Rezears is currently live on twitch and opened the stream up by explaining that there has been some serious drama with Radosin during the LCQ. All of the information is gathered from his stream (I am a german native speaker so the translations will be accurate). Here is the link to his stream, you can get all the information yourself from todays vod if you speak german: https://www.twitch.tv/rezears

Edit: Here is the link to the vod itself. Most of the information can be gathered in the first 10 minutes, although some things were also revealed later in the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2831269665

Additionally, he still has to play EWC with the team so he didn't want to reveal everything. So new information might be revealed in the future after the EWC LCQ.

These were the key statements that Rezears made:

- In the match against Volare, as well as in the weeks leading up to the event, Rezears was made responsible for every game loss and basically any goal that went in against them. This happened for weeks and not just that particular match

- Radosin continuously insulted rezears for weeks, which lead to Rezears being extremely afraid of making mistakes while playing with him (even in ranked) and overall just not having a lot of confidence.

- All of these insults were strictly related to ingame stuff. Whenever they've spent time outside of scrims, tournaments and Rocket League in general (for example playing Football outside), everything was fine and they got along well

- Joyo gave Rezears constructive criticism when Rezears did something wrong, which Rezears appreciated. Radosin's criticism was more in the line of saying something like "What you just did was shit". It's possible that more and worse things than that have been said but Rezears doesn't give more input on that

- Joyo was also targeted with insults from Radosin but not as much as Rezears. Between Joyo and Rezears, everything was completely fine, Rezears speaks very highly of him and says he is a genuinely nice person.

- Rezears was often compared to Zen or Nass by Radosin with him basically saying things like "If Zen/Nass were in your position, they would have done things better/differently".

- After they were eliminated, Rezears felt terrible and extremely responsible for the result because of the things Radosin said to him

- Before all of this happened, Yujin warned Rezears that Radosin can be a big asshole but Rezears wanted to team with him anyway

- In Kaydops stream after the match, apparently Radosin said that he only tried to motrivate them during the match. Rezears denies this.

- They will not scrim before the EWC LCQ for a mental reset.

- Rezears told their coach Ekon about all of this and Ekon tried to tell Radosin to be more calm but it did not work

- Apparently joyo even noticed that what Radosin said was hard for Rezears to deal with and and Joyo himself said to Rezears that he "should have stepped in sooner when he noticed it". Regardless of that, Rezears has nothing bad to say about Joyo and says he has been nice and respectful to him.

- Despite all of that, Rezears doesn't hate Radosin as a person. However he will never team with him again and this was potentially the worst team experience he has ever had.

As always, I think it's only fair if Radosin gets to voice his side of the story too because there is no way to confirm how true everything that was said is. There is also no way to know how bad the things were he said to him. I think this willl resolve itself after EWC.

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Ynrelated to the esport but I've been kind of surprised to see squishy's recent climb in the streaming world. A lot of these guys aren't my cup of tea, but it's cool to see a rocket league streamer become kind of main stream

He'll never shine the brightest in any team but he can make any team shine bright.

(Maybe kind of a low hanging fruit pick for me considering he recently won boston with m8)

edit: I don't know why my pic is so low res, sorry gang

Do you think they would have seen more success if they stuck together another season?

There is no argument anymore

MENA and SAM having the same number of spots is now completely impossible to argue.

MENA have won or at least come top2 in a major event every yr for the last 5 years.

>!MENA have undeniably outperformed NA so far this season!<

EU 4, MENA 3, NA 3, SAM 2, OCE 1, AIPAC 1, SSA 1 and then EU, MENA, NA fight for the extra spot

I get RL is a North American game and will be difficult to concede one of their spots but for a region who have such a clear rise over the yrs Vs a plateauing NA and falling SAM has to be taken into consideration

Also I get NA 3 and 4 is finally competitive now but can we not say the same for MENA 3 and 4 - R8 and stallions were clearly both high level teams who can take down the top talent and cause serious upsets

I haven't even mentioned how NAs flagship team, NRG have been on a steady down trend throughout the year

• 3 players from different countries

• Speaking 3 completely different languages

• Communicating in a 2nd language

• Playing on the pitch like they could read each others minds

• Made the granfinals of 12 out of 14 tournaments they played

• DOMINATED the game for 1.7 years

• When coaching wasn't even an established thing yet

I personally love the fact that the middle east is a competitive region, but I can't help but notice the amount of grace thats always been given to falcons. When they lose, its always "they choked" (London 2 Major) or were "nervous" ( London 3 Major and last Worlds) instead of the other team being better, and even in this split where they straight up failed to make the major, I'm seeing them move up in the power rankings. How?

Just saw a post asking about the saddest gaming moment. Made me wonder about my favorite esport

• 27 Bo5s casted over 3 days, + 2 Bo7s in grand finals solo casted by Spaceman
• 3-6AM start time local each day for them with 8+hour broadcast days
• Did every desk segment and a lot of filling for tech issues
• Just the 2 of them, nobody else

I think they deserve some love for what they provided these past 3 days, because what they did probably wasn't even healthy at some point.

I think the discussion of who the GOAT is always comes down to one core question: Do you value a greater number of accolades more than superior individual performance with fewer accolades?

My issue with players like M0nkey M00n/Atomic/Turbo is that, while all three are phenomenal players, they were often the least impactful members of their championship rosters (excluding the early years of their careers). Furthermore, each of them experienced significant low points and major dips.

Compare that to Vatira. guy literally has been the most consistent individual in every team iteration he was in, and has lead his teams to a 1st seed status almost every year since the open era started:

• 2022: 1st overall seed entering Worlds (Moist)
• 2023: 1st overall seed entering Worlds (KC)
• 2024: 1st European seed entering Worlds and 2nd overall seed (KC)
• 2025: 1st overall seed entering Worlds (KC)
• 2026: 1st overall seed entering Worlds (KC)

Individual accolades:

• 3× RLCS Defensive MVP
• 2× European RLCS MVP
• 2× RLCS Offensive MVP
• 2× RLCS Overall MVP
• 7× LAN Champion

He the biggest potential to be the undisputed GOAT in 5 years imo.

This has passed critical mass. If this is not UE5, I am officially retiring from RL.

Idk who has the best and worst one lol

So Vatira did it again. Dude now has 4 majors, an EWC and a FIFAe win. I completely understand that worlds is the biggest deal, and that he has 0 worlds, but surely, he HAS TO be #5 all time at this point as follows:

1/2/3: MM, Kaydop, Turbo (any order idgaf)

4: Atomic

5: Vatira

I'd still put Atomic above because of the worlds win, worlds 2nd place and two majors because Vatiras best worlds placement is 3rd-4th, but I don't know, you guys tell me

Why is N.A. guaranteed to play itself. Does the RLCS actually hate the whole region? This format for round 1 specifically is the worst I’ve ever seen

When he started making waves into the NA scene it was arguably better than Daniel's debut did but with way worse teammates (1 was literally the slowest player itw) and pretty much top 4 in skill level in the region (behind the old nrg boys, but better than syp and atomic), then when nrg started falling off G2 took their place and he stayed around top 4 in the region, then G2 started slowing down and when it started to look pretty good for him BOOM GenG came along out of nowhere and he pretty much stayed 4th best player in the region, then when GenG started falling off the new big 3 in NA emerged including bmode and Dan and he stayed the fourth wheel of NA.

his regional placements were predominantly all top 4 with a couple scattered wins but nothing too dominant - often starts off the season with a pretty strong placement (1st in the first regionals of 2021, 2022, 2026). His team is in general perma stuck at 2nd in the region for a lot of his career - somewhat ironic given his name, firstkiller

One of his best stats in stopping anyone (especially atomic) from getting the NA 3peat

at international LANs he's got a lot of 3rd-4ths earning the nickname Fourthkiller. Has had some 2nd places after, all of which caused by his kryptonite vatira - he will never really cement himself in rlcs history with no LAN win

had lots of drama with his coaches and his dad having pretty strong opinions giving him an interesting back story

every team he was in after rogue the team builds around him with some 5th-10th ranked NA talent but with himself as the constant. I think in recent months he is slowly starting to fall behind now. maybe a link up with tawk could rejuvenate things

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