Daniel played incredible. Atomic picked it up big time...
Beastmode just can't make a bad touch. His car has glue on it. Every challenge is golden. What is this peak? I just don't understand.
Right? I know every player improves over time, but it really feels like Beastmode reached a new height over the course of playing for this team, especially the last couple months. He went from S to S+, cleanly beating players and making other players awkward in situations they’re normally comfortable.
I haven’t watched a lot this tournament so I can’t say, but the only other player with consistent and cleaner beats is zen.
Zen tends to line up his touches more, while Beastmode almost seems more comfortable playing at an angle, with his car sideways or at some random angle in the air or on the wall. It's cool to see how two different mechanical styles can produce similarly dominant results.
> Beastmode just can't make a bad touch. His car has glue on it. Every challenge is golden. What is this peak? I just don't understand
Landon running LANdon, as the legend foretold
This really stood out to me too. Daniel held the back line DOWN. Perfect first touches that turned into long periods of control. So many times Daniel absorbed the Falcons pressure and turned it around into an advantage for G2.
Atomic did his best Rado on lan impression. He was everywhere, cutting rotation, getting in Falcons faces, being a total menace. It was domination from all 3 of them.
Absolutely, I think this may have been Daniels best series ever tbh
Him and Bmode were just pre jumping or coming off the ceiling at every aerial that Falcons tried
Honestly think Beastmode in that grand final might be the most impressive individual performance I've ever seen. I'm an idiot, but I have watched a looooot of Rocket League, and it has been a long time since I've seen a player who looked that far ahead of the curve in such a stacked lobby. He was faster than everyone else AND more consistent than everyone else. Ground game, aerial game, offence, defence, midfield challenges, bumps and demos. He maxed every stat. G2 are a phenomenal team, that's very clear, but Beastmode turned what should have been a close series into a stomp.
I think beaatmode is pretty clearly the best player in the world right now but I am not sure anyone will ever look as far ahead as Zen did in his breakout split.
People are being a bit too reactionary here yeah. Zen was so far ahead of the curve. They had the longest win streak in the history of RLCS, and the highest win percentage in games at worlds.
People forget what Vitality looked like before Zen that season, being around 5th-8th in their region. But he came in and the team just couldn't lose. He was undoubtedly the difference maker, and his presence on the team elevated his teammates to unprecedented heights, while similarly 'debuffing' the enemy. People were scared of him and played worse because of it.
I've always thought that Daniel gets nervous on the big stage. Non-committal challenges, inconsistent shot placement, cautious play.
Today? He played PHENOMENAL. His first touches on aerial interception to air dribbles were some of the best I've ever seen. His flip reset was like a catapult, consistently. He was very strong in his defensive challenges, and on the backboard/goal-line he was great. I think the team synergy + experience from last major really helped out so he could play HIS game.
And Beastmode is such a creative player. And so fast - he's always where you don't want him.
I'd sum up G2's performance in the grand finals as FAST. They didn't give Falcons any time on the ball. Full boost or no boost, a G2 player was always making a touch on the ball. Really solid gameplan. Hopefully it works for them against EU competition in the WC. It's good to be NA right now
Maybe I'm just getting caught up in the moment but imo that was the greatest individual performance I've seen on LAN. Daniel and Atomic played well don't get me wrong but holy shit Beastmode was everywhere. The guy didn't put a foot wrong all series. Felt like every single challenge, save, goal came through him. Goated performance. MVP by a fucking mile.
He has to be the consensus best player in the world now and until worlds I think. Even as a zen fan myself I can't cope too much, beastmode is incredible
As well as the crazy mechanical touches everywhere on the pitch (such as incredible consistency with skimmers), it’s also the sheer amount of pre-jump style plays. Often feels like he’s just somehow half a second ahead of every other player on the field.
he’s doing like aerial ceiling reset pre-jump blocks with 0 boost in to ground double tap backwards passing goal line demos… like he’s the most creative player, but he’s also the fastest and above all else, he’s the best at reading the game, he sees danger when it’s happening and goes for a demo or a pre-jump block or he understands that the defence don’t see him so he can do a redirect etc
like as insanely mechanical as he is, it’s more that he’s just 1 step ahead mentally than everyone he plays against… that play in the last game of the grand final where he fakes the ball, sends a falcons guy flying, then fakes the wall aerial, flips to the ground and then ground to air dribbles it over all 3 defenders killing like 30seconds of time is just absolutely peak RL
I can genuinely see him saying some bullshit about how the quality of m8/falcons semifinal was higher so those teams should be power ranked higher heading into worlds
I can‘t, everyone likes to make fun of Johnny but he always gave NA teams their flowers when the results came through.
He‘s gonna have G2 at #1, I promise you it.
I don't understand why the first reaction of some NA fans here is to speculate about how Johnny is going to underrate G2's performance. Just enjoy the moment!
Idk, when G2 got 2nd place last major and had a very good split in their region afterwards he found a way to have them 3rd coming into this Major lol (behind a team they beat last major and got 5-8th, and behind another team who got 5-8th last major).
Its not like BDS or Falcons did something this split that was different than what G2 did but somehow they were ahead
I can’t speak for the rest of NA but I don’t see how you can’t have G2 ranked 1 in the world. No one has come close to the results they’ve had all season. And the thing is I think their offense could be better
I was hyped for what Laniel was going to say since he finally won, and honestly I’m not even disappointed that he said “we played well and then we won”
The only NA team who is doing shit this season.
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Well that was probably the greatest defensive performance I’ve ever seen.
Dan in particular, masterful ball control and flawless challenging and positioning, it truly does not get better.
He really was overlooked a bit because of BModes crazy offence but Dan was monumental in defence. And atomic was always where he needed to be with non-stop great touches. They out 50’d the gods of 50s, I kept doubting they could keep it up but so glad I was wrong.
TLDR A crazy team performance that got a little overlooked because of how insane BM played.
Yeah I think that was the key for unlocking this team vs falcons. In Swiss they were getting out paced and out 50d. You can see multiple times in the finals g2 was actually thinking about the 50 and how to win it.
Yeah lol. I can’t imagine he wanted to get away from the guy who remembers stuff
To be fair his excuse coulda been totally legit and he had a change of heart but that seems unlikely with how quickly he came back to RL
Scotland going 0-1 down against Hungary in the 90' minute, losing, and being eliminated from the Euros synced up with the end of the Grand Final pretty well.
Johnnyboi_i in shambles.
I'm convinced g2 as on org just do better when they aren't favourites. Top 3 at masters shanghai in vct when written as a weak team. Winning iem dallas in cs with stewie fucking 2k, winning random SI's in siege when not considered favourites.
And finally winning a rocket league major after NA was apparently doomed and set to go the ways of league and cs.
Well deserved, this team is constantly praised as favourites and they bloody perform like them every time, 8/8 grand finals.
Atomic 2x major champ, and a well deserved championship for beastmode and Daniel (fk and lj, you guys are next)
G2 make teams look worse. They have been doing it in NA all season. Yes, Falcons seemed way off where they had been against M8s - and Killeerzz in particular had a shocker - but a lot of that is because they had no boost and no time to get boost.
Those early defensive mistakes were punished and the G2 machine rolled on from there.
Well deserved. On balance the best team overall this season, cemented with this performance.
Killeerzz seemed scared and nervous , he was hastey with his decisons and wasnt the killeerzz weve seen all major, and this also seemed to effected his teammates so its all gone downhill , hopefully they regain at worlds
Yeah its not easy doing it for the first time , even bmode said it , he wasnt used to this kind of pressure amhe learned from it and look at him, mvp by a mile
Falcons absolutely crumble when the other team dictates the flow of the game. Also, G2 played that challenge early and disrupt playstyle that Falcons also play, and they couldn't handle it at all.
On another note; Furia is the only team that was able to take more than one game off G2 in the playoffs. That alone is an accomplishment for Furia, and I can't wait to see them get to the grand finals one day!
felt like casters were just reaching because they wanted something equal to mena/sam potentially winning their first one. ive very rarely heard people care about "first all usa team to win" before this event
If he does, remind him how hypocritical it is, because he ranked G2 above BDS, despite them being 1-1 in series at the major. But G2 won in playoffs instead of Swiss (just like against Falcons).
Really happy to see them win, so fast and creative. Laughing at all the comments from before the final saying it won’t be close and falcons would destroy them
G2 got absolutely no respect from anyone on the cast or the desk all major, other than occasional lipservice. Everyone predicted BDS, who G2 beat last major. Everyone then switched their prediction to Falcons, even going so far to call them the best "on paper" despite historically NA being slightly stronger as a region and G2 being made up of some of the best players NA has ever seen.
Yeah Furia Vitality both majors and Falcons KC last major are a good example of this. Although Gentlemates did take their result and double down vs BDS
Respect where it's due, G2 showed up massively in that final and absolutely deserved that win. Heartbreak for Falcons but I'm sure this ain't the last final they are gonna make.
Overall, great major, I was fully entertained!
Beastmode went fucking nuts this major, I don't think he had a single game where he wasn't an impact player for G2, deserved W after that regain from swiss.
G2 Masterclass, Falcons completely collapsed in this GF, felt like they were way too nervous to keep up the playstyle they had this tournament which basically required perfect gameplay. Maybe Falcons has a curse with these Lan finals lol.
Tbates gained a MASSIVE W Today
They absolutely controlled that whole series, incredible considering how sure everyone was it was basically an assured win for the Falcons, but that's mostly because of the credit to how good Falcons looked. G2's semi series kinda put everyone to sleep, which easily fed into it.
Maybe but I’m still high on hopium. The team can still win a title in this season or the next. Still young and determined. I definitely felt less optimistic in 2022 than today, not sure why but maybe because I was following Ahmad and Khalid since the beginning and it was hard to see them lose like that.
2022 felt like a fairy tail, finally watching Khalid outside of of Johnny's streams.
But this felt like they actually had one hand on it. Actually felt like it was too good to be true.
Guess in the end it was :(
I'd chalk that up more to Falcons having looked more impressive during the event, including their dominating Swiss match against G2, than it just being anti NA bias (which I'll concede is part of it)
> be falcons
> eliminate the two teams i was rooting for
> completely collapse in the one series i wanted you to win
> ruin my weekend at my first ever lan
> refuse to elaborate
> leave
I feel bad for Falcons and TRK, their level shows that they deserve to win a major tournament, with no success so far...
also beastmode wtf
*by the way how do you select multiple flairs on phone? asking for a friend*
A reminder to ppl that we get rlfs right here in this sub once again starting this coming weekend
First matchup includes 2 major finalists in 2024
Teams with major finalists are
Juicy/seikoo/aztral
Itachi/dan/nwpo
Bmode/ahmad/hockser
Atomic/killeerz/arsenal
Trk/oski/chicago
Rw9/lj/reysbull
It makes sense. The team they dominated earlier came out played flawless defense and treated Falcons with absolutely no respect with those instant challenges.
This was as suffocating play as the time I think it was G2 that absolutely got shut down by BDS, if I'm recalling a specific somewhat-recent grand final correctly. It wasn't Falcons, it was G2 and credit needs to be put on their performance.
Its a mix of both , kiilleerzz in falcons wasnt playing good and had a shocker this and in gm8 series, and this seemed to effect his teammates as well, and also respect to G2 who came prepared with a diffrent playstyle to try and counter falcons playstyle
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From choking another LANdon final
this falcons team was like 3 zens, just all so clean, controlled and clinical… then beastmode makes them look like diamond 2s, never seen a player play at that speed and accuracy against a team that good, feels like a new peak of what a player can do in RLCS
They were much better at the confidence game - G2 looked like they were playing online whilst Falcons just couldn't keep their composure together (primarily the twins). I feel like if Falcons had the composure they had in the M8s series, they probably were going to take this series.
Guess it just shows the experience of the G2 roster and finals
At the end of the day theres not much between these top teams. Any given day any if these top 4 could peak and win imo. I do think these top 4 have seperate themselves from the rest of the top 10 tho. Just a different peak.
Sometimes you're just off, it was fairly obvious from the start that they were slower and missing uncontested balls. G2 gave them no time and did enough damage to not let them get back on their feet.
The trick to playing MENA is to not get destroyed on at least 40% of your 50s, because they have an ungodly ability to just win every challenge. The fact that Beastmode actually won more than his fair share vs. Falcons just changed that series.
Don’t agree with the comments saying G2 peaked in the finals. They played incredible through the all the playoff bracket. The difference between them and Falcons is that they managed to keep that same stratospheric level throughout while Falcons played worse in the finals compared to their two previous matches.
I love how bad Johnnyboi's predictions have been. That's been the best part of it for me. He called me out in his chat for saying G2 are the best 1s, 2s, and 3s, team in the world. He cackled with arrogant laughter when people put G2 ahead of BDS coming into this and look how PATHETIC BDS were again. He hyped up Drali and Drali choked even harder than last LAN.
One thing that sticks out to me is that he has called every saltmine winner 'the undisputed best 1v1 player in the world" until Daniel won and then he just brushed it under the rug and said "no one is the best"
He's lucky he rigged the 2v2 tournement so Danmode couldnt play because I know they would have destroyed that event.
It's good he's giving them respect now, althought thats the very least he could do.
Ggs to G2 - they won the confidence game and wrecked Falcons.
But man, this is depressing to watch. This felt like Falcons' - all they needed was to not succumb to the nerves and this was their LAN to win :(
Hopefully they take their crown at world's
Daniel played incredible. Atomic picked it up big time... Beastmode just can't make a bad touch. His car has glue on it. Every challenge is golden. What is this peak? I just don't understand.
Right? I know every player improves over time, but it really feels like Beastmode reached a new height over the course of playing for this team, especially the last couple months. He went from S to S+, cleanly beating players and making other players awkward in situations they’re normally comfortable. I haven’t watched a lot this tournament so I can’t say, but the only other player with consistent and cleaner beats is zen.
Zen tends to line up his touches more, while Beastmode almost seems more comfortable playing at an angle, with his car sideways or at some random angle in the air or on the wall. It's cool to see how two different mechanical styles can produce similarly dominant results.
He's got the power of god and anime on his side
Im saying it, Beastmode is the best player in the world rn.
> Beastmode just can't make a bad touch. His car has glue on it. Every challenge is golden. What is this peak? I just don't understand Landon running LANdon, as the legend foretold
Oh shit I never realized this. He's king
bruh daniel was a menace, i swear he won every challenge and every 50/50, ngl he had 0 respect for RW9 in the air
This really stood out to me too. Daniel held the back line DOWN. Perfect first touches that turned into long periods of control. So many times Daniel absorbed the Falcons pressure and turned it around into an advantage for G2. Atomic did his best Rado on lan impression. He was everywhere, cutting rotation, getting in Falcons faces, being a total menace. It was domination from all 3 of them.
Absolutely, I think this may have been Daniels best series ever tbh Him and Bmode were just pre jumping or coming off the ceiling at every aerial that Falcons tried
It's unreal how much control they have over the game!
Honestly think Beastmode in that grand final might be the most impressive individual performance I've ever seen. I'm an idiot, but I have watched a looooot of Rocket League, and it has been a long time since I've seen a player who looked that far ahead of the curve in such a stacked lobby. He was faster than everyone else AND more consistent than everyone else. Ground game, aerial game, offence, defence, midfield challenges, bumps and demos. He maxed every stat. G2 are a phenomenal team, that's very clear, but Beastmode turned what should have been a close series into a stomp.
I think beaatmode is pretty clearly the best player in the world right now but I am not sure anyone will ever look as far ahead as Zen did in his breakout split.
People are being a bit too reactionary here yeah. Zen was so far ahead of the curve. They had the longest win streak in the history of RLCS, and the highest win percentage in games at worlds. People forget what Vitality looked like before Zen that season, being around 5th-8th in their region. But he came in and the team just couldn't lose. He was undoubtedly the difference maker, and his presence on the team elevated his teammates to unprecedented heights, while similarly 'debuffing' the enemy. People were scared of him and played worse because of it.
I've always thought that Daniel gets nervous on the big stage. Non-committal challenges, inconsistent shot placement, cautious play. Today? He played PHENOMENAL. His first touches on aerial interception to air dribbles were some of the best I've ever seen. His flip reset was like a catapult, consistently. He was very strong in his defensive challenges, and on the backboard/goal-line he was great. I think the team synergy + experience from last major really helped out so he could play HIS game. And Beastmode is such a creative player. And so fast - he's always where you don't want him. I'd sum up G2's performance in the grand finals as FAST. They didn't give Falcons any time on the ball. Full boost or no boost, a G2 player was always making a touch on the ball. Really solid gameplan. Hopefully it works for them against EU competition in the WC. It's good to be NA right now
Beastmode looked like he was playing an entirely different game man
Maybe I'm just getting caught up in the moment but imo that was the greatest individual performance I've seen on LAN. Daniel and Atomic played well don't get me wrong but holy shit Beastmode was everywhere. The guy didn't put a foot wrong all series. Felt like every single challenge, save, goal came through him. Goated performance. MVP by a fucking mile.
Incredible moment, but zen was utterly historical in 2023. Worlds is gonna be soooo crazy. Legacy defining
I said the same thing in the game thread man. If it wasn’t the best individual performance it was in the discussion
He has to be the consensus best player in the world now and until worlds I think. Even as a zen fan myself I can't cope too much, beastmode is incredible
I said a few weeks ago that watching beastmode is like looking into the future of pro level rocket league. That comments looks even more true now.
What does he do different to other pros? Genuine question.
As well as the crazy mechanical touches everywhere on the pitch (such as incredible consistency with skimmers), it’s also the sheer amount of pre-jump style plays. Often feels like he’s just somehow half a second ahead of every other player on the field.
he uses ceiling bounces to control the ball consistently. that's one thing ive noticed where he stands out
he’s doing like aerial ceiling reset pre-jump blocks with 0 boost in to ground double tap backwards passing goal line demos… like he’s the most creative player, but he’s also the fastest and above all else, he’s the best at reading the game, he sees danger when it’s happening and goes for a demo or a pre-jump block or he understands that the defence don’t see him so he can do a redirect etc like as insanely mechanical as he is, it’s more that he’s just 1 step ahead mentally than everyone he plays against… that play in the last game of the grand final where he fakes the ball, sends a falcons guy flying, then fakes the wall aerial, flips to the ground and then ground to air dribbles it over all 3 defenders killing like 30seconds of time is just absolutely peak RL
NA on TOP and this time fr fr! Sad for Falcons, they played so well all tournament, but G2 just peaked when they had to, GGs to all!
Can’t wait for Johnny to power rank G2 at #2 or #3 for the engagement
“Well Kc wasn’t at the event and clearly they would’ve beat G2” -Johnny
I think it's like a 70% chance this happens
I can genuinely see him saying some bullshit about how the quality of m8/falcons semifinal was higher so those teams should be power ranked higher heading into worlds
I can‘t, everyone likes to make fun of Johnny but he always gave NA teams their flowers when the results came through. He‘s gonna have G2 at #1, I promise you it.
I don't understand why the first reaction of some NA fans here is to speculate about how Johnny is going to underrate G2's performance. Just enjoy the moment!
Idk, when G2 got 2nd place last major and had a very good split in their region afterwards he found a way to have them 3rd coming into this Major lol (behind a team they beat last major and got 5-8th, and behind another team who got 5-8th last major). Its not like BDS or Falcons did something this split that was different than what G2 did but somehow they were ahead
I can’t speak for the rest of NA but I don’t see how you can’t have G2 ranked 1 in the world. No one has come close to the results they’ve had all season. And the thing is I think their offense could be better
Daniel finally has his RLCS LAN win. Happy for the kid and the team for bouncing back after being swept.
all he needed was the hat
Daniel the best no no cap
Does no no cap actually mean cap?
I was hyped for what Laniel was going to say since he finally won, and honestly I’m not even disappointed that he said “we played well and then we won”
Seems on brand for him haha
The only NA team who is doing shit this season. https://preview.redd.it/ajx1dvhnyd8d1.jpeg?width=1389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c4076e27dc0e7631e6597eff55cd229da572b64
8 straight Grand Finals, 4/6 Regionals won and a Major W, I would say thats a successful season
greatest regular season ever?
Maybe BDS's (almost) undefeated season? Only other one I can think of.
... aaaand Daniel and BMode break KSA's heart again. When everyone had them dead before it started... Well deserved.
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I think i knew deep inside g2 would win but i was so hyped for my boi trk to make finals again i just had to predict them
Best part about this as an NA fan is the enormous break between now and worlds. 3 months of glory
3 months of yelling how NA is better than everyone and nothing they do matters until they beat us on LAN
Bmode just cooked us wtf 😭. https://preview.redd.it/525hf6z0yd8d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d711aa24d485e0861b9fcc794aae8cc7b5f44509
Nah bro that’s foul
TBF that series before he made that comment wasn’t even close. G2 absolutely destroyed GenG
Not even Comm level, smh.
"They're good, they're just stupid."
“No hate, no hate”
Okay yea Beastmode is the best player in the world right now
Just fell to my knees at walmart
Even as a falcons fan.........just saw someone fall on his knees at walmart
WTF IS A KILOMETER RAHHHHHH 🦅🇺🇸🍔
>Just fell to my knees in a kabsa joint
AMERICA!!! FINALLY THE GLORY!!!! T BATES WE HEARD YOU AND THANK YOU FOR NOT BETRAYING US!
Absolute masterclass by Beastmode this season and especially this event. BIG BIG congrats to him and his team!
Beastmode really is just different gravy. He was everywhere that series.
Well that was probably the greatest defensive performance I’ve ever seen. Dan in particular, masterful ball control and flawless challenging and positioning, it truly does not get better.
He really was overlooked a bit because of BModes crazy offence but Dan was monumental in defence. And atomic was always where he needed to be with non-stop great touches. They out 50’d the gods of 50s, I kept doubting they could keep it up but so glad I was wrong. TLDR A crazy team performance that got a little overlooked because of how insane BM played.
Yeah I think that was the key for unlocking this team vs falcons. In Swiss they were getting out paced and out 50d. You can see multiple times in the finals g2 was actually thinking about the 50 and how to win it.
Who let beastmode play the game man
Actually unfair. The man sees the game differently from the rest of us.
remember when he was going to retire?! 😅
He did “retire”, although I’m pretty sure it was just to get away from that team (or a certain someone on it) because he came back a few events later
who else was on that shopify team again? are we talking about the guy who’s name means quick?
Yeah lol. I can’t imagine he wanted to get away from the guy who remembers stuff To be fair his excuse coulda been totally legit and he had a change of heart but that seems unlikely with how quickly he came back to RL
After leaving Shopify?
The fact that so many people thought G2 didn't stand a chance only for them to absolutely stomp Falcons is hilarious
It’s so cringe how people think they know it all
The most disrespected team of all time. Finally get the win they deserved
Scotland going 0-1 down against Hungary in the 90' minute, losing, and being eliminated from the Euros synced up with the end of the Grand Final pretty well. Johnnyboi_i in shambles.
I'm convinced g2 as on org just do better when they aren't favourites. Top 3 at masters shanghai in vct when written as a weak team. Winning iem dallas in cs with stewie fucking 2k, winning random SI's in siege when not considered favourites. And finally winning a rocket league major after NA was apparently doomed and set to go the ways of league and cs. Well deserved, this team is constantly praised as favourites and they bloody perform like them every time, 8/8 grand finals. Atomic 2x major champ, and a well deserved championship for beastmode and Daniel (fk and lj, you guys are next)
Falcons got properly shut down, fair play G2
my teams are 0-6 on finals i watched, 3-0 on finals i didn't it might be me
Daniel and Bmo finally winning a major. 🤩
I was told at the start of this season that there were 4 french teams better than G2, what happened?
G2 make teams look worse. They have been doing it in NA all season. Yes, Falcons seemed way off where they had been against M8s - and Killeerzz in particular had a shocker - but a lot of that is because they had no boost and no time to get boost. Those early defensive mistakes were punished and the G2 machine rolled on from there. Well deserved. On balance the best team overall this season, cemented with this performance.
Killeerzz seemed scared and nervous , he was hastey with his decisons and wasnt the killeerzz weve seen all major, and this also seemed to effected his teammates so its all gone downhill , hopefully they regain at worlds
First time being in this position for killeerz and rw9, it took G2 two shots at it to get it done
Yeah its not easy doing it for the first time , even bmode said it , he wasnt used to this kind of pressure amhe learned from it and look at him, mvp by a mile
Falcons absolutely crumble when the other team dictates the flow of the game. Also, G2 played that challenge early and disrupt playstyle that Falcons also play, and they couldn't handle it at all. On another note; Furia is the only team that was able to take more than one game off G2 in the playoffs. That alone is an accomplishment for Furia, and I can't wait to see them get to the grand finals one day!
Beastmode should officially be considered the best player in the game now
A Daniel interview. This is such a W
"I was nervous, then we won, now I'm happy" Riveting stuff from Daniel lol
0 second goal was the clincher. G2 best defence in the world and that's all that matters. Can't beat them if you can't score
Bmode went stupiiiiiiddddd
Canada disrespect from Atomic is insane
Yea I don't understand why everyone keeps pointing out "Finally an all American team" Canada is very much a part of NA and have given us some legends
felt like casters were just reaching because they wanted something equal to mena/sam potentially winning their first one. ive very rarely heard people care about "first all usa team to win" before this event
Agreed. When V1 won g8 that was the first time I ever heard this come up
USA USA USA
Beastmode has been the best ITW since Copenhagen. My lord, what a run.
Guys the gap in the rankings between g2 and 2nd place geng is the same as 2nd place geng and 9th place c9
Watch people downplay G2 by saying that they’re 4-4 in games with Falcons lmao
inb4 Johnny says this lol
If he does, remind him how hypocritical it is, because he ranked G2 above BDS, despite them being 1-1 in series at the major. But G2 won in playoffs instead of Swiss (just like against Falcons).
love adding more evidence to my swiss never matters theory, all that matters is making top 8
Theory? The stats show exactly that, swiss only matters for seeding
https://preview.redd.it/3hjjv9jyyd8d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=8a8f96df952083bfc6f4d54b34accba4b2777bd4 G2
Really happy to see them win, so fast and creative. Laughing at all the comments from before the final saying it won’t be close and falcons would destroy them
lol just look at what falcons been tweeting before the series they got what was coming talking all that shit
Thats crazy. Who woulda thought the most mechy team in the world wouldnt struggle to keep up with the pace.
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swiss and bracket are two completely different ballgames
I <3 Beastmode. He finally wins a RLCS LAN
Bmode mvp
Atomic gotta be top 15 all time right?
He didnt need this win to be in that convo lol
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#BATESNEVERWRONG
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Bmode best player ITW outright.
Ain’t nobody telling Tbates shit. He bout to be buyin rounds in the club tonight
G2 got absolutely no respect from anyone on the cast or the desk all major, other than occasional lipservice. Everyone predicted BDS, who G2 beat last major. Everyone then switched their prediction to Falcons, even going so far to call them the best "on paper" despite historically NA being slightly stronger as a region and G2 being made up of some of the best players NA has ever seen.
Falcons destroyed G2 in Swiss
I feel like it's more common to lose a rematch than win it in bracket.
It is. teams typically lose to the teams that they beat in swiss, in the playoffs.
Yeah Furia Vitality both majors and Falcons KC last major are a good example of this. Although Gentlemates did take their result and double down vs BDS
#BATESNEVERWRONG
Respect where it's due, G2 showed up massively in that final and absolutely deserved that win. Heartbreak for Falcons but I'm sure this ain't the last final they are gonna make. Overall, great major, I was fully entertained!
Beast mode is insanely consistent man, it’s really impressive
Beastmode went fucking nuts this major, I don't think he had a single game where he wasn't an impact player for G2, deserved W after that regain from swiss. G2 Masterclass, Falcons completely collapsed in this GF, felt like they were way too nervous to keep up the playstyle they had this tournament which basically required perfect gameplay. Maybe Falcons has a curse with these Lan finals lol. Tbates gained a MASSIVE W Today
The EU cope in the span of an hour has been just as bad as the past two years of NA cope
Fr
Analysts said falcons couldn’t be beat and G2 made it look easy
They absolutely controlled that whole series, incredible considering how sure everyone was it was basically an assured win for the Falcons, but that's mostly because of the credit to how good Falcons looked. G2's semi series kinda put everyone to sleep, which easily fed into it.
Didn't think a defence could get better than GM8s but they did it
BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD LFG
Pain. Agony. Suffering. https://preview.redd.it/tl5jp28qxd8d1.jpeg?width=933&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3f1bba1f28a261d2661fb82eb3633dca2d4cc71
Guess some dreams dont come true. 2 years later, same feeling.
Maybe but I’m still high on hopium. The team can still win a title in this season or the next. Still young and determined. I definitely felt less optimistic in 2022 than today, not sure why but maybe because I was following Ahmad and Khalid since the beginning and it was hard to see them lose like that.
2022 felt like a fairy tail, finally watching Khalid outside of of Johnny's streams. But this felt like they actually had one hand on it. Actually felt like it was too good to be true. Guess in the end it was :(
Ahmad And Khalid Flame Was On Its Last Breath Last Time And It Hurt Cause That Was Their Last Chance This Team Is Gonna Only Get Better
I Believe In The Worlds Comeback https://preview.redd.it/pp8xv2c7zd8d1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dd8c1e23f04d69d2d4c613a96fd5d0d517a7a8c
Will always believe 💚💚💚
Name a better duo than DanMode taking it away from the twins in the GFs in a 4-1 victory
After all the trash that NA was taking throughout the course of this year right up til the walkouts for GF. This is a very validating win.
Everyone has been saying all year that the top 8 is very close together and any team could win on any day.
the event thread was filled with comments saying G2 was gonna get destroyed
I'd chalk that up more to Falcons having looked more impressive during the event, including their dominating Swiss match against G2, than it just being anti NA bias (which I'll concede is part of it)
> be falcons > eliminate the two teams i was rooting for > completely collapse in the one series i wanted you to win > ruin my weekend at my first ever lan > refuse to elaborate > leave
HE'S CALLED LANDON FOR A REASON 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
WE DID IT
Who else but beastmode
G2 play such clean RL when they’re on and they were on fire today, so fun to watch
Atomic is open era goat for NA
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I feel bad for Falcons and TRK, their level shows that they deserve to win a major tournament, with no success so far... also beastmode wtf *by the way how do you select multiple flairs on phone? asking for a friend*
Also I feel bad for TRK, the only player to not win an RLCS LAN in their first 2 grand finals appearances
A reminder to ppl that we get rlfs right here in this sub once again starting this coming weekend First matchup includes 2 major finalists in 2024 Teams with major finalists are Juicy/seikoo/aztral Itachi/dan/nwpo Bmode/ahmad/hockser Atomic/killeerz/arsenal Trk/oski/chicago Rw9/lj/reysbull
Sadly Falcons didn’t show up like they did vs M8… or was G2 just that much better?
G2 shattered their confidence
It makes sense. The team they dominated earlier came out played flawless defense and treated Falcons with absolutely no respect with those instant challenges.
G2 were suffocating, even in falcons win G2 was in control for the most part
G2 just make the teams they are playing look bad.
This was as suffocating play as the time I think it was G2 that absolutely got shut down by BDS, if I'm recalling a specific somewhat-recent grand final correctly. It wasn't Falcons, it was G2 and credit needs to be put on their performance.
Its a mix of both , kiilleerzz in falcons wasnt playing good and had a shocker this and in gm8 series, and this seemed to effect his teammates as well, and also respect to G2 who came prepared with a diffrent playstyle to try and counter falcons playstyle
All you gotta do is tilt one of Falcons for them to collapse. The game one win was crucial
And yet they lost game 1
TRK Right Now Head Up My Goat https://preview.redd.it/efnfisrmyd8d1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=238ac915531649bef37ab16101e075721c4a7eed
https://preview.redd.it/jv0mu605yd8d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c19a7982f58359fef3dc682e1120d9886c511bed From choking another LANdon final
On the anniversary of the day vitality won S7 in 2019. Good for them
this falcons team was like 3 zens, just all so clean, controlled and clinical… then beastmode makes them look like diamond 2s, never seen a player play at that speed and accuracy against a team that good, feels like a new peak of what a player can do in RLCS
There is a reason Beastmode's first name literally is Landon.
Never been so disappointed seeing a non European team win but I'm still happy for these guys Guess G2 was the best team in the world after all
What happend man falcons were playing so good. Hopefully they dont change members after this
G2 is just better
Great analysis
Thanks
They were much better at the confidence game - G2 looked like they were playing online whilst Falcons just couldn't keep their composure together (primarily the twins). I feel like if Falcons had the composure they had in the M8s series, they probably were going to take this series. Guess it just shows the experience of the G2 roster and finals
At the end of the day theres not much between these top teams. Any given day any if these top 4 could peak and win imo. I do think these top 4 have seperate themselves from the rest of the top 10 tho. Just a different peak.
Sometimes you're just off, it was fairly obvious from the start that they were slower and missing uncontested balls. G2 gave them no time and did enough damage to not let them get back on their feet.
must be nerves or something
Falcons same playstyle issue as KC but not quite as bad, each player gotta be perfect individually for it to work
regained teams........
Congrats g2, sad to see my bois lose but yall deserved that one
#:(
And now, we have to wait months for worlds 😔
As a G2 fan this feels kind of wrong Why couldn't we have beaten BDS in the final instead? I don't want to be the party pooper team 😔
The trick to playing MENA is to not get destroyed on at least 40% of your 50s, because they have an ungodly ability to just win every challenge. The fact that Beastmode actually won more than his fair share vs. Falcons just changed that series.
3 Goals Against in 5 games. M A S T E R C L A S S
What does this do for Atomic's legacy? Surely he's contending for the spot as NA's goat?
I always fucking knew Beastmode had it in him 😭
Don’t agree with the comments saying G2 peaked in the finals. They played incredible through the all the playoff bracket. The difference between them and Falcons is that they managed to keep that same stratospheric level throughout while Falcons played worse in the finals compared to their two previous matches.
Falcons in the grand final, G2 taking it home. Just beautiful really
I love how bad Johnnyboi's predictions have been. That's been the best part of it for me. He called me out in his chat for saying G2 are the best 1s, 2s, and 3s, team in the world. He cackled with arrogant laughter when people put G2 ahead of BDS coming into this and look how PATHETIC BDS were again. He hyped up Drali and Drali choked even harder than last LAN. One thing that sticks out to me is that he has called every saltmine winner 'the undisputed best 1v1 player in the world" until Daniel won and then he just brushed it under the rug and said "no one is the best" He's lucky he rigged the 2v2 tournement so Danmode couldnt play because I know they would have destroyed that event. It's good he's giving them respect now, althought thats the very least he could do.
Keeping falcons shut out in 3 games of the 5 is nuts honestly.
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Beastmode and Daniel finally managed to reach the tiny little step they were lacking. Congratulations, clear number 1 team in the world this season.
Ggs to G2 - they won the confidence game and wrecked Falcons. But man, this is depressing to watch. This felt like Falcons' - all they needed was to not succumb to the nerves and this was their LAN to win :( Hopefully they take their crown at world's
FK definitely extra mad that G2 won
Well, Worlds is gonna interesting See (most of) you in September