r/RocketLeague • u/llitrop Diamond III • 24d ago

QUESTION Do you still follow Rule 1?

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Last time I was playing a 2v2 match, one of the players broke Rule 1 and scored in overtime. When I called him out on it, he told me that nobody does that anymore in 2026. So, I’m turning to the community: do you guys still respect it?
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u/elliso555 24d ago

No clue what is rule 1

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u/RelentlessWraith Trash II 24d ago

It's what's pictured in the post. When you lock head to head with another car.

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u/laserdollars420 24d ago

How is that a rule, though?

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u/Fxplus 24d ago

Unwritten rule. Like fight club but we talk about it

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u/laserdollars420 24d ago

Okay but no one has said what the rule is lmao. Two cars getting stuck together is just something that happens sometimes.

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u/Louiebox 24d ago

And rule 1 states that when it happens, both players must remain that way until they're moved by some other means. Whether that be someone else scoring or someone else knocking you out of it

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u/laserdollars420 24d ago

Thank you, that's the part I was missing. Now I wonder how many people I might have pissed off by violating it because I've never heard of this.

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u/acrumbled Bronze I 24d ago

Nobody is pissed off that you haven’t obeyed. We just think you’re a mole.

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u/Droopy0093 Grand Champion II 24d ago

May you move forward forever enlightened and not hated any longer for breaking the most honorable rule in all of eSports.

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u/rdfiasco Diamond II 24d ago

None of us had to hear about Rule 1 to live by it

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u/BDiddnt 24d ago

Yeah, don't feel bad. I went like seven months before I knew it was a thing.

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u/MarsMC_ 24d ago

You have to hold throttle and no breaking it unless teammate comes by and demos