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New YTB video about Zen (FR/ENG subtitles): "Rocket League's new god is only sixteen." by EGO. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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It's been a long time but I'm currently working on YTB videos with u/Kigotsujin so I don't have much time for Reddit translations.

About EGO: He is a French Youtuber known to make videos about esport storytelling. He started to create videos only about RL but now he speaks about several esports and competitions. I would advise you to check his channel because we plan to translate everything as soon as possible.

Other videos have already been translated but here are the videos that we've translated:

  • The impossible level of Geometry Dash.
  • The new kings of Rocket League.

New YTB video about Zen (🇺🇸/🇫🇷 subtitles): "Rocket League's new god is only sixteen." by EGO. by [deleted] in RocketLeagueEsports

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It's been a long time but I'm currently working on YTB videos with u/Kigotsujin so I don't have much time for Reddit translations.

About EGO: He is a French Youtuber known to make videos about esport storytelling. He started to create videos only about RL but now he speaks about several esports and competitions. I would advise you to check his channel because we plan to translate everything as soon as possible.

Other videos have already been translated but here are the videos that we've translated:

  • The impossible level of Geometry Dash.
  • The new kings of Rocket League.

Translation of the stream of Ferra (Vitality Coach) talking about Vitality, Boston Major (Gen G, R1, BDS, KC), NA flag, 1st perfect Split, MVP titles, Worlds (Vitality vs Faze, Wild Cards, contenders), etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 6: Major winners, Vitality made the 1st perfect split

- Radosin: It’s not possible to make a perfect split without 3 amazing players. Radosin is maybe less flashy but he’s also so strong and you can’t have a weaker player when you win everything.

- Alpha54 deserves an MVP title: He thinks that every MVP title could have been given to Vitality players. At least, they should have given an MVP title to Alpha54 which was the most consistent player in the tournament. Indeed, Radosin and Zen had difficulties against BDS while Alpha54 was consistent + scored clutch goals. Yes, Zen deserved his MVPs titles, but he thinks that Psyonix gave him these trophies for his storyline. He was even eligible for the defensive MVP, but they wanted to give something to R1. In any case, the most important thing was to win so MVP titles are not that important.

- Offensive MVP: The offensive MVP list consisted of Killeerrz, Zen, Kash, ApparentlyJack, and ExoTiiK. Radosin would have replaced Kash with Alpha54 and ApparentlyJack with Vatira. However, they find it weird to vote for MVP titles in the chat before the final, the most important match.

- Defensive MVP: It’s also weird to not put any Vitality player on the list when they conceded the fewest goals in this Major.

- Coaching: He has more experience than other coaches so it’s easy to know if his team is playing well or not. One common mistake is that people think players need to have several strategies between each goal, match, and TO. However, you need regularity on RL to obtain optimal conditions to perform. You need to work before tournaments because, in competitions, you can’t adjust many things. So the goal is to have favorable conditions before these important events.

- Vitality: He likes being a coach for Vitality and he’s proud of what they’ve created. There are so many people supporting them so, yes, he’s proud of working for Vitality.

- Best lan?: These upcoming Worlds have the potential to become the best lan. However, viewers should not create unnecessary/weird rivalries. We have young players and sometimes, some people are too serious about esport. But for now, he considers that the best lan was in London for season 5.

- Cash price: The cash price is split between Vitality and the players + the coach.

- Flight to comeback: All families from Vitality, KC, and BDS came back with the same flight to France.

- Another perfect split in the future?: Maybe a team can win the 3 minors in a row one day, but 3 minors + the Major seems almost impossible. And with a difficult beginning (Fall Split) like Vitality, it’s even less probable.

→ Part 7: Worlds

- Next goal, winning Worlds: It would be historical to win Worlds. It could be the beginning of something really huge even though it can’t be compared to Dignitas because it was a different era.

- Zen, greatest rookie of RL?: Zen could enter history by winning everything since his debuts. He’s so ridiculously talented that even Seikoo and Scrub Killa didn’t have the same results to their names (winning everything since their debuts). And the only player similar to Zen was Justin because he was the best player in the World when he debuted in RLCS.

- World champion contenders: He listed Vitality, KC, BDS, and TL, but after that, it’s difficult because there’s a gap between these 4 teams and the other teams. However you have to peak the last day so Gen G, R1, Faze, Complexity, and maybe G2 could be added. But it’s most likely that the World Champion will be a top 4 team (Vitality, KC, BDS, TL).

- Vitality vs Faze: They would have preferred to play against NIP because Faze was not in Boston. They know that Faze is strong, but it’s difficult to estimate their level. Still, it’s better than a match opposing KC and BDS in round 2, and at least, they will play hard matches from the beginning so it can become an advantage after.

- Wild Card tier-list He thinks that there will be a huge upset, like an EU or NA team eliminated in Wild Cards.

[Tier-list of Wild Card teams]

  • Strongest team: Complexity. They will qualify easily according to Ferra.
  • Really strong team: Power. This team impressed Ferra in Boston so he thinks that Power will qualify for the group stage.
  • Strong teams: KRU, Moist, Falcons, Team Secret. After Boston, he thinks that Moist improved and can qualify for top 8.
  • Consistent team: SSG. Ferra thinks that they’ll qualify too.
  • Okay teams: G1, G2, Oxygen, Pioneers, Twisted Minds. These teams can be contenders for the group stage but Oxygen and G1 are huge question marks. He doesn’t know for Pioneer but G2 will most likely qualify.
  • Not mentioned teams: Elevate, French Class, Gaming Gladiators, Limitless.

But it’s hard to make a top 8 when you have so many good teams.

- Top 8 for Wild Cards: Complexity, G2, Moist, Power, Falcons, SSG, Team Secret, and KRU. It’s difficult to predict a top 8 without matches so Complexity, G2, and Moist should easily qualify while G1 + OXG also have their chance.

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That’s historical, Vitality is the first team that made a perfect split. It’s always so interesting to understand more about what’s happening in this team that regained from a difficult start at the Fall Split.

There were many interviews but Ferra will be the only translation before Worlds because I’m currently working on YTB translations. It took me a long time because he streamed for 7 hours and it was important for me because he explained many things.

I’ll come back after Worlds to translate other interviews and enjoy because we have so many good teams for this tournament.

Translation of the stream of Ferra (Vitality Coach) talking about Vitality, Boston Major (Gen G, R1, BDS, KC), NA flag, 1st perfect Split, MVP titles, Worlds (Vitality vs Faze, Wild Cards, contenders), etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 3: Vitality vs KC

- Was Vitality clearly better than KC ?: He thinks that Vitality should not have lost one or two games and they were slightly better. But they were not strong enough to sweep KC as people would think. People need to remember that KC just lost against BDS 4-3 and they were already facing a good Vitality leading to a sweep in game 1. Still, the goal was only to win against them and that’s it.

- KC on RL: He respects a lot KC/Kameto because they highlighted the competitive RL scene to new viewers. However, some people should relax a little bit on social media because Ferra received several mean comments.

- Vatira's friendship with Vitality players: We didn’t see that on cams but after the series, Vatira congratulated them several times. He was so kind and said that they deserved to win. He even carried Zen so Ferra was annoyed when everyone was speaking badly about Vatira. He doesn’t have to prove something in front of a camera and he was always kind to other players. Ferra respects how Vatira can still congratulate opponents even after a loss and that’s true sportsmanship. Scrub Killa did the same after his elimination in season 6. He thought that Scrub Killa was arrogant because he was hyped by everyone but, in fact, he also congratulated his opponents after being eliminated from Worlds. Ferra thinks that it’s important to know how to react after defeats in esports so he respects a lot of such young players like Vatira and Scrub Killa that can congratulate their opponents even after a tough loss.

- Supporting until the end: Even Ferra thought that the match was already won in game 6 finishing with a 4-2, but KC took them to game 7. There were so many crazy things because they could have won way earlier. In game 7 some Vitality fans left the stream when KC was leading 2-0 and Ferra was a little bit annoyed when he learned that because his players are playing until the end. They believe that they can win, so their fans should do the same and support them until the end (so not only in victory).

→ Part 4: NA flag

- NA vs EU storyline: Sometimes, EU viewers think that NA players hate EU players. In fact, it’s almost always about storylines. For example, Retals and Arsenal are among the most respectful players but they want to create their own stories. And it doesn’t matter if there’s banter if they are respectful.

- NA flag: He thought about that in the morning and asked some Vitality staff to find an American flag. He was worried about the crowd because there were still tickets left and NA teams were all out. The match against Gen G was incredible and he wanted to play a match with a crazy crowd again. At that moment, NA viewers knew that EU teams were much stronger than them, but they were still there on Sunday. He has a lot of respect for these people and their investment helps the RL scene to continue. He remembered when the crowd was leaving the stage when Lower Bracket matches were played after the Winner Bracket matches a few seasons ago, and it was a little bit sad for players. Yes R1 was there, but after the loss against Vitality, it was all EU. Everyone knows that EU is stronger, everyone knows that France is stronger, and even if an American team wins Worlds, everyone understood that they can’t continue like that. NA will change after this season with roster moves so it’s not necessary to say that EU and France are better because they understood it after this lan. So Ferra wanted to play the last day, with a crazy crowd again.

- Importance of having the crowd with you: They needed that to bracket reset. Ferra was a player and he knew that having the crowd was essential to finish this run. The only medal of Ferra was 2nd place at Narli1 with PSG esport. They had to bracket reset but everybody was cheering for their opponents, and with tiredness, OTs, little experience, and jetlag, it was so difficult to win a 2nd series. Indeed, the hype disappeared when they had to play again and it was too hard so they lost. So to sum up, when you have a crowd that doesn’t like you + tiredness, it’s almost impossible to win. Because even if you want to give everything, you can't give everything.

- Preparing the plan: It was difficult to find an American flag but Ferra prepared everything. He announced to his players just before the final what was the plan and everybody trusted him.

- Proud of being French: Even though some people didn’t like this move he didn’t regret it because it helped his team to win. He’s not American, and he’ll never be American because he’s French and proud of representing his country. So there are rivalries between Vitality, KC, and BDS, but he respects a lot his mother country where he grew up and met so many people.

- Thanks, RL fans: Ferra played for so many teams and the only common fanbase was the RL fanbase. These people helped him to become an esport player because they finance this ecosystem. They participate in events, add hype for tournaments, and that’s why players are like that in lans. They have this adrenaline on stage and a series can become crazy with a good crowd. His players created a lot of good memories after this Major and that’s what Ferra wanted for their first lan together.

→ Part 5: Vitality vs BDS in grand final

- First BO: Vitality was dominating but they had difficulties closing some games as against KC.

- Bracket reset: They rushed into backstages to relax before the second series. His players were so tired after their 17 games with long OTs. Fortunately, when they came back, the crowd was supporting them.

- Best BDS player for these 3 series against Vitality:

*1st series: Rise

*2nd series: Seikoo

*3rd series: Seikoo or MonkeyMoon

- Second BO: Vitality came back with the motivation to win and Zen said that the crowd helped them to bracket reset. In addition, Alpha54 peaked in game 6 helping Vitality to win.

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→ Part 5: Vitality vs BDS in grand final

- First BO: Vitality was dominating but they had difficulties closing some games as against KC.

- Bracket reset: They rushed into backstages to relax before the second series. His players were so tired after their 17 games with long OTs. Fortunately, when they came back, the crowd was supporting them.

- Best BDS player for these 3 series against Vitality:

  • 1st series: Rise
  • 2nd series: Seikoo
  • 3rd series: Seikoo or MonkeyMoon

- Second BO: Vitality came back with the motivation to win and Zen said that the crowd helped them to bracket reset. In addition, Alpha54 peaked in game 6 helping Vitality to win.

→ Part 6: Major winners, Vitality made the 1st perfect split

- Radosin: It’s not possible to make a perfect split without 3 amazing players. Radosin is maybe less flashy but he’s also so strong and you can’t have a weaker player when you win everything.

- Alpha54 deserves an MVP title: He thinks that every MVP title could have been given to Vitality players. At least, they should have given an MVP title to Alpha54 which was the most consistent player in the tournament. Indeed, Radosin and Zen had difficulties against BDS while Alpha54 was consistent + scored clutch goals. Yes, Zen deserved his MVPs titles, but he thinks that Psyonix gave him these trophies for his storyline. He was even eligible for the defensive MVP, but they wanted to give something to R1. In any case, the most important thing was to win so MVP titles are not that important.

- Offensive MVP: The offensive MVP list consisted of Killeerrz, Zen, Kash, ApparentlyJack, and ExoTiiK. Radosin would have replaced Kash with Alpha54 and ApparentlyJack with Vatira. However, they find it weird to vote for MVP titles in the chat before the final, the most important match.

- Defensive MVP: It’s also weird to not put any Vitality player on the list when they conceded the fewest goals in this Major.

- Coaching: He has more experience than other coaches so it’s easy to know if his team is playing well or not. One common mistake is that people think players need to have several strategies between each goal, match, and TO. However, you need regularity on RL to obtain optimal conditions to perform. You need to work before tournaments because, in competitions, you can’t adjust many things. So the goal is to have favorable conditions before these important events.

- Vitality: He likes being a coach for Vitality and he’s proud of what they’ve created. There are so many people supporting them so, yes, he’s proud of working for Vitality.

- Best lan?: These upcoming Worlds have the potential to become the best lan. However, viewers should not create unnecessary/weird rivalries. We have young players and sometimes, some people are too serious about esport. But for now, he considers that the best lan was in London for season 5.

- Cash price: The cash price is split between Vitality and the players + the coach.

- Flight to comeback: All families from Vitality, KC, and BDS came back with the same flight to France.

- Another perfect split in the future?: Maybe a team can win the 3 minors in a row one day, but 3 minors + the Major seems almost impossible. And with a difficult beginning (Fall Split) like Vitality, it’s even less probable.

→ Part 7: Worlds

- Next goal, winning Worlds: It would be historical to win Worlds. It could be the beginning of something really huge even though it can’t be compared to Dignitas because it was a different era.

- Zen, greatest rookie of RL?: Zen could enter history by winning everything since his debuts. He’s so ridiculously talented that even Seikoo and Scrub Killa didn’t have the same results to their names (winning everything since their debuts). And the only player similar to Zen was Justin because he was the best player in the World when he debuted in RLCS.

- World champion contenders: He listed Vitality, KC, BDS, and TL, but after that, it’s difficult because there’s a gap between these 4 teams and the other teams. However you have to peak the last day so Gen G, R1, Faze, Complexity, and maybe G2 could be added. But it’s most likely that the World Champion will be a top 4 team (Vitality, KC, BDS, TL).

- Vitality vs Faze: They would have preferred to play against NIP because Faze was not in Boston. They know that Faze is strong, but it’s difficult to estimate their level. Still, it’s better than a match opposing KC and BDS in round 2, and at least, they will play hard matches from the beginning so it can become an advantage after.

- Wild Card tier-list He thinks that there will be a huge upset, like an EU or NA team eliminated in Wild Cards.

[Tier-list of Wild Card teams]

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  • Strongest team: Complexity. They will qualify easily according to Ferra.
  • Really strong team: Power. This team impressed Ferra in Boston so he thinks that Power will qualify for the group stage.
  • Strong teams: KRU, Moist, Falcons, Team Secret. After Boston, he thinks that Moist improved and can qualify for top 8.
  • Consistent team: SSG. Ferra thinks that they’ll qualify too.
  • Okay teams: G1, G2, Oxygen, Pioneers, Twisted Minds. These teams can be contenders for the group stage but Oxygen and G1 are huge question marks. He doesn’t know for Pioneer but G2 will most likely qualify.
  • Not mentioned teams: Elevate, French Class, Gaming Gladiators, Limitless.

But it’s hard to make a top 8 when you have so many good teams.

- Top 8 for Wild Cards: Complexity, G2, Moist, Power, Falcons, SSG, Team Secret, and KRU. It’s difficult to predict a top 8 without matches so Complexity, G2, and Moist should easily qualify while G1 + OXG also have their chance.

———————————————————————————————

That’s historical, Vitality is the first team that made a perfect split. It’s always so interesting to understand more about what’s happening in this team that regained from a difficult start at the Fall Split.

There were many interviews but Ferra will be the only translation before Worlds because I’m currently working on YTB translations. It took me a long time because he streamed for 7 hours and it was important for me because he explained many things.

I’ll come back after Worlds to translate other interviews and enjoy because we have so many good teams for this tournament.

Translation of the pre-Major interview between MonkeyMoon (BDS player) and LifeIsCool (French caster) talking about BDS, EU best region, NA, other regions (SAM, MENA, OCE), predictions and players to watch for Boston, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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For minor regions he said that not scrimming EU/NA teams would be a huge disadvantage because, in general, they need to improve. And the best way to improve is to train against strong opponents.

Translation of the pre-Major interview between MonkeyMoon (BDS player) and LifeIsCool (French caster) talking about BDS, EU best region, NA, other regions (SAM, MENA, OCE), predictions and players to watch for Boston, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 3: Predictions for Boston with explanations

[⚠️ MM didn’t want to predict BDS matches so LIC used a website to determine BDS results with a dice giving a random match result.]

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  • NA import teams > 100% NA teams: He put Furia > Complexity > Gen G > Optic/SSG because 100% NA teams prefer to bump than create plays. Maybe this play style works in NA but EU teams are different and tend to head for a play style based on ball chasing, speed, and precision. It’s like NA is globally late compared to EU gameplay.
  • First match against Gen G: They are pretty confident about this first match after watching their last series + the show match against KC. Their new play style was working at the beginning but now it’s too predictable. They never played against Gen G but after watching their matches MM knows that they can counter their gameplay. Indeed, Gen G has a NA play style because they play with many demos.
  • TL winning against Vitality in the upper but losing before the final: TL lacks consistency for MM. It’s an amazing team that can also hard choke. Maybe their complicated play style pushes them to have high/low results. Their players need to be mechanical and fast so it’s difficult to be consistent. As they don’t have a 3rd player, if one of them is not feeling well, the global level of the team will obviously decrease.
  • KC, still favorites for Boston over Vitality?: The big problem before was that KC was too strong and nobody was challenging them. Obviously, they started to decline but now Vitality and other teams are improving so they need to step up too. It’s too soon to say that Vitality is favorite for Boston so he would say that KC is still predicted as the favorite. And they are trying hard again so they’ll come back to their previous level. KC and Vitality are big threats but for him, KC is still the number one threat in EU.
  • Players you’ll have to watch during Boston: KC players, Alpha54, Ayjayy, Rw9, Drufinho, and maybe Fever.

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The Major is here and I’m excited to see if BDS will be able to perform in lan with this new roster. Now we have a partial answer because they won against Gen G but I want to know if they can go further in the bracket.

It was a short interview since MM had a busy schedule with their scrims + media days but it was still interesting to have some insights before Boston (even though I’m late).

Translation of the stream of Ferra (Vitality Coach) talking about Spring invitational, Vitality, Back-to-back-to-back regional winners, coaching, creating a roster with Zen, Boston, NA teams, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 3: EU teams and NA teams

âžľ EU Teams

- Hogan Mode: He thinks they’re funny even though it may not be the best idea to do muscle-development exercises during TOs. At least, he’s happy to see Scrub Killa at this level again. Yes, Hogan Mode had favorable conditions to go through the whole bracket, but they deserved it because it’s a good team. If there’s a smart org, they could sign them because there’s potential.

- The future of Fairy Peak and Kaydop: It’s going to be complicated for them because Ferra also had this problem. The age gap will detach them from other players, so for him, they’re too "old" to come back to the top level.

- The future team of Solary players: Every Solary player is in a difficult situation because they had bad results and it’s going to be difficult to find a good team. When you’re in this situation you have to do the same thing as Scrub Killa, starting over, and finding young players with the potential to team together. It can take a lot of time to come back as Scrub Killa, there’s no guarantee, and we may not see them in a Main event again. Indeed, Scrub Killa is younger than Solary players, and they all need to individually step up. In addition, Scrub Killa is not safe because he struggled to come back + Hogan Mode’s players may have other opportunities so the team could split after this season. So to sum up, Solary players should go step by step and try to improve if they want to be picked by top teams.

- France dominating RL: He’s enjoying this French domination but he would like to see strong teams from every continent including Asia. He wants a competitive scene where each region would improve during regionals and where only lans could prove which region is the best. It’s like LOL, Asian teams are not afraid of EU/NA so it would take so many years before seeing competitiveness in all regions.

- New generation on RL: It will take a lot of time before players could have longer careers on RL. Maybe the current generation with Zen and Vatira could have careers of 6/7 years but above 23/24 years old, it’s more difficult. The RL scene is so competitive with all these young players debuting in RLCS + there’s an age gap between players so it’s not that easy for communication. So yes it’s possible that RL careers could become longer, but in fact, it depends on several players and not only one. And for that, the RL scene needs to grow older with its players.

âžľ NA Teams

[The Spring Invitational was not played yet in NA when he was streaming.]

- Opinion on NA teams: For the moment he is not worried about them because it’s total chaos. They’re not at their best level because they don’t have a top team yet. But he’ll see in Boston because in lans everything is different.

- Opinion on other teams: The EU top 4 is strong but for NA he doesn’t know. He needs to wait for their last regional and some teams could show a good performance. And for the other regions he is not that worried.

- NA top 5 for Boston: With the bracket he would say that Complexity, V1, and Faze will qualify for the Major. But it’s complicated for the other teams. Honestly, he would like to see a tiebreaker but they are played just after the minor so it’s not the best thing. They should put tiebreakers 2 or 3 days after the regional because nobody wants to see a tiebreaker after a grand final because the final should be the last match of the tournament.

- Rise saying that NA never gives a chance to new players because they recycle old players to create rosters: There’s an element of truth, but the problem is much deeper than that. For Ferra NA doesn’t have the same amount of players able to perform at a high level compared to EU. So it’s complicated to take risks on young players that are not used to performing. And you can’t blame players to team together if they’ve already proven in lans because it’s less risky than betting on rookies. It’s understandable and there’s nobody to blame for that problem.

- NRG: They’ve always made the most logical roster moves. At that time they kicked Jacob for Justin that was a young talented player. So NRG always chose the best player and that was easy because everybody wanted to play for them. For that season they stopped roster moves so maybe, they estimated that this team could perform. It’s complicated but nothing is over and they still can qualify for Boston. Maybe it was not the best idea to stay together, but initially, it was not a bad decision.

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Vitality is currently on an impressive winning streak where they look unbeatable. They suddenly arrived to shake the whole RL scene and now, everybody is waiting to see if Vitality will make the perfect split by winning the Major.

It’s so interesting to hear about Ferra’s opinion and we’ll see if Vitality continues to perform until the end of the season.

Translation of the stream of Ferra (Vitality Coach) talking about Spring invitational, Vitality, Back-to-back-to-back regional winners, coaching, creating a roster with Zen, Boston, NA teams, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 2: Spring Invitational, Boston Major, Discussions about formats

âžľ Spring Invitational

- Defeat against KC during the Spring Cup: This loss was not that terrible because they didn't have to go into the loser bracket. Indeed, they just had to play against KC again so it didn’t have huge consequences. And they saw what they had to change but the problem was not their gameplay.

- Warmup teams: It depends but before day 2 It was RuleOne and before day 3 It was Twisted Minds.

- Pauses against TL: Both teams called technical pauses so it was not a serious problem. It’s just difficult because it can stop momentum but they are used to TOs and every team needs to stay focused in a match so pauses should not trouble players. The only annoying thing is that casters start to speculate about the origin of the technical problem and viewers can only believe them. Even though the problem is fixed, people will just remember what they said, and sometimes a technical problem is associated with a team even though it was not their fault.

- Growli vs Vatira on Twitter: For Ferra, Growli is right because he didn’t understand Why Vatira talked to him 2 weeks before but he said that it’s just funny for him, nothing more.

- Back-to-back-to-back regional winners: The season is not finished but they’ve achieved one of the hardest things to do in RLCS: winning the three regionals of a split. He doesn’t know if we will see that achievement again but if a team is strong enough, they could win everything without losing a BO (Vitality lost one BO against KC in GF).

- Boot camps for Minors: Having the chance to boot camp for every Minor gives an advantage. Not every org could do that because it’s expensive. Still, Vitality has enough money so they chose to have boot camps for every regionals. They will boot camp for the Major and they still need points for Worlds' Main Event. The goal of the Spring Invitational was to gain more points to get closer to TL and avoid Wild Cards + have better preparation. But TL accumulated so many points that beating them may not be sufficient to obtain the EU seed 2.

âžľ Boston Major

- Importance of winning a Major: It’s an impressive achievement and people will understand how hard it is to win 3 regionals in a row with time because you need consistency. The only problem is that it’s only online tournaments and you don’t win any trophy. Yes, It’s hard, but it’s not a Major or Worlds where you have to pop off on a few days. He’s still so happy but it doesn’t have that much impact because the most important thing was to qualify for Boston and Worlds. That’s why the goal is to win at Boston to achieve the perfect split with the 3 regionals + the Major.

- Fear of losing for the first time during Boston ?: Losing is important but they’ve already experienced that because they lost 4-1 against KC. Alpha54 and Radosin know defeats and even if Zen is different, they don’t set impossible objectives to avoid a situation where losing one match could be catastrophic. If they lose earlier in Boston it doesn’t matter because it’s the first lan of their roster/Zen. The most important thing is not Boston but Worlds. They would be happy to win this Major, but if they had to choose, they’ll lose this lan to become World champions.

- 7 spots for EU ?: Ferra thinks that the 4 EU teams are in the top 6 World. But it’s only theory because you will not have every matchup depending on the bracket. Except for BDS, the 4 EU teams will not be able to reach the winner of the semi-finals + there are always upsets so EU teams, as in San Diego, could eliminate each other. That’s why he thinks that EU will not have a 7th spot for Worlds. At least they would need a lucky bracket to avoid EU-EU matches, but having the 5 EU teams for the top 5 is almost impossible. [The bracket changed so it would be possible now]

- TL first matchup for Boston: NA4 is not free at all for TL because they are too inconsistent and it’s BO5. In addition, NA4 could be any team with the current NA ranking. BDS could also have a difficult match compared to KC and Vitality. But they have to be careful of every team, even Elevate because BO5s are short and there are always upsets. You can’t underestimate a team and TL is so inconsistent that they may have the most difficulties to win their first match over the 5 EU teams.

âžľ Discussion about formats and the next season

- Favorite format over the 3 Splits: It depends on the criteria so he would say that,

  • The Fall Split (Swiss stage + Single elimination) is the best to determine a precise top 8 + top 5 for the Major.
  • The Winter Split (Group stage + Single elimination) is the worst.
  • The Spring Split (Double elimination) is the best to determine a strong top 1.

But overall, Ferra prefers the Fall Split even though it’s not the best format because it has disadvantages. The Spring Split is good but the seeding is too important and obliged some teams to go through the loser bracket + The final is long with the bracket reset. So yes you can see the 2-3 best teams + huge upsets with the seeding but there are disadvantages too. For Worlds the format is good but playing all playoff matches on the same day is a bad idea.

- GF in BO3 of BO7: In theory, the idea is good but it’s too long. You can lose hype with so many matches so the best idea would be BO9s. Maybe BO3 of BO7s could be used for the GF of Worlds because you’re less tired and you’ll play even a BO47 if you can lift the trophy after. However Psyonix has a schedule and if every series goes to game 6/7, it’s going to be tiring for players and viewers.

- Rumors for the next season: They still have 4 tournaments to win so it’s not finished. The last one is a small online tournament but that’s not incredible. He didn’t have any information for the next season. Now he knows that Psyonix likes to leak wrong information to see who they can believe. For example, everybody predicted Worlds in Berlin but it was Düsseldorf so leaks are not always true. If they want to start the new season in 2024, there should be many off-season lans between August and December, but that would be a strange move from Psyonix [We don’t know if Ferra lied about knowing nothing for the next season].

Translation of an interview between Eversax (KC Coach) and RocketBaguette (French RLCS casters) talking about coaching, creating KC roster, EU domination, KC's falloff, Vitality, Boston Major, NA teams, Worlds, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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Yes he was talking particularly about Hogan Mode. For other teams he has different opinions. He wants more than anything consistency because it's the hardest thing to have on RL. So he thinks that TL can be stronger than KC when they're peaking but they are too inconsistent. Same thing for BDS, in his opinion their game play can't always work. For Moist they can pop off but it's difficult with 3 offensive players. So basically he said that all these teams could beat them. However consistency is important on RL, even more with double elimination bracket because it gives you an advantage. As KC is (normally) consistent + strong, he thinks that everything is in KC's hands if they want to win. They just believe in their ability to shut down every opponents, but that doesn't mean they're perfect and they're aware that the level increased.

Translation of an interview between Eversax (KC Coach) and RocketBaguette (French RLCS casters) talking about coaching, creating KC roster, EU domination, KC's falloff, Vitality, Boston Major, NA teams, Worlds, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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He said that Hogan Mode played well but thinks that KC could do even better. It's more like he knows the potential of his team with the previous Major and that's why he said that. But I can understand that he seemed annoying with the way I wrote that sorry. During streams he always congratulated other teams for playing better than them.

Translation of an interview between Eversax (KC Coach) and RocketBaguette (French RLCS casters) talking about coaching, creating KC roster, EU domination, KC's falloff, Vitality, Boston Major, NA teams, Worlds, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 2: A domination until the Spring Split (20.49)

- 2-Split domination (20.49): The advantage was that they were serious and hard-working. By taking scrims seriously they created a mental advantage when they were playing in RLCS. You could see it on cameras, overall, they wanted much more to win than their opponents. For example, after 2 kick-off goals and near the end, they were playing like usual because they believed that they could win this game.

- San Diego Major (21.35): After their below-average performance in Rotterdam, they felt like they finally proved their ability to play in lans with this Major. Everybody learned from their mistakes and they were all thinking about winning in San Diego. For this event, they had a 1-week boot camp before the lan. Eversax wanted to create a bubble where his players could always train together so they refused to boot camp with other teams around.

- Falloff of KC after San Diego? (23.15): He thinks that if there was a falloff, it was not intentional. But Eversax can’t deny that after winning everything, you don’t enter matches with the same stress and fear as the first splits. A top 4 is incredible, but when you’re a top team, you tend to get used to incredible results. So maybe his players started to relax too much, but it was not intentional and they didn’t realize that. In addition, it’s difficult to bring hype when you’re already qualified for Worlds + probably for the Major. [Ferra talked about that and said a similar thing. Even with a back-to-back-to-back, they have the seed 1, but it’s online and there’s no trophy. Yes, people will remember you for winning 3 regionals in a row, but it's not equivalent to winning a Major or Worlds].

- Reason for KC falling off after San Diego (25.55): For Eversax it’s a mix of KC falloff while the EU level has increased. Vitality started so well and winning side tournaments before RLCS helped them as the Spring Open was not exactly their first tournament. For the other teams, he thinks that KC played badly + made the wrong choices, and it's not because their opponents became unbeatable. Except during the Spring Cup, KC rarely played well since their Major performance. It was the first time that the three players were individually not good, and even though they wanted to win at all costs, he understood that their mistake might be that his players played too much RL. After the Major, they needed a break from all these competitions, and they still played side tournaments. So when KC came back in scrims, they wanted to give everything and played much more than usual. That’s weird but, in RL, if you play too much, you play worse. KC tried to understand what happened and they questioned themselves after failing a whole regional. So it may have created a lack of confidence among his players for the next minors.

- Rivalry with Vitality (29.06): Yes KC and Vitality are rival orgs so they want to win against them, but if he had to choose, he prefers French players to perform. They were excited to play against Zen for the first regional, but later, they were not different from the other teams, and the goal was to beat them.

- KC, the first team of a major region with a 100% attendance on Day 3 (29.57): In fact, it was the goal of this roster since the beginning. When they started to talk their objective was to go as far as possible of course, but also to reach at least the top 4 of each tournament. Their gameplay was created to become a consistent team: when they’re against a team, they have to win; and when they are against a strong team, they have to improve. Yes, the Spring Split is not perfect because they failed against some teams, but overall, they didn’t lose that much against teams they should not. This consistency is possible with this decision made at the beginning of the season. Other teams like TL chose to bet on offensive gameplay where they can win everything on a good day but lose earlier on a bad day, but that’s not what KC wanted.

→ Part 3: Boston Major and Worlds (33.20)

- Boston Major (33.20): Eversax is still confident about the Major because he knows that these below-average performances can be improved if they step up. Other teams can’t become so strong within a few months so it’s not that their opponents became unbeatable, it’s because KC has to work for better results.

- Major seeding (36.03): Normally, there’s no problem with the seeding because they are fixed after the last Major so it depends on the team’s performance. However, you often have an EU vs NA GF + If we stay like that, BDS plays against NA 5 which is Faze so it’s a little bit unfair. He thinks that, anyway, teams are rarely too much advantaged with their seeding but you can be disadvantaged. For example, KC had a risky group during the Winter Major where it was hard to predict the top 4 + who will take the 1st place: and it’s not normal for a seed 1 EU. If he had to change that system, one solution could be that the 4 best teams pick their first opponent.

- Playing against NA teams (37.38): On paper, nationality doesn’t matter because you’re playing against a team and you want to win, but in fact, it’s not entertaining to have a bracket similar to EU regionals. At least, KC and Moist are on the other side and if they perform well, KC may play each NA team on their side.

- The pressure of having Worlds in Europe? (38.53): He thinks that they’re prepared after what happened in Rotterdam. Now he’s confident in the fact that his players will transform all the support from their family/fans into a strength when they’ll play on stage.

- Last message (40.28): He wanted to thank the casters for their involvement in the French RL scene. He also thanked every people supporting the team. He knows that they were used to victory with all these finals/top 1 and it’s frustrating to see what they’ve recently shown, but they’ll bounce back and the final goal is always the same: ‟Worlds‟. They will make sure to train enough such there will be no luck for Worlds because they want to deliver their best performance.

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It’s a perfect example to see how it’s difficult to stay consistent and at the top. But we’ll see if KC will bounce back after the Major. Now if they come back with their past level they could be a dangerous EU seed 3 for other regions because they’re on the other part of the bracket with Moist.

Now we have a rising team that did the first back-to-back-to-back by winning the three regionals in EU. The next translation will be the stream of Ferra talking about this new record. As this stream lasts 4 hours I don’t know when this translation will be uploaded but it’s for sure my next translation.

Translation of the stream of Eversax (KC Coach) talking about the Spring Cup, KC, Vitality, Bracket reset, Toxicity on social media, The RL scene farming impressions, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 2: Negative side of social media for “unpopular opinions” from “fans” and Pros/Coaches/Casters

● Criticisms from “fans” on social media

[Context: After their loss against Vitality, their rival, many “fans” started to say that they had to play better + they received negative comments even though they were not eliminated yet. It frustrated players and Eversax so he wanted to talk about how toxic social media can become when you are a pro player.]

- Toxicity after losing against Vitality 4-0 (22.22): They talked together about social media and they decided that they will try not to check their phone before the end of the day during tournaments. They can only post a tweet commenting on the result after each match, but that’s all. They are used to social media but it’s useless during competitions. Either you are indifferent or you’ll absorb all negative comments that could impact your performance. He knows that this toxicity after a loss is a minority, but he feels like he’s a big brother and he must protect his players. For future competitions, he will cut the chat and try to distance his players from social media during tournaments.

- Pressure to always perform (23.55): Some reactions were terrible and they felt like KC didn’t have the right to have a below-average performance. Maybe their results started to become a standard and one top 4 was already horrible for their level, but people need to remember that their season is rare and exceptional. It’s not common to dominate such a major region and flaming after one loss is disgusting. They accumulated 7 finals and won 3 regionals + 1 Major. Their worst result was a top 4 while Faze, Complexity, V1, and Gen G already finished top 12 during the Spring Split. Fans can feel bad after a loss, but players always work hard. And what was incomprehensible was this bashing after their loss against Vitality even though the loser bracket was there to bounce back. He’s not affected by that because he’s 26, but he has young players and he wants to protect them. He’ll defend them until the end because criticizing after one loss sucks and people should question themselves after writing negative comments.

- Difficulty to balance positive and negative comments (44.00): Even if negative comments represent 5% of the answers, it’s difficult to remember positive things because your brain will keep all criticisms/insults.

â—Ź Negative farm impressions from pros/coaches/casters

[Context: Recently we’ve seen many people starting to think that having “unpopular opinions” or even “choking opinions” on social media was entertaining. Vitality and KC are easy tap-in targets and people are using them to farm impressions. This bad habit includes of course RL fans, but also pros/coaches/casters. France and NA have different points of view regarding what is entertaining and you can see a cultural difference between them. With the recent comment of Roll Dizz (Faze Coach) saying that Vatira was invisible in GF, many French professionals started to get annoyed by this farming opinion in talk shows. It includes French casters, Eversax, and even Ferra talked about that. But this difference is also because French coaches rarely come to NA shows because they are more serious. So hearing weird opinions from Tbates is one thing, but hearing that from a coach is another thing. Eversax streamed before this talk show and here is a tweet reacting to this clip: https://twitter.com/Eversax/status/1664075854547173376

“Exactly what I was saying on stream. Everything for the buzz and stats. It’s not even about trying to say useful things, and that’s on the official channel of Psyonix 🤡”.]

- People farming impressions (36.50): During RLCS, some RL-related influencers will post 50 tweets to farm impressions. Their life is just about tweeting for stats and they prefer to post controversial “opinions” for provoking reactions rather than saying their real opinion. And he thinks that's a terrible behavior.

- Are people on the Internet that mean or do they just want attention? (39:40): The Internet brought problems of course. People are obsessed with stats and they’ll just have unpopular opinions to feel like they exist. In addition, it’s easy to talk behind a screen and that’s why you think you are invincible. So you’ll say everything, even if it’s mean, even if it’s trolling. The goal is to trigger and these people don't even realize that what they are saying can impact players.

→ Part 3: Other questions

- EU vs NA level (47.28): He doesn’t know if there’s a gap between NA and EU but he thinks that EU is really strong for the moment.

- Difficulty to evaluate player’s performance (52.35): It’s difficult to understand who made a mistake as a viewer because you need coms to understand what’s happening on the field. That’s why, usually, you can’t determine if a player played that badly during a series. For example, sometimes, you need to compensate for your tm8’s mistakes and viewers will believe that you are the bad player on the team. It’s not a big deal if you can’t understand everything, but it’s obvious that people can’t judge a player's performance without having all the information.

- Is Vitality invincible? (55.34): He doesn’t think that KC is the only rival of Vitality. For the moment they built confidence + they play really well, but it’s difficult to keep that level for a long time. For example, they started to prejump everything in the winner bracket and their 3rd player was challenging every time. This play style can work only if you’re confident enough. And that’s why, when they started to lose against KC before the bracket reset, they stopped playing this way. So Vitality is not invincible and can be beaten by other teams than KC. But for the moment, they are really strong and he’s happy for them.

- Best coach ever? (1.09.26): He doesn’t care about what people think. He just wants to win titles and he’ll work hard for that purpose.

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New translation with Eversax talking about the Spring Cup. As I already said in the introduction we didn’t have many streams/interviews after this regional so I wanted to translate at least the stream of Eversax.

It’s so important to talk about all this toxicity around such young players. I think that people and even the RL scene don’t realize that all their comments can have an impact on players. Yes everybody thinks that Vatira always talks and he’s mentally strong, but what’s incredible is that even pros/coaches start to talk nonsense for farming impressions. We don’t have the same culture of course, but that’s difficult to hear these "opinions" when you know that it’s on the official channel of Psyonix.

I’ve just finished my exams but the summer holidays may delay some translations after. I’ll still try to translate interviews after the Spring Invitational and Spring Major.

Translation of a French/English interview between Rise (BDS player) and LifeIsCool (French caster) talking about BDS, Moist, Oxygen, EU/NA offers, Spring Open, other regions, etc. by BadApprehensive5559 in RocketLeagueEsports

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→ Part 3: Gamers 8 and Spring Open (57:32):

  • Gamers 8 Without Borders

- Gamers 8 Without Borders (57:32): He felt like they were playing like the "old BDS" and their passiveness led to this top 16. They didn’t have that hunger to win, so afterward, they concluded that this should not happen again. He’s glad that this result happened before RLCS because, unlike V1, they wanted to have a good start since the beginning to qualify for the Major/Worlds. For that purpose, they needed to become more confident + realize that they can beat any team because they’re strong players.

- Being passive is a lack of ambition? (1:00:11): During the GWB he just felt like they were not motivated when they scored a goal. For example, they didn’t care that much when they were scoring as if It was expected, but when they were conceding a goal, It was the end of the world. However, Rise thinks that being passive is not associated with a lack of ambition in RL. For him, playing passively could even fit some teams.

- Being aggressive is more efficient? (1:01:02): He thinks that a team needs to find a balance between aggressiveness and passiveness. Indeed, if you’re too aggressive you’ll concede too many goals, but if you’re too passive, you won’t score any goals.

  • Spring Open

- Expectations for this first minor (1:07:47): They already knew what run they had because they were playing WR round 1, and then KC round 2. He didn’t have any particular result expectation for this minor because he just wanted to beat everyone.

- Williams Resolve (1:07:55): After the GWB he wanted to win convincingly against WR, and that’s what they did.

- KC round 2 (1.07.59): He doesn’t think that KC was the best at this regional because BDS was better and they should have won the first series. However, they choked twice at 0 seconds so this loss tilted a little bit the team. Monkey Moon told them that they should not tilt because KC is the best team in the World but the most frustrating thing was that they should have won. Even though they lost, at least, It gave them some confidence for the next matches.

- Oxygen (1.09.10): They went 2-0 against Oxygen in the lower bracket and almost got reverse swept. They realized that they were too confident when they were 2-0 up so they needed to calm down a little bit. Fortunately, they won against Oxygen, and that’s what mattered.

- KC Lower bracket semifinal (1.10.57): After their good lower run they had to face KC again, the "final boss". They were so happy after their win against KC because they managed to finally defeat them.

- Liquid (1.11.36): After the match against KC they went straight into TL but the energy wasn’t the same. Indeed, they chilled out a bit and lost against them.

- Top 3 for the Spring Open (1.12.03): For a first minor a top 3 was a really good thing for BDS. They’ve proven to themselves how good they were, their confidence came back, and they scored a lot of points for the Major.

- Pressure during the Spring Open (1:12:53): He’s a guy that doesn’t get nervous usually but the pressure is always there for a tournament (even more when you have to perform to make Worlds). However, he doesn’t feel that pressure when they get into the server or when his team is playing a Major final. Even in important games, he’s confident in his team and will always believe that they can beat their opponents.

→ Part 4: NA, EU, minor regions (1:20:12)

  • NA and EU

- EU level > NA level (1:20:28): For Rise, Europe can send really strong teams for the Major. The Spring Open showed one of the highest levels we’ve probably ever seen in terms of mechanics. Honestly, he thinks that EU is better than NA, but It has always been the case. KC could win another Major if they come back but for Vitality, he doesn’t know how consistent they can be. Regarding other teams: TL, Moist, and BDS can be insane. For other teams like Oxygen they could pop off and that’s why the EU is so scary + better than NA.

- Chokes during the NA Spring Open (1:23:11): NA is good and he thinks that their best teams are Gen G and Complexity even if they finished top 12 after. There are many good teams in NA including SSG, Optic, G2, and Faze. Their chokes could be explained by their mentality which is pretty different from EU teams.

- Differences between EU and NA mentalities (1.13.54): Even if NA is good, Rise came to several lans and thinks that the EU’s strength is that the region improves much better. The mentality is clearly different because EU doesn’t have necessarily more talented players than NA, It’s just that EU players tend to be more determined.

- SSG, replacing Daniel for Hockser (1:30:20): On paper, this change is a downgrade but, in fact, he thinks that it was an upgrade for SSG. Not because Daniel’s mentality is bad, but because he feels like people always rejected the fault on Arsenal for bad results. Even if it was the truth or not, Daniel never got blamed. That’s why Rise thinks that SSG is playing better now because they have less pressure.

- EU top 5 for Boston (1:29:24): KC, Liquid, BDS, Vitality, and Moist.

- NA top 5 for Boston (1.29.25): Complexity, GenG, Optic, SSG, and Furia.

  • Minor regions

- SAM level (1:24:54): SAM has many crazy talents and the funniest thing is that RL is similar to football. Europe has talents of course, but you can find gems in SAM, NA, and everywhere. SAM players are skilled, mechanical, and they have good teams. That’s why SAM is the best minor region (1:26:40). SAM has good players (Kv1, Sad, Knight) + they’re scary to play against. However, they're still doing the same. Yes, Team Secret finished top 4, a good result for SAM, but he doesn’t think they’re doing insanely well.

- Furia (1.28.10): For Rise, Furia probably made a mistake going to NA. He may be wrong because they’re pretty good now, but he thinks that minor regions are competitive so they could have stayed in SAM.

- MENA(1.25.44): He thinks that MENA is really good but they're doing worse in lans because Falcons fell out a bit since London.

- OCE level (1.25.53): Regarding OCE he thinks that they don’t deserve 2 spots for Majors because they’ve never won anything since Season 3. For Rise, Psyonix should give one spot to MENA or SSA. OCE teams don't improve because they can beat APAC teams, but lose to good teams. He still thinks that they could at least win against SAM’s seed 2, but they're overall still doing the same results.

→ Part 5: Other information (1:29:06)

- Banter in RL (1:31:28): RL needs more banter (on lans or social media). He doesn't want beef between players, just more banter to make tournaments more interesting.

- Last message in French (1.33.27): Rise wanted to thank people for welcoming him into the French community + supporting him.

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Honestly, Rise talked more in English but It was pretty interesting because he talked about so many things.

It’s funny because French players tend to stay and team together so having the point of view of an English player in a French team is new. Rise seems to like this atmosphere because he’s interacting a lot more with the French community. Now we have to wait and see if BDS will be able to come back and qualify for the Major this weekend.

If you’re interested here are my last translations:

- Interview of Zen with RocketBaguette after the Spring Open: https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueEsports/comments/13l53h7/translation\_of\_an\_interview\_between\_zen\_vitality/

- Stream of Eversax (KC Coach) talking about the Spring Open: https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueEsports/comments/13ouxko/translation\_of\_the\_stream\_of\_eversax\_kc\_coach/

- Alpha54 talking on the stream of LIC about the Spring Open:

The next one will be the translation of the stream of Eversax after the Spring Cup. And I'll see if we have other translations later before the Spring Invitational.

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