**Note: Just a side edit I was under the impression Retals was told BEFORE the V1 series but he was actually told after they were eliminated that series still during the tournament. I began this video prior to regional 1 so based off that and for that reason Karmine Corp is of course no longer speculated and is their roster for the fall split! Apologies for the confusion.

@thepokemonpowerhouse5562

Жыл бұрын

that info has been out for a month but yet you still upload the video?

@tysulliii889

Жыл бұрын

@@thepokemonpowerhouse5562 it's okay just chill

@thepokemonpowerhouse5562

Жыл бұрын

@@tysulliii889 do you like men? Cause it looks like you like men!

@tysulliii889

Жыл бұрын

@@thepokemonpowerhouse5562 who?

@akaCynicall

Жыл бұрын

@@tysulliii889 it’s ok to like men dude

I feel like leth definitely still has what it takes to hang in rlcs, him tilting fisrtkiller and then just smacking him was perfect.

@ishytamephoenix

Жыл бұрын

Ik right

@tobymacdonald5893

Жыл бұрын

@@ishytamephoenix nah 1s is a different style to 3s. He can compete in 1s but I doubt he could in 3s

@Astraben

Жыл бұрын

Leth is an incredibly smart and consistent player, but that's also kinda his downfall. Pros nowadays have to be able to not only make the right call every single time, they need to make it instinctively. Leth is very analytical in his play and it makes him slower than the opposition, even if just a bit

@bogletastic9948

Жыл бұрын

@@Astraben thats because he is commenting on it, im sure if he concentrated properly that wouldnt be an issue

@Astraben

Жыл бұрын

@@bogletastic9948 Commenting as he plays is a feat in itself, but I'm referring exclusively to his time as a pro and what we've seen relatively recently in more sweaty environs like scrims for SSG and such

Daaammnn Leth is the most wholesome, friendly player probably ever. That he destroyed first after him being salty is really really funny imo.

@migueljuarez6788

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about friendly and wholesome lol

@ChickenKhorma

Жыл бұрын

@@migueljuarez6788 atleast he doesn't take himself too seriously 🤷‍♂️

@halloweentreehouse

Жыл бұрын

@@migueljuarez6788 he is lol

@garybuttherissilent5896

Жыл бұрын

@@ChickenKhorma He does take himself very seriously and he has probably one of the biggest egos in the RL scene. Look at what happened after he beat First, he handled his loss against Chronic in the semi-finals of the Saltmine tournament in the most cringy way possible.

Nice video! I would like to mention that Retals has confirmed that he did NOT find out he was being kicked before playing a series. He says he did find out mid-tournament, but that SSG was already out by then.

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Right. I had noted that he was told before the V1 series when in reality it was after.

@jogobetter

Жыл бұрын

Wouldnt that just destroy his confidence? He wouldn’t have tried his best

@criptonyx1868

Жыл бұрын

@@jogobetter he was done playing before he knew though so he played normal

@melodyofthelexicon

Жыл бұрын

According to his video discussing the sordid exercise, he found out about his removal during the Grand Finals.

Good video. One thing about the situation with sypical is that his controller was not at fault. The admins' review concluded that he did push the button and the input went into the computer but the game itself didn't register. This has happened to other pros as well and is unrelated to his controller.

@miquelmoorrees6010

Жыл бұрын

Isn't he known for modding his controllers?

@wilsonpatterson2703

Жыл бұрын

@@miquelmoorrees6010 I think he is but what I'm saying is that it's completely irrelevant. People are implying that because he messed with his controller it was broken and at fault for the error. The tournament admins have input logs though and they said that his controller properly output the input and that the computer registered the button press. According to them, the fault was with the game itself (which means that it would have happened with literally any other controller).

@kiiturii

9 ай бұрын

yeah I don't really get what the controversy was about. Even if it was a controller fault.. like is that really how you wanna win? In a kickoff your opponents literally can't even come challenge the ball so you score a freebie? It sucks to celebrate and then have the win taken away, but did they actually expect to get the win from that goal lol? clearly they could see the opponent didn't even reach the ball right? and resetting a kickoff is like one of the least disruptive moments to reset, it's not like they did some crazy play just to have it taken away

About the Leth vs FK stuff, correct me if I'm wrong, saw it back in the day, but Leth needed to 3-0 for the #1 seed. So when FK won game 1, RIP sweep, it may as well have been over. The rest of the series was a formality. That's why Leth went clown car after.

That Salt mine, b/w Leth and First. Leth made First eat his own words lmao

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

craaazy when it first happened

As a good friend of Luc, the situation with Prestige Esports actually made and still makes me so mad. After countless times of hearing or being told that Sworn may finally going to get pay his players’ salaries, he never ended up doing it and also deleted his social media to avoid contact by his players/staff. Sucks to see your friend being betrayed. It’s rare, in my opinion, to see a contact be violated by someone other than the signatory. Heartbreaking stuff.

Leth trolled first so hard and it was hilarious

Great video. Nice job going through the video while transitioning from topic to topic easily. Made the video really entertaining and fun to watch

Sick video man. I think I had heard tidbits from all of these stories but you did a solid deep dive into them and it was interesting to hear all the behind the scenes stuff. I like how you threw pics of tweets in there too. To give an idea how the community was reacting at the time. Keep up the good work 😎

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Sick badge next to ur name btw;)

Leth vs firstkiller is legendary.

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

gem

sypical with the custom controller mods is 100% a smoking gun here

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

very untalked about imo

@cezarsoba

Жыл бұрын

Dk why this isn't talked about regularly by now, since his controller caused him to win🤷. Seems admins have a crush on someone 🤔🤔

@wilsonpatterson2703

Жыл бұрын

Not a smoking gun because his controller wasn't at fault. The admins' review concluded that he did push the button and the input went into the computer but the game itself didn't register. This has happened to other pros as well and is unrelated to his controller.

Great video. I’m actually shocked at how many countries r banned from rlcs it almost seems like a joke to me. Saw another ahmad (goes by a7md) who’s a very exciting 1s player and was excited to potentially see him in rlcs only to find out he can’t play because he’s from Iraq. And itachi got demoted because he played from Morocco? Like why, that just seems so unfair

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeppp Itachi played EU RLCS in Morocco so they got DQd. I'm very interested to hear all the reasons but there isn't much info

@jerry3790

Жыл бұрын

A lot of it isn’t psyonix’s fault. The Morocco thing is probably an over enforcement of their rules but the Iraq thing has to do with sanctions against the country that psyonix has to follow by law

@RangersFan94

Жыл бұрын

Psyonix doesn't have any choice in the matter, Iraq has international sanctions placed on them by the U.S. - Psyonix would be breaking the law by allowing Iraqi players to participate in RLCS because they're a U.S. based company, it's that simple. If they do want to play, there are ways around the sanction (hence how there are Iraqi players in MLS, etc, albeit very few) but it's a complicated process and has to be initiated by the player.

@hamzazilani6398

Жыл бұрын

@@RangersFan94 ok but that’s only one country, wb the others

@RangersFan94

Жыл бұрын

​@@hamzazilani6398 A couple more examples are the Chinese government not allowing the "normal" version of Rocket League to be released there. Cuba should be obvious, they've been embargoed by the U.S. for decades. Morocco because of the West Sahara conflict. The Iraq sanction reasoning goes for Afghanistan, the Balkans, Belarus, Burma, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe too because they're all sanctioned by the U.S. as well. The rest are all just countries that there's no point going through getting tax/visa info for because the chances of a player being from there is slim to none - e.g. Antarctica, the Vatican City, etc.

This video was really well put together! Keep up the work man!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great video, also a good summary of what happened with Prestige as well.

Oh lmao, I didn't expect to be in this video at 10:25. Glad u covered that topic up in this video and great documentary as always, keep it up!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Yesssir, thanks!

I was at the 2022 Worlds in Texas and I left before BDS was crowned, not because I dislike them, but because the event was scheduled to finish around 4:30-5pm that day, but the grand finals didnt even start until 8pm. I think people were leaving early because the event went 3-4 hours over schedule and people needed to go home.

I'm from Kenya and I really don't understand why we're not allowed to compete while out neighbouring countries with less player bases are. Our country doesn't have strict rules against gaming since we recently participated in the commonwealth rocket league competition.

Not as big as these, but the Australian leagues had some weird controversies back when it was broadcast on TV. Particularly the team called Melbourne Order. It lead to several big names from their team breaking off and forming a new team.

Heya love the video I only mean this as a advice, it was kinda hard to follow when each point started maybe add a numeric system or just saying it might help. But the video was amazing

Vatira team switch is aging like fine wine right now

You smashed it bro, love it

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

tyty

From someone who was at LAN, everyone was over it by the end. Most people like myself had a long drive back home right after. We sat in uncomfortable seats with legs pressed against each other, unbelievably hot in the arena, intermissions between matches took an eternity, and with having to pay $12 for a hot dog, then watching NA get stomped, yeah I was done.

@cesar16x87

Жыл бұрын

unbelievably COLD, i was freezing all 3 days

@Kurintoh

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree with everything but the temperature. It was awesomely cold!

@serily4524

3 ай бұрын

Cold good😊ñ​@@cesar16x87

Great video, keep it up!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thanks harv:)

This vid was so well done, you deserve way more views and subscribers. Keep up the great work!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Watching this after karmine won the winter major makes the vatira move age so well

Great video! Keep up the god tier work

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

As someone who’s never watched a game of Rocket League be played this video was a very good watch, good video.

great video Shadow

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Barry:D

i agree with trashtalking being something that is just in videogames, especially pro play. in real sports pros shit talk all the time but when its done and over it should still be ggs all around. if the series is already won/lost then there is no reason to shit talk anymore.

@miquelmoorrees6010

Жыл бұрын

In real sports pro's don't shit talk "all the time" (besides boxing/MMA) there are shit talkers in sports but they also get backlash when they go to far in it, if you believe he didn't go to far , agree to disagree I guess but your analogy makes no sense

I still think it is insane how made Firstkiller got that Leth wasn’t taking it was seriously as he wanted. He could have smashed him 20-0 if he truly believed that, but instead he wanted to type and complain. So strange to me after all these years.

I was at the RLCS finals and we left before the games with G2 and BDS even started. The event went way later than it was supposed to and the time between games was miserable. We would have stayed had our group not had to drive three hours back to Austin and go to work the next day. Great event but could be better for sure.

Great video! This was the first video of yours I’ve seen, but If you ever do one of these type videos again, I would recommend you consider having some type of transition or pause between topics, it’s a small nitpick but figured I’d give you my feedback. Keep it up

Great Vid!!! Commenting to help w/ you algorithm.

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! Appreciate it

This isn't mentioned about the first situation; what caused even more controversy is that Rise tweeted out that Moist didn't actually drop out from the tournament due to LGBT discrimination issues from SA but due to other reasons. Of course, Twitter and Reddit took it upon themselves to complain about Rise making that statement, deeming him edgy and -phobic. While in reality, their coach Noah capitalized on the situation to push his political narrative under false pretenses.

@cmdrfunk

Жыл бұрын

That's how those types roll

Hes back! ran into you in ranked like 2 weeks ago

This content is very needed in rl is very need keep it up!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

More soon!

1:44 that tweet ages wel btw

The biggest controversy is why world championship is called world championship if players do not represent their national teams. In fact it's just another seasonal major.

@coasterthekid8867

Жыл бұрын

I mean they do the same thing in baseball. It’s called the World Series even though most of the world isn’t even included in it.

@evangelicae_rationis

6 ай бұрын

They should make national teams representing actual countries, that way we would avoid teams named “OhMyDog” or “Team Queso”. 😂 Though France would be simply too OP, having Kaydop, Vatira, M0nkey M00n and Zen in the same team, being coached by Fairy Peak is no joke.

10:18 mans really said "nuhwippoh" LMAO

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

shiiiiiii

To be fair Lethamyr does have a history of making up excuses on 1v1 losses

I have never seen charlie do the twist, very cool kanye

We will see how the major goes but Vatira's move ended up panning out well for him

Cloud 9 back in the days hit me different...

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

;(

shadow is my goat fr

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

brent my son

Idk i feel like of the 10 most controversial things to happen in rl i doubt that 8/9 of them happened within the same ræcs season.

The not paying is so disgusting cause there’s really nothing you can do about it. If they owe you 5k-10k there’s no point to take legal action cause by time you do and IF you win you really aren’t gaining much if any at all

I just randomly clicked ur video on my recommended, it was so weird seeing my comment in it lol

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Ahah I've gotten that before

I was there In Texas at the finals I had left early but the reason why I left early was due to this being a recent high school graduate and never having planned a trip on my own before I jad a flight a 7:30 and my hotel had my stuff and was on the opposite side of fortworth I had soo much fucking fun getting to meet sunless in the lobby meeting critikal and watching my favorite game at a Lan It fucking fun even if the summer heat of Texas was unbearable for my northern Michigan ass either way I had to miss the finals and I was really sad but also really happy that I was able to save enough from working during school and over the summer hope there is another major in the us that I can go to

A lot of those “banned” countries don’t even allow rocket league in their markets. With the exceptions most likely of China, Russia, & Iran, the US isn’t in the habit of randomly sanctioning nations.

4:30 So he can deal it but he can't taking, how shocking

wake up babe there's a new ShadowR video

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

You hear that? Watching ShadowR gives you a girlfriend??

@phoenixe-sports1836

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowReformed lol

Leth is a legend

Tip for all players, never shit talk Leth

Haven't watched yet but I hope you mentioned Rapid scamming people before he was pro

you should record in mono for next time👍

First killer getting in his own head while literally winning makes me lose so much respect for him

@sergraphix

Жыл бұрын

soft he was just a kid bud not that serious

How is the Vatira - Aztral swap "a downgrade for both teams" ? Aztral is a beast and has the experience that Vatira doesn't and i'm sure Moist will still perform this year. Karmine Corp just got one of the best players itw and a perfect addition to Itachi's gameplay, and the new team looks stronger than the previous Itachi-Noly-Aztral that was arguably a top 5 teams itw at the end of last season. I get that ppl are sad because they liked this Moist trio and doubt Vatira's decision due to him being only 16yo. But personnally i respect him a lot for having the courage to start over from 0 and train/improve again with a new team after being so close to win Worlds with Moist. The kid literally joined the org he's a fan of and is trying to live his dream of winning Worlds in his "dream org", this alone should be enough to consider his move worth it whatever happens this season.

@CaptainSkyMT

Жыл бұрын

the aztral swap is a downgrade for moist. but they still made top 4 twice so far which is solid. Karmine corp did make a grand finals and then win the regional yesterday tho.

@Jeunelegende91

Жыл бұрын

@@CaptainSkyMT Probably a small downgrade for Moist y given how insane Vatira has been looking so far. But in the end, Karmine Corp is #1 in Europe and the only team that knocked out Moist out of the regionals this season is... Karmine Corp. So yeah my point was more like :"trust Vatira he knows what he's doing and also trust Aztral he's a good player"

9 months late, but I wonder if part of why certain countries aren't allowed to participate has anything to do with potentially having to fly out those players from said countries? I heard one of the reasons some regions don't get more major spots is because it costs significantly more to fly teams out of their countries. I haven't confirmed this info, but it seemed plausible.

@kash4307

10 ай бұрын

Im not sure about the others, some countries aren’t allowed to play the game online.. its part of the US sanctions which I don’t understand, its just a game after all

Comm can dish out trash talk but can’t take it. Hypocritical 💀

That crowd leaving early controversy is so dumb lol people leave all the time during sports matches if their teams losing and there’s little time left and unless I’m out of the loop that’s never been a controversy

Leth beating firstkiller after he kept crying, and firstkiller not saying GG afterwards, was SO satisfying. Salty kid lol

Well if he's the only one that takes apart his controllers and also the only one that has those input issues it's obviously his own fault....

Leth, what a legend!

usually your vids are so accurate but this was sad. Should have been titled biggest controversies of the 21-22 year of rl. plus most of these were just extremely petty banter or roster moves that could easily be topped by stuff that went down for the 6 years before this vid essentially takes place. And ik that the first/leth "drama" was in there but that's literally only one. didn't mean to come across as harsh here just stating my opinion, i think it'd get resolved if you changed the title, unlikely as that is.

You could make a salty scandal video with faze vs NRG, comm vs his opponents, these perms banned players and stuff

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

I do have a "disrespectful moments" and "banned players" video that covers some stuff not on here!

I’m surprised that the scrubkilla & tho situation wasn’t put in here ,because them also being on guild and having controversies along with the past in tho trolling scrub on stream. Unless you addressed it in another vid. The sizz vs chrome vids also a classic among it’s time. One part about the vid that doesn’t make since is why did first get even mad in the first place leth can do what he wants 😂. The fact he bring up that he was wearing a scarab as a excuse for a reason why he lost like he pulled that from literally nowhere.

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

You got it lol, only reason is cause it's featured in my "disrespectful moments" video

Vatira laughing rn

its crazy cause vatira is doing much better with karmine then he ever was with moist

1:43 bruh

You can't play the heel then get sad when you get booed.

Cool video but maybe leave the tweets up for more than half a second lol I had to pause it 20 times to read the tweets

1:44 🤣🤣

others: atomic (not atomik) saying n word, aztral being kicked from dig for being toxic, and SRG failing to get visas and then disbanding. And then I know this was a list of pro rocket league stuff but there are a bunch of controversies in the freestyling community as well: freestylers slowing down their clips w bm and then speeding it up, shimmy editing replays, OSM and others leaving Pulse, rocket league banning freestyles for throwing casual games to lover their casual mmr

Nice video bro. Would love to see more like it

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

100%

Karmine corp just won over faze recently

Why didn’t you mention Moist’s follow up to Noah’s tweet? I believe they clarified that they just didn’t want to go because of the 2s and 1v1 format, the moral reason wasn’t the biggest part, even the coach apologized for the tweet for some reason

@frost2272

Жыл бұрын

Not associating with a whole country because of their religion deserves an apology I'd say

@garybuttherissilent5896

Жыл бұрын

@@frost2272 The point is though that the coach lied and tried to make a political statement out of it, and trying to look like some kind of moralist by stating that. I however don't think that the reason you listed warrants an apology at all. Religion is not some kind of end-all excuse to rationalize every sort of behavior. Not every Muslim majority country issues the death penalty to gay people, but SA is one of them that has in the past. I think that it is a pretty good reason for a gay person not wanting to be associated with those types of countries right...? Similarly to you I could say that a country not wanting to associate with a whole sexuality deserves an apology. Morals are subjective at the end of the day.

@AppleWizrd

Жыл бұрын

@@garybuttherissilent5896 yes but they already said yes, like its so unprofessional is the problem, if you have a problem with their beliefs than keep it to yourself IMO

@berserkintime

10 ай бұрын

@@frost2272 it absolutely don't deserve it

I like this itachi character seems cool to me

I like comm but he did exactly what moist did to them, so he lied when he said he would never do that. He trash talked and continuously kicked into ssg after v1 4-1 or 4-0 ssg. (not sure which exactly). To make matters worse, that same series arsenal was puking blood after every match. If it isn't okay when it happens to you, then why do it to others?

the worlds final just was not entertaining and i blame it on the bracket. it should have stayed double elim so that the actual best two teams make the grand finals. g2 got absolutely demolished and i feel a team more used to playing bds would have done better. idk if it’s just me but that bracket just pissed me off. like moist going out to furia right when it wasn’t double elim anymore was just so stupid.

@Heatwave9000

11 ай бұрын

Yeah although I prefer single elim sometimes it allows a team that no one would honestly call top 2 to make it to the finals. I mean g2 literally played an na regional to get to the finals 😂

@blakxnz

11 ай бұрын

@@Heatwave9000 it was so bad. yeah bds was good but they were not fucking every other team the way they did to g2.

@Heatwave9000

11 ай бұрын

@@blakxnz I know they want two different regions in the finals but I think it was pretty lame that we had region teamkilling in quarters. Not sure how they decide the seeds but I really think seeding shouldn't matter at all by world's playoff rounds.

It's crazy how little people respect others cultures. Not everyone has to live by your laws and rules. Thats the beauty of living in a big, diverse world. You can live where things align with your views and opinions.

i like how ppl prayed on vatira downfall, and now his team is pretty much #1

you should just name the video controversies in rlcs 2021-22 , not history

That video of Arsenal explaining the situation was the most disingenuous thing I've ever seen.

That Owl guy is a rat 😁Good vid!

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

ahah thank you!

Tbh it's so annoying how rocket league just lets sypical have a controller that barely works I don't think sypical faked the controller disconnect but he should be punished for constantly interrupting play of the game and being to stubborn to just use a regular controller

Honestly glad leth destroyed firstkiller lol

Everyone was talking shit about Vatira and KCorp and now they are a top3 team in the world xd

I believe admins could keep the same level of secrecy as the underage player trying to sneak in rlcs games. Unprofessional, but if you're a kid looking to be a pro, then be more professional about your career choice.

5:08 Retals said that he found after they were out of the tournament actually

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Correct^ He was told after V1 series and not before.

Im kinda on Firstkillers side tbh id be mad as well

3:17 poor ReaLize he just wanted to ride a camel

Left out C9 leaving rocket league.

@ShadowR hey I just wanted to ask if you could do a video on female players in the Rocket League pro scene.I think that female players often go overlooked in competitive gaming in general, and I think that you would be the right person to put a video out that would be interesting and enlightening on the topic. Much love

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

Already on my ideas list! Definitely something very uncovered in the scene.

@cmdrfunk

Жыл бұрын

They're overlooked for the same reason the WNBA is overlooked. They aren't any good.

@Heatwave9000

11 ай бұрын

Esports is a meritocracy which preserves competitive integrity. No one pays attention to the WCB players because they are not good enough for pro level. There's no reason why girls can't compete, I'm sure they're strong enough to twiddle some joysticks 😂. There isn't a significant advantage for men like there is in traditional sports though you could argue that men's reaction times are quicker.

@merkghost7137

11 ай бұрын

@@Heatwave9000 you're not wrong ngl. I just wanted to see ShadowR make a video on it because it would be entertaining. I like watching videos that explore the smaller niche communities in the RL community, (like Sunless' video on the rumble mains) so it would at least be cool to see ShadowR make a video on WCB.

And KCORP is goated td

If I ran a sports league, I'd do everything in my power to keep that league a million miles away from Saudi Arabia.

Vatira had an amazing team an amazing org with a great owner a insannee fanbase lots if love and they had just started he could have just got used to the languages

Astral is fucking goated and I love moist, hope they pop off

@ShadowReformed

Жыл бұрын

they can regain i believe

@dash5573

Жыл бұрын

@@ShadowReformed agreed

Psyonix handles everything badly.