-down performance in this game.
Well, well, take the time.
All the time, Wavy's at the clock. This is the most you've got to do, the work,
I don't position. One minute, two goals. Zend's on the way.
His first shot's dizzy.
Rifle down!
That's not real!
I can't even read a rifle Zend!
Look at this! He moves up, feels! Sees his moment!
It makes a strike count right to the top left!
Okay. This series is starting to heat up.
Dutch Bro either haven't recognized or they're not doing anything about it.
They keep allowing Vitality to lose back corner!
No one cost them this goal!
And it might cost them the game! Vitality have inched it, inched their way back into this game!
What a read there from Stasi Liner's corner!
Perfectly for the dunk!
Two pieces on the back wall and no one is getting over that top corner.
As good as Dutch Bro been, this kickoff needs to be fixed up.
Now try something different this time, but it's exotic, first opportunity.
Vitality, that's been their only consistent thing.
And it's been enough.
Stizzy to the corner.
Also trying to get another one, can't quite get there.
Well, this is a shift in here from mid-temple, these final 30 seconds.
Virtus.pro went for playing the clock.
To root how play they needed for overtime.
One thing's for certain though, Vitality has had control
in the last minute or two of this game.
And they had that in the last game as well.
This can get the result for it. The damage is already done this time.
This is gonna be exciting looking for another block.
My time to shift it away from the outplays. Happy to take the 50s midair.
It's not that awkward, but I think nobody's really wanting to track me too much.
Another two-piece by Rechev. Look for the passing play.
And we have overtime!
Again, the kickoffs have been in Vitality's favor.
This one is the big one! There's a bump!
Stimpy! Bump! Stimpy!
Yes! Vitality equalized the series!
And you knew it! The moment he was on the ball, he's gonna 50 it.
Vitality for their fans out there.
My goodness, your heart rate's gonna keep going every time this teams up because they don't make it easy for themselves even when they win.
That play was so good, and they got all the way up out and see that's what he's got.
Give me some, Stizzy!
9-0, play it, Michael Stizzy!
Master of performance, especially considering the situation.
The first half of this game, the entirely vertical, picking up all the momentum from Game 1.
They looked like they were in control, and they were going to put the fingers on that point.
That's from Wavy, disgusting!
So good.
And then he gets another one straight after the back.
Sissi knows that the flick is available.
It's just seen it, and Wavy shows.
He's got more than one tool in that locker.
But you can't do that to Sissi and not expect a receipt.
And that was delivered.
Signed sealed into the back of your neck.
The smiles extinguished on the side of Virtus Pro.
Well, two piece might still have one.
So I'll take it.
He's just a smiley fucker.
He is a smiley guy, though.
I'll be honest.
We'll see if things will change here as Vitality struck the net and they just kept going.
It feels like they're on fire right now.
Converter's pro slowed down as we enter a future of Guardian.
Buds Pro continue to have success at the start of these games.
That's a good kickoff.
It's honestly gonna be different here from Buds Pro.
Torx already waiting for it.
When it goes straight for them, back for a double!
Stats away with it!
It's never a third!
Two-pays!
What's the way to start game?
And number three, complete control off the kickoff.
Kickoff's with a problem in game two.
They said, okay, let's make that adjustment
as quickly as possible.
Wow, hot start, front is part of,
struck first early every game of the series.
Well now, kickoffs happen spotter for BP.
Low from Wavy.
Do you want to take anyone, want me once again?
Said no, I did not think so.
Two-piece, any follow-ups?
because he chooses not to dive in towards him.
He's down on his way.
This gets the demo for it, off the wall, exotic.
Not any further, and that's a broken, written situation.
The mentality for first part
when they're in the lead has to change.
Last time, they put their foot off the gas
in that game, changed that mentality back in.
They've got to play hard,
the entire rest of the clock here.
Otherwise, the mentality will make their way back.
Talk with a little bit of space.
Bobby Cohn's dizzy out,
but Sidney's great big challenge.
Then just the lighting is what's sitting.
That's awkward.
Two pieces.
Don't worry, Ken.
What he can't was just enough.
Off the post.
And Vitality should be one each.
Nice little 50.
Wiggy does get that mid-mousse as well.
Ball possession, though, goes to his eye.
He can see a little bit more of him out of the series.
He has a couple of opportunities.
The Stizzy has been on the ball.
How much more can he do this year?
It was an electric game too, don't need that again.
Same with the white line, just fall onto him, but...
Got a bump to the waist, this is on no boost.
Infield pass.
To no one.
Yeah, the invisible man is not on your team.
Wavy takes it under his control.
Back to the corner, Wavy's in a great series.
It's another one that I think that's broke.
They were never really going to dive on that.
But two riskiers, we do get a double commit.
And Charmaine took Bade.
It's not really quick, but I'll go see your representatives.
And I get a repeat of Lyon for Wild Card.
I don't know how the rest of the group goes,
but you have to see Joe Mates in form.
Three minutes to go here in the swing game,
and Verna's probably still with the lead,
but game is starting to slow down a bit.
Vitality are looking for their way back here.
Meanwhile, Tom almost got a win there.
Oh, damn, with a big demo.
Can he get the gold?
Oh, he missed!
He missed for 3,000 misses,
He knew he got it wrong straight from the off, so he tried to adapt it.
Backflip into the shot just to bind some time.
And it was still not good enough. Stizzy.
Straightens the top, 1-0, still there for a tough game left to go.
One hand at the top of the pin.
He's looking at too much further, exotic does 1-100.
Sends on 0, that's going to drop straight down by Tassie.
Come in, fully. Air dribbling's a 50, that is the entire game plan.
If he'll pass his vitality, starting to ramp up as the clock ticks down, you can see even though Zed, he'll be a field full boost, but it's just the threat of the pressure, it's creating space for vitality.
Zed is very good at showing more boost than he actually has. Zed reset all he wanted to take it.
Demo failed there from exotic, so he's out of play for a little while, Stizzy. Fort would catch for him, but he's just doing fine at the moment.
Can't quite get the demo he was after, however.
Is he on the turn?
Wavey takes it, and you can't afford to lose that lifty.
That was risky!
Number five Talisman's around to punish.
Yeah, he's lucky he didn't get pressure there.
Does get the corner boost, a little bit of a bump.
You see a bit of panic there out of talk?
Once he realized there was a chance there would've got a demo.
Now he's got it.
Is he gonna fake this?
Can't do anything else with it.
No, he's just gonna give it all, though.
Have to burn his pro.
That's not the first time that Exotic's trying to create something,
and nobody's been around.
The team's not quite sinking with him at the moment, a transfer tap of Exotic back off the backboard, Zen all-time it! Two players would have had it!
Oh man! And honestly, Xayah, he probably had a good look at a shot there, but wanted to try to set up Zen for a play.
This is going to be a ball to two-piece, high ball. Is there a chance for a follow?
Oh, Zen's got it.
Zen does hesitate, talk last back. 50 Zen to slow things down, final minute though.
And Vitality has been playing this close, but he's still a one-goal game.
Oh, it's close!
Exotic just stretches over.
Keep that out of his net.
Wavy's not going to dive forward for this.
25 seconds, one goal.
Exotic does take over.
Can't quite follow it.
But Niver is really trying to put pressure on that one.
He ends the final few moments of the game.
MVP put themselves on match point.
So it's forced to go long.
He can't do enough.
Exotic, want to stop.
forward. 25 seconds by Talon to get the ball in the orange half. Can they keep it there? Can they scores in?
Goes far, but can't get it. Stizzy, the rest of the team doesn't have boost here, so now Wavy is going to want to play this close.
They're going to want to run down the clock. Final 10.
Let's get to 100 as well, where everybody on my team does as well. Last opportunity.
Stizzy, players in with the ball, the Torx got them covered, and Exotic's missed it entirely.
So not only have they missed the chance, they've lost the game.
I can't believe there's just so much to process there Shogan process it we've
got a minute we might have more than a minute there's a chance my time to take
a time out here I cannot believe after that last game Disney had 900 points
you're seeing it on your screen right now 146 it just felt like defensively
Verdes Pro just shut down every opportunity Vitality had before they could even come close to creating
I mean Verdes Pro came into this game with a plan
That's so good
Maybe gets the kickoff or the challenge lost over to his teammates
And they just kept on going from there for Verdes Pro
This has been a coach's dream of a match. They are doing everything right
Well, Vitality, the coaches, they got some things to say about this because three different
occasions there. Exotic went for setups. Three different occasions, the ball went to absolutely
nobody and I don't know if that's on him or if nobody's sticking around.
Yeah. I mean, but we've seen some issues with exotic over the course of it. You talk
about the game one, where from the ball that led to the goal.
I am also not talking about that zero second play. That is an entirely different piece.
But that being said, no, no, no, yeah, but that being said, I think for vitality is just you end up going into game two with so much offense and to get shut out the way you did.
I've been talking about it kind of issues with consistency and really getting your game plan together. Meanwhile, for Virtus Pro, almost a little bit of the same.
It did feel like, okay, once they were up,
they're not as aggressive on the ball.
And sometimes they do give vitality chances to get in,
but this time, their defense held up.
I don't know if, you know, vitality increased their office
if their defense could do that again.
Yeah, it's something that is definitely working
in this series, depending on how far
the pro wants to go.
You're gonna need to, you know,
you can't feel that against some of the top teams
in this tournament.
They will punish you for that,
Now Vitality punched themselves more often than anything else.
Timeout has been taken, a quick reminder as well that.
So there's groups, plenty of matches still to play.
But losses really impact your opportunity to top the group,
to skip some rounds, to be guaranteed top six.
Virtus.Pro are playing in qualifying team,
and yet again, they've had the better kickoff.
We'll see the trend of Virtus.Pro first goal.
And maybe Vitality can change things up as they look to force a game 5 here.
A little bit of physicality coming out, you see it's easy to get a demo on wavy.
Xen was very aggressive last game looking for both the demos in creative space,
but the execution was the biggest problem on Vitality.
This is pretty struggling with that one.
Two different misplays in the amount of touches.
That's in front of the goal, right wavy?
Oh, you're gonna have to, really.
Even if you don't think you're gonna get it, talks on the way.
Look for the backwards, says he goes to meet and zen next one up.
Once the 50 does get it, he can keep going a couple of wave dashes.
Two players twice get him off the ball, but where's the follow?
Vitality have got to get somebody around.
And what's weird for me here, Daz, is that Vitality's second man,
their next one up, always seems to have 12 boosts or less.
It feels like Vitality would want to kind of welcome the counter attack.
They do have such a strong counter, but at the same time, the way that Virtus.Pro's offense
has worked, you don't want to give them so much time in your own half.
I feel like those are the things that have been clashing over the course of the series.
Virtus.Pro, they're so good at the execution in front.
If Vitality, anytime they're inconsistent, Virtus.Pro's getting there every single time.
This one! Fight!
Was that on?
I don't think it was.
You want to make sure of it anyway.
I think even if it was on target, that is getting saved.
Then over towards the backboards.
One to fifty again.
I don't know exactly what they want.
They're going to topple them.
These worry me.
Alright, some of the goals that we have seen.
The fight I was going to see.
That's back out quite nicely.
It's off the close way.
Get us Dustin.
Zeb has to get that contact.
Let's hope we put that in.
Stacey needed a candy. Strong clearance upfield. Exotic. One and a piece of it could connect.
Stacey up. Just throwing that towards net. Once he could get a ground up, which is not as a boost on the plane.
And every time, they brought it to Verstow. It's kind of the same thing. Try to just control the ball, keep it close, to at least play a 50 out there.
Not getting the ball straight back to my salad.
Stacey dropped down nicely. Stacey takes the shots.
Still no nil over here.
Does he might want to turn? Definitely does, goes high. Two PZ check for him.
And he's done well enough to get Wavy back into position.
What a stop. This game, kitchen is starting to rise. Zin, low shot, blocked out by Wavy.
Versus Bro are inviting so much pressure at the moment.
Zin's going to go all the way back, realizes that. He can just get that 100.
Over towards the backboard, close to close detective. Talked to us to get to him.
A little bit of a touch and that was enough to ruin Zenz momentum forwards
Now pitch no as you look for a bump instead clearance. Now we go again from his own back wall
No one even pre-jump some now. There's a pre-jump for wavy forces in to finally go up
They got a little bit of contact there. 50 to two-piece on his own back wall
What it's set up Stizzy there but Stizzy wasn't in position and now it goes back to the blue in
Westpro playing very reactionary, and it's working. Maybe if not much longer, Zen.
Heavy first touch from him.
Let's get the possession. Now he's got the bottom part again.
It's just my quality never seems to believe that the best possible outcome can happen.
Really have players around. Wavy wants it back out. Oh, what a pass!
Saved his own teammate. Shaw, we've all been there. Feels horrible.
That drops down somewhat dangerously, but no one around to follow up.
Now it's the time to get your start you gonna see that many flash on the screen soon. You can tell
Everyone's got to get into high gear more risk of being taken
Who's gonna really get the edge here exotic in the book there. No one's really even committed with them
Zinn does get the boost didn't have the ball. Does he have the backboard read?
He does but it's just not enough way to get to stop at the goal line
I think Zinn was a bit shot by that as well because GP have not been making mistakes in those positions
The backboard defense has been automatic
But again, Virtus Pro, they cover for each other.
Exotic, almost faked them out.
Every shot seems to have two Virtus Pro defenders ready to meet it.
Stizzy can get that over the top of top, realize it.
Merely aims high on his challenge.
Zed, on the way, wants the 50, gets it.
Out to Exotic, Stizzy considers, but he doesn't want to die.
And for good reason, let's go for his head.
Zed, oh, you see two pieces,
He's a top three, low boost, but not tall gas boost.
Ziggs trying to get the bump, but not that far.
He can't get the follow-up.
Ziggs shots back good, either.
Final 10 seconds, and a chance for a counter.
No, he's out, he keeps it in.
Can he get this pass to defense?
Where is Pro showing the door?
Ziggs trying to get the mid-boost.
He's got zero, this is off the corner and down,
and we have overtime.
To win the series for Virtus.Pro.
What a story they have had for our Miss Tournament.
I'm already on stage 2!
I'm done!
Ahhhh!
Start at group stage!
In absolute elation!
A stunner!
Vitality!
Shocked!
Burn is prone!
They don't need many champs, the ones they care are golden.
And the Vitality, wise been a rough patch, now feels like the ground is starting to fall
out from under them.
The group stage continues but it doesn't get easier.
No, it does not.
It's chances for vitality, but Virtus.pro was just so much more in form.
The World Championship doesn't care about your records going in.
It cares about if you can show up and show out.
And Virtus.pro's just that.
We're standing by with me.
We're in it.
An absolute upset here on day one of group's vertus pro over team of vitality talk
Congratulations. Thank you. It is unreal. What does that be to your team? I guess, right?
They played insane. They were
Honestly, may someone say and saves on defense. I think that kept us in the game and we're able to let just like put
Put our shots on that. Yeah
Well, I one of the things that death said is that for you guys to win you'd need to win game number one
You guys did that you guys kind of look at it the same way maybe of like we got to come out the gates running
Um, yeah, we got it. Definitely. I think that I think that coming out strong
It's one of the one of the biggest things you have to do in all series
Sure, and I mean even that second game. I think we definitely should have we should secure that but yeah, you know
We didn't yeah, fair enough. I obviously you guys had a match earlier today, too
That was a little
I noticed I know was I was thinking about scrap what I said
For you guys in a match of going up this confidence is what memory said, but
You have to have her and when I was looking at the cams you guys actually have that you specifically never looked shook at all
Do you feel inside though? Do you feel a lot of people feel like especially during those like those like overtime games or those like last?
You know like minute like last seconds going down. I feel it's very nerve-wracking, but yeah, you know
Yeah, you gotta try to just fight through it.
Well, with the vitality down, do you feel invincible now?
We feel pretty, pretty invincible.
OK, good.
Well, hopefully you can keep that going for groups here.
I know that you can go celebrate the team.
Why not?
All right, congratulations to Virtus Pro.
As always, a lot more groups to come.
We're only here on day one of groups.
So please go get your snacks and come right back.
Okay, the bummer 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.
Don't really believe me. Life is meaningless with that affirmation, am I right?
I
help you grow milk cat stop your monster's dream of being a nail-tech
The other chance is to kill it, he goes for the ceiling, he's got the razor, if you're
Give me your shirt!
So keep inside
Yeah
Where you are, you're the danger
Closer than your heart
When the weight is getting heavy
And the future is unsteady
Close your eyes, close your eyes
Think about all the dreams you keep inside
Think about all the ones you love
I know there's been hope in my gut
I know that we could all become
With no heart so cold that we'll lose it
Oh, I need it
I need it
When the darkness comes and we walk
But yeah, I need it
That's when we need each other
That's when we need each other
I'm wondering eyes that I seem to follow
Can only stay still for some time
I never lie when this is possible
That makes it easier to leave behind
I just wanna get to know
Riders watching Tokyo
So I hear it whispering
I can't think of the words you understand
I just wanna get to know
Riders watching Tokyo
So I hear it whispering
and the action continues to evolve the upsets continue to roll in vitality then taken down
by Vertus, pro, and four game.
Yeah.
This has been a crazy event so far.
And this is the day alone.
More upset, so maybe the entire Paris major.
So it really goes to the prep work
that these teams are putting in these underdog teams
to come out on top.
We've got VP, the hottest team in the play-in.
It's a new level now, but they
continue to show that level.
I mean, we thought in the play-in,
seeing talk pop off against the teams that
struggled to get their goal.
Oh, that makes sense.
They pop off here.
Not against Vitality.
I mean we talked a lot about how this was the most open tournament that we've ever had.
Normally there's one big scene that you're expecting.
They've sort of got that focus, but for the rest there's about one of the teams that we're the favorites here, right?
Because it seems like Winning isn't a easy fight.
I understand he got swept by the wind and he's going!
Yeah, it's kind of true.
The VP boys were asking leave because this guarantees the title.
It still does not. It's still come forth in this group.
And we've seen crazy groups before, so you got to keep playing at your best level, but excited.
I feel like he's in his own head.
He's really like, he's making mistake after mistake, like this with here, he had a with later at zero
when they're trying to tie game three, I think it was like, he's got to figure that.
It wasn't just the whiffs either game, so it's also just the clinical shooting.
Usually, if one thing you can count on from XO, he's going to drop the thing top right.
Even to get this game number three, he had a couple of moments where
Queen shot opportunities with their form, their forward tool, and he just simply couldn't catch in it when you're making those other mistakes, too.
It's too much to overcome, because you got VP with talking to boys, two P's away, they're playing their best ball of the season so far.
And not only that, VP fully trusts all three members right now. They are attacking as a unit, while the other side, when there are those mistakes out of vitality, you lose that trust, you lose that follow-up.
They've been out for a long time, but it's great.
And I think during that time, they can even feel sorry for themselves
that their season has to take this break, or they can keep building upon it.
And that is exactly what they've been doing.
It's been a great for that as well.
I mean, it was a great performance from that.
And there's going to be a lot of talks about how Vitality didn't play well.
Wave Punk, but VP, they played so well.
They've played fantastic.
They have a win in the groups and the stats.
Tell them the similar story here.
I'm just to have to know, this doesn't matter,
but just the difference in the offensive semifinals,
This match in the last match is crazy.
But yeah, it's just like you got 13.
13 times you're taking them off the field.
Couldn't capitalize it.
It's gotta be that new update.
It must be doing wonders.
It has to be doing.
It's the substance, man.
Wait, is this the first time?
No, this is the second tournament.
Oh, it's just turning fast.
It's a new update, right?
Because the new update came out before Paris.
Right before Paris.
And then the 13 is just like, it's a 10 difference.
And also on the other screen, we
had a wild card going down 3-0.
They did put up a fight.
There was an overtime in game one,
I believe an overtime in game three as well.
So I know, like, they said,
no, it was there, there was a four point 15 second.
Oh, that's what you get a speech at.
And I was like, oh, how do they always do this?
Yeah, I think game two, I think, was an overtime.
Wildcard will have to look back,
look to bounce back in the future of matches there.
Their next team is Vitality,
but hey, who knows what will happen
given how things have gone so far today.
On the alternate stream,
they have Carmen Cortez,
made in Brazil that match is underway as we speak.
So make sure you have that stream pulled up
to catch all the action, the blue wall,
playing here at the World Championship.
Here on the mainstream, a couple more threes matches.
Actually, I'm at that tipping point
at the halfway point of the day.
We have three more threes matches here
before we get into the 1v1 semifinals
at the end of the day.
Boosted minds coming up a little bit later against Fury.
Let's start talking about the EWC Grand Finals rematch
we have here in the day one of groups at Worlds.
It's Falcons taking on SSG.
And the last time these guys played,
it was a 4-0 for Falcons.
And Falcons, since CWC, just looked so good defensively,
even when they only have one man back.
They'll be in 2-1 situations, it does not matter.
Their defense is holding up,
which allows them to have that dynamic offensive push
right after space station.
We know their potential.
Their peak is an all-time high,
and they can beat literally anyone.
Can they get the revenge versus Falcons here?
The Role-Oscar Killers played in the Grand Finals last year and Lyon are looking to return for that stage.
Boston Major was pretty good overall, almost made the Grand Final. We were one goal away.
And then, you know, split two 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 it up perfectly.
As always we're going to have to beat 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 goodest, rock league players of all time, in terms of achievements.
I would mean a lot to see Falcons win this
because it's the greatest achievement in the market league.
In this World Championship, it's Falcons to win.
I'm here with Falcons in once again.
My best friend now, the whom we've been hanging out a lot.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good.
Yeah, that's good.
I mean, you guys should be feeling good.
You know, the desk was talking about it.
We're all going to be talking about it.
This is a rematch from EWC, where you guys came out
I think he's a spoiler alert, Borough, sweet. It was very good for you guys.
Uh, does that play into how you prepare for this?
Like, did you just like, not worry about it because you knew you could beat them?
Uh, the special, they showed how great team they are in AWC.
Right.
So we are prepared for them. AWC, it's finished.
Now we're focusing today.
Right.
That's because we won against them in the finals.
That means we're going to win again.
Yeah.
Of course, it gives us confidence that we can win.
Mm-hmm.
But we have to take every game at a time.
So this is the mindset.
Yeah, okay. I mean, for you guys,
you know, you can't look at what's been happening
in scrims outside of this.
Do you have to look at what happens here?
Are you worried for Space Station
that they've been preparing for you guys specifically,
that they want that revenge back from you guys?
Of course. Their motivation is so high to win every game.
Especially, they are one of the best team in America.
So we are ready for everything.
Yeah, and I guess for the squad in general, you know, this is a brand new day from yesterday.
You guys should have said you deserve to be here in the groups, and you've proven that.
Do you ever, you know, or sorry, did you see any changes today from the players?
Sometimes, you know, you wake up and you're not playing as well.
Or do they look as just as good as you?
Yeah, they always look good, look confident.
They are experienced players, champions, all of them.
Yeah.
So we are confident.
Good.
Confidence seems to be the key for all these teams.
We'll see if you guys can do what you did at the UFC.
Good luck.
Let's take a look at your buttons.
The world championships, like everything,
it's what everyone fights for for the whole season.
And it's like the ultimate goal in the C-Sport.
You know, we've practiced.
We've skied 5,000s of bands consistently,
improving over time across each split.
got better and better results from Boston and in Paris.
And we hope to continue that here at Worlds.
I mean, we think we're the best team in the internet.
We definitely know how good we can be.
Getting second in a year, we certainly just
confirms that and shows that we left a little on the table
in the grand final.
But in that, we feel good about the tournament
and shows that we can really be anybody
and definitely give us a lot of confidence going into Worlds.
Just play confident, play our game, play calm, and just give it our best.
Story of revenge is going to be on the docket here for Space Station Gaming.
I have coach X-Bear.
We just talked about it with the Falcons.
Of course, the last matchup you guys had didn't go in your guys's favor.
So I'm going to bring it up.
Sorry to bring that up again.
You know, are you looking at that matchup and trying to get a little bit
of revenge? Is that on the table? Is that an emotion you guys are feeling?
Not really. We kind of know how we lost. We didn't bring our game at all in that series.
We started well and then the series just stopped too and we kept doing more mistakes.
So hopefully we can just show that the series is like a fluke and we can never win against them.
Now after a matchup like that, of course you're sad to lose.
Does that kind of envelop the players a lot?
Because you just have to step back and say, you were in the grand finals.
Is it easy to lose sight for the players of how well they're actually doing?
And do you have to remind them a lot that, hey, no, you guys are great?
No, if anything, it's the opposite. We're like making sure we don't get complacent.
Oh, for two heads or something.
Yeah, for two heads or something.
Exactly.
No, that's good. Well, I guess coming into the Worlds here, of course, this is a completely
different tournament, different environment. Is there something new you guys are approaching
for this tournament, or is it take what you're already doing? Because, you know, experiment
could be dangerous in a stage like this.
No, I mean, it's always like what I always do with everything, just like keep
improving, take every loss of the moment of opportunity to learn and do that.
We have a reference in the sound, like we know you've did everything the entire season.
We let you know that you're the most out of everyone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it's up to us now to just play our best in lane.
Cool. Awesome, man.
You know, I'm not going to take up any more of your time.
Let's get down to the field and start playing.
Good luck in your match up.
It's kind of, it's funny to hear him say that,
no, it's quite the opposite.
I don't have to worry about trying to encourage them.
I have to worry about keeping them down to earth a little bit
and make sure they stay locked in that the opponent on the other side is genuinely a threat.
I mean, Xpert is such a good coach.
It's sort of bringing through the new wave of rockety players.
first heard about him with Team Liquid, with the Chronic as well, and Oskie and Ato all the way back then.
So he's used to knowing when their highs are helpful and when they need to be told off a little bit.
Like, okay guys, chill it for a little bit because we have to keep taking his opponents seriously.
And these are opponents they will certainly be taking seriously if nothing else.
Yeah, like, PlayStation of the World, the biggest trait that they have is definitely confidence.
Not the best trait necessarily, but the biggest for sure.
PlayStation is very confident. They love to trash-talk as well. We'll see if that comes out here.
Well, we talked about it before the last match,
that believing you are capable of beating the opponent across
from you is a key factor in this level of competition.
And there is some sort of, like, genuinely delusional level
of confidence that we see from SSG.
And it translates to them being one of the swingiest teams
in the game where, when they're peeking,
they believe they can peek.
They manifest 20 goals to nothing.
It's any opponent in the entire galaxy.
And then when they're not there,
it says they're going to swap.
It is very hard, though, to believe
after you just played in the final,
You got outscored 13 to four where Falcons absolutely dominated that match.
So that has to ring like in the back of their heads a bit,
but they know that they can compete versus these teams.
They have to look back at when they played cake or up and they three oh
then like we know that we could take teams down like Falcons.
Just not them yet of the first match ups they could have had here in the
group, right? Because it could have been drawn up a few different ways.
They're going to have to play Carmen core Falcons and made in Brazil.
But is this the best first match up for them?
Or is this the worst first match of them to go right back in against
against Falcons. I think it's
the best coming. Like you said,
you're going right back into it
as your last competitive match.
You played at this level was
against Falcons. It's going to
be the replays that you looked
at the most. The replays that
you're going to learn from the
most. You're going to go against
that team that just beat you.
But I disagree, though,
because I think because the
Falcons got to play in the
play-in, we've heard a lot of
go to say that it's an
advantage to play yesterday as
long as you make it through.
Falcons easily made it
through. We've seen playing
teams in game one at least.
They're two in one so far.
It seems like they have more
momentum coming into the
momentum coming into these matches and this is the first time that a playing
team is actually favored in their matchup versus space station so I think
for space station I would rather play K-Corp again because you just re-o'd them
you go right back at them. So I guess I get the tiebreaker. You sure?
That's never wrong baby. No, I'm gonna be a hit base. I think the fact that they've just played Falcons is so helpful because as well
this is probably one of the only matchups in this entire tournament for SSG where a
battling loss is part. You know they lose one three people that have really improved
they can take that forward to the rest of the tournament after being smacked by the E-Sports World Cup.
So, yeah, it's one that whatever happens here, they can take the positives from. They should take the positives from.
Especially if they win it. If they do that.
What's the process they can take from being swept again?
Is there any?
Uh, the path to Jordan, they only play one match today. That is the path.
The path to Jordan.
Well, the reason they only play one match today is because as a team they only play one match today,
but Diaz has his job later on in the 1v1 semifinals. As a matter of fact,
reminded this team has a stake in every form of competition we have here with Diaz playing in the 1v1s
and Zack and Reveal playing in the 2v2s, the whole team playing in the 3s. They have a lot of split attention.
This is a new challenge for teams in 2026. It's never really been a thing before with RLCS having to balance multiple lanes of competition.
Man, man, man. They'll have to deal with it. I think they can, too.
That's right, because Falcons are also dividing their attention a bit with the twins in 2v2 as well.
as well. Oh, and Drally skipped out on the ones could I could have played the
more possible, but so I don't think they're worried too much about those.
I think after this match, then Diaz goes and warms up a little bit, but I think
their main focus throughout the weekend will be through folks on the B stream
right now. Carmichael is playing made in Brazil.
Carmichael one game one four. Oh, made in Brazil is currently up one.
Oh, and game number two. So make sure you have all streams pulled up.
Let us know what you think's going to win in the Paris of Van Buren of this
match will make our picks up here on the desk.
Cool. You got a battling loss to SSG, but Falcons.
I do think they're the best team here in this competition. I think they're gonna win it. I'll say 3-1, but a good 3-1
I think my main concern is Falcons when they play defense so incredibly well if space station overreaches a bit
Which I think they will they will get counted hard
So no falcons. Okay. No one the one of problems my prediction so far today is that I keep going against my heart
The baits hard keeps telling me go one way get the sneaky feeling that keep going my mind
So I'm doing I'm going my heart this time
Okay, I guess that she might be able to pull this thing off right here against Falcons in the rematch
Check the replays. They get the job done. 3-2 over to Falcons.
The way the day's been going to anything feels possible at this moment.
But I do think the Falcons, after getting that warm-up day,
will be locking it back in, folks. Falcons on one side.
There we go. SSG on the other for the coin.
Into the air. Fate has chosen the birds of prey as well.
We'll see if they can pull it off here.
They would be the favorites on paper in most people's books as well.
But I mean, again, just the peak that the ceiling for SSG is so high for this year.
Yeah, well, their ceiling is right up there with the Cape Corpse with the Falcon.
So if they can peak at the right times, man, North America fans are really voting throughout the day.
I mean, it's a five vote difference.
Incredibly, incredibly close.
Beat of incredibly close.
Karmie Kaur has also tied up game number two on the other side of things.
So we'll be getting into this match up here momentarily.
Dawkins is currently on a four game win streak against this team.
Can't they continue to game five or game one?
I guess here, I think it absolutely does.
Because again, they had that warm up yesterday.
I think game one is absolutely falcons.
It just comes down to Ken's space station answer after that.
And I'm concerned.
I'm concerned.
Wow.
OK.
It was the woods.
If SSG wins game one, how does that change things?
I think it changes a lot, actually.
But I think space station is a team that loves to be confident.
If they take game one, they can absolutely lose it.
All right.
I'm calling it now.
It's a sweep either way.
All right.
A sweep either way.
A sweep either way.
Now he's done it.
Come away out to the first game.
This is what happens when he's walking out there.
and it's picked up.
It's a lose game.
It's over.
It's over.
It's over.
It's over.
I mean, you said the last five minutes of the football game earlier.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you see teams all throughout the game.
They don't throw those games away.
See, this is the problem when we have delays, then I just have to.
You start yapping.
No more delays there, but I've been told we are all systems go to get this rematch
underway.
The salty run back, you know, SSG wanted Falcons, whether it was at the end of
the tournament or the beginning, they get them right out of the gate, folks.
PlayStation Gaming versus Falcons, a rematch for PWZ.
They met a month ago as one sided as it gets,
and now as harsh a group as you could possibly ask for.
And we kick it off with a rematch
of the Esports World Cup finals Falcons
against the Bat Boys of NA, SSG.
SSG said they wanted to smash up Stags,
but what have they learned from it?
That's going to be the biggest question here.
Falcons in high form have made it to the World Championship,
but now they go against the SSG team hungry to get revenge.
Mistakes significantly higher this weekend.
Rocket League immortality for one team and one team only
when all is said and done.
This goes right after midfield where Ross is waiting for it.
As he has big clearance for SSG.
How long can they stay on the attack against this high-flying Falcons roster?
It's always difficult to judge teams based on performances outside of the RLCFs.
You never really know what the motivations truly are for teams at that level as this goes all the way to the back wall.
And again, cleared out by Zack this time to get some help from Reveal.
This is kind of the crowning gem here for all these teams.
It's Reveal with the ball down in front.
Kegos has a pinball around and Reveal falls on the end of it.
on the end of it. And this play is all to feel. It's the dog lands and reacts. All of the offense
to notice it was just before he floated as he did. And what, SSG with the first strike.
No lack of confidence as Waypun mentioned on the desk for the space station gaming squad.
They understand their role regardless of where they're at.
Killers now trying to redirect this. It is on target, but Zack will get there in time. Here's
Rwock now. Pass one. Actics back up to Trolley. The former world champ gets walked away here
and Reveal will take charge now for SSG, but only for a moment. He's gonna jump back into a defensive
effort and alongside Diaz will get this ball out of harm's way.
They don't have to see Falcon get on the board yet.
Eyes are gonna be on trawling.
Personally, one of Steve Fawas.
He's such a good performance.
Maybe he scores well across.
Falcon, he stepped up to the table right now.
The offensive has been played all over the corner right now for Falcon.
A little bit of a break here for SSG, but only for a moment.
His killers takes his time.
Had trawling centers.
Can he get it through trawling?
answer no reveal gets through the entire top
We never really hoped for a lack of success obviously, but
Falcons
Missing out on a major
Maybe one of the best things that could have happened for them in terms of motivation
I think it was kind of a a humbling experience
And you saw that come to bear with the eSports World Cup
Just simply spin awakened in this squad.
They trail right now here in game one, three minutes in.
As killers, as that ball taken away by Zack,
right to the side, those are gonna be won by Diaz.
Killers gets away from Zack who might have been able to
clip him on the way by,
and the defensive falcon is old strong again.
It is, it looks like so much control on the side of SSG.
Well, Falcons cannot struggle either,
really hit the ball in offensive spaces.
SSG's just keep the ball well, their decisions have been great,
they've been keeping the ball close,
and their solo efforts have been tough for Falcons to match.
So far, even though Falcons, I feel like if it wasn't for the ball a lot more,
they just really haven't been as rightly as we're used to seeing from them.
Taylor is running alongside Drowley.
They won't get tangled off of the side, everybody in the same place with the same ball.
Rarely worked out for a team that hasn't been too bad for Falcons,
This is that shot ripped on target and set away final minute
now between Falcons and SSG.
We're going to take charge.
It's D-I-S.
Out to Zach.
That's a great challenge to keep this ball in play.
Another third one by Reveal.
And right now, Team Falcons having a difficult time
getting out of their own zone and putting any pressure
at all on SSG.
I mean, one of the things about Falcons, though,
apart from teams that you play against them,
you can expect a 50 a lot.
and it makes the team uncomfortable.
But it almost feels like SKG's game plan for that.
A lot of times they take a small shot of force
and the first stop needs to jump on,
but they won't take that dip
because they feel so confident in it.
Time is the physicality of the first stop.
But it's not enough.
But Wastkin get around it,
tries to leave it for Killers,
flip it up on Diaz,
and even then, as the play and he beats,
they can't hit the ball in a good spot.
That was the best open walk
for Wastkin to tear in time.
Reveal with base.
As a flip reset, gave it to Zack.
Zack put pressure on.
Bowling, when after going to lift of the field,
can they do it?
Reveal, breeze it to the back wall again.
He's going to ground it. No, it's still up.
It's still up.
Trolley, or toss the ball.
Flick, but Diaz, sits to the back wall.
That way, gets placed on a watch.
Trolley wraps around it,
and he'll hit the ground.
S-S-G, K-K-1.
One unassisted goal. It came from Reveal.
With an absolutely chaotic play in front.
And that's all it takes. One nil to space station gaming.
Again, you talk about the hunger of really both of these teams, because again,
your team Falcons coming into the summer, they had a lot to prove.
They had a redemption arc of their own space station.
No better chance at redemption than here,
facing their nemesis from the EWC
in the very first match of the World Championship.
Yeah, one of the things that I'm enjoying from SSG here
is like, you got a little composure
when they're on top of the ball.
I think at the same time when I look at them,
it feels like, okay, they understand the pace
they need to play at, and they're not letting
the moment get ahead of them.
It didn't feel like they stepped off the gas,
like we saw at the grand finals of the eSports World Cup.
Now looking at Falcons, I mean, it's a shout out from them.
They're often said to work their way.
They wanted to, we saw them getting a little bit physical
toward the end of the game.
Can they create off of that?
Can they get physical with SSG?
SSG also kind of knows from being a demo team at times.
Didn't see too much of that making an impact.
Maybe once the demos get introduced, they change.
One thing you try to do against a young team,
Try to put them in an uncomfortable situation.
You kind of go with a physical approach.
Just try to get them to panic.
No such thing on the part of space station gaming in game one.
Here's Roloss.
Got some help there, but reveal in front.
Bottle off!
Fire down the line!
And Killers gets Falcons on the board.
Now Falcons striking first.
Roloss, what a bump.
Drawing that extra pressure, forcing reveal out.
D-Vis just doesn't get tied to get themselves settled.
Falcons strike swiftly to start this off.
One goal was all the trick in game one.
Here we have for an encore.
Here's a temple.
It is revealed going to let that one go by.
So if he asks, it takes charge.
Killer's up to meet him.
And this is well read by reveal.
Can you see with the play?
No, as that's back fast.
Forage, drawling.
One half of the twins watching from afar as Killers jumps in front.
Verwas, waiting in support.
Killers gonna call his own number and get another!
Oh, back to back from Killers in the first minute.
Look at this.
Catches the ball, keeps it close, and then again, just...
...blazes through the entire space station game in defense to put it in the top left.
And Killers gets going, and it's gonna flip the series on its head.
I wonder how a team faces adversity.
That's the mark of how great they really are.
So the Kotlin's been thrown down now to space station gaming.
What do you have for an answer?
Gila's looking for an early hot trick.
You imagine what a response that would be
after getting shut out in game one.
A hot trick in the first minute, but that's tonight.
And now Roas has that go off towards Drolley
and Zack can just guide that up the side.
Roas is waiting for it the whole way.
It just felt like Zach was kind of botched in there
with no real escape, but space station gaming do break out.
Only one shot as it sent right back out to midfield.
Yeah, biggest thing there that Zach played
was revealed being so close into the play.
Uh-oh, and feel passing on Diaz off the bar.
Zach trying to get that quickly,
got the ball, reveal, waits, and takes his time.
We'll try to keep it in play.
Goes for the low 50 to keep possession
from a watch's power screw space station gaming.
Cut the 50 and possession.
Best of both worlds for Team Falcon.
Grewa thought about it, but saw a reveal.
Adam beat by a mile.
He'll stay a little forward, but now everybody's
going to get back.
All hands on deck defensively.
As Drowley does the job exceptionally well,
all the way back down to space station territory.
How quickly can they move?
Reveals down there, trying to give him Drowley's way.
Now Diaz, looking for any options.
Doesn't have any boost in the tank, though.
So that should be an easy clearance.
So had to go through reveal.
Here's trolley with Raleigh now.
Diaz is in the way.
Well, it's time to leave the booths.
We're trying to leave for Diaz,
but Diaz couldn't make contact.
So that corner booths will stay up on SSG side.
Halfway through this game,
they've been able to stop the bleeding,
but they haven't been able to do any damage.
Chances have come first in station gaming,
but again, Bob gets, when they're on defense,
we've seen it.
They can stop almost anything.
Free ball for the bill.
That's that. Oh, the shuttle parking.
Oh, I gotta have those.
Reveal put in so much work on that play.
Had a demo and a pump.
But nothing to show for it, except a two-nil deficit.
Here's Diaz looking maybe for Reveal.
Got the pump, but still, killers.
And it supports it back into the ball.
Reveal will try again.
Drolley in the way.
And this will fall to Diaz.
The 1v1 hopeful denied as that goes way to the front.
Backwards and team Falcons break out again. Nobody home. Diaz got to be careful on the end
space there
Reveal I'm just gonna get so far away from them
Killers doesn't need to make contact because the bias time for John everybody thought that killers would go for that
You thought it's loose
Now we'll watch what the force and air touch for looking reveal to stay on top of it
Making sure not to just give anything to Falcons for free.
Can they set things up offensively?
There's a shot! There's a goal!
Space Station within one!
They finally break through.
One and effort by Diaz, keeping this play alive.
And Zack as well.
Zack gets to demo, puts himself in position,
and nails the shot of me.
It's a team effort there.
But Diaz get a lot of work.
He's gonna try to do a lot of work here too against Rowley and Rowley does well to cut off any line for a pitch.
Now we're lost. Can he reverse direction on this wall? No, he's done well enough though.
Rowley dives in as well. And everybody just kind of staying back now for Team Prowlkins, except for Killers.
There's more lost and that goes off the court.
Rowley trying to bring it himself.
Can his teammates back into position? Can he push this wall? I know.
Then I ride at the post and yet again team brown control. They keep the pressure on
I'm able to get that last straight through one that would almost certainly put this game away for them
The speed test now this ball bounces back and forth in the midfield everybody going for ever more challenging
We're lost with a boom up here. I think that was kill is downfield
It's looking for a maybe a buster boost skill
That's how about this big controlling the game, but this a bit of a break
He has to get down on the ground as well as Watts plays it into the corner by no 20 seconds
SFG looking to get something here before the game's over.
Oh, he has done as well, but still put it out by Rwass.
That does have a full tank.
They're all going head hunting forward, but that pass left a lot to be desired.
One last chance now for SSG.
Reveal kit get by Rwass.
This is clear downfield.
Raleigh holds all the keys and it's still not down to the ground.
Ramos will have a go now.
Can he spike it down?
Yes, he can.
He just leapt it all to the ground and Falcons leveled the series.
Yeah, Falcons, that hot strike was enough to just keep them in the front
the entire way through.
SSG's offense slowed down tremendously, but it's just really
Falcons' defense that is so strong.
They've always been such a hard team to score on.
You can't afford to drop multiple goals early on in the game
against them.
And SSG, again, just that challenge
of getting offense going.
We started to see more of it at the end.
But at that point, time ticked down.
Two late killers.
Such a strong performance early in the game,
which kept Falcons going the rest of the way through.
That offensive flurry from killers, bar down and in.
Two goals in the first minute.
And that proves to be the difference.
This one, ultimately, the game winner.
Didn't know it at the time, but it had to hold up
thanks to a late surge out of space station gaming,
but they only get within one.
As Killers leads the way, the man on the end,
getting Falcons right back into the series,
not letting space station get too confident,
get too settled in here.
And now we've kind of seen both sides of the coin
for space station gaming.
We saw that very confident aggressive approach in game one.
They held that bay considerably in game two,
and it took them a while after getting stunned
in that first minute.
Now let's see what they do at the gardens here for game three.
Chance here, big swing game.
And that's a G already.
Look at awkward off the start.
Killer just crashed in that.
No stranger went here on offense to just going
and sending the house sometimes,
playing so close to the ball.
They've been able to score a lot, which is really great reads that way, but it doesn't work out this time around.
Loss, getting this all the way to the opposite corner, but Diaz tracks it a little bit quicker.
Half-killer, going right at Zack.
Zack's 50 game has been quite solid. That one kind of worked out for Falcons initially, but it's on to space station gaming Diaz.
From the ceiling now, Zack to forward!
Oh my god, Diaz! A magician!
Look at how he just makes magic happen here!
Gets past the entire Falcon's defense to get back a clean shot!
You've got to make it when Diaz does all the work like that for you!
Diaz with an absolute worldly of an assist!
That's a key bump on Killers to stop him from following this play.
Zack will just boom this downfield and...
He's in a demo for all of that now.
G has, up all right to Zach and immediately sent right back.
I mean, the follows go from space station gaming,
have a little clean, they've been able to follow each other up really well.
Falcons starting to slow down a bit,
but SSG has definitely started to at least speed up their follows.
Their initial touches have been great.
If you have some ideas, bring up the ball, it helps you out a lot.
But it's, when revealing Zach, get involved with the play.
It got that pressure, sometimes the catch is found, it's off.
Back turning a pinch there to watch the run answer with one of his own, now it's Killers.
Two goals in game two to level the series for the time denied by Diaz.
How can he get this boost? He does.
And he's called into action immediately.
Diaz, always entry-seek stuff for the time.
Only trying to play table-center, got a bump there and...
Oh, and Zach almost landed on that too.
That was close.
Draw's gonna be able to get that mid-boost, and we'll try to look for Bump.
Nothing could connect there with the ad,
but it was a little awkward to the ad.
Zach had to get the weak, big lead from Zach there
to stop that follow-up.
Couldn't have missed that at all otherwise we'd be equal.
When you have a ball come uncontested up
backwards like that, you're just asking to get scored on,
and that's I'm just narrowly avoiding conceding a goal.
Now, Valken's at it again.
It's trolley around the corner.
Val reveal there to stuff it right back once it came,
And it's Rawas again, having a lane to shoot through,
but Reveal in the way, follow up his sit back in front,
but they're only there too late.
I mean, the great speed though from Zack
to cut it out, because Rawal,
it was right on top of it with the follow.
Reveal off the back floor, Rawas should be there,
clears it to midfield, you do have to get this cut,
that's a big cut, no killers actually waiting for that.
Now, following to the orange corner,
this is so awkward for SSG, but they play it close,
they're able to at least get these kisses,
making it a little bit like dangerous.
That's a great individual beat by Diaz.
And again, the finishing hasn't been there
consistently enough for space station.
Still just the one goal lead.
It was enough in game one.
Will it hold up again here in another odd number game?
It is for Wasab, and that fucked away.
Man, everybody from Popkins has to scramble back
and it's Drally who saves the day.
Let us start looking for off ball plays here.
Chance for Demo, so really gonna shake things up, the pace of play is going so fast.
Reveal of a loss, chasing this one down. Reveal, a loss, a loss to pick up the ball.
High break! Reveal able to meet it there.
Cut it out.
That's a geesh, I think trying to manage the blues between players.
Making sure that no one's in a tough spot.
We called it out in game one, this shot just a little bit wide.
Space station scored early and they controlled the game through almost immaculate 50s.
That's what we're seeing again out of SSG, they're just not letting Falcons get into a
scoreable position.
Another ball set out, Zack is on top of it this time, just trying to squeeze the life
out of this game here down to the final minute and keep Falcons at bay.
Nice from Reveal, Reveal, Reveal!
Don't think they're back!
Bay!
After she explored our offense!
Another one out of Zack after Reveal set it up, kept the defense frozen just enough.
While they waited to see if he had to double lined up.
Now with less than a minute to go, Team Falcons have to scramble with a two ball deficit.
The Falcons make something happen, 52 seconds here.
Drawing, Elf plays it fast.
Killers can get up here, but he can't get into anywhere.
Get set back.
Now the watch has to watch out. Look at the St. Charles from Diaz though.
Fortress Roas up. He gets the ball straight to reveal.
Zack playing the big, big beat there to slow down the pressure.
Now look at all the time Diaz has to make this work.
Chied to get a pass one to get it to the corner.
It's a two goal lead for Spaceship Gaming.
They're in a comfortable position at the clock to win those down.
Feels like a four goal lead.
They just have not let Falcons get anything going
offensively here in Game 3.
Killers with rewars to his left.
They make the connection and still Zach sends us away
as Doug revealed.
And the final countdown as Falcons
will run out of time in Game 3.
It is space station gaming.
One went away from a small measure of revenge.
And another shutout from kids Falcons here.
Every game SSG's won, Falcons have the sport.
And now Falcons, that's against the wall situation here
in this game.
Wonder if we see a timeout from them
that SSG exactly where they wanna be.
They played the game correctly, they fight their time,
they waited for their moment
and when it was time to strike, they didn't miss.
Two goals, four saves out of zap.
Just as impressive as you like. What a set up by Diaz there.
I mean, you know, all eyes on set for his impressive statistical output in that game.
But Diaz put in so much work to lead SSG through that game.
Timeout here taken by Team Falcons. Of course, you can't take it with you, so you might as well.
What is the key now, Daz, for Falcons to not just write the ship, but also just get some momentum going here through the rest of their group stage?
I mean, they're kind of struggling right now with the physicality a little bit. I think that, you know, their speed has been okay.
But the biggest thing is, SSG is faking them out a lot, controlling the game. You know, you see SSG play fast.
fast. And then if it were once you see reveal in front of you go for the ball
quickly only to find out reveal just fake channel just so you can give it back
to the defense and you gave the possession away. I think it's controlling
the possession being a little bit more mindful with it here. And honestly if
they can't connect on demos I saw a couple of times like Drolley was trying
to can make contact those are big difference makers in terms of how these
games are going to go. I think that would have a little bit of impact here
But right now, SSG just had full control over what they want to do.
They understand what they need to adjust.
Zack especially has been so good.
His shooting has been on point, and you've needed that from SSG.
And it allows players like Diaz, who can create offensively.
I can get past all of that.
I might not be able to get the goal,
but I can pull everybody out.
Zack can finish the job.
It's really well done.
He probably has that look like he's got a score to settle with the universe.
And he's kind of come in with a little chip on his shoulder.
He's been chirped by a few players.
He's had something to say about it.
Right now, space station gaming.
Doing an awful lot of talking.
They're backing it up by walking the walk to go with it.
Here we go now at Utopia Coliseum, a chance for a space station
to start off this miserable, ruthless group.
No!
Ha ha ha!
Yeah, this group has varied lots of competition all through.
Why is Zach there?
Oh my goodness!
I mean, an SSG win here, personal opinion.
The pop group do come out on top of this group.
We'll have to see, though, so many more of Mag's play.
Karmicorps look informed as well.
Meanwhile, Reveal almost at the top corner to start us off here.
That's point situation between Falcons and SSG.
They've been doing it right over the course of the series,
but you have to finish the job.
They're lost right before it gets demolished,
at least not the spot of the back wall,
but it's gonna be the thing,
even though there haven't been a lot of demos
on either side in this series,
Falcons have not been able to follow up
many judges to the back line outside,
and really even in the game than one.
It's killers popped off in the first minute and then there was very little offense from there
He has puts the brakes on and
Understandable that you'd be a little bit difficult challenger. Yeah, but you see what happens though even though you put the brakes on
He pulled out to there in that play
Be careful there DS
It's all fun and games until you all go
nothing happens
so
Still a little bit of control here, but you're seeing
The Falcons get a little bit of field positioning.
Trolley, 50, straight to Diaz.
Diaz plays it over one.
Killer's tough, Reed,
and he will get help from Trolley,
but nobody from SSG committed.
They stay close, and now they're looking.
It just feels like they're swarming.
I can smell blood in the water here, Stax.
You know, when Falcons are at their peak,
just about every touch has some intent
to go find another teammate.
They work so well as a group
on both ends of the ball.
On defense so far in this series,
they've been a little jumpy and pitery.
And it's kind of hard.
Let's get rid of the ball.
And then we'll worry about what happens next
when we get there is we're lost.
Let's pop this up over the bar.
That comes up empty.
But that's going to work out just fine for SSG.
Now they're going to work on the left side.
They just try to keep pounding that corner
until Falcons make a mistake.
But we're lost with a great 50
to bring this ball all the way down into SSG territory
down in front.
but again, nobody jumping in.
Oh, no, no, no.
We're gonna try to set it up,
have the states to do so,
but couldn't get a scoring chance with it.
So far, scoreless here,
that this is the longest game in this series
without anyone scoring between the two.
Game almost started to come off from SSG,
and they are not scared
to get into this blue half.
We just saw all of them in that blue corner.
Foul things home.
Not really too threatening on the counter attack.
I haven't seen too many shots from them this game either.
Oh, Reveal just going to throw one out the backboard.
Moratz has to be sure handed with it.
He is.
And also has to kind of find his time up on the back wall.
Brawley jumping.
Yeah, he kind of tipped his hand a little too early.
Space station able to take advantage.
Reveal and Zack trying to team up for another as Diaz at the back.
That boost will not spawn for him.
Could be trouble now for SSG, but another clearance.
with Diaz over here in the field.
He's left it in front for Zack again!
And that one's up.
Wow!
Zack's been so good at shooting, but that one's just a little too high.
Would have been a great chance there.
But now, you get Falke's more room to get back into this game.
Final minute approach.
Falke's starting to ramp up.
Killers taking his time.
She ain't just squishy with no boost, but not this time.
Now it's gonna be Diaz.
Sealing pinch doesn't go that far as we're lost.
It's deleted.
Crawley's got to sit it away.
No, he doesn't.
He's down to make the save on Zach.
What a stop for Crawley.
But again, he's low on boost.
He won't be able to hold on to this.
Killers have to dive for Veil.
Reveal.
Look at for Crawley.
This is awkward.
Zack.
And he's in high.
He's going to buy out the jeep tie.
Everybody has a boost.
They can save a play.
Crawley gets removed from the situation.
It's up to the twins now.
Duck.
Killers.
pushes off to the side gets a demo there as well and now Falcons keep trying to
move on field. Can you try to get this down? No, it's denied.
Alright, well here it is.
It comes from under us! With only 20 seconds on the side wall!
Oh my god!
Answer that!
Let me speechless!
Whoa!
Free to rest from Roas!
What is he doing again?
Coming!
Roas at his own back line.
Killers trying to delay.
And that cleared out by the other twin.
Eight seconds left.
Reveal trying to do all he can to keep this under control
and give SSG a chance to trolley shadowing him.
They do get by.
Dia has to tie!
Now, ball on the line, yes!
What? And this champ defeated Zero!
Reveal, leaves him off there!
Apply pressure, killers can't ground it!
And Zack, the line touches all he needs!
You thought we were going five?
We're at overtime!
After all that, how do you recover if you're Falcons?
Zack holds firm on the side.
You're probably still got a piece of that coming from the opposite end.
And now Rwass trying to play hero again and again!
Rwass will not be stopped.
We are going to Champions Field.
What a roller coaster of emotions.
Rwass with an all-timer off the sidewall.
Then the zero second equalizer and Rewinds with all the chaos of what's transpired at the end of the game just goes
Hold up. Let me call game again
Unbelievable
Three for two only one demo on the side of Falcons SSG had five
Falcons their defense was on
That
And then, just what you thought it couldn't get more crazy, SSG at 0 seconds.
And 8 seconds in, Baross gets a bit of a look, gets to follow it to the dunk.
And we go to Champion's Field.
I don't think, no time out here for SSG.
We're lost during that game.
I think you've had enough.
No?
Now you've had enough.
We go to game five.
Champions field.
Team Falcons battle back from the edge.
I mean, it's hard to say there's that much pressure
on a team when it's only the first match of the group.
But what a sequence.
And how important will it be
in the story of the 2026 World Championship?
And next chapter now, as Killers gets by one,
and he's shadowing reveal the whole way,
but reveal goes well away from him.
Killers settles for the boost that he's gonna need to use,
maybe on some defensive effort, as this one said high,
hit by design, rebound is in from Diaz!
SSG pressure here in game five,
we spoke it off,
Zack Hyde ball throws the defense off it,
Again, eliminates killers.
The shot from Diaz, right into the bottom left.
I think it was a bit anywhere else.
Probably could have had a chance there.
First placement.
Well, in the last minute and a couple seconds of game play,
we've had four goals between these two squads.
After four minutes and 40 seconds of nothing
between them in regulation of game four.
S&G back again, backboard, Diaz is on the doorstep, but set away as team Falcons once again,
Diaz is off the market, Raleigh shoots it away.
Yeah, this is a bad position here for Falcons.
Early down against S&G, but S&G they're looking for that second goal, they're really looking
for that big push in here.
Already more pressure.
Drolley doesn't get a second on the ball, only one touch.
Diaz plays a high, one is a 50, Drolley is set at center.
But Drolley doing okay, meanwhile, Bump's happening.
Follow up from back, just a little too late,
it would have been the second goal.
Diaz will try again.
No rest for the Wicked, that's a little bit of a round.
That still cleared out.
The Twins combining to finally get rid of danger.
And now it's Rawas and Drolley both up at the same time.
Diaz, only killers to beat, but he is as stalwart as they come at the back line for Falcon.
Falcon's just barely holding on. They don't get more than a touch on the ball.
Rwatz got bumped into a favorable position there, so he'll get to a nice drop down.
But SSG just has so much more space whenever they're into the possession.
Three minutes left here in game five.
Rwatz trying to line up the double, but again, Diaz denies, gets it past killers.
And Trolley will opt to just stop things for now.
It's just not enough to create anything threatening
on the side of Falcons.
Reveal going head hunting, got the contact.
Zack thought about it.
But Trolley had him beat, trying to beat him in.
He does well to stay with this play.
Let Reveal take over.
Killers again, left all alone on the island.
But if you're going to have anybody back there,
that's who you want.
And he once again dispels the danger.
Ross is looking so solid.
Still playing close.
Able to get multiple touches on the ball whenever he goes up.
Maybe he can get here quickly.
Yeah, this is a good, very favorable for Falcons.
But can they turn this into something more?
I mean, every time they try to take the top of the ball,
SSG is so quick to get them off it.
Stay stationed again.
Trying to repeat the formula from games one and three.
Both shutout victories, 1-0, 2-0.
The pattern forming there is Rewindz.
Double!
You had to watch out for the double.
Rewindz had so much space here.
Revealed, tried to block for the net.
Rewindz said, I have to swear at my passcode.
What a play!
What a player!
That grazed the post near side on the way in.
Unbelievable.
Diaz.
He's got it up in the tank, but denied by killers.
How's that? Quick turn!
But Diaz still in the goal, couldn't get a piece of the Ross.
And Alistair walks on the other side.
He's still up for this.
One more touch to center.
Nobody home for Falcon.
What we're watching right now is incredible rock.
Both teams really should have given it their all.
But the question that stands right now is how much more do they have than the tank?
It's just been such a test.
of team dynamics, of communication, and really just execution out of both of you.
This is that shot blocked by Drolley. Could be a step too late.
Every bit of drama we were denied during their final a month ago.
Delivering a classic here and just the start of grip stage as Raw skips there in time.
Now revealed. That's going to be set off again. Revealed relatively quiet compared to the
to the rest of his team.
Grawley now, just above the bar to send it away.
There's Zach, great win.
Can't get it around the corner of those rosses there.
Now Reveal, flip, reset, forced it through,
but it counts as high to Killers.
Space, all up again, that's an eye.
Not yet space there, but again,
as you're showing Falcons understand the situation
they're in, Reveal looking for a bump.
Can he get it?
Oh, that pulled out too.
Zach trying to dance around the traffic,
but he can't get through.
Now 30 seconds to go.
A lot of 50s happening,
at this she maintaining possession.
Final 20, this is where we're lost.
Godhead won the last game.
Now we hurdle ever closer to an overtime on Champions field
where both these teams hope to put their names
at the end of the game.
And it's Raleigh, playing hero with six to go.
The 50 from Zach Pax about here
is in an awkward spot and Raleigh just waited to see
if he would go for it.
Charlie with the speed to get it over, the last defender.
And six seconds to go before Falcons win this series.
Can SSG do it again?
Zack has Diaz way downfield.
He's got options abound, off the crossbar and away.
Team Falcons survive.
Team Falcons push to the break.
but again, those are legends of the game for a reason.
You can put as much pressure on them as you want,
but you'll find out that there are diamonds
on that Falcon Squad.
SSG, such a great showing out of them,
but they could not close it out.
That is the start of Group A.
I mean we were joking while we were sitting here looking over at the alternate
stream and watching Carmine and Maiden Brazil come on that's how brutal this
group is that that's the match we put over there on the other stream and this
one delivers a classic a sign of things to come here in proofing yeah you're
gonna if you're actually you're going back and you're looking at all the
chances that you probably could have had there in that game. Going back to hopefully Dia
doesn't dwindle on that last man challenge, but for Falcons, yeah, start your group up
hot and you want to keep that momentum going. Falcons are flying forward and they are going
going to be standing by here with me.
Falcons come out on top. They do it again. SSG could not get the Redentions.
Congratulations at Roas on that win, first and foremost.
And I got to talk about the matchup here because obviously that had to be at the back of your head.
You want to win it again, right?
Do you feel good? Was that at the back of your head? Do you feel good being able
to prove that it wasn't a fluke EWC.
Alhamdulillah, we won the game, and this is the important thing, Alhamdulillah.
What do you want the backheels?
and we can do anything we want to do.
This is important.
Do you and K-Corp as S tier, for all the teams here, which I'm assuming you'll agree with,
do you feel like that really is your real big challenge in this group, K-Corp?
going to be a very strong competition between the two of us. They are an incredibly powerful team
and I think it is going to be a little bit more difficult than our matchup against SSG
but we're going to be ready. We're going to prepare for them and see how it goes.
I'm excited to see how it goes once again. Congratulations on that win there but we have
to keep good. Oh you do like Rocket League. Good. Okay. Stick around. I was worried for a moment
there. We continue on with groups here on Dana Warner Groups. See you soon.
Okay, the pulmonary sphincter and that burst pipe 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.
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 cray.
You know, technically, you don't have to post everything that happens online.
What?
I totally believe you. Life is meaningless with that affirmation, am I right?
No can help you grow.
You can't stop your monster's dream of being a nail-tuck.
Oh
I wrote that.
Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
That's a man!
It's gotta get runny, and sometimes it's gonna hurt
If you're gonna get the pain, then you gotta get it
You've got everything in the way
You're stronger than a shower, you're brighter than you know it.
You're stronger than a gun.
The action continues, SSG nearly hit the salty run back with falcon near lock it down on
game five more accurately, Rullos locks it down for games four and five put the team
on his back and put them through to a win in group A. Welcome back to the World Championships.
What a day. What a game. What a series. How'd you feel with us this week?
You guys with me? Yeah, yeah, I'm asking you. I thought they looked great. I thought they
looked like a better team, but unfortunately sometimes that doesn't matter. When it comes
down to who's the best player in Roas. RW9 was the best player of the series to
go. That game foreshot just changed everything.
Like it might change everything for this whole world championship
Roos an incredible goal that obviously hits the overtime winner as well in that game
Then goes to game 5 and continues to perform
He was the EWC MVP and now he's looking like he wants to repeat here at the World Championship
Yeah, I mean I'm looking at this last two goals. I'm sure once you as well those last two goals was so painful for SSG
But they waited around to see what would happen and well they did see what would happen
They want to overly happy about it.
SG really, really look like they have taken that level up now
and they are consistently one of these top teams.
Yeah, they're one of the world championship contenders without a doubt.
And honestly, this is where your focus might get you,
because you might win game number one.
They focus on what they do.
Hit you with 2-0 or 3-0 in game number two.
You're like, okay, it's just about snowball.
But then SG bounced back in game number three.
They played a great game.
They're great makers.
Zac already up.
The synergy between those two and Diaz as well included.
Look great even game for it.
They said they had all momentum.
They have a pressure, but that shot right there
is something like bottom even as it came right here.
They still felt like too low to lay power
because we're comfortable in this.
Meal in overtime last brings across the map.
Just like this one, two, three.
Nobody's going to be crazy.
Nobody.
Oh my God.
Now I throw boost.
I didn't realize that, essentially.
That was basically right off kickoff too.
So he gets it there and then out to game five.
It was space station.
I don't know.
Space station has been revealed here.
series, a lot of composure, from those boys.
But at the end of the day, Joralee just being out,
Diaz, for some reason put the brakes on with 100 boost.
I'm not sure why.
Yeah, two mental errors right there in that game number five.
Reveal did not see Roas for every reason.
Easy double-touch to tie up the game.
And Diaz, like we just talked about, hit the brakes.
I think we saw three of those offensive demos from SSG
in that package.
Seven to zero again.
Maybe I'll open the demo.
They didn't know I knew actually what the season be not working.
The way the Rockleys ask and like you if you're hunting for demos upfield,
yeah, you're going to increase this step,
but you are weakening your defense on the other end. Obviously that's a big
interpretation. They're so good on defense that like you might have to
demo them out because they could play one three defense at times.
So Spaceship knows they've always been a physical team.
They know that when they have man up advantage, you go for those demo.
I mean, the Falcons also does such a fast team, such quality of touch team.
They don't maybe don't need to find the demolitions to be effective in the air against their opponents here
Yep, I do get the job done in game five
What a performance from them as we continue on with our groups here group a
Starting to shape up with the first matches in Carmen court did get the job done against and made in Brazil
Maybe Brazil take a game off of them and who knows maybe that will be important and tiebreakers
It is possible. We will see the rest of these matchups tomorrow
So no more matches for this group a the group of death
So we'll end off with four matches of them for tomorrow on the alternate stream
They are getting ready for their next match footy sports taken on ninjas in pajamas both looking to bounce back
After losses earlier today shot by rebellion versus a big O will be the final match of the alternate stream for
Wednesday here on the mainstream though two more 3v3 matches before we get into the one-view ones
Let's start talking about this next one Furia taking on twisted minds both of them finding victory earlier today against their opponents
Furia definitely the big surprise there think many people had twisted minds against foot
But they got pushed to game five that one as well
And if I would say oh it could be the greatest offense in the history of Rockley you would think I'm talking about twist of minds
But Furia that last series four point three three goals per game
They were lights out doing amazing work while twist of minds had a battle
They only scored 2.4, they gave up 2.2.
So Furia is the hotter team on the day,
but now it's been about what?
Three hours since they last played.
Let's see if they can keep it up.
4.33 goals is pretty incredible.
But if any team might be able to push it back down
and stifle this offense, it's twisted mind.
I wasn't really sad about the defeat in Paris,
even if it was a defeat, it was a top two.
Especially after the Major of Boston, it was quite complicated.
We were very happy with our performance and it helped us in the future.
I think we all feel very good. We all usually work very well.
I think more than usual, because it's the last tournament, it's the most complicated and at the same time the most important.
We're prepared for everything, whether it's the game or mentally.
We try to be really very strong and we know that we're part of the favorite teams.
I think it's going to be an experience because I'm one of the most experienced players in the game.
With competitions, especially with the world championships,
it feels like it's a place where I feel really good, I feel a little comfortable,
and I've won twice here, so I don't feel pressured for the second time.
for.
Twisted Mines, of course, one of the strongest favorites
in this tournament here with Coach Sanzo.
Looking at this arena in general,
it's a very history rocket league arena,
specifically to one of your players,
Monkey Moon, behind you there.
Has there been any talk about that coming back
to a place where he's won it twice before?
I don't know.
We've been chilling.
It's been good for Monkey Moon that he's been here.
multiple times and mostly like he's been winning over here.
But we're not really paying the attention,
like all we focus here is to lift the trophy
and go back home as soon as possible.
That's right, get speed running, get through it now.
Of course on screen we're seeing that new ball right now.
Also playing in ones, has there been any work
from your end as coach to balance his play
between ones and threes?
I mean, obviously because sometimes overthinking
that you're gonna play multiple series a day
is gonna affect the player's performance in the game.
But I've been telling him that
take every series by a time, like don't overthink it,
they're gonna play more than one series,
like we play foot, that's it,
and then we play video, that's it,
and then you're gonna take everyone and do his thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Now you brought up foot,
I do want to bring up that series,
because that's a little bit closer
than you guys would have wanted.
And you said to me when I brought it up,
how is the N18s?
Why might that be,
is it just unexpected game play, man?
Because N18 has like a certain,
different playstyle honestly,
like they play so passive
and they have a really good defense.
And if they play most of the game, they're gonna go far in the tournament.
But it always comes down to the aggression play style.
Like when you have a good demo strategy against the other people,
then they have a good difference, but you can't defend the whole game.
Yeah, exactly.
Hey, well, thank you for the answers. I appreciate it.
I'll let you get back to your team. Good luck in your matchup.
I'll say goodbye to the guys on the other side.
My feeling of being in Worlds is very good, because it's the World Cup of the game, so I think it's the most important championship of the year.
So everyone who is here is a feeling of gratitude.
In the World Cup of 2016, I want to prove that we are very good and taking a good result here.
I know this place is very important for the team, because it is very historic, so we want to give our best here and play happily.
to be able to play happily.
and they won. It doesn't matter how they won.
That's true. This is a different series.
Probably it might be in part of like the play style was hard to play for them,
so we have just to focus in our game and play as we do.
Yeah, no, that's that's fair enough. Now looking at a different team though, you know,
when you play multiple series throughout a day, every coach just says we just play our game.
Is that like 100% true or are there actually small adjustments that are made
4th specific team matchups?
That's hard to answer, but like we play our game like 100% but there are like a few points that we have to
to be more
Aware of? Yeah, we have to focus on that because like they are strong team in depth and that part and how we counter that
Like what which part of our playstyle we need to to be better at to counter them and that's it
Does it tend to be like okay in this matchup we're going to see you know this player stand up a little bit more
Is that something we can we can see her no?
No, I don't think so as I said just play our game if she shows up awesome if you know shows up lost
Cool, that's part of the game. Well, you know what? I want to see you guys play a game. So why don't we get to it?
Thank you so much again and good luck. Thank you
He said in the last interview the consistency was the only thing that this team struggled with and they get the win
in their first match of the day now it's time to see some consistency yeah you
have to double it up but it's gonna be very difficult against twisted mines who
many consider a top three to four team in this tournament a no bow himself like
his EWC performance was legendary put up 1.25 goals for game that's 0.5 higher
than his Paris major the numbers so the offense was lights out for twisted
mines but their defense faltered they put up 1.2 goals against more per
game on defense when they play the EWC for twisted mines.
Their defense fell apart.
They gave up 2.83 goals per game, which is insane amount.
Furious offense was red hot earlier.
If they can continue that while twisted mines has been faulty,
then we'll see.
But as we can see from the group B, foot 3-0 sweep over
Ninja 6 today.
0 and 6, yes, they sure are 0 and 6.
Wow.
They sure are 0 and 6 today.
Wow.
That was mathematically very bad for their time period.
So you're talking about his own game?
Yes.
But the result of this might actually affect R&P.
They still in?
They still in.
So they lost to Furia earlier, right?
So they still have to play Twisted Minds.
I think at this point, they need Twisted Minds
to lose this match up, or they are out almost certainly.
Because they were there.
Is it because they haven't played Twisted Minds?
Yes, because if they be Twisted Minds,
they would never have to have against them.
So they would still be alive at that point.
But if Fury loses here, then both Foot and Fury are one and one.
They can only finish one and two.
It doesn't matter what Ninjas does in that final game.
They would be out of this corner.
Hey, the stakes just gone low.
That's why I'm hearing.
They did for Ninjas, watching on the couch, I guess.
But that's rough on them.
0-3, 0-3.
It's crazy that they got started.
They really did.
Be sure we got a little bit ahead today with the path
that they finished that match.
Well, as quickly as they did to it,
I don't think any of those went to overtime.
Probably a low scoring game, too.
It's very, very true, even if we do go into like three way high somehow games. They're already serious. Yeah, it's
It's very difficult. They would have to like three or twist of minds very likely
To have any chance and that again is if twist of minds lose here somehow. So
Yeah, so happens you play the games take the fade out inside your hands when you end up getting swept two times on a
Row and I pee in trouble foot big w for them, but wave you got a match
we were just talking about consistency how important consistency is and
And in the pajamas, there was the pop-off at EWC the question. Yeah, they keep a consistency up here at the world championship
It is just very interesting
I think between Paris and EWC for twist of minds even for consistency because these guys are a top team and we know that they're up there
But they've done it in two different ways because the need of see again their offensive outbursts
But their defense was terrible
But in Paris it was a little bit more mundane and their defense played better
So which twist of minds are we gonna say we'll see folks
Let us know who you think is gonna win in the progress of fan vote
It's been a day for upset shogun furia twisted minds. We got yeah, but some of us just don't learn our lesson at the end
They said I'm kind of twisted minds. I still think they're the other better team
I've never quite been too convinced by the consistency of your and I also put it in earlier today
So I'm just not gonna change it at all at any point. They're twisted minds
I think they are just a tier above as we put them earlier
I have to say my predictions have been terrible today and I absolutely love it
This has been an amazing day a full of upsets. I
Won't go into some minds as well, too
I think they are a grand finals team and I'm gonna pick them here
Jack would get just said is that he only picks the favorites all the time and that's why his picture
I'm on because now the favorites are losing his pictures off today. That's good. That means I'm good
I love it saying that man. Listen feria now. I know your quality went earlier really wasn't that quality
So now I'm gonna go twist his minds and just keep it like that listen
I do think if there was one team, I felt like we underrepresented on that tier list. I think it was Twisted Minds
I think this is an S tier team. I do agree with my grand finals team. I do have them winning here
I think they'll be winning the group. How does the coin feel about it?
There's a mind's fury on each side into the sky for Furia
representation here on the first prediction to the Curia today on mistakes
That is true
Yeah, yeah, yeah, coin to coin there.
You said it was a one game win streak,
kind of yesterday it became a two game win streak.
Yeah, I did.
That's how I remember these things.
We're synced up over here.
Hey, coin, coin those balls.
Coin those balls here, but so does chat.
61% for Twisted Minds.
Can they live up to the hype and keep the streak going
that they've built at Paris, folks?
The road to the World Championship
is long for both these teams.
They dream of being on that final stage.
Let's get into the match.
Twisted Mind versus Fury.
Deep within the halls of Monkey Moon Arena, twisted minds begin another march towards another
LAN final perhaps.
But in their way now is a red hot Furious squad trying to continue their run here in Group
B. Game 1, brought to you by Progressive as we kick it off in the second round of Group
B.
This has been a huge return to Bob the Man in nature's cannot stop Yad, he's getting his aura back Starks.
Three seconds in. Monkey who doesn't connect from the kickoff and the answer's okay. We'll start off the freebie.
Finish the first round of matches in the group. The sole leader, one of the leaders in total goals.
Now his seventh of the day.
Now, on fire.
Now, most of that game, of course,
against Ninjas and Pyjamas, who has mentioned on the desk,
are now 0-6 to start their campaign.
And so the question becomes,
how much of that is how good Fury has been?
How much of that is what we can expect out of Ninjas and Pyjamas?
We're getting an answer now, as they are taking the fight.
Right, two twisted mines,
now facing it on the defensive end
and holding up to the task.
Yeah, I've already seen Twisted Minds though. I would say Nugo in particular is in red-hot form right now
The rest of his team were catching up as that series went on earlier on against them
sales
We need just about that it was
I had to kick and scrap for
Feeling pretty good after that win against Nick themselves. So
Let's go have this work out for him. If you're here to keep this lead
I'll tell a good a minute in
It's looking more like it's turning into Twisted Minds possession. Since going behind Sacks, they're behind a better team
I have got the fight right to Furious trying to get a quick equalizer, lost, and it narrowly
avoids contact.
I don't want to moon in the air as well, Google diving there and still denied as Furious shuts
the door again, but it's not quite the time for the defending that you would come
for with the 1-0 lead.
This one finally destroyed my loss.
That goes right after Munchie Moon.
That goes right up to Mushi Moon.
Well done by Twisted Minds to keep the fresher alive.
Here comes the two-time world champion blocked out by Laws.
It's a spice grab with plenty of passes every time they get in the ball.
They're looking for a teammate. This time Nubo does choose to go solo.
He'll keep on steaming in there.
Here's where we'll keep it going. Lovely pitch from him.
See, okay, look at the pace he's got.
And he shoots it down, but it's well defended by Fury.
There's a barrage of person behind the tack right now.
If you're ever happy to sit back and maybe that's an evolution of this Brazilian team
And I notice it's all attacking all aggressive all mechanical trio
And I think okay, let's try to fit no way to
It's a little bit better than the top eight we got in Paris
Fucking knows it man
I'm finally sure they're gonna be beaten, but no it's put wide
Noobler looking just a little bit different
I mean, I can't believe that
You've got to put my clothes down
It's just that
Noobler found it
Fuck the way
An MTRK
Hey, trying to bust one up, lost his all over it.
I mean, Nubo's playing like a two-time ball champion.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that's what the confusion comes from.
You see this one now off to the side, Nubo.
Trying to bring it around the board.
Monkey Moon very quickly onto it.
And Monkey Moon denied by Swift and Yan.
Both of their really all three members of FURIA
they're on the near post.
Here goes Nubo again looking for Monkey Moon.
Oh!
Panavate ace, trepidation saved, keeping that just off the post.
Now it's Nobo again, looking for a center of pass and that was cleared away as well.
Jürga hanging on for a dear wife here as their own back line.
That one's in charge of the board.
It's Nobo.
Let's check it out.
DRK will try.
Yeah, and it's just a little bit of a chance for us to defend even more.
Just in case I try every approach they can make if they're trying to use the wings,
Trying to go solo, looking for these passes.
Any bumps and demos will come in as well.
The Furious somehow fell down.
If this one finishes one there, it'll be one of the most defensive one they'll win some ever seen.
I don't even think I've set Furious' name.
So lost, swept, yeah. Let's get that out of the way.
Because everything in attack has been twisted in mind.
So here comes Noobo again.
On your moon, I'll run a clever pass out towards Noobo.
And yeah, I'm just letting TRK sit there on the ground like they're in the way for me to bring it down, how about I just never do.
Until he gets all the way to the next Monkey Moon through contact.
No more, no more, no more!
Nobody on the receiving end.
Back the other way, this is just wide and a huge break for Swift's mind.
Yeah, let me touch that for Monkey Moon. Gets it to all of Snoobo.
It has boosts the player. It only has Swift in front of Triassic ones underneath them. It's great defending them from Swift.
CRK, going up that wall.
No-goose left, just has to get it into the center.
Twisted Mines running out.
Time out of town!
Mubble gets it, and as always seems to happen,
eventually the defense is breached.
It was just a matter of time.
The Lundy had to break.
And Furia could withstand them no longer.
42 seconds for Mane.
And all that work from Furia, for naught.
And they get another one to enter right back.
No, everybody was back doing GRK, had this lined up.
And Yan's going to be right there
in his own defensive third.
Dumped right back in by Nubov.
And it gives us a saying that here,
one of the best defenses so far in this tournament,
based on what we saw earlier on against Nubov,
but twisted minds are letting that happen at all instead.
Here, relying on straps,
trying to get counter-attacking goals.
Just in mines come forward with 15 seconds left, Nubov.
It's just 50-50 into the center there,
it's here, he gets it back to both community shoes,
But it's saved by Lost.
So many of the quality opportunities set up by Twisted Minds have come on those infield passes.
No, he got one of their own!
But this one does not touch ground.
Now it does.
And here they get one more shot at Twisted Mind's net.
And now we've got our OG.
Yeah, I think Kirio are hoping for the overtime because it is a hard reset.
Taking the kickoff, but unfortunately for them, Twisted Minds are able to watch another attack straight forward.
That's a great tackle left from Lost.
He's got...let's win Daniel behind him!
And he fakes it out, and Furia absolutely steal that first game.
Robbery.
Absolute robbery.
That's lovely.
You know, but with all the deep reds from Furia,
at the start of that game, nursing the 1-0 lead,
it would feel harsh for them to have finally dropped that game.
As loss gets this to go through,
Just a little bit of quite a hand that gets past twisted mines 12 seconds into OT.
I mean hitting the ball wasn't working too well for them, swimming in, lost lot.
Okay, let's do the opposite.
A couple of fakes.
People are expecting when you play a fortune-taker.
Quite as mechanical as lost.
It's a nice pass there from Monkey Booty to Nubo,
and I think we're all thinking from next with twisted mines going to win this one,
but lost, got a tackle, and then completely faked out.
and monkey on his own patch.
That's got to feel very good.
Yeah, so free, you know, you go back
to that opening goal, right, from Yan
and you're, it kind of set the expectations,
I think, for Furia.
And I think this is a team in Furia
that is very momentum-based, right?
Because, you know, when things are going well
for them, they still, they snowball
that advance. They kind of start to steamroll
the opposition. It doesn't happen often
at the land stage.
Now it has, but
But they finally face quite a bit of resistance from Twisted Minds in that game.
They still come away with the overtime winner from Lost.
And now we look ahead to game two call.
And you wonder, can Twisted Minds break through with some of those opportunities
that Fury was able to catch up to?
It's a very different series here from Fury.
They're touching down really on Net,
who are in good form in this World Championships.
Unfortunately, this one may know they're going to be up against Twisted Minds.
maybe one of the favourite, I think Twisted Minds had their beaten Falcons would have gone
on to win the eSports World Cup and they came close to against Falcons so arguably the second
best team was recently in Paris. So far they've been looking good. They've shown they can battle,
they've shown they can score plenty of goals. Furia, looking incredibly dedicated to the
defending and it seems that they've got back their trust in each other. They haven't really
disappeared for Furia and South America as a whole so if nothing else it's great to see
Let's see that backslash.
I feel like a year ago, they came to the World Championship,
there was almost a set-up.
So what are they going to do in the offseason?
Before they were even out of it, you know, it's just like,
all right, it just feels like the vibes aren't there yet.
What a galvanizing start to the group stage here
with a dominant win over Ninjas and Pajamas
and now being very much tested by twisted minds
and coming out on top in a very testy game one.
Juanigo has this ball that's lost and yet in front of him tries to fake out.
Does fake out!
Oh!
He does it back to us!
Just wears his magic wand and lulls them all to sleep!
Trying to beat this guy in a 1v1.
Yeah, good luck, good luck in that one leg of the day.
He is already informed.
I think we can get onto this too once they kick off with Swift, we'll catch up to it.
He just couldn't get any momentum for it. Now Monkey Moon indirect from the ceiling.
That's set away by last only as far as Luba.
That's along the wall. That shot's wide and no follow-up from Monkey Moon. Just a little too far back.
He leaves. See, okay, it's coming in here. There was a tunnel on the retreat there by Luba.
He's just gonna make furious if that's even more open. Fury didn't find themselves behind in this series for the first time.
It's not going to pings it across.
It's cleared away by Yann, Iteria.
They have to get their footholds here.
They're barely able to get hold of the ball.
They're barely able to keep the ball.
Every time Nubo comes forward,
they are looking petrified stacks.
He's done it again.
Monkey Moon got the finish,
but look at this bit of quality.
That's Swift knocked out of the way,
lost in a real tough spot.
Perfectly placed by Monkey Moon.
With the defender moving across left to right,
put it in behind him and top left.
Expertly done.
And the lead doubled down for Twisted Minds.
Here comes Monkey Moon, Jan.
Let's keep an eye out, Monkey Moon.
And the Frenchman for two times.
It's his own Dickies winner.
He's getting plenty of the ball with Al Fury.
I chuck him over themselves.
And Fury have to be careful, Sacks,
because he was saying to himself that last year,
they seemed like a team that was sort of dipping mentally.
They still had that delicateness in them.
Not something you'd expect to say with the reputation,
especially of a player like Yan, who's there to meet Muki Moon
and lost out.
Just doing all he can with nothing in the tank
to relieve the pressure.
And it's done so temporarily, but Nubar on one, and there's Yan.
Got an opportunity there with loss to go two on two
with Muki Moon and TRK.
But it is with some minds who come up the better
of the two there, TRK around one,
and that's just going to be left away.
Ross was ready to screen him off the ball if he had to.
Now, Swift, let's reset.
Does that get one still blocked away?
High near the bar.
Yeah, who is it?
It's Mubo yet again, the Talisman.
He gets it to TRK.
3-0 twisted.
They're starting to enjoy themselves in this one.
This is the twisted minds.
I think a lot of people, when you look at this matchup
on paper, thought, this is the TM we're going to see.
Not the one that struggled against Rear, but, again,
Because since they struggled, Fury have put on a master class defensively in Game 1 to keep them at bay.
It has not hit the base here in Game 2, and it's twisted minds well on their way to equalizing.
It enters a minds and team that likes to continue scoring.
They'll never take their foot off the break and ease it towards the next game after, I don't know, four minutes or so if they're four or five goals up.
So Fury have to be careful, this one doesn't get ugly, of course.
They've both got the technical timeouts, and even that'll make it one-on-the-series.
It might be worth curia taking there, depending what happens in these next two minutes,
because this second game has looked easy for Twisted Fights.
Opportunity now at the crossbar and against Swift.
Denied the goal on Monkey Moon for the double save,
and nobody home defensively Swift doing just enough to prevent TRK from having an easy path to the net.
That looked like the opportunity.
Furio, we're going to show any signs of life in this game.
I mean, Furio.
If they get one and they come away empty-handed.
Furio's doing some pretty ugly double commits right now.
I imagine it's because there's a bit of an ego game
when you're four-nil down.
You want to make a statement.
You want to make sure your opponent has a bit more
respect for you than that in the next game.
So they're trying to be as quick as they can be.
They're chucking two cars at every single defensive touch.
It's not how you do that, Furio.
You don't have to keep that discipline.
A defensive discipline. As soon as you lose that, Twisted Minds will pull further and further away from you.
Quicker and quicker.
And really make sure they are the ones who win this group B.
Two wins from two, this will be for Twisted Minds.
TRK punches it forwards, lost.
Gets to save for now.
And it's been way too simple for Twisted this game.
Purely, they get such take with them into game three.
That's the main question I've got for this one.
Nubal making a very early case, a very strong case at that for player of the day.
Five goals, five assists in the first bats today.
He's got another three and two in this series.
We're not even halfway through.
Eight goals in total on the day for Nubal to lead everybody on the pitch currently.
Dan just walking around letting Swift take over.
The final seconds will mercifully take down Furia, who have come crashing back down to
Earth.
Courtesy of Mina's twisted mind.
Oh, lovely touch back as well.
I mean, one more fifth goal for Fun.
It's talking about Nubo, when he's up against Yan, who was the first player not from EU
or North America to truly be in the conversation for best in the world and said to my eyes,
Nubo is approaching that, you know?
He's not quite there yet, don't get me wrong, but certainly in 1v1, he's the world champion in 3s.
He is improving dramatically.
It's catching up with his 1v1 ability and such an impressive player.
So, as you can see there, 700 points, that's 158 points again there from Nuba.
But all three 2-7-1 players were having a great time in that second game.
One thing to also take note of as we look back at the story of game 2,
which Nuba has his handprint all over for Twisted Minds is the man who's behind the team this weekend
with Senzo taking over after Sad Junior no longer with the team coaching them for quite a while
and the question marks it's certainly been there's like all right so coaching change right before
world we've seen it from some teams different levels of success what could we expect here
And already Twisted Minds has been very much tested, right?
They go to Game 5 against Foot, dueling over times in Games 4 and 5 of that series.
And then, pushed to the edge here by Furia in Game 1, they answer back
and really pass that test with flying fellas.
Can Furia match the pace of Twisted Minds?
Can they give us an even game?
Because the first one, Furia won it, but to be honest, they were battered.
They managed to get that overtime win.
So can they do more than counter-attack? Can they keep it a little bit in possession?
That's my main question for the team from Brazil, and so far the third game has started a little bit better in that regard.
Swift, all smunking it out wide, and Yan here has got a chance here, he's got the ball by himself.
Nuba already up for it. This is better than Fury, it's a little faring forward.
You didn't see there's a tool in game two, Stacks.
Well, that one's going to be set right back to the field after an aerial plop.
Kind of puts a halt to the attack, lost, waiting to the left, if Yan can hit him.
Instead, Yan going the opposite direction and TRK making the initial save.
That might just be the end of the attack. TRK will just bring this cross,
Swift with a full tank, brought it down nicely to Nubo, and now there's Monkey Moon.
Somehow on target. You'll see a lot of that from players at the other lands,
You know at the other majors you feel like they're kind of building up as the year goes on and then you see the absolute peak of their game
Here's the world championship in monkey in the world the different story you can have a horror season not this is in that of course
Finishing second in Paris, but even if he does have a horror season
Something about him with the world championships is completely different. He comes to life here. That's what's happening, but
Fury are coming to life here at game number three. They're looking a lot better.
They're getting some half chances. The final passes are quiet there. They're pushing mines.
They're running out of booze. They're starting to be stretched.
It's good backboard defending so far by Nubo. I like what I'm seeing from Fury right now.
They're not rushing things. They're taking their time and they're doing it well.
Finally, both teams get to go through a long stretch without conceding a goal,
especially to start the game. Monkey Moon throws one down field.
he could actually run on to this instead. Let's do both take over and yand as well to keep that close to the back wall and
not give him an easy rebound
Fury the question is when do we set that third man forwards when we really?
Accelerate and take this risk this be the moment. Okay gets a decent clear and swift
He's already up
Who does he have to support? Yes, I think we said the last is being
Bumped and harassed by monkey moon. He turns it onto the crossbar
It's just like that. Plus he minds almost have their lead. It was
going to be a role reversal from game one really. Fury are a bit all over Twisted Minds this
game. Twisted Minds always almost clean blood anyway.
Big play by Yann, diving in to make sure he grabs that boost, but what a trick to drop
that pass! And Yann will score! Off the brilliant feed by Mucky Moon!
And CRK clearing the way in the fake as well. Don't ignore his input into that
one. Because in diving past that ball completely changed the angle of approach that Fury
needed suddenly and they were fully set there in real trouble. All three Twisted Minds players
and FOM could get even worse. Okay he gets the flick. Lost was back and Furia once again
stacks. I left scratching their heads thinking how do we score against this team? They had
pressure. They had the balls that Twisted Minds halved but it never really turned into
true chances. It's the final part of the puzzle potentially for Furia. I've got the
They're gonna get a little bit scratchy chasing it a little bit a little bit desperate
They score early on in game one they get the overtime winner very quickly from loss
And now eight plus minutes since they've scored a goal
with
clever pass over towards Yan
Inside two minutes got it down on target and monkey moons got to save
How can they break out quickly in transition?
It is Yen, oh that's flipped by one oncoming attacker, works out well enough for Swift.
Furia on the prowl, loose in front and Monkey Moon gets to it quickly.
We're gonna need a little bit of magic here from Furia.
I wonder if they've got it.
Because they're not surprising twisted minds at all, yeah.
Try to get a pinch, that was a nice idea there.
Fucking nearing forwards.
Remarguably the Brazilian Gove, yeah.
It's just punching him away. Get out of my way, last he says.
But here comes Yav, trying to get the equaliser.
Use this boost. Get the flippery step. Big save from TRK.
And again, it looks composed.
And maybe that's what sends us brought an extra defensive solidity here for Twisted Minds.
If you're trying to break through them, it's put to the side.
Yav can't quite get the double.
Mustpick's enough coming in.
Eventually he tries to spoon it over, but tries to get the lob.
But it's too easy to defend by all three Twisted Minds players.
But TRK should get this clearance.
And then Nubov continues there.
Fury, what do you do here? Maybe it's a breach up.
Oh, they need that from Swift.
90 seconds left. Fury, a much better game for them, but still no rewards.
Can't really believe in Mortal Victory's been so much is on the line.
Demo of the back does not come into play just yet.
Nubov now, picked a spot, set down by Swift.
Follow up from TRK tonight as well.
But they can't move forward.
Monkey Moon, let that one get away a little too far.
Noobov can get to the backboard with us,
falling out with 12 seconds left.
Twisted mines trying to just put the lights out here in game 3.
Get to within one win of a 2-0 start.
Yan threw it down, Field was hoping Lost was there, is not.
And now he's got to power it away.
Has bodies down there, but it doesn't matter.
Lost now has to catch and run it up the wall.
Looking for Swift, nobody has any boost,
and it's going to cost them.
Twisted mines down to one win away.
Yeah, they're close. They're still pretty chill, still pretty relaxed.
That was a better game from Fury.
It was a game that shows that they are still early.
I talked about a fragility, maybe that they were showing in game two.
And I like the fact that they're in game three, they looked a lot less fragile.
They looked less brittle, you know, they kept the volume of Twisted Minds half.
Put the pressure on them, they asked a few questions.
It wasn't quite enough, but that's credit to Twisted Minds defence as well.
So much to be said about Twisted Minds attack.
They really had to keep an eye on Furia there, who are some tricky customers.
I mean, I talked about that, that fake there from TRK.
It's such a little subtle thing, but I don't think it's a mini player's thing compared to that.
Kind of taken by Furia, with them facing double match point at the hands of Twisted Mind.
You know, this is the blueprint for a Monkey Moon season.
Is it not called...
Oh, yeah.
Yes, there was RLCSX where that team BDS was, far none, the best team in Europe, and so
you could argue there.
That's what it's like.
It's not winning at the end because like, Palady got them, and that's what everybody remembers.
And I think ever since that point, then we start having the lands again.
And Monkey Moon wins the first one back, and then there's that lull right after
that where the winter was not great, spring was a disaster.
But they kick it into high gear for the World Championship.
They win that World Championship.
Monkey Moon, since we've brought the lands back,
has never had like a full season where he's gone post to post as the favorite to win it all.
There is that kind of lull there.
And I think that came in Boston this year, the Swiss Reminds team.
Just they lack the chemistry that you would expect from them, Cole.
And they couldn't defend anything.
But since that moment you go to the Paris that whole split in the Paris Major
EWC, I think you know again the result wasn't what they would have wanted but still played very very well
Could very well have been the team to win it all if not for the existence of team Falcons
So now the question I posed to you is how does fury a crack that a because
That defense from twisted minds that we've seen now over the last couple of games looks like it could stop anybody in the world
I think if Furia spend the rest of the series worrying too much about Twisted Minds, they'll die slowly.
They'll be beaten slowly, you know?
It's not a way, I don't think they can grind out another game victory against Twisted Minds defending.
I want to see them chuck everything at it, you know, and that's not something I always say.
I'm a big proponent of taking 30 seconds to be solid, but I don't want to see any solidity here with Furia.
I want to see them going all guns blazing.
Yeah, but first, you have to not get seats thrown away, so you know what, my team talk
is completely ruined.
What an old twist of minds.
What a big bump as well, but I'm keeping away.
And so in the end, his double is roseing up to the backboard, and then, who bumps
the guy on the backboard?
No one bumps the guy on the backboard.
The guy on the backboard has left a lot.
He's won a couple of world championships, so I'm not going to argue with it.
That's crazy.
That is a sellout target for two Windricks from the ceiling.
Now TRK can turn on the... I mean, you know, for all the talk about how twisted mines have been offensively since that first game, I mean...
TRK is kind of an outlaw thought here without much monkey moon and noobo have factored into the attack for twisted mines.
And that's terrifying in and of itself, Paul, because we know how deadly TRK is. Ask, look, how dangerous TRK is.
Let's see if we'll be asking Furia if they can be lost and try to come from the Sun Island.
That idea again from Furia.
Yeah, fix it up, Monke Moon.
Won't be able to get this ball, so Yankin can get under a spell.
Try to get it to once lost, but it was Nuba that time that had the read,
and gets the perfect 50-50.
Now Monke Moon comes in all through just a bunch of players coming forward.
There's a three-pronged attack.
We'll leave it for Monke Moon.
I wondered if that was quite communicating while I'm up,
but in the end Monke Moon got a great touch.
Okay, he's waiting.
Udyria defending well.
If Udyria do survive this group, and base on the scene from myth, it seems like Udyria will.
But I think this would be a good lesson for him going forward, because there's not too many attacks left based on whether he's devastating his twisted minds.
Worked us well to get this ball out towards the end, but...
Udyria have not been afforded the opportunities to put their mechanical skills on display.
Everything has just been very much point-to-point.
Somebody's trying to get a play started on their own.
They can rarely get the pass off.
Oh, there's no one with a double, and that's going to be blocked out.
Looks like it was not quite on target.
Then the other way, a loss will finally break a scoring drought of about 10 minutes.
Brother, could you quit now?
Almost 12 minutes as L'Furie finally get back on the board.
And it was yeah swiping monkey moon away this time. That's got to feel good after it was
Monkey moon that cleared the path for the opening twisted minds goal
See in the ultimate stream, she's still on going
Yeah, we can wait for you guys very
Yeah, we'll go go to the figure slash RLE sports
You can see that game a rebellion of taking the lead against big loads and twisted minds
I'm taking them again against Furia. Parity didn't last long specs
No, it did not.
Lost it all he could.
But there was nobody else to help him out on the defensive end.
Monkey Moon, right place, right time.
Two goals to assist.
That's exactly what he did in the five-gamer against Spook earlier.
Is it enough then?
Looks to be enough now, unless Furia have yet another answer in them.
Here goes Noobl.
Double tap!
Off the crossbar and away!
He's landed on it and made it tough to defend for Furia.
But we're holding off the dear life right now, hoping Twisted Mines will over-commit again.
Maybe they have too much faith in their attack.
It's a great challenge.
Swift has got no boost and nothing is spawning in so Swift now is a completely out of position.
Nubo gets a huge skiff and an almighty touch there from him.
To the center.
Looking towards Yan.
Can't get onto that one so Furia gets a clean touch to the ball.
It's phase one, lost trust, dribble ends at 100, Dutchman ends at 70, Monkey Moon is back for it.
Swiftfoot for a second he'll have a chance.
Monkey Moon's 50-50 game was too strong, no stacks.
Oh, Monkey Moon feathers it out to DRK, normal diving it as well.
But now he goes lost.
1v1 with Monkey Moon, DRK trying to come in and support Nidale.
It's just got no boost though.
Again, poor Fury, they come forward.
They find a chance to pull and it does work in the end.
They didn't have anything in the tank.
What they did well though was recycle.
Yadler's so brave going up there.
And Swift just watched the ball after the clearance.
And Fury have scored two in a single game
without leading overtime.
There you go.
But it will not be enough to prolong the series.
They need another.
They afforded themselves an extra window of opportunity.
Here goes Yan.
Liquid reset and he kept the play alive.
Swift out for loss and he kept the attack going.
That'll drop down the front but Yammer's all the way back
in midfield at the boost and Mucky Moon will feather that over
with TRK going towards the ceiling of the goal.
Go back to that shot from Swift who had TRK charging out.
It had to be placed absolutely perfectly.
No margin for error with, I mean,
a significant part of your world championship on the line.
That's the level of ice you expect from the best in the world here in the world, Jeff Henshaw.
To some minds right now, I'm hoovering up all the sense of boosts with Furia.
Gonna be left strategy in their goal, and they cannot rush things right now.
Furia, this is where they have to dig even deeper in this series past the centre-world, booked away by Yan.
Can he get a pinchy? He could as well target Monkey Moon!
Watch there!
Thought for a second, that would be the special Yan moment.
Oh, monkey moon over towards Nuvo on the defensive end, but Furia are circling again.
Lost is up, Yan Lurking, his drive goes from the end, wins with a low 50!
Yan came in, Nuvo used the wrap, got something on him, but Yan knew exactly what he was
doing and Yan has been bringing to the boil in this series now maybe he's fully
come alive with 21 seconds left of game 4 it's a critical left Twisted Minds
bugging against him. No you do not swaps it away back to Yan. Who goes for that
flick reset? It's just a hold now Mojira. Ah Twisted Minds have been lethal in the
air a lot of free jumps but it's not going to be enough we're going to game
five as Furia hold the line and get another one goal victory I'm actually
shocked that this one is going to game five and that is full credits of Furia
they know that they're up against opponents that are in full swing right
now they're up against opponents that mechanically have the edge on them
but they're finding a way to win that they're holding out they're getting
So many saves, seven saves between them.
Actually for both teams they have some decent shots in the end.
But when this happened I think it was a must for the lead right here.
It was a must for the lead after 13 seconds.
And I was thinking in my mind, this one's done.
Yeah, it was like, alright, so let's see what Fury can do.
That's what they can do.
And then they finally got on the board.
And just getting that first one, that was the first goal in 12 minutes for Fury.
And how about Jan road forward and make yourself as big as possible on the follow-up?
Masterfully done by a player who himself has quite a claim to 1v1 prowess
Will not be competing for said world championship here, but any other time you would back him to be the one
Yeah, he lost in the semi-final. I think it's a KV1. I think it was over in South America
Yes, plus competitions, very own and we have game five. We have champions field and fury.
If they do have an extra gear, something that can surprise twisted minds and have got a real
chance of stealing this one.
What battling performance it would be. Fury, flick that one. They've started well with
the ball. Here it comes. Yeah, losses trying to get the bottom of the table through
The VR game sends it away, but it's Buri and the first nick of their opponents in this final game.
What kind of is that? Twisted Minds staying full of fence.
Suddenly it swings back to questioning Twisted Minds game management because
I remember some series recently where they're three goals up with, what, 35 seconds left and they lose them.
It does happen to Twisted Minds because they're so aggressive.
This is a golden opportunity for Swift!
Great pass in for just to hit this ball
with a scoring position from Yan.
Gets out there to force Monkey Moon into an awkward spot as well
and it's Swift who puts it away.
There were two defenders there.
I thought for sure one of them would get it, not to be.
Furia, as it stands, are taking this series.
If I get even better hits, lost couldn't get the shooting angle.
Good touch over as well.
From TRK towards Muvvo, against the angle, but it's a little bit high.
TRK is there to keep the attack going as a demo that comes in.
Gonna fall to my keyboard.
It's a response, twisted mines.
Had to be sooner rather than later.
Get the demo down in front.
Just a little extra chaos.
Twisted mines right back in it.
We'll start to game 5 and it's the most even game we've had so far.
Fiora have had some real pressure here.
They're not including their goal, they've got a good block there on the hand.
Split free, sir.
Twist, and Swift sends it forwards.
No boost for TRK, so he's going to try and get the drive challenge on loss.
It's going to be enough to put loss off slightly.
There was always a rebound right there from Twisted Mites.
Still on the front foot of Fiora, get hold of this ball again.
They've been using it well and they do have it.
Swift pushes it out wide.
Mucky Nune is nearly there.
Take all the time in the World Cup event, there was a ladder from Furia and suddenly not much of an answer rush with no boost.
Twisted minds are being so stretched.
Off the way, as far as lost.
Little read-up, gives a lot of options available, and they have to force that ball through.
A little similar to how Yan scored the game winner in the previous game.
Trying to follow that challenge up yourself.
Maybe there's something there now for Furia.
and he tries to take out Yan, but Yan holds him with his nerve, doesn't jump, and escapes
TRK as well.
Great work from Yan to buy his team some time.
The individual moments, the individual battle stacks are now being won by Fury for the first time in this series.
TRK doing all he can, just kind of tightrope, walk his way out of danger.
TRK very quickly after that ball as well, trying to stay with loss.
And he's done well enough to give Monkey Moon a chance to make the save.
Now Swift going underneath Nubal, not an easy player.
They're trying to get that 50-50 across the fury at goal.
This is looking like a tighter game five.
And this is the rest of this series.
Monkey Moon waits, gets a couple of clean 50-50s,
but Yav was waiting for that one.
It's a great 50 loss in fact from Fury,
and Swift get the rear out and set it to the ceiling.
Yav tries to win it.
Monkey Moon gets a touch on it.
Lost is there, up against Mubo,
and what we're seeing for the first time in this series,
again, as it twisted minds,
hardly have boos in this game five.
Fury have controlled the center.
They've controlled the ball.
Maybe they're controlling this series.
in the series but won't give him gets a blow.
Solo efforts of late.
No more have been fruitful at all as Yan has swift way down field stealing boost.
This could get real awkward now for Twisted Mind.
Oh no! And a 2-1 lead!
Yan gets over this bull and he sends Swift on his way.
He gains control of it.
He got the final flick and Furia are on the precipice of their best result of the season.
80 seconds away they just have to hold the twisted minds of made late comebacks before.
They've already won a game five overtime.
It was close to going two goals behind not being even able to force that.
But Loss has control now Stax.
Hard clear and lost and Yan both running downfield trying to add to their advantage.
One more for very well put it out of reach the way they've defended with a lead.
But now Nubal looking for one arm.
Look, he's somehow got another.
This is still in front.
They are not out of the woods just yet.
Lost hanging around over there in the corner and nobody makes contact.
So Furia let off the hook down to 40 seconds now.
Twisted Mives need to get on their horse.
Problem is, they're stuck in their own back line.
Twisted Mines need to get out of this ball.
It's really wrecked it there. TRK sends it forward.
Has anyone left for Twisted Mines? Yes, there is. It's Nubo.
He's a monkey. Great touch there from Swift.
And Yan's able to get it next.
20 seconds now. Twisted Mines running out of time.
Furia. But then it's so close, they can almost taste it.
They just have to avoid in the arrows.
Like a double commit. That could have been very, very costly.
Pop over one.
Oh, TRK and Nubo both there in the corner.
TRK waiting for a pass. It's never gonna get there.
And now Nubo's got a trigger to counterattack.
The last gas for twisted minds in this series.
Downfield here, case still there.
One low bounce, no monkey moon.
For Nubo, a round loss.
Down and Daria are top of the ground.
I am stunned that Buria have won that series.
They had to give it everything, never entire minutes where they barely touched the ball.
They barely had a 50-50 to their name.
And yet for all of Twisted Mind's a skill, for all of the narrative we have,
but you know, this is Monkey Room Tournament, Fury had something else to add, they had an H.
And maybe from the Brazilian team, that's what's been missing for the last few events.
Maybe they have that edge backstop because that was so hard for
We talked about the contrast for a team like twisted minds from
Boston the very first major of this long journey for all of these teams
How about the contrast for fury up in Boston going into the third round of Swiss matches?
They were playing a match with a North American team that let's be honest
Nobody cared about it could not have mattered any less.
How things have changed, Buria are alone at the top of their group,
with a dominant win over ninjas and pajamas,
and then a gutsy win over Jutime World Champion Monkey Moon and Twisted Minds.
But next time someone tells you, you have to go all out attack to win a series of Rocket League,
Show them this one!
Theory of final agent, and I'm exhausted, okay?
Ruria, takes down, twisted minds,
and now of course I have a loss with me
to breathe for a moment, right?
Congratulations on the win.
An absolute monumental win for you guys in groups.
Putting you guys at 2-0, you had a 3-0 earlier.
You must feel so good right now.
When we had a very good victory against Nip, and now against State of Mines, that's all he said, but how are you feeling?
I'm feeling very happy, it's a job that we've been doing for a long time. I feel that it's finally working out.
I feel very happy with this, it's a hard working thing right now, from the beginning of the season, so you are very happy.
Yeah, well, so in that series you guys, you know, look you went down, but then you fought back
Was there something said in that moment that allowed you guys to get just that little extra
Wind in your sails to be able to pull back into series and win it all. What was their pivotal moment?
Teve, quando a gente tava perdendo deles no dois a um ali, teve o timeout e tudo
Tipo, teve alguma coisa que foi falada, que foi conversada, que você acha que, tipo, deu tipo instala na sua cabeça e fez tudo mudar
I can't say what I said, but it's something tactical, right?
But we knew it would be serious, because we are very united and we know our potential.
So it's a secret.
We can't really speak that, because it's a tactical thing.
But we knew we would win, because we are really together right now
and we know we can win from anybody, so that's what we do.
Now obviously this is still just groups and usually we leave speeches for you know
insanely big wins but I feel like this isn't insanely big win for you guys
because it proves that you guys are being consistent now it proves that
sticking together is the right call for all the fans that have stuck with you
guys through this as well anything you want to say to all the people that
continue to support you and now you're proving them right
We are here to win everyone, you know?
The bad moment was for everyone, but when I woke up, it was already.
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Keith, I want to try and experiment.
All right.
To help you un-become your parents,
I want you to try a game called Rocket League.
Ooh, is it a puzzle like my crossword?
No, picture soccer.
Okay.
With a car.
What, do I hang my feet outside the window?
No, not your car.
But you said, think of...
It's a video game.
Oh, okay, I get it.
Where's the cartridge?
No, it's an online thing.
Is there a joystick?
Not like the ones you're thinking of.
But I need to get some quarters, right?
No.
I gotta blow in the cartridge.
Again, like no cartridge.
But you'll need a username.
Username, huh?
How about Keith underscore 9-9-1-4?
The bathroom coat?
That's the only number I can kind of remember easily, so.
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On a day full of surprises at the 2026 Rock and League World Championship, none have been
bigger than Furia coming out with fire against Ninjas and Pajamas with a sweep earlier today
and then here on Champions field taking down wasted minds.
Furia man, the boys from Sam, the one land where Giorbia is absolutely not a fan anymore.
It's hard to get at wins and wins and wins and wins.
Man, I owe my period.
A team we didn't expect to do any of these gifts.
Yeah.
Two dubs.
And I even gave it a little doubt, too,
because they'd be NIP.
NIP's got people like, maybe NIP might have brought it up.
You'd be twisted minds.
A team that made it all with the grand finals of Paris.
Yeah.
And it wasn't even like they just
punched him in the mouth into his minds.
It was not ready.
That was a battle.
And they found a way to find their form
and get that win versus a team.
Many consider it a top four team in the world.
Hatch off to Furia.
They are now 2-0 on this group. They control their own destiny to get that number 1 spot.
Twist the mines. They went from winning that game 5, but they were to clinch number 1
to now having to play for their tournament lives tomorrow versus Ninjas.
Yeah, just a wild turnaround for Furia. I mean, they had the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, right?
Because they had that 12-minute stretch right around here where they just could not score.
newboats going around just you know waving his magic wand and putting them all to sleep and then
things start to turn around for fury and it starts with the lost goal then they get this one here
that you know Yan starts to see a bit of the old Yan here this week so far this week
yeah this this Yan struck fear into the hearts of everybody in the world and he's
top the group for Furia here in Gold Sport.
I mean, we talked about Monkey Moon like a big Serena,
but Yann's best lamb, Advernos,
yes, was also in this arena when he beat Moise Esports
four years ago.
I think that offensive demo was not a wave.
I should like this one, 10 to 80.
It feels more balanced in that series.
Honestly, felt pretty balanced.
Nobody from Furios necessarily popping off.
All three were getting involved.
All making plays happen.
And we've learned that if you have more offensive demos,
though, you lose the series.
Well, you have to be in the team for the last four matches,
though, right, so we'll see.
Maybe that respawn meta is really helping out here.
And then I did get corrected.
I did correct me in the green room.
This is the first all CS tournament or land tournament,
I should say, where a new update has come into play.
I thought it was back in Paris, but it wasn't.
It's the first all CS land.
So it is interesting.
I do think it is making paying dividends.
It is making a big difference in these matches.
As we take a look at the groups here, Gibbs.
Oh boy.
It was all clinched up and now it's wide open.
Yeah.
So if Twisted Minds would have won that match,
even in game five, the number one was clinched,
number four was clinched.
Now Ninjas and Majamas, they are still alive.
They haven't even won a game yet, but they are alive.
They have to beat twisted mines.
They also need foot to beat Furia,
and then ninjas would be through.
Twisted mines would get fourth in the group.
Foot, they still have a very good chance,
obviously, at number one.
If they beat Furia, and then twisted mines lose,
they automatically get it.
If not, if twisted mines wins,
that's a three-way tie for first, at two to one.
Foot would have to win three games to one,
and if they don't, and it's three to two,
It comes down to gold differential very likely so it's going to be wild when you look at those standings
Is there any other group where we've ever had where you could not have possibly predicted those four teams?
Any of them would be in the spot. They're in I mean fury at the top. No way twister mines in the middle
Maybe but you know ninjas and pajamas as on them as they look being at the bottom being oh
Oh, six being just absolutely housed by Puria in the first series. No way. Nobody would have predicted that. That's the world championship for you. It's unpredictable. I love it. I love every bit of it.
Everybody here playing with their hearts and it changes. It plays upset in every interview. This is a different tournament than every other tournament we have here today, folks. Manchester City versus NRG will be our final 3v3 matchup of the day.
And then we get into the semifinals of the 1v1 World
Championship, switching to best of sevens.
Those will be fantastic, exciting matchups there.
Can no one bounce back after that loss.
He just suffered in a 3v3, 2-1 v1s.
Let's talk about the final matchup of the day.
Man City, speaking of teams, they
have a chance to win their group,
but we did not expect to be in this spot.
After taking down the rebellion earlier today,
they now go up against NRG, who
got the win over the big O. No teams facing off
against each other here.
At Man City, if they win this now because Rebellion has already beat Big O,
then Man City will clinch number one in the group on this first day of group stage.
So no matter how they win, if they take down energy, they get number one in the group.
Manchester City coming on in looking for a spot in the Grand Finals.
I feel pretty confident because, as you see, I do a lot of flambeefers and stuff.
I know like it was the first of our current HB.
So I just try to make them really confident and try to give them a bit of my experience to help them.
Obviously it would be safe to get a second title at the Dickies Arena because I already won there.
I always say the same, it can be like the last world replay, we never know what can happen after.
I think the level of the competition is really high, I think a lot of things can win to be fair,
which is not the same before.
I think if you get two really good teams, instead of now, you get probably like four or five teams.
I just want to get this feeling again, to win over the attention, because it's so crazy.
I mean, I didn't qualify for the last world, so obviously I want to show to everyone that
I still can compete at the top level, and they shouldn't underestimate us.
this.
Shaddy again here with the man cities and Noah. We talked earlier. You guys were looking great. Good start to the day here. But of course,
now you have the world champions on the other side defending their title for you guys having to play, you know, throughout a long day like this.
How's the energy levels? Like, how's the squad feeling right now? Do they feel it? Do you see them feeling a dip or does it feel like they're maintaining that consistency?
Um, I think we're maintaining the consistency there was obviously a bit of a dip after the series because we were just chilly adrenaline
Yeah, but then we've been you know, we put some food
What's what's something that happens in the game?
And then and then we go back into scrims with some free play and just kind of cycle myself back up again
Yeah, no, that's good. I and I guess you kind of answered my question there
What that that period in between matches like especially extremely important ones like this against a team like NRG is it is it just
Watch matches, is it just scripted like a do you have a plan for these guys or you feel out what they're maybe looking for?
It's I make sure both. I think I'd want them to be playing before
Yeah, I brought it specifically to yeah, yeah, but again, it just depends obviously the series before was was pretty short
So yeah, we got more time than we expected
Right, let's just have a bit of a chill and then we can get back into it
And did you have a chat with the players after two the fact that two of them just one, you know
their first World's Land match.
That's, to me, very exciting.
Did you have a chat with them about that after?
How exciting that was?
Was that off the table?
Not really.
I mean, it's just a limited stream.
It's like another series.
OK, great.
It's a big master in show, but we can't get caught up in that.
We just had to head for a job.
We had to win, so we got to keep going
and keep going for the series.
It's business, but have a little bit of fun
along the way, right?
Look at business all the way.
All right, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Let's take a look at that defending title.
Defending World Champs on the other side, let's just go.
Being back here is definitely nostalgic.
Last time we were in Dickies,
we made it like all the way to the grand finals
and sadly we lost in heartbreaking way.
There is nothing more that I would want them
to right the wrongs.
I would just want to make it up to the NA fans
and win back to back in North America in Dickies.
That would be, you know, better even than last year,
I think.
Being the Raining World Champs is kind of,
it's like an honor, obviously,
But it comes with its burden of expectations.
Around two years we didn't miss a single top four.
I like that standard and I like how it drives us
in practice especially right now.
So while there is expectation,
I think it's what lets us kind of maintain it.
What I'm trying to prove at Worlds this year
is just that we are the best in the world time
and that we are capable of going back to back.
Winning Worlds in front of NA would be the cherry on top.
I don't know how much longer I'll play,
But that would be one of the best ways to end it.
NRG, of course, the defending world champions.
And here is Sathu, which I haven't gotten to chat with you at all.
Have you and the team been enjoying the event so far, at least?
Yeah, so far.
It's nice to be back at Dickies.
And I like how it's set up every time.
So that's a story to Rina, for sure.
Now, for you guys, I'm, of course, going to bring it up.
And you know, be having a bit of a rough patch for the squad,
leading up to this.
I'm very curious about the fixes.
Was that more of a coach driven thing
or a player driven thing?
I know there's collaboration,
but did you feel one side had to step in and say,
hey, we got to go here?
Yeah, I mean, at some point I just said to the guys,
hey, we're obviously lost right now.
I think it's time for me to really take charge
and did a lot of individual work with all of them.
They obviously had their input,
but I think, yeah, I'm trying to lead a new direction
for us.
Yeah, and do you feel like it's made sense for you?
It's been smooth?
Or have there been a lot of road bumps even for you
to find out what that solution was?
No, it's been smooth.
I think this has happened with rosters
I've been on in the past.
I've had rough patches with all of them.
And this is usually my go-to fix.
It's really kind of take the more, you know,
just take charge.
So yeah, I think it's gone well so far.
That's great.
And do you find like it ends up sometimes
needing to be a pull reset?
Or is it just a new position or is it like a you drop back to a certain baseline to build up?
Um, we have a very good baseline. I know it looked like that and I know it didn't look like that in the WC in Paris
But that was just something else. Yeah, you know, I think we
Looked at other teams. We questioned what we were doing. We reset a couple concepts
And I think really we're just honest with ourselves and where we were lacking and so it's been huge strides
the guys feel incredibly confident and I'm incredibly confident.
Well, I like to hear that sometimes you got to hit that reset button and being honest about
things. So I'm very excited to see what you guys are about to bring to the table. All
I can say is good luck. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
NRG comes into the world championships as the defending champions of the world hoping
to get back to that grand finals. But it's been the roughest road in this
team's history. One of the most consistent rosters, which went a lot about consistency in
in the last few matches, this team is the paradigm,
the pillar of consistency.
This has been their least consistent year.
Oh, absolutely.
We used to say they always get top forward.
That was their floor, right?
And then they missed two top eights this year.
They're 31 and 29 in games at LAMS throughout this year.
They've actually been outscored as well
throughout this entire calendar year.
So energy has to find that form back.
There's been a lot of breaks though.
There's been a lot of time for them to get that form back.
We're going to answer a lot of these questions right here,
right now. But also to talk about just how strong these players are how how
legendary how much legacy they have atomic one of the greatest ever play
the game is currently 161 personal score behind the all-time total personal
score record Kato has set at fifty thousand two hundred and fourteen so
assumedly in game one of the series you should probably break that record
become the all-time leader in that staff and he's the North American
goat and we say that like he won the world's a last year he wants to win
back to back. That's what he's going for.
Jat was no you think is going to win
in the press a fan vote will make our
picks here on the desk snacks.
We got man. I like this man city team,
but I talked to Sathio just briefly yesterday
while he was roaming the halls.
He said, you know, we're feeling really confident.
Normally I just kind of brush that off like,
OK, everybody's confident until they,
you know, kind of get punched.
NRG looked like a team that's a lot more
confident maybe than they've been at any
other point this season.
I got energy here today in Paris.
They're in the same group.
No one expected Man City to win that,
but they won that convincingly.
I'm going to back them.
I'm going to go with Man City here versus NRG to take it again.
Gibbs loves a story.
One thing about a story, he loves a good villain.
That's why he never picks NRG or anything like B-2-10
to win an NA soil.
But you saw the Masimo video.
You saw that Tying video.
It's not just boy with your heart.
He said he wants to win for the boys back at home.
Give me NRG.
This is where the run really begins.
I mean, guys.
They're going to take over here.
A bid for 2022.
It starts now.
Didn't have the same effect on me.
live vicariously through them like you do.
That's crazy.
That's a crazy word.
That's a big word for Elmo.
Let's go.
I think it was a surprisingly close matchup,
given how energy looked against the mustache earlier.
I mean, I think there's a lot of cases
to be made that this is a very, very even matchup.
I do have energy on this one, though.
I do think they are going to lock it in here
to start things off.
Man sitting on one side, NRG on the other,
into the air, and NRG is the coin.
And that is a good omen today.
That is a good omen today.
Go and got fury right both times.
It's gonna be tight again if man city wins they win the group holding this not tight energy
They've built an army over their many decades the single
Game play they've had here in
Orochalic history fantastic stuff to see them back here again to close out the three-to-three action for day two man city versus
energy for the top of their group
It's been a long road today here show time with these two teams truly it feels
Like they have been put to the test, but the ultimate matchup, New Guard versus Old Guard,
it's Man, Chester City versus NRG brought to you by Kugres.
Run back from Paris, there's a shot back then, Manchester City will be saying,
well, don't be shocked if we do it yet again, two of them.
Thanks for NRG.
Very patchy during the opening game that they had earlier on today,
they've really found their form out of that.
Manchester City, they're doing the same there, it's just going to clear away
for now Daniel good catch whilst trying to take the slow 50 that was not going to
quite work out so it's just got to scamper back a little bit
oh they might be caught here they are
okay what an opener hello Seiko welcome to another one in round two
Seiko really was up front right here for this team in his last series there
alongside Edgeby and Akko I anticipate same
Pace of play for them. He was that front runner like I was talking about there.
We'll see how energy looked to respond.
Yeah, I don't like the initial play there from Atomic. He takes out the initial one and just forces
B's to dive in from. He's 20 meters out. I'm gonna get to it. B's going for a good train.
That's one back around here. It's going to maybe 8-4, but it just takes the 50s and the next one up.
It's a reasonably unchallenged as far as it's going to change that.
The hook right fine in the angles just yet moves in.
Gets a good 50 for himself, the smoke takes over.
First touch, very, very narrow in the way he's set up.
So there's three cycles of play reset. Let's go again.
The fun thing about this Manchester City squad is how well prepared they have entered every single matchup that they've entered in.
I anticipate nothing less against this NRG squad. They've been a very very patient team.
Seems to have almost paid off here but Beast Mode is not afraid to outweigh.
That was definitely a, you know something that we don't know if we actually had at least low boost trade for the Mustang.
And Pearly and Sommick, they didn't have much boost to play with himself.
I wish they just kept green on it anyway.
The 50s over in the corners, both these teams have a clear set-way piece, but are we going
to have anything safe or great for them because FB was in all sorts of problems, now Seiko
looks to try and set up, not very good for him initially, and now she looks like that
one.
Manchester's spot is not afraid to pull each other off of these moments or even bump
each other out of the way if they feel like they have a better opportunity.
These go to the backboard there as he does have him in red, just barely, Manchester
City looked to hold on to their opening lead here, maybe even build on it, although Daniel does have this one away.
The follow-up from Beast Mode, 50 up to the corner.
The first goal is going to be so crucial in this series, both these teams are very good at locking down once they've got the lead.
And now that is Manchester City. Beast Mode's C1 angle doesn't like it, it's on Mick.
Oh, it's lost a lot of him. Mick and it just have a little bit less power, but instead of Daniel,
Over to Beast Mode!
Off the backboard!
How many more times can they go for it?
Just one time too many!
Manchester City!
Got a way of that, but at some point
NRG had to take the shot.
NRG is definitely going to look to try and, you know,
see if they have the opportunity
to play that shoot-out game.
So far it hasn't been a lot.
Nintendo's already starting to come through.
Acro went on the back end.
Forrest is atomic into the 1v1.
HB too clear in follow.
Manchester City, they've had this
They had this very, very patient, almost NRGS play style.
It worked extremely well against Shopify or Bellion earlier today, who they took down.
Looking to do it again here against this NRG team.
The Matts at you are not going to win style points.
They are going to win games.
Which one of those Matts is?
FB.
From here, Akra is going to go up against a little bit of Dust-It.
That ball is just parry straight over.
Oh, that's a lot better.
Take home.
Well, we asked a little bit more, I think this team is going to say it gave me the best of the possibly good.
Now that I've taken the ball, it's the end. I can't foresee one of these players to still have so much time off the clock.
NRG needs to get this ball moving. That's certainly going to help.
Run, baby, run! Beast Mode, get out of here! My turn.
That's not what it is. You want to see if you're an NRG fan. Demo out on Daniel.
One minute left to go. NRG still trails by one here.
We'll see if they can regain possession of this ball. It's Beast Mode on the touch.
He's gone as beast mode.
Make sure he doesn't get faked up by that play.
Daniel to the corner, two players have gone for it.
Best one shooting is for NRG a while.
They've got more demos.
HB's on the backboard, needs the 50.
No one ready providing.
There's no one around here from NRG.
So they go for it with the top.
And then Tomah gets the save.
Five seconds of the clock and NRG have one last opportunity.
It's Dingo Reset Shot.
Just off the car.
And this one won't go back up.
It is a man city in the lead here. It feels exactly the same
Like what we saw with them versus Shopify rebellion very patient not afraid just play for that one golden opportunity
And hold off from there and for energy sake. I mean you're left scratching your heads with
How on earth do we get you out of the way when you communicate so well defensively?
Oh man, I just I feel like this Manchester City squad seems to be at least North America's
kryptonite almost right there's the they're the sleeper pic underdog wild card if you want
at some point everybody's got to respect them granted edge me and Acre this is their
world's debut as of yesterday they've got a couple of games under their belt clearly
They're not afraid of land.
No, I mean they've got plenty of land experience as well for others.
They've been playing these lands ever since kickoff.
Not necessarily go their way.
Since then, you can't say go on to the team, then you've got all the experience you need.
Seiko's just so calm as well. He's not a very intense player.
I guess when you're around him, he's just...
It is what it is, and it is usually to him winning tournaments, winning games.
I really like right now for Man 60s the way they are challenging.
They are not wasting it. That's a double commitment challenge. They mean a less of that energy might have been kept for as immediately as
That's what makes a little bit too far forward. So I'm taking that if that's
Energy's gonna have to spot a couple of those mistakes there if they want the chance to actually get on to the board here
Daniel, Lisa forward low boost almost all the way around the Manchester City
They play the back pass though as far as energy is concerned
trying to really gauge how much time they can truly get with this ball.
Just a little bit of a fortune that I wanted to see that it makes that reader
a little bit easier to look at Fender. Good bump.
I don't know if I've been playing the entire series from right here,
as this might be the best opportunity.
I mean, that one's not working.
How's this a city?
They've just got each other's back every single time.
Whatever you don't see, I certainly do.
Atomic's on the way.
looks first time, oh my god!
I'm so convinced that that was gonna be back for us.
They tried to pre-jump it.
Egg RNG, finally.
We get a glimpse of the creativity
that I kept them at the forefront of the RLCS
for so long.
They take that lead here in game two,
a rare one in their last two series.
We'll see how long it lasts,
or how long it at least takes for Man City
to respond. HB looking to do so here with the other team.
It's Man City Ties! 11 take-forms in it. HB, is anyone challenging me? Oh, there you are.
Seiko's ready. Seiko's waiting. Seiko scores. You set it best, Shogun, right?
This Man City squad out of everybody so far has had some of the top tier level
performance of following each other up and communicating how quickly they want
to continue a play on. Zeko of course, he's been at the top, he's won at the top.
You know what it needs to do to complete it. 3-14 to go though, NRG gonna have to look to respond quickly.
Imagine since you'll be able to very just follow the way they conceded that first goal,
Akro did not need to be going for that.
Again, I mean I can believe these players are coming to them, it's not like they need to stop
Free jumping, they get into trouble every time they do.
I do want to see, is there the old Acro just loitering down for you, just sitting in that mid 100.
Quite an option, has that found some very nicely at free skill free jumping.
Okay, something's a nothing.
From this series, Daniel, on his flight, he's got loads of time, but he's got an Acro.
He's actually going to help out entry, not looking comfortable, back forth!
Oh, dead finish mode!
That's got the reach!
At the end of the day, he is still absolutely in a beautiful timing off that past two from Daniel just slow enough to give themselves some space into the net there.
You can see the reactions of Saphew and RG take their lead into the second half.
Alright, well, let's see how quickly they can respond. This time it was Atomic.
It was a hold up well enough.
That's out.
Edgeby takes the shot, a level two wide.
After game left to go here, one goal to difference between the two squads is
Akro dancing, diving, looking for a way through.
And Archie, when they've got the defensive wall set up, it can be so difficult.
And Akro, I do not like that decision to back away.
That is a missed play here from Manchester City.
They need to not get punished for it.
Archie, also overly enthusiastic about sending for the troops.
Daniel, backboard, bounces back out, Saker wants a 50, Saker doesn't get that.
Atomic might consider a D-Bo, and that's not going to be available.
It's really both boosters, well Manchester City, they want to go back to that place
style of being able to store out the enemy, but NRG, one of the better teams
we've got back to then, beautiful pop up there from Daniel, does get taken away
and sent back, and this is the catch.
NRG though is still able to get to the other side 90 seconds on the clock with just a one goal lead
and in the most comfortable position to be in, double down all the way around, gonna put them in his favorable spot though
to carry this to the end, the fate is red!
Well Tom makes the little two-part forwards, good block to macro,
makes one up, FB goes down for acro, well wrecked on for beast modes.
He's got 100 for himself.
Macro, takes the first shot, points to the ball to come to him.
Cowboy's getting the 10-1, that's so well played for Macro.
But the way NRG are just getting these back passes,
certainly helping them out quite a bit.
And these platanus are always that launched into the Man City side field.
That final minute to go here, NRG looking to play hyper aggressive,
almost costs them.
Atomic gonna play this one out into the side.
Nice demo from Seiko.
was gonna open up a little bit of space there, but Man City now just has to play for time.
Can't quite force anything onto this NRG squad. Daniel in the air with this.
Manchester City.
That is a shot of her!
Akro takes the 50, and then she's got nothing else on his mind,
but to get it to the world champion.
Saker, no doubt the moment the ball was at him, two each and suddenly, and this happens a lot in these Best of Five series,
NRG are really in a bad spot. They cannot drop the next goal.
15 to go Manchester City, starting to go back into some good ways but NRG on the other end,
7 seconds on the clock, Beast Mode pops this one up to himself.
Just enough to center, but nobody there, even on low boosts and collected.
Edgeby and Manchester City are trying to stay calm.
NRG lurking off the side, this on the ground.
It's overtime.
Chance to either tie the series up or go to triple match points.
Agro on his way.
Daniels pass one, tries to get Seiko.
Seiko's not got the best first touch.
Beast mode, now I'm gonna take his opportunity.
I'll read that macro, because we're gonna be very good.
offensive series when he's not trying to freak out.
This mode's gonna turn it around, ceiling reset.
You sit early.
Not too early though, from that time, if you're gonna stop at a time.
Seiko's in panic.
Such good timing from Seiko, too.
The amount of times you've seen him just lurking that backward, waiting.
He knows energy, wanna use it.
Atomic denies. At least takes Seiko out and tries to go for the 1v2. Atomic shot, Seiko out, out, and leaves.
Manchester City in this OT.
Shory, there it is! It had to be eventually from kickoff to goal. That was all NRG. What each?
I could feel the step up from NRG2.
I am just sitting, learning about what Manchester does
on the defensive and against them
because they know that they came into the series
hyper prepared for what they were gonna be bringing.
And NRG now starting to understand the patterns
of where to take them out.
You saw those demos on the back line
starting to come through a little bit more often
from Beast Mode 4 to his name two from Atomic.
They were like, if you're going to stay in our way, we're going to kick you out of it!
NRG, much improved.
And now over time, just followed the same pattern for every single play.
I'm going to play the ball somewhere, I'll quote, I'm going to land quickly, steal your boost,
and you know what lost them at it, just because I'm feeling a little bit like a cheat for myself.
I'm going to just brush around and see if I can demo you at the same time.
NRG just kept doing that over and over and over again.
The third man challenge has never lost a single one of them.
Very, very well played.
Manchester City, they're converting
every single offensive chance they get.
They could do a few more of them.
They could.
I feel like that goes for anyone saying though,
there are these moments though,
you know, for Acro and Adria in particular,
which I think is naturally gonna come with anybody
that it's their first time at a world's land, right?
It is only their day to sometimes
Those nerves strike at the top.
Just a tiny bit.
Whatever.
They play a bit of a play on occlusion, which is like,
this can work.
They're very much the, I think I can play it.
It's an, I think I can't think.
And you don't want that, it's more than enough to get here.
They go on the side wall skim.
Now it gets the player.
Nice city.
See that, when they can see a certain way,
they do like to score the exact same way that they
can see it, so get a few demos and then
still there boost. I'm like, no, that's actually a really good idea. Let me try some of that.
Okay, I get it. Beast mode. Laser off to atomic. Just slightly off target.
Energy funding gets you in very well, and still makes too fast.
Our city got figured this one out though. It's been quite a while where energy
attempts to just trap them in their side of the field.
In second touch, 15th every single time is wallowed by energy.
Big demo coming through, this could have almost let them on in.
He's got an atomic working together, Daniel just had to kind of play a patient game.
The newest teammates were on lower boots in a man city and made it clear that could have been the end of it.
Acura back over to Edgeby, Daniel takes this one away, atomic waiting in the wings.
Edgeby's buff on them disrupts NRG's plan for the most part.
Daniel, he's inside the field, first touch, you're a little bit too loose.
That's Edgeby, watch the wall.
Decision making right now, it comes to you. Killing out. Hasn't been great from Manchester City. This one's worked nicely!
Agro can't get over the balls just about enough. You might be a target man here.
He's still not on the camera. Where is it? Where is it being? Oh, I was wondering where he was at.
He was just lurking in the shadows.
The corner!
At least a moment.
Sealing.
Seiko, get through it.
NRG mixing up.
Diving in for the challenges and just waiting for the ball to come back to them.
Daniel, how's he got that read?
Yeah, the entry was never really going to test that one out to see if he did.
No spin.
The vast majority of these opening two minutes in this exact spot on the blue side of the field.
I'm starting to see a couple of those bumps come through again like NRG did in the second half of that last game there.
the man city out of there and go for the opening demo not much as any come of
that Daniel takes this one away does get
costume one no boost in his favor atomic next on the challenge
takes his time with it you will fit the very patient from man city
watch your whistle patients at the moment there
very often what you're 20 boosts and a whole host of demos and the child is
heading their way.
Oh, he's been crushed on the 50s.
It's off the post.
They're the breeze.
That's over one again, NRG.
That should have been 1-0.
In moments like that, you've got to just keep going
until the ball is actually in.
Now they're going to run it back.
Peace mode to Atomic.
Atomic down to the corner.
Here comes Daniel.
There's a head-hunting for redemption off that.
And we'll get it!
Think surely at that point.
Daniel, great job from here.
Just get Edgeby to be static and the shot...
Well, here's your life.
Looking straight onto the crossbar.
MLG.
Ever since losing Game 1, looked by a distance of the better team.
But they have never quite gone away from them.
Daniel, look at the pride exactly that.
Seiko, out to Akron.
My city really need to figure out how to get out there side of the field.
Just like that. I'm doing it at the moment. It just keeps getting put straight back at them.
And Archie's looking to hold on to this latest staco.
They said he has more than he does. Atomic up to the side. Beautiful pop.
Catching shot!
In! Archie!
They waited until their time to shine and they've done it!
Very frustrating one though.
Seiko edgeables that for a good six seconds.
Ball lands down and he goes, er, team!
Somebody needs to come and take this!
Ekro landed on zero.
On City. They are...
They're also playing it like they know they're the second fastest team I've ever done.
Just don't think that works right now.
Energy can wait for the ball to come straight back to them.
them say go do what he can all they can is usually a solo act at the moment
posting up to that final minute approaching their NRG that you know
luck is the greatest extent that they've had throughout the series
couple thousand the back end to NRG that is just time being wasted
follow. They've got to find something with time on the clock. They want a chance otherwise NRG
find the coveted match point here against a team that's been able to take them down way too often
for their liking. Three seconds on the clock entry around to the corner and they've done it.
NRG in the head to head find a match point.
They need answers here did not look even close to their best in that game energy are playing fast
They're not taking any risks. This is very much close to what we saw last year from energy where they were just
They don't rush a play
For a lot of teams they will get the one to the post aside feels like oh my goodness
This is now our opportunity to go and score. We're in there side of the bill
but the goal is right there.
NRG will just keep going with the half chance
over and over again until they get a big opportunity.
Agreed.
This NRG squad has got light years of experience on this team,
despite having Seiko, despite Seiko's world championship,
they each have one to their name as well.
You're playing an experience different now.
This is, you know, in a lineup,
NRG are very comfortable playing marathons.
Man City are very new to it.
Timeout has officially been called, I believe,
by Manchester City.
Very BMF NRG.
Hey.
Have you seen your house done that before?
Yeah.
I was like, yeah.
That's actually happened twice in OCE.
You drink sweeps as well.
Which is?
We're skiing.
Yeah.
Quite the thing to try and call for.
Although there are also, I think it was Bulldogs who were reverse sweeps.
and call a timeout coming into game 7.
No such thing over here though.
It's Manchester City, you can have to figure out what they want to change here.
Southview's not really taking too much advantage of this.
Must be quite happy with the way his teams play.
I mean, what would you even change right now?
You're not really taking on any risk with this playstyle.
So just leave it. It's working.
At this point in time, NRG definitely started to get into the heads of Man City.
you know you can you can feel Manchester City's play styles starting to crumble
you can only you know show face for so long until NRG calls your bluff and that's
exactly what they're doing they've learned about them throughout that game
one and especially in game two that was where NRG started to step up and say
hey you know what if we demo them they don't really seem to have a plan be
after that. No, it's certainly not. Manchester City. Roll one, get this ball out of your
side of the field. Goal two, actually score a goal. Figure out how to the fact, Saker
turning us off is Manchester City getting the initial amount of offense. HBs on his
way in, they're initially from Atomic, gets it straight over to Daniel. Manchester
City really need this first goal. They cannot afford to resume the same rhythm and
the same tempo. They do, they're in big, big trouble.
And you're back to the corner.
Hard to create too much here though.
If he's second touch, certainly might help with that.
Lock from Seiko. Somebody blocks and it's back to their
other side of the field.
Back for the barry. Akra picks up the 100.
Let's go again.
Right now Manchester City, you've got to be careful too.
You can't let your frustration take you away from
working with your teammates.
NRG taking it one challenge at a time.
East Mode, low boost.
Left Manchester City takes a shot as they look to defend.
And the way Manchester City I feel
are struggling at the most with these challenges
that they're back side of the field,
because they're trying to win all of them.
They're having huge wins to get rid of the ball as
East Mode, ceiling down, what can you do from there?
NRG are doing the old fairy peak classic.
Don't lose the challenge.
When you've got the ball in that cell field,
That's good enough, you'll eventually get the opportunity.
And you can't quite find the 50.
Atomic, well, that would have happened if you did get all of it.
You lose over to Edgeby, Akra's got zero.
And Daniel, I could just realise that so quickly,
he can't see that boost total.
I'd get as if he could.
It's kind of in the name of the game for them too, right?
I talked about NRG calling that bluff, and they two so well.
Tomic, a little bit of the whiteness here with the shot.
It's not going to make NRG fear man city too much in this scenario.
You see how much easier it is when a match is to get rid of the ball.
Manchester City have not had the followers just yet.
If it was easy, it would be a lot less effective than Manchester City.
SOOOOOOON! Not going to finish that set-up!
NRG! One dollar!
Very valid to cut yourself off in that situation, exactly what Daniel got off the ceiling.
Just an absolute laser down to the bottom. You can see the excitement from Sadio too.
That one truly, in times, is all they need against most of the teams around the world, so we'll see how long it lasts.
It's going to have to be the wake up call here from Manchester City. They can't afford to wait any longer.
You've got the kitchen sink from it. If you've got the rest of the room, throw that as well.
They need to start taking risks. Or they're just going to see this one slip away after
a game 1 victory.
Agro.
Waiting for Atomic. Atomic's just going to wait for the ball to come to him. He actually
gets in the mystery.
I'm extending a lot of these plays on zero,
but you can see how that affects them in this one,
because coming out of the skin.
Demo, atomic open net, two now.
If you're Manchester City, you really
got to almost even stop prioritizing,
collecting so much boost at this moment in time,
and find that confidence in yourself
to take a couple of those challenges on 12 or 24,
work with the pads against this NRG squad,
Because at this moment in time, with the final two minutes to go,
you're going to take a shot at everything off the crossbar.
Daniel to Beast Mode, Beast Mode on the ceiling.
Dale chance to go again, and NRG just lurk.
Comfortable with their two goal lead.
Smack the ball back over the side of the field,
Beast Mode straight towards Seiko,
but he's only popped that ball back up.
Look at the boost, it was at 100,
he's now looking for the 100.
I think it's going to take a while for the recovery though.
This is fine, NRG can just sit and moiter around here all they want.
Look at the name tags, I'll take the scoreboard off.
I'm wondering which one of these two teams is too close down against Matchpoint.
Agro, trying to chase it.
What can you really do from that position though?
Spin the issue.
Match City get one touch from one player and then the next one is from NRG.
makes a catch, Daniel.
He's going to get some beautiful challenge time.
Recovery as well.
Still works in their favor.
NRG.
Just one challenge at a time.
50 back forcing.
Edgeby all the way to the other end.
Can they get any possession with this ball?
It feels like not.
Another shot!
For Pisma.
Minds its way in.
NRG in a comfy 3-0.
My goodness.
Daniel just read it like it was the hungry, hungry
Every hungry caterpillar, far too easy for him.
Onto the bumper, over to my teammate, 3-0.
48 to go with the clock and off the ceiling's atomic.
Make it four if you want.
Edgy and men, Chester City, got a start.
Now you're in Miracle Territory
if you wanna be able to keep yourselves in the series.
I grew off the ceiling and like you said,
This has nothing to do with style.
The points mean more than anything in NRG Gap 3.
There you are, she's looking to try and add another.
The game has gone at this point.
Manchester City cannot do it yet again.
Paris, they took the win.
They took the winning game number one.
And ever since then, NRG dismantled them.
Questions were happening.
We were worried about this team
coming into the tournament.
We're not worried anymore.
Not at all.
This is home for NRG World Championship LAN territory.
That is where they thrive.
This time goes on.
They've only gotten better and more comfortable
against their opponents.
And for this Manchester City squad,
you got to commend them.
They tried their darneest, but one man can't lead all.
Yeah, they're just, they've got given a puzzle
that they could not figure out the answer to.
They sat there for 12 minutes, no, that's not working.
Okay, we'll try this, that's not working.
But hey, that's what team's been doing for three years
against this NRG team.
And it's a puzzle with a very, very difficult answer.
NRG, much on, very, very good day
of Rocket League for them, Safiou.
Looks very happy with them.
he should be NRG able to really get back into series when it opened it felt like
Manchester City truly might have been the ones to figure out NRG in the long run
but at the end of the day NRG seem to always have the answer when it comes to
LAN and that is exactly what they've done.
NRG on that strong track to recovery here as they take yet another win and
And of course, have atomic with me.
Congratulations on the win against Man City.
Thank you.
Overall, I guess, I see you trying to hide a smile.
You can let it out.
This has got to feel good.
It's great start to your groups.
As I said, on that recovery path from, you know,
some of the things, I think it's enough to this.
So I bet you for you, this is a great sense of relief.
For sure.
We know we have an easier group compared to some other teams.
But the form we've been on right now,
we knew we still needed to show up.
And we wanted to get these wins so we
build confidence and then when we play the big teams we can really feel like our old selves.
Yeah well I was talking to of course coach Seth right before this he was talking about how you
guys were approaching kind of this rebuild that reset button. For you has it been a relatively
smooth process or did you find that maybe there were some struggles for yourself individually?
I would say we you know Paris Major was bad and like we felt that could be fixed just by
a little more effort but then EWC was also just we were trying and sometimes it doesn't work so
I think the rebuilding that we've been doing recently it had its like struggle at the beginning but in
the past like I'd say week two weeks really that we've been bootcamping like our scrims have been very
very good and we feel like we're competitive with everybody so yeah that's good yeah and with the
squad you know I mean I need to give away too much of what the process was but did it really
change you know from all the other worlds you've been to before instead of just
let's go scrim the regular stuff did that really change how you had to
approach this worlds I would say yeah we I think we went into other worlds in
better form yeah and so for this one like you could brush off a lot of a lot
of mistakes and like when you would you know lose to a team you can brush it
off but we like really tried this bootcamp to like not just brush off
pretty much any goal we concede and like think okay well why did we get
scored on where did we like yeah actually really look at why the other team had an
easier time scoring and then from there I think that's not something we've done
like as you know strictly before in the past so yeah yeah I just for for any
other teams because I love it I talked about Fudia doing the same thing
sticking it out going through rough times you know I maybe someone else can
take this advice to them and that if they're playing at a lower level
whatever what would you say is maybe the the best thing you realized I'm
being able to stick it out being able to push through the hard moments
and get back to a position where you can be proud again.
I think a lot of it is looking at the game objectively.
A lot of teams that stick it out for as long as we have,
they start having ideas about their teammates, and they just...
Animosity can make it.
Animosity ruins the spirit of actually looking at stuff
and being like, no, that's my fault.
And you're just like, no, it's this guy, it's this guy.
And I think right now we're in a state where we've removed that
And we're just looking at what's happening on the field and
Whoever it's on it's on it changes every game. So yeah, that's that's very close
It's a super mature way to look at it. And I love it again inspirational
I hope that continues four-year squad throughout the rest of worlds here
All I'm gonna say is thank you for your time and good luck. Thank you
And our G find the victory here on for their second match of the group and they are now two and oh leading their group
How they clinched Gibbs they've clinched a top three spot. Okay awesome
rebellion has clinched a top three spot and a fans if you're coming on Friday
you'll see one of those teams there maybe both we'll see who wins at the
group so man city though they could be first or fourth still so we're still a
lot to be played for tomorrow okay well we'll see we'll see all the tie
breakers on tomorrow's pre-show there's also two records that we can
talk about here with atomic the player that we just interviewed we
mentioned it before the match that he would inevitably
pass K-Dub for all-time score, a leader, personal score,
the number that gets generated with all the things you do,
the 500-ish number about that we see the pros put up.
He is now the all-time leader.
We'll let you know what that number is at the end
of the tournament, because it continues
to increase every single game.
But he also, with the game two overtime goal,
ties K-Dub in Chicago to be the all-time land overtime
goal scorer.
And then tie the eight goal.
He gets one more in this tournament.
He'll be alone at the top.
And he's really clutched up like before this team,
early in this match, it felt like a top of the game,
two out of zero time winner,
but game three, this fantastic.
Oh, the really carryately energy over that line.
I mean, as he was balling out, 38 shots to 17.
That's NRG 38, total 17 in CFC.
They simply won an offense.
They didn't have a chance to even really
establish themselves in NRG's playstyle at Rocks Next.
11 goals today for Atomic.
Actually, that last game kind of a left down form.
his goals per game.
Affluminated from 1.43 to immediately 1.38.
Well, listen, the narrative has changed.
You can win a series when you have more offensive demos.
That was four straight series where we saw the head
graphic, and the team went on to the demos, kept losing.
Oh, but really shot in the last two games, too.
Well, look at that defensive percentage.
That is a very high percentage.
It's only like 55-45 in the stream.
Manchester City had to play a ton of defense.
The old energy loved that.
They loved playing offense and just keeping
the ball on the other side of the field.
It felt like old energy.
It did feel match-up based though.
It is Man City loves to play defense as well,
but energy got the job done here.
They locked it in there,
and we take a look at how Group C is panned out
after the conclusion of the three-to-three gameplay
here for day number two.
NRG sitting up there on the top of the board,
Manchester City, and are valuable tied at one and one
with a big O on the bottom right now.
Well, I'll let Mr. Group Gag go first.
No, that's right.
Just right now, we don't know anything too much.
Besides energy and rebellion,
have clinched a top three spot.
again. They could be number one. They could be number four. Okay, now I get to go. All right,
listen, he already put in our G and D tier earlier for the government. We're gonna remember that the
whole time. And anything to pick from this match as well. Remember that the whole time way through.
All right, there you go. That's all I want to say. All right, we're off for that. We saw
Group B and C twice today. That means tomorrow we'll get to see Group A and D twice. So I
think part of this was maybe letting some of the players who are going to be playing in the
next few matches have a bit of a break before they have to get into those games because we are not
done for the day. The alternate stream is concluded for today. We'll see them again tomorrow,
but over here, stacks. Got some 1v1 actually to get to. We do. We get one step closer. Really,
it's two steps closer to crowning our 1v1 world champion. And you look at the two matches,
one looks a heck of a lot closer than the other on paper. But as I've said all week,
and has been proven today.
Don't play the games on paper.
There's going to be two very exciting matches.
They're going to be very, very exciting.
We're going to take a quick break when we come back.
Nobu defending 1v1 champion, taking on KV1 right here
with RLCS World Championship.
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3v3 action has concluded at the 2026 Rocket League World Championship and for the first
time ever we're going to have something that's not a grand finals of the 1v1 circuit of RLCS
on land.
We have representatives from South America, North America, Middle East and Europe playing
in our 1v1 tournament here.
will be KV-1 vs. Reigning Defending Rockley 1v1 Champion of the World, Nobu.
In our next match, this is a single elimination, best of seven win,
and you play in the grand finals this weekend, lose, and you're running 1v1s ends here.
It's getting brutal, because, you know, Nobu, he's been around the block.
He knows how these experiences are, and Diaz has been around as well,
but KV-1 and Nass, brand new to this, where they're going to be sitting by themselves.
They're going to have to figure that out, but you never know,
because one's is a momentum-based game.
So if you can get that edge early at some point
and carry that through, anyone could possibly win.
Well, let's take a look at the road,
how we got here with these players as we...
Have online qualifiers.
We'll start with KB1 over there in South America, Jorbey.
I mean, well, it gives us a sense
that this is new territory for them.
One's is as old as Rocket League
and all these players have been playing this mode
since they started their career.
Yeah, KB1 especially, he started as a 1v1 player.
over the new boat that heads also how he got a start actually every single player on this or that is here in the finals got their start
In rocket league by being insane at 1v1 in new post no exclusion and only that two game sevens against your teammates as well to make it here
Then another game seven Zen versus NASA and that's getting a job though. That was a crazy match
I mean all these match rock is so good Johnny does say what just gripped it you see
And then has time to come to the back room and then you got Diaz, also made a game 7 against
first killer all four qualified matches to make the all DCS one more World Championship
semi-finals for all game 7 and this is a crazy match two first killer played sensationally.
But Diaz just a little bit better and I made all the difference Diaz the only other
returning player in our top four here and Obu who won it in last year but then
Diaz also.
who had to face off against Nobu in Raleigh.
Raleigh.
He's the player who lost to him that put him through the finals.
I just want to say, two Brazilians in this final bracket.
True?
Yeah.
That's it.
That's all I've done.
That's good, man.
That's just a facelift.
Hey, man, listen, Brazilians, they
can run the RCS one circuit, man.
Listen, take some left skill, bring it over to the 3B3 circuit
as well.
I mean, they got some skills.
Well, they already cooked two over at Spirit, but I don't know.
Keep moving along, man.
You might do something.
Woo!
Right, let's go here.
We have, this is $80,000 on the line today.
This is in addition to the money they've already won to get to this point. I think this so let's remind us
You know, it's not divisible by three anymore. This is for one single player
So that's a 10k for one it's a hundred and fifty K as a team
No, you've become in first. That's fifty thousand dollars and then they got money for qualifiers. Well first way much it was
I think it was I think it was 10k
One of the finals because I remember thinking you this is basically fifteen thousand dollars
because you're guaranteed 5,000 just for showing up and losing.
Yeah.
Take one individually, I already had,
I already get more earnings than a 3v3 individual.
This is $50,000.
I mean, they're doing all the work.
Yeah, let me know if it's just three times as many touches
on the ball you gotta make.
No, absolutely.
Make me go pick up the sticks again.
Don't get your hopes up.
No one's going to make you do it.
Go do that yourself.
We'll see as you get out there.
But I mean goodness.
I'm so excited to get into this.
This is such a different game mode, Gibbs.
There are people who are watching for the first time
What is the biggest difference between the hardest thing is you're just by yourself. You're up there
We still are with no bow. He was nervous
He drank like five bottles of water the last time he was in the finals because you have nothing to do right
There's no fist bumps. There's nothing you're just sitting there by yourself in your thoughts after every goal
And you have to worry about alright. How do I beat him in this next moment?
It's less about the teamwork aspect. It's a chess match, right?
You're like alright, but I'm gonna go for the same play three times in a row
But I have to fake it one of these right because you have to get around that last
Mark and you only got to be one member though, and then it's a wide open net
So it really comes down to the chess match of when do I go for fakes?
When I go for the aerial bumps, when do I go for something different to just spice it up?
Yeah, I was gonna say it's one of those things that is a part of all parts of Rockley, but it is so clear
Yes, yeah, it is so obvious you can see it happen on the field all that's the exact same
Fighting one for being changed up this time around, you know, that's the thing that's a weird
We were talking about that in that last match
So that's the thing that they should change up with the demos and stuff energy anyways
It's a thing much more here in ones
Let's take a look at the schedule as we have two matches left to go on the day both these will be best of sevens
We've finished our 3v3 list. We have mass versus Diaz coming up at the end of the day
But the kickoff are ones action here for the 2026 world championship
KV one taking to the stage against noble here are 1v1 stats from the season from both these players
And I think a lot of people would say the Mena region a little bit more difficult
than the one of you have seen but at the same time South America you know there's
two Brazilians in this final four obviously Diaz played in North America for
that but maybe a little bit tough competition for Nova. Yeah I think you
know the difference between Whiskey and pretty much anyone what Ross I think
was in the in the file for Nuposo. No, okay. It's a Rotea.
There's no box down there earlier. He did your night clear is making a run in interior even in the plant here
Hey, don't find but I think like that just points here
Like I can't can't even list another player in in the South American bracket
You would even think was a threat. Yeah, so it's just not the same. Yeah, the only one
But that's not even played with the end of the plan on final. Yeah, we go with TV. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, I'm a little bit on the 1v1, but he looked at
He knows this going since now. She's also the only member here that doesn't have three of your threes at all
He's through only in 1v1. He's practicing only for that. He's going up against though the world champion
Of course, I know but to your point. No, we just came off of a threes loss of
Bustering threes loss at that. You think that the gap there is pretty big
But this could not be a better scenario for KV. You're right about that
It couldn't be a better scenario if they're gonna try to sauce them up in this 1v1
Having having no move come off of a loss was the best that he could hope for however
It's a completely different game like we were saying with 1v1
So this is his home or for no, yeah, his home turf. This is where he made his name and it's his turf
It's his champion, but the main difference to last year every single one of these 1v1 matches was in front of a crowd
This time around a little bit quieter
Everyone's kind of left the build and all the players are gone and it's just a woman
it's very quiet in here. So KV1, yes, there's more pressure obviously because it is 1v1,
but there's no crowd elements. We saw the last year, a big upset almost happened, Yan versus Moxie.
And Moxie was up 3-0. We talked about momentum. You just make that one mistake and you get into
your own head. And with a crowd, I think that just elevates it. So I think KV1,
it's a little bit more of a chance to regroup throughout this year's.
And listen, I like the way you said that, but I'm gonna have to say that might be both
well for Noble. That means there's really no pressure on him now. Now you really get to slam the ball around,
feet moving around. I can't give KV-1 a little bit better of a chance. They're two great ones,
players. KV-1's got to beat Noble. I mean he's got to close the space. He can't let him start
booming the ball around the pitch. Start moving Mach 90 everywhere. Start doing that. It's just
hard to beat. Mach 90 and like also the recoveries like now nowadays in 1v1 you can just kind
of like especially him he can he can go Mach 90 and recover at Mach 90. That's just so hard to play
against KV-1. He could play quickly, but like nobody is as fast as him.
Chat, let us know what you think is going to win in the progressive fan vote.
Jorbey, any chance you're going for KV-1 here?
No, no boo. I'll play.
Yeah, I'm going no boo as well. I feel like he's the world champ for a reason.
He's played under these nerves before, so I have to go for him.
What are you thinking?
I'll just go no boo. I'll make no boo, man. I think he's the better one player.
What are you thinking of?
I love your light. You're like maybe maybe I'll go from here. No. Here's the thing
I wanted to set it up like
Nobu always coming off of the loss
He got you got frustrated in that my match that might be the worst thing that happened to KV1 because now he doesn't have anyone else
In the field to deal with he's gonna be able to run the score up do whatever he wants
It takes some frustration out in this match
I do think no is gonna be advancing to the grand finals there folks
We did not have a BS plus coin here
So we have Brazil on one side and twisted minds on the other and it's gonna come up for no
with a coin continuing to hit no ball today.
Sure.
Did the coin miss it?
Today, maybe not.
Maybe not.
The odds are that I was so low by that means,
how unpredictable as day was, the coin is on fire.
But if there's anything, you were saying
in the green, there was something in the water today,
man.
There's something.
It says the risk range, KV1 has had all day
to prepare for this match.
It can happen.
It can absolutely have.
28% I think is actually, from chat,
very, very good percentage.
I think that's exactly what I get this at.
28% chance to win. So it's possible.
A problem.
Let's see, folks. It's time for the match to kick off the 1v1s.
The South American 1v1 champion versus the reigning defending 1v1 champion of the world.
A David versus Goliath match, but that's why you play the games.
KV1 versus Novel, who advanced to the finals.
I think the best argument you make for KB1 right now, aside from being a fantastic player
in his own right, is that Mimba said he's focused on 3D3s today and he's had a tough end to
to his day. The 3-2 lot against Furia earlier. He's definitely still be stinging. See, I'm
not expecting Nubos slightly as KV won. Some early attacks. He has to play on the front
though here. He can't defend his way against Nubos though. I will say the same thing
on the 3s against Furia and Furia sure proved me wrong. If anybody use 1st time it is
watching professional 1v1. Welcome. It is a remarkably fun game though and we have
We've got twos as well coming up tomorrow.
They're excited to see threes all throughout the day
and you're going to see some incredibly different plays here,
compared to three with threes typically.
There's a lot of the world to dive into.
KD1, of course, not making it win his team Nubo,
as you can see by the logo, is near with Chris's minds.
So KD1 has had the entire day called,
and yesterday and how long it's been here for,
just to practice 1B1.
Yeah, it's just here with some 1B1s.
to hopefully have a good time and try and dent Nubo. It's never going to be easy to see here already.
Nubo's starting to warm up in the 1v1. KD1 has a little bit of space and tries to read the flick.
But Nubo is too fast. He's our world champion for a reason, Stumpy. I think we were there last
year. Fully off. See, also got the first game. And then Nubo got 400-roll against it.
There's a lot of result here from both of these players, but Lula being the favourite for a reason, you can't bet against the World Champion.
What difficulty do Bates in KV-1?
So for the top corner shot after pinging the first attempt,
he seems as if Lula, KV-1 in here, takes it low, even if KV-1 takes a touch.
He's already showed his hand, jumps high, Lula with a second.
Now I think we're going to see a lot of...
Interesting approaches here from Nubo, player who could pretty much do it all.
I don't know what he can, he was keeping a watch for a score against KV-1.
There's another fake there.
The KV-1 is maybe over-respecting Nubo right now.
As soon as KV-1 goes, Nubo just waits.
It's so hard, he 3's not.
As well, I was convinced he'll have to slang that top right.
In the end, I think it's as soon as the chess match happens,
and KV-1 shows the move that he's going for.
for you can respond a brilliant kickoff. He's nearly going to lead to February 1's first goal.
To get the monkey off his back, it's going to be a big part of this. A nice touch from Nuba. I don't
even know if he wanted to get it far away from him. I don't know if I want to take it to the
back corner, but pushing on zero boost is a scary place to be. And yet, absolutely nothing
in the tank. He just keeps going. Yeah, pretty good at U2, 1v1. Four goals. He's not
Not unassailable. This is not game over just yet.
KD1 still has a chance here, but he has to get something going pretty soon, because
aside from the last kickoff that KD1 did with, I couldn't quite score from.
He's had too many chances again. You wish you recovered so quickly, but KD1 has a good food steal.
Exactly goes. Can he break it past? Mubo tries to get the dunk, but him and he does.
So as we say, four goals, and he brought back.
Yeah, really well played there from KD1. Nose of Mubo's low,
And you have to take to the sky there.
As soon as Nibo jumps as well,
he knows where he's going to be.
He can't boost any further.
Okay, go on very intelligently.
He can just pitch it low,
off the nose of his car.
Gets his first goal.
Nibo does.
Stealing that right-hand boost.
Now, speed up the ball.
He's getting a last touch,
but he went through from there to above.
Chiefs and Fitch.
Chiefs on way.
And the angle was a little bit too great.
Okay, if anyone who knocked out Yan
semi-finals for this, Jan has had a fantastic day today, already beaten Twisted Mines as
Nublo gets his fifth. With the Grand Final in the South America, KV won the WISTI, four
games to three, winning seven-four in the final game as well, so it's a very respected
1v1 names, beating the 20-year-olds there in the Grand Finals.
Wapunk said on the desk that Nubi potentially, because he's now lost today,
that is going to just galvanize it, and it will light a fire and he'll be like,
I'll tell him to get my revenge then. Time to just absolutely get any, you know,
go crazy on whoever he is who stands in my way next.
Take it out of Brazil, Ian Rocketly. Get his revenge on Brazil.
Exactly, because Nubi right now is absolutely smashing me at six goals to one.
And I think that's completely fair.
I think that he's not the kind of player that will think,
oh, I'm rubbish.
Oh, I'm so down on my luck and so disheartened.
And he'll just say, oh, well, guess I'm just winning
a different mode of death.
And if he then thinks, oh, man, I'm rubbish,
then my goodness, what are the rest of us?
What are the rest of us mortal stuffy?
I don't even want to know.
I know my grandchild, one, mate.
How dare you call me Robin?
For now, my back you can drop.
Thank you.
That's OK.
You got it in here.
OK, you want the end of the target in game number one
here at this best of seven.
We need to make sure he's scoring as many goals as he can.
You know, realistically, he's not
going to take this first game.
Just trying to make a statement and forget
Snubbo that he's not here to predominate,
because he's a big ass shot on the goal there, Snubbo.
Get this, his seventh.
Ironically, queues up the Brazil.
And there's now two beautiful Brazilians on the pitch on the scoreboard.
One of the game and that's a double reset from Nubu.
The air dribble's finished off as well.
And now...
Smashing in game number one.
To hold an opponent to one goal so far.
Only minute and 20 seconds left is remarkable.
That's true. Yeah.
We need it.
There's a wavy escalator looking at me just there just like my goodness
What on earth can we say about it? Like this is gonna be a long one. This is gonna be a long one
He's not gonna stop and I don't want him to. No of course not to stop. Normally I want to see a real showcase here of Nibbo's
mechanical brilliance. What I want to see is KD1 find a way to
make him struggle a little bit this could be it he's there gave you on it's
himself that boosts into the corner if it sends it high if it dodges the bump as
well I have just had a confirmed as well but we do have full fits available
four players I think he's thinking it's not quite enough
should have got more gold again how out of thought was that deal of it if he
just says you know what next one I want to win it by nine my dream has
There's always been a team to take a tactical turn on their trio off as well.
Like we've got a little bit on in there from Nubo.
Yeah, it's a little bit different, you can forfeit after two and a half minutes.
You are allowed to.
Just in case it gets too much.
Game number one, I really, really do like the fact that game one isn't doing that.
So just to build this open to the game, it makes genuinely complete sense to do so.
Yeah, definitely.
You're only getting rid of your own time.
If you're going to get tempted because it's game 6 or whatever and you're getting smashed in that, that's a different matter.
Game 1, just get used to it. Get warmed up to be on this stage.
And if KV1 takes this to game 6, he'll have done very well as well.
So hopefully it does go that far.
And it might, of course, and we won't have KV1 getting tilted at all.
But the blow is, Buccaneering and celebrating his way to a 1-0 lead in this series.
I think he's pretty comfortable with it right about now.
KV1, oh no, he's teetop moving, not for a tent, surely.
So there's something that KV1 can take and it ends at KV1.
Number two, Nubo 9 KV1.
That's very nice. Thank you.
Mr. Binds KV1.
Very nice.
I don't think we're under any assumption here that Nubo is not the clear favourite in the map
after that game in particular.
Even beforehand he spoke to all the cards on the thing.
We all got who we thinking we've got a prediction sheet new by hitting any 2000 points in that game. It was cool. Yes. Yep
Every single person said
Yeah, definitely, although I've got a feeling white punk waited it
Invested in coin stocks heavily the KD one he did get himself on the score sheet my stuff there
I have a chance from kickoffs as well, but as soon as Luba gets hold of the ball, I mean, he's got the mechanics to do absolutely anything to you.
That's why I love that lobby one as well. It's a real showcase of what these players are capable of.
We've seen them in 3D3. In 3D3, it's such a close-fought game that everyone's battling to get the ball for about 0.2 seconds.
And like, man, we've got a lot of space in this one.
Once you can really take your time, you can really show what you can do. It's basically sort of an advanced free play in that sense.
And I think that there'd be a lot of 1v1 players that actually hate that you called it like advanced free play.
That's just advanced, actually.
But no, no, I get what you mean. You've got a lot more space to choreograph what you want to do.
You can see your opponent that is going to be challenging you on every single ball.
Alright now, Nubo is a clear step ahead.
KV1 has to get something in this second game. He needs to actually, to be honest, show a bit of pipe.
This is not the kind of player that would be able to win the South American qualifier for this event.
Sure, he has to realise that this is his own chance.
He's got Razor on his back, and he's getting faked every time.
He will start to reap that against Nubov.
So at some point, I want to see Nubov actually competing these flicks,
because that is what they're the third or fourth flick fake that he's got.
I don't think we'll start bringing that down on the map.
He also fakes like three things.
He went for the low 50 take and only then sort of popped it up to see if he's going to get a little tap and smash.
And then he then takes it again to go to the flick and in the end gets the low 50 because the ball has been moved so close towards the line that he's got the nicer mentally coming in his favour.
Takes a little jump there, then goes right out of the way. KB1 equals the scoring from Game 1.
Yeah KB1, 0-1 now, lovely play.
They'll flick forwards and get the save of the old-school air dribble bump, more of a shot bump really.
KB1 equalised as well. Is this the moment KB1 steps up?
It starts to have a say in this series, maybe not because Nubio has got a little dyke,
and escaping from KB1 to tipside bump. Can he get the backflip? Yes, he can.
Losing is only 2-1 straight away and Nubio does a score again.
This is Blackflip from him too.
Just a slow momentum and lift it above the bar.
KD went ending as well on zero boost so Livers got plenty of time to tap it home.
KD won and he needs to make sure that he's not falling on the tricks and moves he's pulling out.
Every now and then just go for it, you know.
Definitely don't fall into the trap for all the fights with Chancellor and Eddwell von Nier.
Yeah, get the 3-6 for us.
Oh!
That's an absolutely fantastic goal from the Brazilian.
Yeah, that is excellent.
I don't think Nuba realized that KV-1 had the speed
to get that lean-back flip reset.
It was sort of faking a regular flip reset,
and then turning it into a lean-back one.
Really created a little play there for KV-1.
If Nuba did not see coming, KV-1 has outplayed him.
The first time in the second game,
he was looking like more of a match.
If you're ever been in temple,
this time Nuba does go for the flip.
We were expecting that.
KD1, and again KD1 of course who does have plenty of experience in 3D3s qualifying for last, he's been around the block
so he won't be as
overwhelmed by the lights here and think he's a real skill. This man will be different as Nuba face-climbed and musty and then realizes
the challenge is a little bit too head-on, so we could not squeeze it over the car. There's more sideways than maybe we could have done for it.
Again great intention from Nuba. Now, edge-roll, pump,
opportunity instead this goes high alongside cable on who they used a lot of
boosts to take out the new boy who low boost yet again with their time and
space and what's that yes the place they certainly started to fully commit to
them a bit more that was wrong pace there he's in KV one everyone always
They spin like an Eastern Russia against Nubov.
These are people that Nubov has to yield the ball, get the boost at 7.
It's not well for a lot.
Let me go for that double pass.
Nubov gets so much power on the queer, it's way too many.
I think it's going to hit the post.
It is just about Nubov's yet the follow-up shot.
Sends it high.
Trying to gauge how much boost KV-1 has.
KV-1 is keeping something in the tank.
He gets the boost seal on Nubov as well.
But it's actually really well-defeated with KV-1.
And Nubov's got nothing.
He's going to try and keep it in the air.
A little buff as well. KDW can he equalize again?
He has a little buff as well, I'm not sure of the answer.
It's a referee set.
Noobo gets the in-and-out save, sends it forwards.
KDW is chasing him.
You see all the sound cues that both these players are using as well.
Hearing these buffs, hearing the jumps,
hearing all the boost being used.
It's so vital to make sure that you're listening to every single movement
that your opposition player has made.
Even though they don't play on mute, they use it play, like me.
Yeah, that doesn't really mean about you.
It's okay, you want me.
He's just heard, Nubo Jogby's hit the ball, turns around, smacks her own.
Man, he is a great outlaw when you use them.
Yeah, Nubo, he tries to surprise KB1 and KB1,
and some nerves of steel.
Another great block.
What am I seeing here for the Brazilian in the second game?
There is the kick-mick as well.
This might be a lead here for KB1, if you can get this to land,
but it's just not gonna happen.
He's hit another boost.
Nubo, let's take a look at passively.
Too much of a carousel to make sure he didn't concede.
And he did it.
Maybe you want to be so much smoother here in the second game or something.
Considerate better.
Mostly did Danter Fats, he's not currently 7-1 now, the 2 minutes remaining.
Little chap freed up there from the long chap.
Like it in the montage, fella.
In the montage, mate.
It's a very well-weighted flick as well.
It lands it directly on the crossbar.
Okay, everyone has to go for that too, because what we were saying earlier is
you wasn't faking them so frequently.
Yes.
that you have to go at some point otherwise he just knows you're never going to go, then the face gets more effective.
It's not a mind that he has gone for it. It's done a much better game for KB.
Another one as well here. He's got it in.
He goes corner and he gets it fast and it's going to be 4-4.
Well done again, KB1.
Mimo just can't escape it. KB1 keeps up coming back.
I didn't think KB1 would spread it up a little bit too much here with that touch.
his boost was quite low, but he speaks at home. He does get it in. Neither see good finish by me, Tottenham.
KV-1 has given himself a real chance here.
Getting himself on the scoreboard.
To be honest, the biggest prediction was probably 4-0.
KV-1 is giving that one a run. He has money for sure.
Still being the underdog in this series, even if he does get a game.
You're going to be gaining. Yeah, Nubogo just placed it to the side.
I can't believe but...
Caley wants me coming back in this series.
And a decent air roll here.
Just until it's far off the left, you see it,
and then he can just flick it back towards the right.
He gains the angle where otherwise there wasn't any.
And you remember earlier on with the musty flick,
where it's too dead on and he couldn't challenge it again.
He still wants that to happen once more.
So in fact, he can give it more angle out of nowhere.
So it gives him the advantage.
Chance for low 50 again.
And she maintains control, but could be cleansed from Caley.
Yeah, it was a great box there from Caley,
boost as well. He has to deal with this one. He doesn't get some resets. If he wants to use it,
he'll turn it into a wave, that's instead tries to go long.
Nubo. Okay, he won't get back to dead, fella. Nubo tried to go for it. This has got such great
control of the ball as Nubo. Okay, anyone here? He has to jump this time. You see him again.
Tent is no down. He makes full tap. He delays the inevitable by a couple of seconds.
In the end, Nubo does get one. That's 10 goals in this game and much more evenly spread out
and the 10th one scored in the first.
He's starting to see some goals here in this 1v1, as we knew he would.
There's also 2v2 to come in the RCS this week.
So we are spoiling you with all the rock-y-roll.
He gets his 7th.
It does make it a lot more difficult now for KV1 to come back in game 2.
It's been a good game 2 for KV1,
but it's a little bit obvious trying to flick down the centre there.
There's not really been that many keep-up goals in this series either.
So far, let's have a KV1 though.
One though, he is gonna be locking one in, that's what he's gonna have to do with him at a time.
Quick, say it again, what an overtime this is.
There's not been many kickoff balls so far in this series, but wait, here's one for KV-1, then he locks in one.
Okay, well, let's see if stuff, he's anti-cursed it once more.
KV-1, at least one more to give himself a fighting chance in this one.
Slight delay to the kick, we'll go to the side, he's dead, try to get it into the middle, but...
...he thinks about it, now suddenly KV-1 is struggling for boost.
still a bit more time to some annoying that is who won't take it for a side
water tank he doesn't need to score here you get to go okay wait he bites his
line all of a sudden and it's six seven I'm sure that nobody in chat is gonna
say that 24 seconds haven't seen too many kickoff girls this series so far
Armour's a late kickoff and Nuba fell for it!
KV-1, can he get round it?
Oh, nearly there!
Shag's a cover!
Nuba ready!
That will be 6-8, nothing.
It could be.
It's a big...
It's that numbers time next.
And with that, Nuba is now cleared by 2 yet again.
Can the kickoff goals work?
KV-1's favourite opportunity.
They're not going to walk that left hand wall
and the boost can be stole
and then straight back into his corner.
Yeah, GG
We're going to be using this countryman's mechanic against him
Up for one, maybe a reset in coming
He's got that low block
Nubo
2-0
Now first, 1v1, 75
Bit more of a fight though from KV1
A lot more actually
A lot more of us
Yeah, it's ulting a lot more
Of a fight from KV1
Repping his country's flag
And also repping his org's flag
You can see the BS plus
The Zebra BS plus
We've had a European team in their time. They're playing in South America.
They finished top 8 recently in the Sam last chance qualifiers.
KD1 fires himself here with the most difficult challenge in 1v1 Rocket League.
With a beck like that, he's certainly got a shot.
It's not a hundredth thing.
And ultimately, Nubos is a lot more used to this at the stage a lot of the time.
He's also ultimately a better 1v1 player.
It must be said, he's a better 1v1 player.
He's also more used to the environment.
And that will be doing him some favours as well.
Yeah, I think I like the fact that for KV-1,
you know, he lost that game because he was really going for it at the end there.
He went for the cut instead of scrim for a low 50.
Tried to surprise him with only, he went out swinging in that second game,
which is all you can really do sometimes.
They remind us well, normally these players that used to have their coach or their team-mates to talk to,
they have got neither. When they're on their stage here, all on their lonesome,
they are only talking to themselves, really thinking of what they can do. There's nobody to bounce off.
Sorry, Shao, as I said. You wish you were.
Hello, I looked you in the eye. You didn't even hear me.
No. Yeah, that's not bad.
It just means there's a lot more mental pressure on yourself to make sure that you are remaining as,
They step past us though, I don't want to call it, just making sure that your mentality is as best as it can be, because you've got nobody else to do it for you.
And again, they are playing the most tilted game mode in all of Rocket League 1v1.
And Nuba gets an early lead for himself again, 25 seconds in, that's his first on the board.
Cable on trying to beat Nuba to the ball.
And a recimated baby, how close Nuba was to a harsh bruise he had, maybe he thought that Nuba had nothing.
What the hell is up with that guy?
He's had to mix things up a little bit.
Newbo shooting on target.
Does the Alphage on my whisker.
So Newbo takes 32 gold lead.
Not the best kickoff of the season so far for KV-1.
That was very well read by Newbo.
That's just getting a slight angle to bounce it back towards
his opponent's half instead of his own.
Slower can prevent KV-1 making sure his wall stays a bit more central
but again it falls towards Newbo.
3 hit, then what he does, he waits, KV-1 tries to avoid getting faked out, and then Luba
actually takes it a bit too much, and KV-1's back to keeping it 2. I don't know if he attempted
to fake that, he could have just scored, I don't know if he was going to be a little
bit too clever with it, but KV-1 is going to punish him down the other end, Luba
could have been 3-0 up, and instead KV-1, excuse the goal back. Yeah, big couple
of goals swing right there, Luba, look at the pre-jump, KV-1 waits it, and then
have sent him away. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Wager belt!
Loving hang!
I said it was a tilted game, boy!
Eee!
Blimey!
The slow-mo as well, I've not that boy.
Got the shot from here!
Yeah, that's gracious, Nubo.
Dammit, now, brother!
Tempting a psycho.
Watch me, that darn.
Seeking and getting away.
Game rule receives.
Face out!
Oh!
I've never gone for a flick.
And they were again, fantastic defense.
I just think the fate was a little bit telegraphed.
KV-1 could have completed the flake, and it might have worked,
but he's got it in the end!
He's got removal in the end!
Get the attack going, gets it all alive.
Well, what do we go?
Oh, he went, he wrapped around to get some boost,
but to get that part, KV-1 knew it.
Trust the ankles, well.
And the minute 20 in, and again, KV-1
did a lot better compared to game number one.
Everybody was just the worst I could possibly have,
That's absolute credit to him for getting himself back into it.
We always say how training, when you're on his mentally,
let alone when you've been practicing for this all day
and then you get smashed, going off.
He is outstanding.
That 50, however, I don't even know how that has gone so perfectly
towards KD1's net.
Yeah, let's see this from Hugo's perspective.
Just a second pass with it's hurt.
Yeah, he's got the game on the slightly behind him
so the backflip takes him through the ball.
Of course, it's so instinctive for all of these players, these challenges, nothing is down to luck.
Maybe I'll get another one from Kiko. I think what this makes me appreciate,
what it makes quickly other people appreciate, and maybe just my 1v1, too well-studded me, is that
the challenges, the 50-50s that you see in the 3v3 game, another bit is down to luck.
Everything is a mind battle, everything is a mind game.
And if the ball, you know, you've got to put, you lose a 50-50s, KD1 gets a couple of balls,
This is something we want again. If you lose a 50-50 and go to your teammate behind you, that's never an accident.
That's exactly the benefit.
Yeah, precisely.
And you have obviously got a lot of people there to mean that every 50-50 may not be lying toward them.
It's the right one.
Oh, to that last one from Nubo.
This is going to be a shockingly very mechanical goal, because you see how he approaches the kickoff.
So I can't really see him properly. It's the final touch, he gets the chance, he tips his nose and lifts it right above KD1, it's the last little bit of movement.
I've been very vindicated that you called that, he played a very mechanical cop.
Did I?
And there was, great job, Ops.
Ah, we've basically crossed far down.
A couple of goals to begin now.
What more would KD1s in a world of trouble? What is our goal line?
No boost, he gets a new bow.
You're going to be in trouble.
The issue is, they came from Dark's back from there, obviously, and then he goes for the In-N-Out and then he stops, and as soon as you press the break, you've lost.
You now have no momentum, and Nubo is approaching.
He has to commit one way or the other there on defense, but I think Nubo is so deep in his head that he's unable to make that decision effectively.
Oh, the old school edge was almost in again, the ball was halfway in the goal, I feel like Nubo, interesting touch there, it gave you one.
says thank you very much capitalized on a rare error there from newbo but amazing save
and this actually was baked out by kb1
10 goals yet again halfway through the game oh goodness oh oh
wrong is that lifting off my feet let's not do that newbo yeah exactly it sounds very valuable
two of threes to play i'm just scared i'm scared for the chair tbates whispered about
building that thing. You've got to be careful.
You're very true.
It's a really good show, just how much it can get in your head.
You genuinely don't see Nuba react like that during Freeze,
because he's not got, you know, he's got his TMS to talk to.
It's just him that has to sit there.
He's not going to get his punch ready to talk.
Scary. He won it out for me.
A very scary approach.
KV won a brilliant attack, formulating from Loma.
Yeah, the edge of one's are really effective right now
against Loma, and maybe that's why Nuba's getting so frustrated,
But this KD1 is using this trick over and over.
And no matter what tiny jumps, let's get that back.
KD1, he was three behind, now that's only two.
This might be zero as well.
He's won the kickoff.
Is he going to win this race to the goal?
Yes, he is!
KD1, they come back in.
The kickoffs are going very heavily in KD1's side
of the last couple.
They can keep that going.
Kickoffs are normally such a critical part of Monday
As I was saying earlier in the series, they really had not been used that much as the golf-scoring mechanic.
The change up alongside counter is KB1's low 50, but earlier on that would have gone in.
This time round, KB1 could get the ball on his head, flick check back on him, no, instead it sets eyes on the boots.
Junji for Nubo, turn it around instead, KB1 does BAM!
Big lead! Yes, Nubo at 6, KB1 at 7.
Four goals in a row for the Brazilian
and he's given himself the real chance of getting a game here.
It shows just how different it is if you go three goals behind four goals behind the twos or threes compared to once.
The kickoff for a lot more volatile.
A nice landing from Luba does not give him the ball however.
And for a reset note this one is stolen away from the goal by Luba.
There it goes, gave you one though. Showing off his max, he's got a bit reset here. He uses it, but it looks bottom corner!
Oh, it falls off! Gave you one! Fakes out me! Fakes out Nubo more importantly.
The sheer speed and audacity by the Brazilian. The instant wave dash.
A gorgeous goal. So well played. Silky smooth for the two-goal lead.
Now what are we all thinking? Can Nubo come back?
The first time this series, he's been a couple of goals behind.
KV1 needs to make sure he doesn't lose that ball too.
Nubo has no boost, so he needs to get something.
Punches it forward, but KV1's going to win it.
KV1 knows he's got nothing. That's why he's going high.
KSK1, Nubo's still tracking with nothing in the tank.
KV1 still goes high, but somehow it ends up.
Nubo being able to take a shot, but it's weak.
KV1 can send it again. Nubo rushes at it.
KV-1 says thank you, I'll take the night!
Drop the turn on the way through as well. What recovery from the bump?
His handbrake locking up and just saves him completely perfectly into the ball.
He slides there, the minute remaining.
Oh, the new one come back.
I fear for these tables to be at this rate.
I never delayed kick-up again from KV-1. He was demoed for his troubles.
If he sends it high, he will try to get KV on the edge of the wall, but KV won.
Sorak on an absolute mile away, he needs to get round this ball, this could be the winner, maybe.
Saved by Mubo, 3 goals in 40 seconds is possible.
Option for Flick here, but low on boost means that his options aren't really the Flick there.
Corner boost grabbed by KV won, weak and on target, he guessed where KV would stand very firmly in the way.
This is going to be a time-wasting edge wall right now.
Can you play close? No, let me go to city. You see he had no idea.
Thawing that.
He's got a high-making use of this, and we can move on.
Yeah, I think he was there too.
He had the angle to the edge of what we'd go forever.
No need to do anything silly at all. Just waste some time and take it.
Wow!
And this is gonna be a game for KV1 against the world champion,
a player who was flocking out here just the one he wants.
He comes out here for this. His teams don't make three.
3, he's up against the opponent that everyone is saying is going to wipe the floor with him.
KV1 has ignored all of the noise and given himself a foothold in this series.
And if that's not worth our respect, I don't know what is. There's three seconds left though.
Theoretically?
Yes, but no.
Because it would allow KV1 to literally not go into any kickoff.
Does he go for this one? Yes, he totally does.
Nouveau 2, KV1.
You love to see that and that is a well-earned super water, sir
You can you can see the frustration building on his face
But he was down that's moxie. You think it was the first he lost the first game
That's getting there then and then he won the next four because we were watching obviously like with a lot of French fans
You know who we're getting each side to a boxy one that first game
the new bow
He uh oh
Man
Be careful the mouse as well. You know, you don't want to actually slam that crack the plastic. You'll be careful. Yeah, he went
six three up
And it ends up losing ten seven conceding
seven goals
In a time that it's a good to score one an incredible comeback mounted by KB one
And there's a huge one to learn from that game. So you could say that you got Brazil then
in a way from that point yeah he was he was latter three-minute Brazil if I
don't have to do but I'd be claiming it I'd be saying look I've done that to
new both it's a big it is a very it's doing a lot of work in that sentence as
I think it is the new both desks lands that's true you know if he well game or
in a series that will have at least five, and KV-1 has a chance here to bring us what maybe
one of the upsets of the season, but they will start out well again from the kick-off,
does he get the first one? No, KV-1 sends it away, it's the catch of it, and then fakes
out KV-1, but KV-1 is still there, can he get the touch of KV-1s? No he can't,
it was all from that fake. You know what, that's a great outing for his new car.
He's changed his preset, he's flipped it round, he's gone to this nice, lovely, lush, sun-dried tomato carb-labeal.
So it's a new carb, but the same old bow.
And now, that fennec, is he gonna be able to turn his fortune's background to what we saw in game number one.
Everyone gets this boost because of anything with it, they're both there.
Too fast, can't go up, they're charged in the cycle, can he get it, goes for it, oh it's too heavy!
They were thought about then, saying that's what an attack of his own.
Realistic K-Ball recovered well enough, he couldn't really commit to the miss because he knew that everyone was starting to K-Ball of screwing a cycle.
It'd be nice if he f***ed up to see one of those and he'd be like, come on a high, is he going to have the upstick this time?
Yes he is, and that's a second.
Big ol' nothing played there too, if he can't quite sneak that angle, which is a very very tight angle to get,
he then lands just on the wall, but K-Ball going to quickly turn that around and parry it down the other end.
All on nothing, but he do try and be cut for it in these games and go for it where it's not necessarily a snap, you know, the high percentage play.
So he's a kickoff there from KB1, once again this boots and does, he just invoices, huh, lovely little play there from KB1.
Touching the bump and getting the pitch in one move, but leads to the goal, that is a boss.
Really lovely turn here. You see just how quickly he turns for it, the little rolls around the wall perfectly.
KV-1, he completely outspeeds the sounding.
KV-1, I wondered if he'd go for the catch there, but instead,
said he'd go back,
clears it with some distance.
If we come into the sense that KV-1 has to,
just have to be careful, you don't want to do it.
Just make a, you know, a clear error, an unforeseen error,
to give your opponent a goal, will you?
Just taking two of them the whole way.
He would get scared, but KV-1 should be able to get this catch,
and he was in no boost right now.
It's not easy to get from it, like.
Yeah.
The attacks are being fought every now and then
by these great boots stills from KD1.
His low boots stills, let's see that corner get solid right
from below his eyes, but he knows exactly where KD1 wants this ball.
And there's literally a rock in the half place here.
If KD1 doesn't hit it, then Nubo scores.
If he does hit it, that's what happens.
Nubo's there regardless, covers every opportunity
that he's got and doesn't get hit there.
That sounds so easy with people like that.
just get your opponent into that position and you'll score every time. Might score again there,
Nubo. They're saying on top of this series that maybe he's got some frustrations to take out after
Chris and Bayern lost to Puria earlier, and maybe he's got some frustrations in this series
to take out, okay? They're coming back from 6-3 behind from the last game. Was it 10-7
in the end? Yes, that's it.
It was actually Brazil in the last three minutes.
Three minutes.
Yeah, there's one for our statistician.
How many last three minutes Brazils have we seen in RCS history?
That's a lot of points.
Not many off.
There's a little bit of counseling.
KV1 is answering.
He's put that one as the postcard of the goal as well.
Top left corner.
Is it forwards?
I don't think we can get there again.
Every time Nibb gets three goals ahead, he's thinking,
can relax now. KB1 says no. Yeah, I think there's a lot of opportunities here for both
these players to go through something like insanely mechanical, but sometimes just to
frett at that is going to be enough. Just to think, okay, he could do that, or he could
go through this, or he could go through this. It puts you on edge a lot more. We've both
taken to the skies. Oh, there's been a lot of ground-pays when it's so far, and
KB1's gone by goodness. Oh, actually, a holdout doesn't use it. If that was
In the mean, any scenario, I'm fumbling, eh, eh, eh, eh, I want to jump, I want to prove that I've got it.
But Nubow, in the midfield, chance for a flick here, he's going to jump, he fakes it low, but KV1 has learned.
Yeah, KV1 has definitely learned, and his fakes will be as effective now, so this time, Nubow goes for it.
KV1 didn't preach up for that exact reason, and maybe that's what Nubow had in mind with that 360 flick fake before.
That's nice.
Immediate happenstance, though, following the opposite top right corner.
As he said, he's faked so frequently that when he then sprinkles in,
oh, our match is going to hit it first time.
That's going to be a lot more devastating now,
but he's laid that A in KB1's brain.
Opportunity for a fully open net.
It is taken.
KB1 only staying two steps behind.
Yeah, definitely.
And then it's a little bit landed on him.
And he got the boost as well, and that is a devastating combo in 1-B1
In 1v1, when your opponent is dodging, it could be very vulnerable.
It's good to get from KB1, can he reach, so what can he get behind? Is it going to be sneaky?
It may be, may be, yes it is!
KB1 keeps on fighting.
Nubo didn't back in either.
That's again a really high risk play, and it just kisses the bar.
Comes down, Nubo has to ascend to the 20th, see if it does go in and receive it on the floor.
He's got any opportunity of saving.
Yeah, he's got the wave dash kickoff there from KV-1.
Another delayed one, too.
His light smack kickoff, he's favored it a lot in this series with KV-1.
He goes, hi, they said they go early.
Luba tried to catch KV-1 by surprise.
He wasn't able to.
Five, five, another three-goal lead swiped away.
Luba had no interest in faking there.
KV-1 somehow breathing it, seeing that the car body language
language it's just a little bit different and the Brazilian Col now it's
really coming to life but it does get the ball for the next kickoff and that's
a hundred boosts as well in the opposite corner
and there's a catch-sit in the center KV1 and all sorts of trouble but KV1 does force him up into the sky
and the Sages don't shut that doesn't go great if any again from KV1
he's gonna go for the bump busy he's gonna go for the bump busy
He nearly does! He doesn't need to in the end!
Nubo gets the block.
Yeah, KVW also sneaks that boost out from the needed.
Nubo missed times the boost graph by literally half a second.
If that does manage to maintain this draw so far
and for the reset and an immediate use of it.
KVW thinks he might hold the triangle to the double.
If Nubo sees an angle in, he's gonna take it.
Yeah, look at that. Just the most basic reset you'll ever get.
actually a car floats underneath the ball as it's dropping and they catch it early
and it's gently caressing to the corner
he's going to lose that kick up again though, KB1 redirects this one towards the goal
he's going to try to, it's putting him there
it's final minute, sees Nubo now, with an opportunity to try and close this thing up
KB1, this is just for a second
and he gets slammed out of the way
bumping Nubo as he is bumping his desk
One chance, the second chance into the air dribble, how will he approach it?
It's just going to be the straightest air dribble imaginable, but again, it's the illusion of what can I do with this?
He's gone from the most basic blip reset to the most basic air dribble.
KV won, had to keep an eye on the left side of the goal in case Mugler went for a blip reset or a dunk or something fancy.
So instead, keep it very simple, KV-1 has a couple of goals to get back, guess this boost.
On the edge of his hit box, the first thrust there is a little bit heavy.
He has to go wide here, KV-1.
He has to shield the ball towards the point that's going on.
Many's taken out for a good measure.
And I wonder if anyone's going to take some extra time here, and yes, he is.
Well done.
He's going to be speeding up.
He takes it up nice and high, reset, back low.
It's KV-1. Again, Choosing to have things at all.
I'm happy to forget that, really.
I'm not quite full.
KV-1 number zero just has to chase.
have to do something. Nubo has lost him in both line and sinker. Yeah, KB1 had no chance
there. He had to dive in as you say, Stumpy. Nubo was able to punish him. KB1 did his best,
and that was three goals in 15 seconds on the edge of possible against Nubo. KB1 has
got a few kickoffs in this matchup though, but he's not knowing that one. Nubo is
going to be able to get rid of all the remaining time, just to get something a little
bit fancy there at the end. A must-it groundcoons would have been exceptional. I've seen one
of those before. I've not either. I've been going for it and as soon as he did I thought
I know what they're trying here. I'm on the floor. I'm annoyed that it didn't work.
Go for it again. Go for it again, go on mate. Give it another go. If you're manning
up. Best hope so. Well, he looks a little bit calmer now. Look at that. He's calmer
KD1. It has to keep his own nerve, but I'm really impressed with what he's seen from KD1.
The fact that, you know, that game one, it seemed that that's how the rest of this series
could look. And the rest of this series has looked nothing like that.
Yeah, I agree. I have been very impressed with what he's seen from KD1. And bear in
mind these players are playing for, what's a lot of money? Just by getting rid of
and sells $5,000.
You get third or fourth, that's just your default.
If you win this match, you go straight to the final,
where you are at minimum,
times in that number by five.
You get $25,000 for second place,
and if you win the whole thing,
you got 50 smackarones straight in your back pocket.
And he gets to play in front of the crowd as well.
Yeah. Which is lovely.
That's fun and cool.
Maybe one takes his time out,
and one's up his fingers.
Very, very important.
Are you a cold finger complainer when you game?
Because I always moan about it.
It's a genuine thing.
You said genuine moan about it a lot.
You felt my cold hands.
You're clamming.
I feel like it's really annoying when you're trying to do it.
And then you're like, the only reason I couldn't do that
is because my hands feel stiff and awkward.
And that whatever believes you.
Even though I've just said it happens to me genuinely,
I wouldn't believe you.
I'd be like, yeah, right, yeah, right, babe.
You know no one's going to believe you.
But yeah, no, I like the little hand warmers.
Have you ever used one of those hand warmers?
No, I've not.
I love it.
Yeah, I'll pick one up.
Any cold hand gamers in chat?
One if you... I don't know what my question is.
If you played with cold hands...
One if you believe that complaining about cold hands
if you play badly is viable.
Mmm, okay.
Because so often, whenever we stream,
if you say that, people go, yeah, right, yeah, okay.
But it's definitely viable.
I want to see a lot of ones in chat right now.
I want to see a lot of 1v1 in the RCS for years to come.
That's also what I want to see.
That's lovely. I want to see KD1
for a little bit longer in this series as well,
Because...
Oh!
Oh!
Okay, new question, new question, new question.
Pineapple on pizza is a crime.
One, if that is correct.
There's already ones coming in.
Oh, no, give it like 10 seconds.
Okay, well, you can do that.
You rush into that.
One is still coming in.
Okay, one from now on.
If pineapple on pizza is a crime.
Two.
Two pizza on pizza.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's not clear on the side of it.
But, we've not seen that much salt in this series so far.
There's a new boat.
There's KB Lawn.
And as you said, his own desk.
Nubo kicks things off six seconds in before the first goal.
You know I was waiting this whole series for KV-1 to score the first goal in a game,
so I could have said, it's KV-1.
Nubo.
Never happened.
Oh, yeah.
Never happened.
It might still.
It might still.
You threw this film.
I think you just...
You just dropped that.
You dropped that on there.
Which is a shame.
It's still fine.
That's the next game.
You were the first one, though.
It's going to be so annoying for KV-1.
Let's get the reset on the 50 now as well as devastating 50 chance again, but on no boost.
No surprise that they wouldn't get anywhere with it and it's like he has to save.
And despite everything, Nürburgring can actually wrestle it back just in time.
Well, it has KB1 in the air.
He's going to punch this one forwards.
I think I got greedy. I wanted to decide that I was making the same.
But that again, we've not seen a single bit come out. It probably worked.
At least in a cooks-in-bitch format. There's a fantastic little showing there from KV1.
KV-1 is the threat. A warning to Nubo. He's got a decent control of the ball here and he gets his equaliser as well.
You know, because of anything about that one in the near post, KV-1. Great effort of the pitch earlier.
He'll have the reflexes to save him and KV-1 keeps that attack going and eventually gets his reward.
And he also completely dictated how Nubo's momentum is going to be used.
As he slows it down, Nubo's already moving a little bit there and he thinks, oh, I need to stop and then move back a little bit.
KB1 has already got him dead to right.
Here is KB1 from the floor.
Nubo in front of him.
KB1 gets the reset.
He's the reset!
It's a challenge!
And then helps it on its way.
KB1, one of his leads.
Has been established again.
Not 50 is fantastic.
My tender like of his car.
Increased his surface area.
The fours doesn't go in off the rim,
but it can get there.
Rekelander's Nubo is asking for flying into the blue up.
We should be able to get hold of this kickoff and go into the corner, KD1.
Now get close to it, and kind of rush, move over to the left.
Rush a little bit, KD1 now, he's going towards his own goal.
We've got all the control right now.
That is a great position to be in for the Saudi player.
KD1, as soon as he starts to do some away from that,
even though he's a little bit low, he's a little bit panicked,
goes in a lot more simple and absolutely laser of a flick.
And also, we're going for the straight up flick as well.
So, with us in the last couple of games,
we're going to simplify these mechanics a little bit.
You know, we have the old-school flick reset,
we have the old-school ledger ball,
and there is the old-school flick to complete the set.
The KV-1 has this one, waits as well,
just a port into the back, and that's going to hit both posts.
It could have really unlucky there for KV-1,
if we were going to be able to follow that one.
Oh, and he's baited out Nubo, an absolute treat there.
There's a little bit of attack going on too, you know, to buy this time, wait for the moment
and that fake is really stunning.
But the newboy still gets a touch to it.
Even on zero boost, there's a credit to him, but KV-1 completely outplayed.
KV-1.
He's sick going, little winfest.
A couple though, does he want to get this next touch?
23 moves to the attack for KV-1 and he'll get the 100 as well, so newboy has
to be careful and doesn't get dumped because if he does, KV-1 has the goal in his
It's just has to push it forwards.
I should get back in time, but again, KV-1 goes for the trip up.
As KV-1 flips away.
It's done really well that bump.
Throughout this series, it's led to a couple of goals for KV-1.
It's a little bit long, but somebody gets it past KV-1.
KV-1's going to be pretty dangerous here right now, Stump.
He's going for it.
I'm not in the tag.
He has no to do well in the first game from now,
but this is not the first game KV-1.
It's now late to the series and he does not land on the wall either.
Land horribly, no recovery for him.
It's K-1 lures him in and a two-to-one lead.
But...
He's gonna get this kick off.
Two goals behind, not for the first time in this series.
He does go high, this side K-1, floating.
Never tries to get over the top of him.
K-1, under that very one, he covered his angles
and they work to find a way to break it past him. Nice fake attempt there from Nuba.
He has to do some more defending here.
Nuba waits in one of the near posts. Nuba go underneath him. Yes he can. That should be 4-3.
Make sure to speed that ball up as well. He's going to try and buy any second that he can to get back in.
It's a nice fake too. The landing, a wave dash.
And a properly... well, instead of just finding his way in, I mean, what not separate to use people.
Now, the win is to kick off a Getty's, he's getting the next touch of all of these.
It's probably a quite bland 4KV1, but be the player that's facing their opponent's goal.
He's a little bit awkward all around, this time it's Nuba, the cheff's up KV1, can everyone get the hook?
Shark, maybe, as they use the wall.
Okay, well, he's coming, coming to the angle there, something.
Yeah, too rich for his blood, he was going to get a top-of-the-core 10-mode,
at which point this entire attack is over.
Yeah, slow it down, Rika, get back into it.
The call there, dribble opportunity is on, but with no, ha ha ha ha, free set, no problem, no go.
I'm entirely sure that one was as planned from Mubo.
The winner as good as he is, you're able to make the most out of any situation.
An end to end. If it does get as equal as that, it almost makes out KV-1 there again.
It should be Mubo's goal, KV-1, he's supposed to get a hold of it.
You just see the KV-1 there, just boosts the walls of this train in a little bit.
Making it scared, keeping him honest.
He risks using that boost as well, so it's brave from KV-1.
He goes into the challenge quickly.
It's a demo against him for his shovels and Nubo should be able to put it in.
And Nubo goes within 61 seconds of the Grand Finals.
Grand Finals, all of that glory that he's previously earned.
Two years in a row would be absolutely crazy.
Not only that, but the money too.
He could 10 times his money in a couple of days.
Do you think that Lugo has the best chance of somebody winning two things here?
Because we've also got SSG in the 52.
I think so. I think so.
But on that opportunity, KV-1 has got to make sure that it's not just going to be a no deal.
And there's still time, still chance. Still 47 seconds.
Yeah, what's that KV-1?
The edge of the bump has been very effective, very effective sorry, for him so far.
in this series, again he's medicated with a delayed kickoff, he's going for it every
time KB1 comes away at this call, he sends it high, he should be able to make something
from this one though, first touch is perfect, guess his reset this time is that in the
way of that, he does it but he turns it into an almighty flick, gets the most pace
on that ball so quickly, he wanted too much more with it, KB1, that's the ball to
the side, Mubo waits, drops it over, it's on the KB1, yeah that is 6-5, Mubo
on the edge. M'nuva's also only just grabbed a little bit of boost, grabbed the pad and that kicks him just enough to sit over the top and then boost back down again.
KB1 again, he's already committed to go for it, but you have to try and find your time and I think he just stopped it coming.
Another kickoff though, going KB1 play, the instant shot, an opportunity, finds his way home!
Yeah, KV-1 brings it back yet again from the kickoff, the wave dash kickoff is effective.
And once more, just when it seems Nubo has enough to shake him off.
KV-1 clings on for dear life.
How does this kickoff go?
And the move gone in, KV-1 stay for so far, but just keep it away, keeps it high.
The mid-beast grab from KV-1, Nubo gets his back corner.
Oh, Tuneziva just give it away.
Nouveau has zero opportunity to just tap it.
Oh, and only three seconds remain.
Yes, a moment that is going to haunt KB once, nine minutes.
He went for the flicker.
A little bit of a brush of blood to the head on one,
but he got so much on it.
Then he was trying to arrow it to that top corner,
but instead, Nouveau has three seconds left to hold on,
and he will make the grand finals of the 1v1 2026 World Champion
should KV-1 has to get the boost and keep this ball up. He's done it! Nubo lo blocks the gate,
locks the door and locks himself in for the grand finals of 1v1. Nubo yet again is inevitable.
KV-1 put up a fantastic fight. He should be very, very impressed with himself. He should be
I'm going to be very happy with what he's put forward, the new boat end of the day.
Oh, they're good. Okay. Thank goodness. Yeah, that definitely goes in the, in the, the montage
of this bumps and high fives from Rocket League history.
I don't know if new book encloses fist again after slapping the tables.
That's why I thought, brother, I cannot do it.
But in all seriousness, that shows that KV one played so well to get under his skin to
him to really make him struggle at times. It's a good performance. He's very proud of his performance.
Nubo, sorry, the KD1 got a Nubo's head again. He stayed firm. He said,
you want to bat me up, mate? No, thank you very much. We're going for a little kiss,
bust, and then a hug. That's some sharp behaviour. Yes, sharp behaviour. But at the end of the day,
Nubo, as he said, goal, he was the likely player to win this and the likely option ended up
Yeah, exactly. We've also got the second 1v1 semi-final coming up a little bit later, so make sure you stick around for now.
It's all about Nubo. The twisted mind star has put himself into the grand final. How does he feel about it? Let's find out.
Much to nobody's surprise, of course. Nubo is the winner. Congratulations on getting that first 1v1 out of the way.
I was just going to say congratulations first off.
Of course, a lot of people are expecting you to do what you did last year, the defending champion, 4-1-1 out worlds.
I'm wondering if that adds a little bit of extra pressure to you, because you look like you're just calm and chill out there.
and you are participating in the final half?
No, because if you are a World Champion, you are not the one who will win, but the one who will win.
So I won't win against them. They are the ones who will win, they are the ones who will win.
They are the ones who will win, and I know that they will win against them.
right there I like that now I of course want to ask more about that mantle and
having to switch between threes and ones do you find that a natural process or
just a bit a little bit more thought when it comes to worlds and the fact you're
training for both.
Is it normal for them to have a reaction to this and focus on it to get into the mind of the ones that are in the race?
Honestly, I want to be in the race, I focus on the race. I want to be in the race, I focus on the ones that are in the race, I want to be in the race.
I have a lot of friends who like to play with the ones, so they don't play with the ones that I've never played with.
I play with the ones that I've played with today, and that's it.
I'm like a player who needs something to play with.
And of course, I don't let the players play with the ones that I've played with.
I play with the ones that I've never played with.
I'm good to go. I'm ready to take on on obviously threes is going to be the more complex more
Difficult one to compete in but when it comes to switching from like from one to the other
It's not that difficult at all. It's easy. So what he's saying is he was built for this. He's just different
He's just different
Anyways looking at your opponents that you potentially facing in the grand finals here
Of course, we have a nas and Diaz will be facing off in just a few moments
Can you give me an early thought of who you think that is going to be who is facing you down in those grand finals?
Who do you think will win the tournament at the end of the match?
Because now, we will have a match against people in the second semifinal,
so who do you think will win the tournament and reach the end?
Honestly, they are both good players.
You saw it, but they are very good players on the stage.
They may have advantage, but they are also good players,
so they can win.
But if they win, they will be free-free,
and lose today, I think they can win.
And maybe, they can win.
I want to say that when it comes to both of them, they're both fantastic players and DS might have a little bit of an advantage because he played once on the stage last year as well.
So he might have a little bit of experience and that might give him a little bit of an edge.
But I can still say it's still 50-50 between both players.
Maybe, for example, when it comes to DS, if he doesn't get affected by the loss earlier on today, then if he's able to come back mentally, shouldn't be a problem.
problem I would still say Diaz. Maybe Nas but still Diaz. He's still kind of
torn between the two but leaning towards Diaz. Either way it sounds like
another one's gonna be a problem for you because you were built for this.
Congratulations on that win and good luck in the grand finals. Again he's
built different. We'll find out who his opponent will be on the other side of
the break. Of course it's going to be Nas versus Diaz.
I want to try and experiment.
All right.
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Ooh, is it a puzzle like my crossword?
No, picture soccer.
Okay.
With a car.
What do I hang my feet outside the window?
No, not your car.
But you said think of...
It's a video game.
Oh, okay, I get it.
Where's the cartridge?
No, it's an online thing.
Is there a joystick?
Not like the ones you're thinking of.
But I need to get some quarters, right?
I know.
I got to blow in the cartridge.
Again, like no cartridge, but you'll need a username.
Username?
I don't know.
How about Keith underscore 9914?
The bathroom coat?
That's the only number I can kind of remember easily, so.
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Nobu makes it past KV1 in 5.
Only dropped 1 game.
There was a few of them that were pretty close and I would say as far as what we
were expecting from KV1, this was an admirable performance.
Ultimately though, it walks away with the win.
Yeah, I mean, it looked like at a certain point,
maybe midway through game two,
you kind of had the sense of,
well, if this was a fight, they'd stop it.
But, you know, credit to KV-1.
He's sorry about the game.
He absolutely battled.
Well, game one and game two,
half the game two.
Yeah, game one was not a win.
Yeah, game one, no, it was not much of a battle,
but he did battle the horse of the series.
And, you know, fair play.
He's in a very tough spot up against
the reigning world champion,
the prohibitive favorite.
And listen, he performed about as well as you could expect.
This was one of the biggest matches of his career.
And I think he's going to take some lessons out of this.
They can maybe apply the next season.
But I mean, just from game number one here, Pates,
Yago had all the cars.
I mean, he really does.
He's just a better player overall.
And he's a better one player as well.
But when you can do stuff like that across the map,
I'm not sure if anyone has that in his back,
but it's much more so if a dribbler greens a down blow,
wins in a kickoff stage of ones.
And he gives himself a couple of chances and opportunities
I could have just right there know because that all it's just simply too much
Those plays and you're the underdog and you have that one last moment to tie late
What gave you one knows he's got to win those close games
Otherwise that it's gonna be incredibly difficult and we see a little frustration coming out of no go over there
It's the smallest path of the best and then
Can't be one got a game back a very high score in game 3. Yeah, lots of dribbles from lots of hot coffee for a drill of bumps
Trying to create but I mean my estimation
It's just too hard to win in 1-1 in 20-26,
but you got to really rely on that.
I think I was gonna say that Marci's downfall last year
when he went up against Nobu.
And I say that Marci can't play once at the highest level
because he can, but he kind of started relying more
on Airdrop Bumps, got away from his flicks,
got away from even like a little bit of air challenge,
a little bit of air game, and then just play to Nobu.
He's simply too talented as a player overall,
just in that game, let alone the 1-1 scene.
Yeah, look, I think one of the big things
is when you are the underdog.
You have to figure out the kickoff
as quickly as you possibly can
and try and win that out.
And we see here, it was a very tight race.
But if that happens, that if there's like a rally scoring
in the 1v1, then Nobo is going to be one to take it.
And he does so condensantly with a 4-1 win.
Yeah, I mean, there's just so much depth packed
into the statement.
Figure out the kickoff when it comes to 1v1.
Of course, yeah.
It's a moving target that's constantly
changing here for these players.
So we'll see Nobu play on Friday, I believe,
as the 1v1 channel plays.
Yes, OK.
We'll see we'll crown a new world champion for the 1v1 format on Friday and now it's time to find out
Who is he going to play against two players on the other side?
Nass and Diaz North America and Europe clashing here head-to-head in the 1v1s
I mean two great ones players Diaz of course you saw Mara Le last year going against Nobu and then Nass coming out of Europe this
Time around no more oxy had to go up against Zen in the in that Grand Final brought all the way to 7
and he had to do everything.
Honestly, arguably the best one is player in Europe.
I think across the season,
I think a lot of people say that for a reason.
Obviously representing Europe right now.
Extremely talented individual,
Boston Major MVP in threes.
You know he brings his table.
Yeah, and he's gonna make a strong case
when all is said and done here,
if Gentleman's can also perform on the three side
for best player in the world.
Now he may have to go through,
then who knows the way Vitality started off
this whole thing, but you know,
imagine if they make a run at threes
And if NAS can win the 1v1 World Championship,
it'd be very hard to argue against that kind of resume.
I mean, you see the 2024 split one regional one,
that was his RCS debut.
Outland in 2026 made this far in the one scene,
already a major champion in threes.
And he has another and a player who is known
for his cross map air dribble setups,
brings all the way across the railings in ones,
threes, it doesn't matter, or even two is, I guess,
truly sensational player, extremely mechanical.
But then, and Riley, when we saw him,
when he was just going against Nobu,
when he had the crowd around him though,
He started getting nervous.
He started taking a little passive
and I really just played a no-boos game.
So I want to see that grow from Diaz
and he's having moments.
Yeah, back then he won game one
and then lost four in a row, two no-bos.
So Diaz has got to figure that out.
But he really unlocks his 3v3 potential this year,
which is why a lot of people think spaces
could be the best team in North America.
But we already know his 1v1 skills are top two.
We saw him play in the Raleigh Major
in the 1v1 circuit last year.
But this is his first time playing in the 1v1,
as well as the 3v3s for the World Championship.
This is his debut year at the World Championship.
It's only players have talked about how this stage
is different than every other stage.
I think it applies to the ones here as well, Stax.
Yeah, and I don't think either of these players
are going to get caught up in kind of the difference
in having to play very different styles here
going into this matchup here, especially for Diaz.
Remember, the whole North American bracket, more or less,
It was kind of a snoozefest until the finals where Diaz had to really pick it up against
first killer.
And you know, they delivered a great final.
I think a lot of players, you know, kind of, when you go through, okay, sweep after sweep
after sweep, and then bam, you've got an opponent that can really test you.
Then they tend to lock up.
Diaz was not praised by that at all.
Let us know who you think is going to win.
And the Baressa fan vote, Stax, who you got.
Well, after all that praise for Diaz, that's cool, but I got Nass here, right?
because I do think NASA is going to make a strong case for one of if not the best player in the world when this world championship is said and done
Didn't knowbo just
Predict Diaz and you're gonna go against that. Yes. That's why I mean like no one was the best player in ones
He fears Diaz the most down here. I'm going Diaz all the way. Okay. I mean, I like Diaz the game
I think first kill played six seasonal series against a man. He did know he challenged Diaz early every single time
I think asking do that that's gonna be the win con can ask it up disrupt Diaz's
aerial play. Give us some opportunities. I got NASA right here. He beats in. He beat
the ass right here. Looking into the future and into my crystal ball. I play against two
timelines at the same time. Both seem like they're very realistic as favorites here.
This is a 50 50 in my mind, but I'm going to go with NASA on this one. I think that
we'll see the Boston major power again. Space station on one side. Gentlemates on
the other coins going to come up for Diaz. We'll see if they can continue its streak
here. The coins. Great.
Was the coin right last match too?
Wow, the coin was, the coin was.
It's been a long day, it's sad that I can't get along.
The coin is sad, it's like April 8th.
The coin is going to be limited to some of us in the dust.
Probably because of all the noise and shulking, so you know.
Nascar at the edge.
That's what he expects.
Bringing the fans here, can gentlemates
keep their hopes of a double crown alive
or do space station and get to look forward cheering
on Diaz in the grand finals.
One of these players will take on the reigning champion
on Friday for the title of 2026 Rocket League 1v1 champion.
Gentlemates versus Space Station, it's Nasty versus Diaz.
Well, we already know who one half of the dance
is going to be.
The world champion awaits.
Friday awaits.
But only one player can join him.
Game one brought to you by Progressive.
It's Diaz.
It's Nasty.
And it's now.
I think no percent of Diaz is what he's more scared of.
I don't think any might get the experience, but I don't know where he might believe it.
I think Nass is the player he should be more scared of.
Nass has beaten him to four, and he looked unbelievable qualifying through U.
I think it's a little bit of a pull from the one-throw champ.
He's hoping it's going to be Diaz who plays him again, because last time they played, he didn't have any problems.
Diaz, he's got to get the ball first, but Nass, he's got big everything as here we go.
Diaz, the opportunity just pops up all straight back over to him.
Yeah, he kind of rushed that. D'Az, get in the ball back,
because Nas messed up his offensive rotation.
He's usually so good at putting you in the spin cycle.
You're making a save, he's sealing your boost,
he attacks you again.
But he got back to the boost before it spawned,
so D'Az was able to get out of defense,
and now it's his turn to try and do the same thing to Nas.
Now I want to get to this Ernie as well, Johnny.
When we did the 1v1 qualifiers for this,
we do see D'Az setting up.
Nas, he's enough saved,
but the spin cycle might be coming towards his way.
That is going to be in for goal number one.
I thought I asked you this after getting this early.
When we played the qualifiers, did we have the update out yet for choosing the side that
would miss the kickoff?
That's a good question.
I actually can't remember.
That's a very good question.
But I know that that was, it's been going for a while.
So I'm thinking they was out, but just to check back on that, it's a great
One gets a solid kickoff possession, Nas is sticking behind them all, he was trying to get that off to the side and it didn't bother him to go with it so Nas is able to get an overwhelming advantage.
Interesting that these guys haven't picked up with the Mina style central squad kickoff where they're going to TRK and I for public life, they just want to put it, but the rest of them are from EUNA, they just don't want to do this for diagonal people.
Well, both of them would have been semi-sonic.
That should have made Nass on touch.
Hold on.
He's slowed down just a little bit.
Diaz reset.
How long is he going to hold it?
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And it should be a call to Lazy to send Nass on his bike.
Yeah, Nass just an in-play arm from Diaz.
That's what he's known for.
That's what he made an in-pour himself through.
His full-fix here dribbles.
I mean, he could go for much deeper.
And that usually starts off with his back wall.
That one off the deck left him a bluntly boosted attack.
He landed a bit.
I wasn't sure if he was going to get back to that type needed the mind game and a kickoff goes his way
Now tries to pick up the 12 tries to pick up another 12
And he's gonna get a lot more than that to get anywhere close to a flick of that quad seat
Diaz there's no panic in the way he's playing at the moment. He's just letting these plays develop
I should have enough boots. Just a guy who's playing instead.
He was too delayed on it and that's going to give one back.
I think D.I. tried to fake this.
He jumped as if he's going to jump again.
But yeah, look at that. He's leaving it.
He's opened Nascar backs off. He's single-jumped.
But he didn't want to hit that. He wanted to let Nasc leave
and then just take control of the possession.
Nascar was bluffing it. Scores the open net.
Now the fake kickoff for D.I. is getting back
for the possession. And what is for him a potentially
Offensive position, we speak to that as well and he knows it.
Again, Diaz is happy just to play the nameplate at the moment.
Say, but you know I can do this, like how am I going to?
This time he is going to go ahead and look across that board, stays to the ceiling.
Double, that is unbelievable!
It's what he does.
Off is on backboard, one touch, three set, and he's not done.
Double tap, he's still on push left over to get up on the ball again.
It's just unbelievable, no ambition he can be.
It looks like he's playing with 150 boosts.
He freestyles at optimum levels.
That's going to be a much easier one for him.
Nice way to just go for the recovery
and see if it comes off through.
Single jump, and then he's landing on the 12th.
Landing on the 12th is what really finished Nass off.
Yeah, I think that Diaz, he's gone inside.
Well, there are another straights falling again.
Something about before.
Napa likes to just front flip there.
So easily for you guys to try at home.
Diaz prefers to speed flip Nass likewise.
Diaz a second kickoff going around, Nas has got switched something up.
I think Nas tried to switch up, he almost struck through the direct counter for the last kickoff that he lost and Diaz just read him.
I want to see something a little bit more, I want to see a wave dash recovery, I want to see a full delay like you mentioned, I want to see something that's more different.
Just win though.
That work is what I get to have.
But they've actually got to see what Nas did here, but he's clearly got something that works a lot.
He's sent for it effectively, but the S went very low.
Nas actually just goes straight through.
But that can sometimes be the mind game.
And when you're put in, things are going to change up.
The strategy that's just positive, you can see twice, and you just keep doing the same thing.
He's going to have a kickoff as well.
D.I. has realized he's going to go back.
Oh! Big misplay from Nas. He's not going to get back here.
Wow.
That is rare!
that was that's a craziness he was nowhere near I mean he's totally with
them that even if you got contact it wouldn't have been much he was so far
in front of the ball and he tried to flick it that's looking nervous I'll
tell you what maybe that's one thing or two what about playing blood
supplement because he called us
not many of us did oh no
gotta get back to this guy
yeah just carries it off the line though
Really good post
I'll call Nass out this just yet though. We've seen ridiculous comebacks from him
He's won the one run to this point
Six goals down against those after a few occasions. This one's only a four goal lead
It's crazy if you can see that Diaz is trying to dunk on him
It was the only play Diaz had there the ball was too far in front of him to get more effective touches on
But it's all about the big goals here Nass hasn't had the better half
But it's heavy tries to wave dash and cover, and that's worked out a little bit better for it, but Diaz still comes away with way too much speed, and that's Bump did it through enough.
Diaz is positioning, and he's just waiting, he's playing less. The Bump actually helps him. The Bump gets him into supersonic.
All he's got to do at that point is maintain it, keep the position that he's currently in, two minutes of form, meaning, that's going to get these kickoffs sorted, and he just keeps going for regular kickoffs, hoping that this is going to start fixing itself.
Yeah, he didn't have a lot of boost left after that, good mind game attempt by Nas.
There's no mid boost available yet, it might be spawning for it.
He's sitting on its right side, he does get it.
Pro said that wasn't going to happen when the respawn boost indicator became a thing,
but they're definitely sitting on the boost a lot more than they used to.
He has full control here though in game 1.
We're in the rally major last year. It's just right in front of him.
Faith with the reset and the wave dash. He's good to go. He's one margin in one.
We're very points towards this sort of play as well for how Diaz has evolved as a player.
Diaz, Jericho, two years ago, that's always going to be...
He feels like he has to use the reset to outplay you a lot of those times.
Now he's delaying a lot more, he's...
Abbi's almost used his reputation to work.
Formus Nash tries to get over...
Nash trying everything, it's not quite working.
That one's capable of abbi's net.
So the game is still there for Nash, even at best lead.
And that's going to be cut down by one.
There's really good cover there by Nash.
He gets a blocking angle.
D'Az thought he was going to put more on that.
It turns into a fake, but D'Az got to fake himself there.
Nash with it four, with a minute and 12.
It is doable.
Diaz will do the lead kickoff.
He's trying to switch up for Nass now.
Diaz just needs one more big possession,
and the game will be won.
Nass, over the side.
She's got a good angle on Diaz, goes up.
And Diaz just wait around.
Nass's execution of his plays aren't quite there at the moment.
Diaz, quick.
Backwards, way free boost, way dash.
Should be OK, actually, for Nass.
Almost at 100, and these landings are helping.
Diaz did back away, though, so Nass can set up.
Go again.
Oh, just watch it go into his neck.
Yeah, D.I. is finally just both sides in.
You can't get away with this, especially at the end of the game,
where you know your opponent is going to try and control the ball.
And so D.I.'s perfect rate of mass is playing.
And Nassar probably won the previous shot back.
He did do very well with the attempt on that.
I think he could probably try to air dribble Bump D.I.'s,
but he just hit the bar.
So, yeah, I mean, if you're air dribble Bump,
then you've got to either hit a demo or put the ball on target.
And he didn't do either of those things.
Diaz looking phenomenal.
Wow, Diaz is very well.
You can definitely tell which one is currently in 4.
20 seconds, Ash is looking to try and play some confidence at this point.
Diaz takes the couple of 100s,
and Ash trying to get himself back to the right side of the ball.
Reset game, double reset game.
I always try to get the whole way.
As much as this was good from Diaz, Johnny,
I think that's really struggling with some of the execution in this game.
Needs to get that up heading into game 2.
Yeah, very surprising moments as well, the flick off, the kickoff where he just looked out through the ball and gave Diaz a go.
Probably the biggest surprise in this game, but he's also not looking as locked into the zero game as he usually is.
We're calling Diaz the full-fetched air dribble man.
Nass from the halfway line is usually so consistent.
So the fact that he hasn't really got any air dribble threat going, not consistently, is surprising to me.
I think he's probably going to warm up to that as the series goes up.
He's probably behind again.
And that, turn the 1v1 qualifier.
Do that for the good vibes.
What I do want to see from that, actually,
is that same play that he did over and over against both Osaft and against Zen,
which is just...
Because the fake air dribble bump, right, that he does,
it sets up an angle, goes up, and it's like,
we could air dribble bump, or I could just leave the ball
and he's already moved away from me anyway.
Yeah.
He hasn't really been able to set up that play right now.
It's a very ground focus from Mass.
Yeah, we do see that a lot with, you know, even Naipo,
even really well-known aerial attackers and ones.
On land, it is just so scary to go up into the air
until you've got that little bit.
I'm going to just tell one of your players that,
because he just doesn't seem to agree.
Well, yeah, he has, he's really locked in here.
I mean, he, the fact that he's already hit
full-pitch air dribble with a reset throw in
and a double tap in the same, in the same shot,
He is playing up to his aerial standard.
Nas is not, at least not yet.
Will he still have the confidence to keep going for it?
I think he should.
Let's find out if he does in game two.
Yeah, Nas is one of those players that he has got such great mental comeback.
He is very rarely completely down on himself.
That's a fight back on a number of occasions on his qualify.
Dias taking his time, just wants to see Nas use some of that boost.
Nass wanted that guy nice and long, becomes the target of both of these players.
Just trying to set each other up for the IDO 150,
Nass has got the moves he needs to avoid in demo,
had to put himself out of position to avoid it.
Alright, Nass is playing for the misadvance this year.
He does get the ball as well.
D'Az bailed on the moves, Steele is worried that Nass might just have an open net.
Finds dribble from Nass on top,
takes the reset, and he takes the lead again too.
That's great adaptation.
D'Az got a little bit of a flinchering from that fake challenge.
That's what the actual cover is.
It's so important to just have that option to shoot at the post that the defender has to lunge at.
If you're not threatening a shot there, the de-assault jump is the threat that makes it get your point, and then he's faked.
Okay, and once if you've only got one way of scoring on the play that you're pretty doing,
people tipping the fendalas, we've got the portable reset,
and that's just waits around a little bit this time.
he's gonna need to try and find a way to not have exactly what happened and DAS, DAS sorry, not DAS
definitely not DAS, definitely not the hell not DAS, let's go for like a nice DAS
you should by now walk by that
yeah, DAS just got a little bit tripped up by DAS, lost his momentum
as DAS was headed back to midfield and DAS has not been shy with the challenges
he punches in again and he's gonna get the mid first tier DAS
Yeah, it's got to be defended by Nassie. He didn't have time to go for the mid-burst.
Diaz still in the back corner.
Big toe in every single corner.
Yeah, he's just taking everything because the goal threat is there.
Oh, what? Nassie with no boost. He still gets the save and the boost grab.
100 times over the perfect time.
Also, 15 does get it. Realises he's going to give up on that ball for now.
Nassie's happy just to challenge a lot earlier, though, on these edge-roll plays.
Not going all the way back to his side of the field. Good trick from Diaz.
Just gonna go yet again, as you can see he's got full view of Nass.
He's fully flinched though.
Nass did not get a reset.
He has had the read on it and Nass is a bit lucky not to concede immediately.
Oh, he's super unlucky on the second one!
Oh Nass has just squashed it in his own top corner.
He didn't get the brief look he wanted.
And now he's in a world of trouble.
He got the save initially but he's put it back in his own neck.
Nas needs to start finding a couple of plays back to back that works his way.
It was for the 100, T.As realized it.
This is the other side, so up the wall. Oh, what a play from T.As.
God, cross that! And Nas recovers!
How does he manage that?
Well, it just looks like a surefire goal for T.As.
It's still very well-good, but Nas is in big trouble here. T.As.
Well, he gets bumped off the blade when it looks like the W.
He's gonna get back to it anyway.
Nas doesn't have the boost to defend any longer.
I can still get a little bit out of sorts here in multiple times.
I've seen Nas shaking inside. It looks like he's trying to wake himself up here.
Diaz has got a strong advantage for how low scored in this game has been.
Oh, Diaz is just crushing through the middle and he's...
Oh, no. He's kicking off.
Now see, I just want to see Pawn delay. Something different. This is not working, Nas.
Make Diaz think about it.
It's interesting to see if you watch Nasa against Zen in the qualifying game from EU to this match
Nasa's kick-off looks like the best in the world and everybody's thinking you know what is Zen doing wrong
Now you put him against Diaz and he looks second best. It shows the levels with
What we want kick-offs. How much mechanical precision is required? Wait a minute. What on earth just happened?
Strike the ball down and in
Need more of this with the reset
Look at it one more time.
He did. That's crazy.
He sat on the ball and dragged it down.
That's business to challenge.
Diaz has started to really run away with this.
Yet again, it's Diaz.
The first night's had to be better kickoffs.
Still being the one that is more willing to change it up.
But he realizes now he's the one that's got to try and push the pace.
Diaz can just set up for whatever play he wants.
And the play he wants.
Oh my goodness.
It's an absolute rip off.
I mean it's starting to make sense why Space Station Gaming have been elevated this season.
Diaz in RCS online is just getting better and better. He is making NAS look normal.
This guy dominating to the Boston Major, not final in threes.
You don't even got to see much of his offense here. Oh, oh, oh. Diaz right close to this.
That wasn't up.
It's the first big kickoff win here for Nass in a very, very long time.
Confident at the very least.
Four goals.
What are you trying to work with?
Needs to maintain that kind of advantage.
I think it's done alright.
That's going to be another one.
And that's what can happen in one.
Just small changes.
It's not like you kick off.
Oh, he's forced the ball set.
He's forced it.
Oh, dear.
A big moment there in the series, not as much water per minute being consumed compared to the previous match, but Diaz after a continued turn around and a save act to be 3.
Nass is now in line with the kickoff.
It's 4-6.
Kickoff.exe is online.
Just bounces off.
DS, he's got the 12.
He's got a chance of getting over to Nass.
And I don't think Nass is doing anything over.
Especially he's not trying to predict where these are going to go anymore.
He's just simple this down.
I'm going to go right in the centre mass of the ball
and we'll figure it out.
It looks like he's trying to absorb DS's hit instead of putting it past him
and he's working wonders.
Could be another one.
Nass is in high.
Nassan and I really went for this as well, didn't have to do that.
Diaz punishes him, Nassan a big advantage here.
He thinks he had an opportunity to score, but I think that's a risky shot across the goal.
And he saved there, is a goal on the counter.
See if he can now fly that 2-0 diagonal kickoff as well.
I mean, certainly has.
The point you're making is Nassan just shriking at you, sure he is.
Diaz is not like anywhere near this, they've ever swiped as well.
They're just pathing over the smallpads, looking to ask them to dribble in and cross every smallpad.
As he goes to net there, the players get the replay. We're not going to get a look at it, but that's fine.
He's just going straight back to the center circle.
Who was interested in the smallpad patting? Okay, it's special to us. We don't think they're on.
There are smallpads. Your right teammates might not be aware of them, but they are there.
100 first, only all the time.
3's 2's half-poss.
Oh, this is a great distance for Nass.
Always missed the open net. It was a tough one off the wall.
Still has a rebound attempt.
Tiaz, Alparlis didn't want to leave it open.
I don't think Nass knows that Tiaz is literally zero there, but he'll have another go from P.
Tiaz always just maintains supersonic amount of walkways to all these coming out, so he'll be very hard to read it.
I can tell you how much he's got at the moment.
Nearly enough to try and get back over in Nass from quite a distance away.
Well, definitely much closer than how he looks in your mirrors.
A score like that, no significance to Twitch chat, but Nas is coming back
still more than a minute to go here
in the once world semi-final, only one of these guys
will have a chance in front of a crowd
and Nas has completely changed his tune
Diaz has completely lost his lead, I mean he was running away with this
and now Nas is taking control
Telling you, Nass from four goals down is a whole different demon.
Ossac knows it, Zen knows it, everyone should want to be one over in Europe knows it.
That's a good kick-off for Dias, looks to try to find a surround, pops up to the air,
but it's just too heavy.
He was considering trying to dive in for the demo against Nass, and this is the first time
we see Nass taking to the air.
Oh, he's facing the most team!
See a later pal!
And Nass takes the lead.
He went completely all in here with no boost left.
If Diaz plays the ball there, it's a goal for Diaz,
but Nass fakes him out.
What a comeback.
He's still got 54 seconds left of the game though.
He could have more drama.
Well, we can have another goal for Nass.
I hope that we can see this from a player's POV on this one
because whatever Nass has changed,
he's just getting there a little bit late.
Yeah, I can't believe that.
I mean, this is where you, even at the highest level,
have gotten to lock in mentally because he's lost so many kickoffs in a row and I
think the earlier on credit him and it was desired for switching up the kickoffs
as much as he did but I think in that sequence when Nas started, one of them
Diaz started tunnel vision and he's now just losing the majority of them.
Still has time, oh site will skip, Diaz goes for it, throw distance, Nas should have the same gear.
Oh he's trying to find the other skin on his own, still gave on, still Diaz to the huge shaft.
Oh, he's gonna look for the pump, but Nass will glaze it!
He uses what he had, and now he's faked out as a shot!
It's on the goal line!
Diaz running low on boost, gonna trump it up from 12, but Nass is held on strong!
And every save has ticked away that time!
Diaz needs something on the next play!
It's gonna be right here by 50s for now! Time on this one, Johnny!
And Nass is gonna put it to one game apiece!
What a sequence Diaz will get won back, but it's too late!
Nas comes back from four goals down to tie the series.
What a performance and a complete turn around with the kickoff game.
He's a mentality monster, Johnny.
And we've known that since before he was even an RLCS pro.
We go all the way back to before both of them joined the RLCS scene.
Saltmine, Jirali against Nas.
Grand finals, Nas found himself three games down in the grand finals.
Reverse slipped it to win and you see a goal like that going against you if whatever he's a nice
It's just so strong wills. That's his back
You look shake it. He absolutely did but he just started to stick to the ball a bit more in the kickoff
We saw earlier on in the series. It was DS. He was able to stay central with the ball and
Nass is going off to the side
but
That's completely switch things up on him and this was the huge part of the huge goal
to go up with less than half a
type of boost and he knows the
ass is 100 in defense and to
still fake him out. I mean, big
moment, you know, to have the
confidence to even go for that
shot. It just shows how sure
NASA is off his gameplay. Use
that word confidence as well.
NASA is one of those players
even low confidence. I feel
like he doesn't change the way
If he was shaken still gonna try for the same things they would if he was even playing quite well the DS though
We're talking a lot about what mass needs a change. What does tears have to do?
Do you need to find some way back into his kickoffs and the father? How does he do that?
Oh, yeah, I think he's just got to start using a little bit more of those pick-off tracks
He was using when he was waiting. There's a delay there, you know, but it was when it kickoff
He was one switching out but keeping us guessing the name to start the same losing strategy again and again
But now here he goes
Maybe the way, uh, pick up at the mid-boost, and then from there, Diaz is always going to have a good chance.
And again, from that position as well, to, well, my friend, Ethan F. Nass.
Does go for, and Diaz doesn't turn sides and rip the shot. That bounce in has been so lethal on the fake shots.
Let's start here from Diaz.
He's going to be able to do it, but anyway, no real issues.
This is where Diaz does his best work. Just the slow down gameplay.
Oh, Nasa still gets it out. So let's recycle. Okay, you've saved one. Let's go again.
And Diaz in his natural ham attack. He's on backboard. One touch, two touch, reset.
No, he's left fake. And it's in. Diaz with a slow pop. Nasa's no answer.
Diaz failed to get the reset. And he had to adapt on the fly.
What you think you're gonna have no idea about the reset whatsoever. It's just a time in
Crazy. I mean he's nice. It's convinced he's got it even if he didn't but you know, yes, it's still on the reset there decide
You know what the way that's just too fast. I'm also just shut down. You might actually just have done that as a mind game
But he's just so scary those positions nice to see them out of position here though
Like the most fun to jump scared that
Just
I can't take this button man.
Oh, Ivy.
Okay, hi.
Doesn't get a lot closer than that.
I mean, I wasn't ready for that.
I thought it was just an open net.
I thought I just got in clean.
Two, one, and DS has definitely lost
full control of the series,
which he previously had.
Nass is surprising him more and more.
It's been a good start of the game though for D.I.'s. He's had almost all the possession, just that one moment for Nass, where he scores a long shot, the rest has been along to the South North American.
He recovered up one in time, no D.I.'s going to be back.
Nass didn't commit too heavily. Before boost, does D.I.'s go to the end? No, this is more of a flick angle.
And what an angle he's got there, Nass. Him in the crossbar, best buddies for life.
He's really trusting the shadow defense here and against world-class flicks. That is the scary thing to do D.A.s perfectly reads Nass air dribble
He's only got nine boost left will he get the power shot? He does Nass is gonna be there though stick it to this
Does not want to give it to our league but of a chest give the near post and Nass wins it zero boost scraps
Looks out nicely for Nass now. He's got the shadow defense. He can't see D.A.s behind the ball
Oh, let's see. D.A.s use that just to force the earlier air dribble
Re-set. Over the top wants to try to find the block shot. That's good enough.
Nass just squeezes it in. He's hit one close to the earlier shot.
Now the other one after Duncan Diaz at the near post.
Great coverage there. Look how much of the ball Nass is able to get behind.
Diaz almost no angle to shoot that clear.
It's always offense. Advantage in those positions because they're the ones that are setting up the rules.
Diaz! Oh, he just keeps moving away to make sure.
Good demo, now he gets the demo back so let's set up, Nass is gonna have 35 to play with against there's a reset
Tiaz wanted to try and get him back from the block, Nass, he's not really shots to try and score, it's just the playing time
He wants that mid boost, he got it, Tiaz unable to get past Nass in the last year dribble, he's had two of his flicks saved
Nass is starting to reap more and more of Tiaz's offense and he does find a way through with the year dribble bump
But even this has avoided the bump, Mark also has to save with this.
It's very hard to tell from the first viewing.
Yeah, it's just impossible.
DIs covered up so well.
I think he clipped in just a tiny amount to move into the side twice.
It's very well pushed back onto the crossbar.
And this is the part that covers me.
DIs stuck to the bump so well.
Okay, Nass.
Okay, let's see it against the...
Who is already over there doing it.
He's got a lot of points to do!
That's got the angle!
No!
Just a little bit too much assed!
And that was a tough one.
Nas is going to get it on target.
Only got five goals and almost three minutes of gameplay.
Diaz drops him onto a low 50.
Nas is going to stay with him.
Diaz forced to jump.
He's on a run because he doesn't want to get them on here.
But yeah, silver straight, played against Diaz.
You know that any time he dribbles it all back,
he might be about to attack you.
And that's why Nas is diving in as Diaz is in his back corner.
Flick, but Nass is going to get off of that nicely by using the inside wall a bit early there as well from the flick on D.S.
It's Nass time to work, he was picking up the 12 boost, he's done nicely actually off this.
You need to use that, another block, all the way to the recovery here, D.S. is going to commit too heavily, Nass has got a good position.
This is a good opportunity, oh my goodness, Nass is still making saves, this is right for last level defense, but D.S. still fights away through.
Nass made that so difficult, but at no point did Diaz give him a way to escape.
Nass is the only mistake, and it feels harsh saying that.
After all of that, it's just that one moment where the rear of his car was right in front of the bumper of Diaz,
so we realise that I've got to just keep moving here.
Yeah, go get it away.
That pushed him entirely out of position.
Sealing reset. When does he let it rip?
Will he let it rip? Yeah, of course he lets it rip!
Diaz shaking his head there.
He's gonna kill him, what am I supposed to do against that?
Nas, perfectly behind the ball, shoot that whenever he wants.
If you're wondering, why doesn't Diaz jump?
Why isn't he going for a challenge?
It's because he knows Nas is gonna build a trigger as soon as he does.
He's hoping Nas doesn't, and he can just challenge him when he reaches the ground.
Which is still a viable shot.
Oh my goodness, both players have delighted.
Nas, probably walking the boost there.
Doesn't get it, Diaz.
Clear's up too far, though that's not the right...
Nas doesn't need to defend the net there.
Let's go to the booth.
That's going to try and climb up 100 of Void King demos.
What's that over, Diaz will?
Is that way just fine?
That's it, just...
Oh, it's nothing in diving across all of this. Diaz won't be able to take immediate shots.
He can just play around.
Diaz is all the time. He's holding possession so well.
Yeah, that shot to the near post.
Set up the boost seal. Diaz playing for the possession here.
He's got another chance off target.
We just take his time, he straightens that hard into the back wall so that it bounces it and ceiling it down again.
Oh what a shot, Diaz!
It's a lazy aerial shot, and makes it unsavable.
I wanted Nass to turn there, he tried to fake it, maybe to get Diaz to go a little bit earlier.
He thought it's an irritable bump, he could see Diaz coming straight forward, but Diaz just gets under the ball and lifts it.
Nass probably thought Diaz was going to launch in front of the ball, so he's waiting to dodge a bump that never came.
What's that kickoff? Nass needs this!
But he's got it! 29 seconds!
And that's made this a little bit more easy.
A really smart little watershed time out there.
Mental reset for Diaz because this is how he lost the last game.
He was up and he lost the kickoff goals. Nass came back and won it.
Diaz, what have you got for us?
You've got to switch it up, you can't give Nass another short possession.
Nass actually just gonna deflect it to the side.
Oh, he has the boost!
It still ain't really goes back just like every rocket like Claire would.
Well he jumped from Diaz, Nass is just waiting for it.
Whatever you feel like it, I'm still popping over you.
Oh my goodness, Nass.
I think they're doing that by what Diaz felt for it.
He tried to free jump, but it's a fake Nass that pops over him.
And it's another comeback.
That feels bad as well because Diaz knows, well, he may have messed this up earlier.
Sometimes messing up is the best thing you can possibly do to lay kick off from Diaz
and now he's going to be up against him for this last play.
Can he keep it out? That one's going to be easy enough.
400 just about.
Nass, he's completely out of options.
He's going to have to try and defend against this.
Diaz wants to take it around and Nass will take overtime.
Well, Nass was a millimeter away from Dan Boyd Diaz in one of the game
and we're going to decide this one on OT.
Nass is in tough position.
Nass zero boosts.
I want to see that one more time because Diaz clearly thought I can't let this play continue to develop. I'm going to lose it. I'm going to lose it at my own time. I'm going to have to just launch at this spot.
at this one. And Nass, as always, he just has the reach.
Oh yeah, he didn't. I mean, he doesn't want to let Nass air dribble for free, as for sure,
because it's not going to be easy to save whatever comes at you if you do. But Nass
predicted it. He predicted the pre-jump. You could see the ass spreading up. They
could both see each other because the ball was bouncing so high, so it was a straight-up
mind game. He has took control at half-time of what was a tight game. Nass leaves
He's rolling up about four inches and then just locked it.
Imagine if he took it the rest of my elbows.
He's still got a little bit more sleeve roll up capability to go.
That was a key moment.
Diaz free jump, got red, Nass pops it over him, five, five.
And then I think Diaz missed the boost in OT.
I'm not sure he missed it or he turned away.
Diaz missed it, so he gets like five gone.
Not for this one.
It was right here, Nass went for the boost
because Diaz left it.
He either left it or missed it.
I'm not 100% sure.
But if he's left it, it's because he thought the net was open.
More likely, he tried to clip it and just barely pick it up,
and he missed.
And I'm sure you guys know what that feels like.
Nass is glad I never set up hand warmers.
I feel like he's playing.
His hands are warm enough at the moment.
But yes, there's another lead lost.
It's happening back to back.
Really needs this one now.
It started so, so well.
Everything starts so, so well.
This could be the exact same thing again.
That's realized as the danger.
Just gonna pop that one up around as well.
Maybe take the first time shot as well.
Ooh, that's not been safe always.
It's gonna be turned in from Nass.
Well, bit too much.
Patience here from D.A.C.
He wants it to wait here and hit the ball into his own crossbar
so that it stays mid.
That denies Nass from stealing the boost
and forces it back up, but he double-tacks it.
So it didn't stay mid.
It went behind it.
And that's just elected wide open for Nass.
So, there's no margins.
Nassan's been doing that a lot, letting the ball get close to his crossbar, so he can hit it directly into it as a save.
Yeah, looks spectacular, though.
Not technical reasons to mind it as well.
That's a nice thing about Rockaway.
What looks spectacular is also usually the optimal way of playing.
Yeah, it is.
Speaking of spectacular, we see where Diaz is off to.
It is his optimal way of playing.
Yes, Diaz's version of an open net.
They full pitch air dribble, but this time, he has to back out, because Nassan's started in the pre-jump.
Before Diaz had even taken off and matched his height perfectly, he leased it up to Diaz, he backed out.
Oh, he's so good on the grind though.
Nas didn't get back in position in time to throw Diaz off.
Lovely first touch by Diaz, Diaz had all the options, he takes the best line.
Luzi just saw the ceiling shot in the last game from Nas, that is the ground version of the exact same position.
Diaz can take that shot wherever he feels like, are we going to get another early lead?
Oh, what a fight!
And it even pushed it into Boston Safety!
Oh, Nass, he'll take control!
That's absolutely disgusting.
The bacteria's kept possession there by intentionally hitting his own crossbar.
And it's what we're talking about before.
These guys are being so precise that they're playing what two passes in one-to-one
with the crossbar of the post.
Like, the wall, of course, but that's easy enough for these guys.
And who said I'm going teammates?
Oh, this is going to be okay, but...
Playing with fire, D'Az takes his time, Nass is trying to just go for it.
I mean, D'Az is aware that Nass is going a little bit earlier,
he just wants these seconds so he can pop up all over the top of the challenge.
He's just not quite working for him.
He doesn't want to go back every time, I mean, that just gives Nass far too much time,
so he's threatening the early turn every now and then,
just so that Nass has to stay honest and stay on the ball with low boost.
If he has to get right in that full potential,
he'll have to bail on the ground play and then Nass punishes it.
Oh, oh, does he?
That's his pin.
Now he's trying to stick around at the same time.
Diaz pushed the straight into the corner.
Nass recognized 100.
Diaz wanted to steal it for himself.
He had to create anything, but right now Nass needs to avoid being demoed.
So he lost his whole 100s.
Oh, Diaz is in there!
He can't get that.
I think Nass has just struck it too quickly.
Diaz was speeding back.
Did he let go of versatile?
No, he's super sonic the whole way.
You just couldn't quite get up fast enough to predict that, but Nass takes a critical one goal lead.
He's not like many leads. Yeah, feels like DS is like for the best fedori in the series, but he comes right back, guy.
And overall, I'd say it's been a pretty balanced kickoff matchup. DS has had his moments.
Yeah, usually when we go into things like this, like the game wants clouds where we think the kickoffs are going towards.
This is like game one. It's been very even between the two.
Nice. Another position to make him to play from here.
He's looking for, he's ball off play.
DS was in a good position there.
New to threat was real.
Oh, off play. DS, off the crossbar, off the post, quick.
Shot in, 3-2.
And Nass had no chance. He was just a spectator in that play.
He has such a sick moment they call home about pulling a side field.
Single touch is misplaced.
Nass obviously has the respect and the opportunity to do that one point go in.
Go down, kick off though.
It's usually the ones that create the best goal scorer opportunity straight away.
This one was a little bit of a car crash.
Well these guys have so much respect for each other at this point.
They know that they've got to cover so many different options.
Diaz, excellent defense. Thanks to the backorder boost as well. Just as important at this level.
Addy comes through with the dunk after Nass saved, or is already at shock,
good enough to go fast post players. Nass actually would have to save on that, which is unreal.
Nass saves, always. Shock and surprise. We are seeing actually both players showing,
Although that's all the f**k the trend that that bring is going on, is every single air dribble, I think they're close off taking the message now of, yeah we can't play around on the goal, they are full of trying to meet them in the air, is that how we see it?
They just know they've got to get out of this. Too many threats, it's too dangerous to defend from one blank range, that's the answer, the vanilla air dribble, no resale man, no double tap, no dunk, nothing, no bind games.
And even though it hasn't worked, I do like to see just a standard air delivery on that, just to show that we will do it on occasion.
Just kind of up the range a little bit.
Nass is very happy though, losing, heading into the final two minutes.
Since he asked him to play in the 12, also very clean the ball, although Nass is always sticking around, he's 150, but yes, recovery.
That's the main prime position to save.
Oh, and yeah, Nass had to be a little bit more careful, otherwise that was free.
DS trying to trick him into passing the ball mid for a shot there.
Here comes Nass again, direct dribble.
You can tell that DS knew the air dribble bump was coming.
Any direct dribble like that takes away the flicking angle.
So the air dribble bump becomes far more likely.
DS did not give it any chance of happening in the pass.
Just a six-inch nose, exactly the reverse away to the bump.
These guys got a minute left to play one goal in it.
It's advantageous to DS, but that's not met much in the past two games.
That's when it's the blind spot.
Oh, that's so good, and again, Nas in the crossbar.
That's just such a good QO.
Tiaz, actually, I think he did a great job of trying
to change the upper.
Or pickage.
Yeah, Nas sticks around, and he's not
going for the reset either.
Oh, the boost is still strong.
Just relax a little bit, but is he going to get back
in time?
I think he might!
Tiaz!
Oh, ho-ho!
Nas is hanging on, and he's got the boost as well.
Crazy defense by Nas, frustrating Diaz to the backs.
Will he frustrate him on the other end of the pitch as well?
With the Vulpric air dribble.
BAM!
Ho, ho, ho, ho!
He's done it again!
This guy off the ceiling is just guaranteed money!
Diaz!
Try as he likes.
Try as he might.
He's just a spectator like all the rest of us.
No way to save against Nas, it would seem.
And now with just 25 seconds left, we're back to a tie game.
Advantage Diaz, however, pop into the air.
Nas is matching it for Hype, but Diaz will play for the West Steel.
Gets it, Nas is 100 defense.
Nas is going to go for it.
He tried.
12 seconds.
Diaz has caught himself in the middle.
Honestly, how nice.
He has a player, as he went into the net.
I thought it was a great top.
Yeah, Nas, he kept him oversteered in that landing.
and his sideways, DS saw the opener in the near post and did not miss, critical game.
DS cannot afford to lose another game from an advantage.
Oh my god.
He can't, again.
This is somewhat strikeable, but Nass makes it, he's got a boost advantage, another
fate.
He can't surely keep this up, oh and he does with precision.
He fixed the air triple as well.
DS, does he want to try and go for this?
Nass with a little flick onto it.
past one, but Diaz sticks with it and might try to have one more for good measure.
Wow.
Two each in our 1v1 semi-final.
If Nas scored with the shot that he just attempted there, if that worked, I think Diaz might hit us on his shoulder game.
I think he might have just left the building because there were so many mind games in that play.
Nas is really trying to delve deep inside Diaz's head and persuade it as much as possible.
really seen ready players look so frustrated after saying it's the
areas of Diaz does right now because this must be stressful.
We mentioned this when we were going through, what do you want to qualify for?
Plain Nass just looks exhausting.
It really is just making you fight for everything, but Diaz, full credit to him.
He's adapting.
This is a new Diaz that we've had in this, but I don't want to say one trick pony,
in the last two games. It's
been a long time, but in
previous seasons, it does feel
like it's working for Diaz. He
doesn't know what else to work
with this around. It's got so
much. Yeah, there's a key moment.
That looks like he lost his
momentum and that as he
recovered. And that left the
near post open for Diaz. For
the first time in three
games. One a game already at a
multi goal lead. He said two
After four games played, we had a feeling this might be the closer to the semi-finals, but this has been on a knife edge.
There's all the storylines coming into this.
Storyline to DS. Very obvious. He wants revenge.
He's already been in this position. He played Nalpo last season.
Onato's road to becoming that 1v1 world champion.
Sweet would have been to get it back.
That's genuine. Real chance for either of these guys.
to become multi-mode world champs, you know, space station NA once seen.
Esports World Cup finalists, definitely a contender here, gentlemen.
Winners of the Boston Major, absolutely contenders in threes.
These guys look like them.
Oh my goodness!
I thought, how is NAS saving everything with crossbar pitches?
This is how much it's going to take as well as he's trying to get back again.
T.S. just too much boost.
It was always going to happen eventually.
I love that T.S. missed the boost.
I think he missed the boost, I think he missed it.
I kind of lost the right choice.
Yeah, I think he missed it, but it worked out for him.
He has 1-0.
Once again, taking the lead in the game, that's what he does.
Holding on to this bit of the problem.
Nas has really done so deep every single time he's behind.
He just doesn't get tilted, he just keeps on going.
Oh my god, he's frustrated.
He has actually used the ball.
He can't respond to make sure he didn't get demoed.
It doesn't make any difference.
He's just trying to make sure Nass can catch him on the respawn.
Yeah, and also grabbing the boost at the other side, the one that's not getting stolen.
Nass from these two positions.
His air dribble game might look more level than Diaz,
because Diaz just, I mean, he can do so much with the efficiency that he's got,
but the air dribble from Nass can be just as effective from this close range.
Nass is very good at just giving you that one key moment of,
where am I going to do it?
This time around, oh, look at the better of this!
Oh, he's caught the T-Bone, which leaves the net open!
Vile Insurance claim leads, and Nass will take the goal!
Camp up there, mate.
Nass, just too much.
And Diaz had nothing left, and then he had to boost to get out of the promo bonk punt.
And Nass just had the perfect angle on him.
And they did take one. This lead's been, well, it wasn't the biggest lead with Diaz aside, but it was one of the shortest leads.
And Nass' leads have been even shorter than even this.
Yes, it's a cross on his way up and every single time the story is the exact same.
I am not going to give you that air dribble.
So Tiaz takes the first-hand shots, and that's it.
Who is Tiaz going to consider that?
Not this time around.
Well, he's dropping down from the ceiling, and Nass laid down for the block.
I wonder how he was following that.
Oh, a bit awkward here for Nass.
Go be careful.
Ah, yes.
Goals open.
Goals open.
He's getting out of here.
Yeah, he's gonna say he's getting him hard time getting a flick on target with that much power, but he doesn't go for the flick. He uses it as bait, Diaz.
Huge make up, Nass.
2-2.
Yeah, they're getting up so fast for pre-jumps in each other's air dribble game.
I want to see a long shot. I want to see somebody just first time shooting the ball hard clear instead of air dribbling.
I think they could just go in.
I'd love to ask you that one hundred and of course Diaz just to give up that possession Diaz what a dive in that is can he recover in time
First touch is a bit too heavy
We've got to be over onto the bumper at the very least turns
I just noticed that his car will be the target as he's just getting through reset actually from Diaz
3 minutes
And there you go just
Go straight for it take the shot. I'm not wasting my time
time. The idea is a bit too slow on that target. He needed to get on that ball immediately if he's
going to beat Nas to it, even though he got the boost seal. The scenic route he had to take left
Nas would be advantage. 3-2, Nas needs that recovery kickoff. Uses it to bump to Nas's
efficient. He's looking for the game here. He pre-flips to bump it one more time. This is
the weirdest interaction we've seen yet. Post-kickoff. Nas's going up. Nas's just
and he's got the 100 which means the first should be easy Diaz needs to get back over to it
and just guide the ball to it's rightful place in the net
yeah I can't believe Diaz
he walked into the middle of the middle of the middle and asked if I believe it either
he said that he had that one
and that was so awkward with Diaz
multiple times he's getting up that position
tripped up
oh fuck man
to this. Oh, look at off his own bar.
Did he have to? Let's have a look at this again.
He gets just about in on the second viewing night, Matt.
He hit post initially, or it was up, yeah, it did.
He hit post and then Diaz.
He had more time than he realized.
He thought he was straight in.
I'm still don't feel like I know what that was all
going on.
Oh, what a read from Diaz.
That is a big moment.
That is actually shuts down NASA's fake kick-offs.
See, can't try this again, because Diaz has seen it the first time in a while.
Diaz can still go back to that. I think it's been working for him.
Nassal have to try something else.
That's a strange decision by Nass.
But for the ball across the bowling net, it usually means you're playing for the boost seal,
but there was no boost, so it's fault to Diaz and he goes for the shot.
the shot, you know? Can't play for the follow-up directly because Nass is in the
way. Diaz shadowing close, Nass is dribbling slowly but still gets him all over him.
Perfect vision, Nass able to see around the ball, new when the challenge was coming.
Nass unbelievable, camera control as well. Nass, I think he's able to drive the ball and he's
got to actively drive as well. You're using two different parts of your brain.
once moved the car, once makes sure the cameras got Diaz in sight, I guess so so well done.
That could be another one here for Nass, takes his time with it, Diaz did not jump early,
who's managed to fight Diaz, that 18's got another 100, what an investment that is.
He bumps a little bit more before he takes off in the air dribble,
reset and way too much height on that for Nass to get in the way, Diaz.
A pretty standard reset for him.
Nice again.
That just came in.
Gave himself an awful lot of work to do from the angle
he came in from.
Yeah, must have been expecting something lower.
Yeah, it's keeping him guessing.
So that's a good three.
Skull up to match point, Nass, playing it up to the wall.
On the pass, he would have liked.
So he's going to trap us in a different way.
And he gave D'Az the opportunity.
He was so, so low.
He's got eight boosts in a dream.
And that dream means I'm going to probably head
back. Nas on his way up. He goes to the reset. Yes he does. Diaz already on the play. Oh my goodness!
How tough that works! Nas, 6, Diaz 5 and they're just out playing each other in resets again. For a
while we were looking at this matchup and seeing free jumps shutting down every aerial but now
whenever there's space the free jump becomes harder to land. Nas with a lately Diaz, Diaz
Yes, the boost seal, that's gonna result in a possession for him.
It's gonna be a good one.
Yes, he's gonna kite him on this immediately.
Yes, he is, he's using not to hop on the road to the wall.
He still wants Nass' car and just the threat of the air dribble bump.
It's good enough to displace Nass.
Oh, perfect timing.
Nass shadowing.
Easy target.
It's a type of defense you want to go into in your air dribble bump.
And you want to see a shadowing defender.
D.I. spotted him.
Committed 100% percent of the play.
Don't ask this question.
Oh!
He missed the shot, though.
Well, it's not much.
Reaver of them.
But one got punished.
The other one did.
It's not even fast.
Diaz takes the lead.
Well, that might be the critical moment we look back on.
It very well should be.
7 to Nass.
6 to Diaz.
Stead at 6, yeah?
7, the other way around.
Nass had the read.
Just missed the open net.
Well, that's so good for him, though.
That should be in, and it is.
Well, he's not going to have to worry about it for too long.
Nice.
Straight back in, and goes low and to the right,
just rolling with the ball.
Pops it out to the left.
He's already over there.
And that's been pushing the ball in the kickoff a lot.
That would mean going right here.
He's worked out a lot for him.
And he's going to switch up to the left,
and it doesn't work.
Maybe he should have gone to the other side.
Great position for Diaz.
He's got a lot of options here,
but he kind of took away a lot of the options.
that first touch and that one as well he's just hitting the ball straight to
Nas, still gonna be Dias Balboa.
I'm up off tight boards, just have a lot more difficult so yeah no shopping
trying something.
Oh yeah, distance shot.
What a save.
Dias couldn't get a purry he was looking for, he got scaredy for Nas but he didn't have to do too much.
What a quick escape, Nas saw Dias off the line and was ripped it.
That's what you wanted to see on the run, Johnny.
Nas confirms it, sees Diaz, who fakes going for the 100s.
And I think that's what Diaz wanted to happen.
It just, it was better than he was hoping for.
Yeah, that was just too good of the play.
No seven.
Wells for Diaz, eight for Nas to come back once again.
Has been completed.
Ten seconds to go for Diaz to work with.
Well, Nas gives him many opportunities.
Diaz pre-jumps high to take the ball,
whips it over, then's up for Nas.
and it's double match point pass!
We really thought that the fake kickoff shot that was off target might have been the one that put Nass away.
This guy, 30 seconds left, a goal down, two goals down, so he does his best work.
He really does, I mean, tutorial so many times in the series.
He's never been in front for long.
He has this game put him in over there, Nass taking about the game.
Nass has done well when he's had a sticky ball on the pitch off.
But Nass gets the lure himself to the ball, so he's had the most success.
Look at the movement he gets on this reset.
Off to the side, usually seeing recess go over the top of opponents.
to the left of that one to
right side then he has equalised.
The lead off a nice misplay and
then just get it. Yeah, didn't
predict the power. Now they
generate without flake. That was
the last goal in the game.
That's up by one. Yes, when
you consider like the S one game
one three of the next four
going to NASA's quite a
very, very close, 1v1.
Crucial thing, no timeout call from DS.
I'm gonna be shock me, when DS goes about once,
he's very much, let's go next.
Someone's sitting still over a 1v1 loss.
Oh, oh, oh, okay, yep, no timeout was a good choice.
Yeah, looks like Nax expected DS to play for the Boussier
because he didn't run jazz evolve.
He just completely got off guard by the shot
really from DSB of A looks very much on, it's a nice, you know,
clearly didn't understand how much power is generated,
uh, generateable for that position, that's even a word.
DS, once again, able to establish an early lead.
The second half of the game is going to be the question,
but I've got really no notes about the opening minutes
in this matchup for DS.
Yeah, that's absolutely nothing you can do about that.
I mean that's it's going to like to continue to impress. He's using a lot of boost of this attack. Doesn't get in but doesn't have to sort the
He goes down and takes his boost away.
Nas kicks it off the back wall.
Harper Diaz to get a challenge.
He's easily saved the shot that gave him his way eventually.
Turn blows here.
Nas challenges sideways off the ceiling.
Please for the mid-boost again.
Diaz finds it open and can't get a shot, sorry.
Still, overall a good result for him.
Nas choosing to get a shot for me.
Back walling, and dribble.
Stitch, set up for the floor.
with Diaz is and he does his five on the way.
You can see the way that mess,
his camera was just shaking everywhere.
He was desperate to find his opposite number.
And he was like directly underneath the ball
for most of that play, but he still gets it on target.
There's so much power and not too much height,
which is the key there,
because it's very easy for Diaz to crossbar
from that position.
He completely, perfectly takes the top shelf.
Oh, wow, he has to go in here.
That was a way we're challenging on every team on it and it's too easy for Nass.
I don't mind getting slumped in here, but that was pretty far off.
That's one.
That's a pretty good play where he has his, and then still going to pass him.
Yes, that's not the majority of the kickoff sessions.
I'm almost going against him though, that's almost...
What a shot!
Yeah, there's no chance, still getting close.
Moxie didn't qualify and see you ret in the season, but he's here in spirit with that point, Nass.
Top left.
Gave him D.I.'s even more problems.
And I said, I'm worried for D.I.'s here, because he has really struggled to hold onto Leeds.
The comeback's at Nass' side.
It's just so consistent.
D.I.'s kicked away.
I mean, just get 100 boots on his second top basket.
To pop straight up though.
D.I.'s coming on forwards to let this one get too far away. Just off of no ideas pop up from him.
Now Nass reset. He's going to let it as long as possible. Yes he is. Full height game.
Yes it's too good. Nass got into the reset, sees D.I.'s on the back wall so he plays it low.
That works at this level, it's not to do for most roughly players but any time there's a defender on the back wall
Going low makes it so difficult to get saved. It gets very awkward even if you end up 50-50 at all.
He should have this. Joss gets it up on him but his recovery is a bad one.
That's Sloral in him though. It's still back, but I just get past him.
5-2. The eyes is on the break.
That's really mature, Rokkety, because you've just forced him to hit breaks.
He's got to slow down at that point.
you can either try and deal with it now save that is gonna have power and pace or
you can just come to him with very low boost against his 100s
we go down DSF to his best nasa pressure here
oh even the pre-jump wasn't good enough yes it's got a score oh that's great
reaction time by Tia's last was not quick for this one yes so I just got
That's about as close as you're going to get, Nass.
Would have scored if he got any solid contact on that.
Diaz managed to outplay him, and there's still obviously plenty to take left.
I'm not worried about the position of the match that Diaz is in.
It's more than mental game. Does he believe that he can beat Nass at this point?
Nass is the latest so much.
Oh, there's a lot of success here for Diaz.
Third in a row, air-table bump attempted.
He doesn't have to land it, and it's still scoring.
And that's his shadow in a lot. So this is a great shot for Dias to keep going back to something he's added more to this game as of late
It was lacking when he barked on to the scene. It's really trying to outplay his opponent
But it's a bit better just to take them out of the game
And then let them all bounce it
NASA's gonna keep shadowed instead of challenging forward. Dias is gonna keep her double-bump it
Now it is, but he can't find it. The lead stays up. Amisly won goal. Dias will play
Oh, Diaz down.
Nas is all the time in the world.
To conjure up his next plan.
Routes a rune, Diaz day even further.
It's a tough day already for Diaz.
Dropped him in five to Polkens in 3v3.
Will he suffer a similar fate here?
He's already made it past five games, I suppose, but...
Nas is in full control here.
Diaz is just trying to fight the way back into the game.
And Diaz actually getting the wave-touch of his opponent,
And Nass is just... This is zero respect mode at the moment.
That's it.
Just straight in.
And not for the first time.
And Nass is not waiting about to see what Diaz can conjure up.
Yeah, it's great, Paul.
I mean, he knew Diaz was low on boost, low on momentum.
He really wasn't threatening much.
Diaz, restoration.
Grows even more.
Needs to focus now.
Needs to keep this lead as small as possible.
He's in a really good position here, it's all the options, Nass spawns on the wow side as Diaz, shot, start the shot.
He's looking for Diaz's car, picks the demo, so try and take a boost, that's not overly comfortable here.
Diaz, feels like this really needs to lie for him, try to go low, and now he's been bucked away so he's gonna chance to reset this but it's handed straight to Nass, who's got the 100 at the same time.
Yeah, perfectly, he's going for NAS.
Diaz will feel like that's just bad luck in his part.
See it right through the scene.
He could have had it.
It wasn't there a minute to go.
Still, technically, anyone's game,
but it feels very NAS-favoured.
Oh, Tride's just getting the lay.
NAS open now, and it should be a free goal lead.
It certainly is.
Diaz, to take us to Champions Field,
needs the minute of his Rocket League life.
I hear that frustration from Diaz,
really stretching for a half chance. It's not going to work against Nass today.
Can he get control with the kickoff though? Nass is the late one.
Keeping Diaz guessing. Oh Diaz with the demo though. Oh no!
Nass he's lost all his momentum and he's Nass complete for the ball which shouldn't be his.
Diaz has made another critical error.
And even if this doesn't go in, it's so much time off the clock.
30 seconds for three goals.
You're going to need this in a few kickoffs. This has to go in.
That might be it. Diaz just flundering back, trying desperately to survive a little bit
longer. But he doesn't have the ball. He might finally get off this play, yes you will, but
he has to score right now.
He's out of luck with the wall as well. Needs this. That's already on the way. There's
time! There's time! This kick-off's the work with!
Okay, we have a game. Two goals, seven seconds.
Diaz needs a kickoff goal. He will be hoping for a diagonal spot here.
And I expect him to try to flip right to get the ball hard into that side wall.
That is the play that he goes for. Nass covers it. And that's going to be a game.
Nass, the comeback kick will advance to the grand final.
And we will see that on Friday the reigning world champion awaits today belongs to Nas
And what match that was
Diaz really had NASA the ropes were so much of the game
And for the first half of the series like Diaz led for the vast majority
Nas mentally like said, he's just too strong. You can come back from
The 3v3 muscle everybody kicking in there for Nas, he's looking at more opponents to commiserate, but yeah, you've only got one. Just the one this time that's a...
There we go. That was happy.
Love the team's support from the 3s team for the Boston Major 3s MVP.
Nas is gonna go over there as well. Congratulate his man.
Jai Boi, Nupo vs Nas, what a grand final we have not awaiting us.
Yeah, I think the defending champs are going to be tough to beat, he's got the experience
in front of a crowd.
We played two series in front of a crowd last year, one in Rally and one in Leon, we won
them both and we won them convincingly so.
I think he's the favourite so prove it otherwise.
He said so himself in his post match interview but Nas is mental, it is something special.
Now speaking to Nass, our winner is Heflex.
Oh boy, Nass, that was an absolute slog.
Congratulations on the win there,
but you must be exhausted.
Yeah, I think the games were pretty close.
So it came out like who had more eyes
at the last couple of seconds, but I mean, yeah,
I'm happy.
You got the jacket and the hand warmers.
So I think you had the most ice the whole time.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, so overall, I mean, how do you do that?
I mean, from beginning of the day to end of the day,
playing across threes and ones,
and trying to maintain energy,
do you think about ones all day as well?
Like is that in the back of your head
that I still gotta play ones at the end of the day?
Yeah, today I was thinking about it,
but I mean, from yesterday,
I actually realized I had to pay today.
So I mean, I didn't prepare at all,
but I think you don't need to prepare for one-to-one.
I think if you just play good on the day,
you will win against anyone.
Interesting, because a lot of people,
well, it is a different game, right?
Like the way you approach them, you don't have that support.
You got to be a little more careful
on a lot of different situations.
But you think for you naturally,
it's kind of just the same thing?
Or like, what would you say the differences really are
between the two game modes?
Um, I mean, they're definitely really different. I think and very, very, I think you have to be, I mean
You can make more mistakes. Yeah, your friends out here. Yeah, I mean, yeah
If you make one mistake on one phone, you're kind of cooked. So but I mean, um
I mean, yeah, I don't really know the difference. Okay, that's fair. Okay. You just plays rock league guys
Now, I guess for for you looking at this did this being able to get this win and now go to the grand finals
considering the past with 1v1's review.
Did this mean a lot to be able to actually showcase what you could do in 1v1's
and now you get to play on the stage for that title?
Yeah, definitely. I think playing 1v1 online over all these years
and then playing it online is way different.
But it's also a cool experience to have.
I think that I'm going to play it on stage is going to be amazing.
And I think playing against Nupo as well.
I think we've played a lot of times online against each other.
It's always been a good match.
So, yeah.
Awesome. Hey, all I gotta say, man, is congratulations.
I don't know what you're, I'm tired here.
So we should, we should, okay.
You wanna go get some rest, man?
Congratulations.
But that is it.
Ones are done.
So why don't we just send it to the desk
and get prep for tomorrow.
The 1v1 World Championship for 2026
will be masked from Europe versus Nobu from Nina.
The reigning defending champion will defend his title.
We'll see if he can handle what we just saw.
What a match that one was.
Man and Diaz I was in the back rooting for him because I were two casters to pick almost new one of those
Yes, I believe games to and three games you had a massive lead
Or 61 that's just a composure to battle back and to get those wins again
Like if those two games go a different way, it was a 4-0
So when that's had a battle back many times throughout that you see this right there
This is a game number one where Diaz was in full control
but Nass battles back every time.
Conlong, some of the lines, story lines,
I should say, as last year for DS,
where he opens up game number one, just really hot.
And after that, kind of just doesn't hit that same level.
In game number two, he was up a lot,
but Nass kept winning kickoffs,
which were signature low fake.
He did it against Zen, about nine million
gazillion times, it felt like, in the EU final.
And his clutch moments from Nass
and every single point of this series
made all the difference.
DS kept playing tight, but tight's not enough.
Let me tell you what Nass wanted to say
when Lee was asking about the difference
in the two modes. I'm the best player in the world and I don't have two other people to screw it up for me.
He's in what I say out loud. You give a lot of credit to Diaz though. I mean, he really made NAS work
for it. I mean, this was a highly entertaining series every every game coming right down to the
wire in the in the end. And how about NAS's ability to come back, you know,
So once it was 2-2, swapped up the hand warmers.
Listen, if you knew about when you really
want to get a leg up on Nass for the final,
you go to the local convenience store,
buy up all the hand warmers, and then
you complete Nass's foul.
This is how you know we're going to win.
And then play to the day.
He's got the right ball.
This is an actual moment, Gibbs.
The kickoffs is obviously an important phase of this game.
It felt like Nass had that unlocked the entire series.
Yeah, it felt like T.S. was trying to push it right
most of the time to try and win those kickoff rules.
But you see towards the end of that series,
and when Nass had to make those comebacks,
winning the kickoff go battle 12 to 8 and Diaz again.
He would open up leads with those kickoffs,
but by the end of those games,
Nash was figuring it out
and then his flick game was fantastic.
He had definitely got it.
You that were like incredibly fast,
I would just beat Diaz out that he wasn't expecting
and that was the difference.
And he neutralized Diaz's air game just enough
to always give himself a chance.
Diaz will have his moments,
but Nash definitely just started challenging early
and earlier as he got deeper into the series,
made a big difference for him.
He deserves to win.
And now he's got to go against
1v1 world champion which I don't even say it's gonna be a tough match but I think Nas is ready for me the last year
Europe sent moxie. No, but was able to take care of that this year. They send nas
We'll see it's Europe versus Mina again
Do we crown a new region and a new champion or do we have back-to-back 1v1 world champion though?
Oh, it's gonna be tough
I felt no move just because of that crowd buff that he like he's had a face-up when he was in Paris or it
Like it didn't matter right like he was just like whatever it was Leon actually but Leon's
He knew he was public enemy number one and he still battled through that nas yes
He's played through three. He's a like MVP when it comes to Boston major
But it's a different story when you're the only one up there
Yeah, his team will come and support him afterwards, but they're not a lot up there during the match
So we'll see how that pans out. Well, that is the 1v1 action for Wednesday, September 16th of the Rockley World
Championship to be in September 16th. Happy birthday to epic e-sports team member striker
part of the OP Rockley community has been we were working with us for the last
few years. Yeah, and like a decade ago me and wave like playing threes with
just like having a good time and now you know she's in the back and it's been a
great part of the team. Obviously, we talk with her almost every day. So
happy birthday. Not full term. I'm faster by five times today.
You gotta go find her. Go say happy birthday. Yeah, happy birthday. That
does include Wednesday though. Let's take a look at the schedule for
Thursday as our world championship continues. The best week of rock and
week here rolling on with the mainstream and the alternate stream still ongoing.
So be twitch.tv slash RLE sport tomorrow opening up with made in Brazil versus
team Falcons. We'll see wild card versus vitality of twisted minds and inches
pajamas. Manchester City going to be playing the big O. We'll see made in
Brazil playing space station wild car playing Virtus Pro. That's a good
match is over here on the alternate stream on the mainstream though.
Kicking things off. Space station carving or right out of the gate. Exciting
on their stacks. Yeah, I can't get over just how absolutely loaded Group A ended up. Both
days, the way we start that group over on the Alt Street, the teams we put there, it's
like, are you kidding me? What a brutal group. Whoever comes out of that, they're going
to be well deserving of their spot. It's a brutal group. You got Carmine versus Team
Falcons later on in the day for that. And then you got Team Falcons versus Spiria,
2v2 and then you got no miss just big zen and that's a
44 and one if I recall correctly going up against
SSG boys and we're feeling zack and a monster 2v2 McMatch's something like what 5700 mm R between the two of them probably
But I actually got like 27 you're right pretty impressive, but three thousand little difference
Between seven and I we have like four KMM R
I'm so excited to see you tomorrow where we'll have the 2v2 semifinals as well as conclusion of the group stage of the 2026 Rock League World Championship 10 30 a.m. Central. We have the pre show 11 a.m. We will have that first kickoff. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you tomorrow for the continuation of the 2026 Rock League World Championship.
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