This is this series' equivalent to an "anime series dedicated beach episode" and I love it. Blitzball is AWESOME

What tragedy made you choose this path? What pain caused you to believe this was reasonable, my friend?

Am i the only one who enjoyed blitzball? I played it not because i felt obliged to get Wakka's weapon and atk reels, but because i actually genuinely liked this mini-game. Am i strange?

I love the irony of everyone having really high catch, but really low block. Really fun challenge. I personally have never done blitzball without recruiting Brother first. You put Brother in mid-field, and you will annihilate everyone.

Kyou rhymes with though. I originally signed him because I'd just learned that the Japanese word for dinosaur was "kyouryuu" and I knew it had to happen.

You’re insane. I almost lost my mind trying to get the Sigal for Wakka, I can’t imagine doing this

Man at 16:00 they not only decided to style on you, they decided to grind a few levels while they're there at it lol. Mad disrespect.

Honestly man, brilliant video!! Loved it. Loved the whole job swap series so far to be honest. Love the honesty early on about not being into spots as well, made it all the better for me. I'm a huge football fan, season ticket holder at my local team etc, and Final Fantasy is easily my favourite franchise. Been playing since late 90's. Just goes to show you don't need to like sports to love Blitzball baybee!

Keepa has 99 SHT once he hits level 99, so clearly he's the best player you have. 😏

The reaction to the Al bhed psyches is such a mood

Blitzball Math Roll an 11 sided dice with face values being a multiplier of 0.5 to 1.5, in .1 increments. Roll that die for each stat every time stats are being compared. AT = 10 EN = 12 AT rolls a 1.2 so actually attacks with a 12 instead of a 10. END rolls a 0.7, so 8.4 even if rounded up is 9 (unsure which way they round). So AT wins, (9-12) < or = 0 This applies to all stat matchups, SH vs BL and CA PA vs BL AT vs EN

the sad part is, keepa at lvl 99 is the best all around player in the game. 99 sht, 99 cat, like 72 end, insane hp. but he is just sooooo bad until late 60s

This is so dope, awesome job. Also I really like "Ladies, Gentlemen, and everyone in between"! Gonna start using that one

FYI, in Japanese the name isn't very weird soundwise. In Japanese a u is used to prolong the o sound in many words. famous examples of this is both the names of the cities kyoto and tokyo. If the japanese spelling would be translated directly they would be spelled kyouto and toukyou. The Japanese pronounciation is is pretty much to double the length of the o sound.

I feel kinda offended and personally attacked. Why, you ask? "Who plays bitzball to lvl 99?" Well...I did. I was young, I was impressionable and I was in fucking love with blitzball (I had a phase where I didn't play FFX at all. just blitzball). Maxed out the whole team to lvl 99 (btw. I had Kyou in my Team too, and I loved him. He is by far the best). Got all the strong players. Owned the league. And then got bored as there is just no challange left. With a few good players you eventually start to win match after match. You then level pretty fast. And when your first player hits lvl 99, the enemy teams players will only have reached about lvl 50 (iirc). So tbh - there's actually no challange left and no benefit for maxing out your players. It's just for the sake of having it done. (just for the record - when I said I feel offended and personally attacked - that was irony. I was just kidding)

Taking keepers from every other team is an interesting strat honestly 🤣

i love this video!! your narration of the games is so funny and as someone who actually enjoyed playing it in ffx i was enjoying the espn style commentary lol

2:45 If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the creators of this game were foreign. Maybe Japanese?

The cut to Raudy asleep at the goal at 33:41 made me laugh so much..

After a few times recruiting everyone in Spira, my preferred way to play blitzball is by using as many of the original Aurochs as possible, including Wakka who can be recruited off the airship. Except I can't deal with Keepa. He gets replaced by Miyu. She may start with lower CA than some of the others, but she already comes with Anti-Nap, Anti-Wither and Anti-Venom. And you can teach her Grip Gloves and Super Goalie almost immediately. She's awesome.

Miyu definitely came off this looking like Lebron James.

It always amused me that the story builds the Luca Goers up as the best team in the league, then you actually play the mini-game and find out how very not true that is.

I've played blitz that long, all teams reach lvl 99. That is quite a challenge to play at max stats. Greeds 😁

I love Blitz Ball and might do this challenge. I did do a challenge before I really got into youtube.

THE LONG AWITED EPISODE thank you my KING

Are you okay? Are you in danger? Blink twice if you are

Awesome Video!!! Still find myself replaying this game more than any. My favorite player was Linna with her Nap Shot 3 and Golden Arm combo. Sinking Half court shots like the Al Bhed Steph Curry. 😂 Thank you for suffering with the Goalies Only Run so I didn't have to. ❤

Congrats on beating your crazy challenge!

Fun stuff! Have you considered extending the series to the "post-game" content, like the arena and the dark aeons? I know I'd be glad to watch it.

It's me personally but if I was having dead weight at RT, I would have put Keepa or Yuma there, depending on how much you value the 6 speed difference. LF Miyu RF Yuma MF Kyou LD Keepa RD Durren GK Jumal This is to stack the odds in your favor, as Jumal is the BEST goalie from the ones you have available through free agency. It won't help you win, but it will help you NOT lose. Also Yuma is a woman, she's one of the two goalie's that's female.

15:34 Pure hilarity here. These videos have been awesome, can’t wait for more!

LVL 99 blitzball is content! so much more fun than early game blitzball

Your pronunciation of Miyu hurts my soul. But this is fantastic XD

Why does everyone hate blitzball? I used to spend entire days just playing that alone

While I am starting this video "That's a very good question !"

Hellyeah more FFX videos, keep up the amazing content buddy ❤

Jesus... Praise be to Yevon.

Like #100 here! :D (Never had it happen, thought it was nifty haha) Anyway, just starting the vid, super hyped! I used to love watching my older brother play blitzball games and we'd always joke about silly team compositions, I'm about to send him this video so we can discuss it later once he's free. Thank you again for this series of uploads, it's been brightening my days and I started playing FFX again for the dozenth time. xD Will we be seeing anything from X-2 in the future? Just wondering, love your work!

I know this a weird bit of knowledge, but I had the strategy guide for this and in the blitzball chapter they listed that Keepa actually levels up to 99 shot.

Blitzbal is one of the best games ever i did level up until level 80 i think. Great game love it

3:08 wondering how you pronounce that , (Kyou) is common enough in Japanese speech so when playing JRPGs and this comes up, just think of Japanese pronunciations.

Bro Jumal sucks ass. Had him trained until lv 20 only to get confirmation that he sucks ass. More Blitzball videos please!

Oh lets see keepa get his 99 shoot lmao hahahaah

Almost certainly you will have an army of people telling you this, but if your joke about Kyou’s unpronounceable name is genuine confusion, you should know that it’s just a normal Japanese name! And in fact, Japanese names are really easy to pronounce once you know them, because once you know how to pronounce a letter or syllable in Japanese, you know how to pronounce it when you see it in any another place, because Japanese is pronounced consistently, unlike English! Ou is always a long O, as in “Oh.” and ky is pronounced “key”, but fast. So, kee-yoh! But together. Oh god I hope I got that right and don’t find out that I’ve been understanding Japanese wrong my whole life.

Kyou isnt a goalkeeper.... he is a defender or atypically a mid.

That's painful. the title should have been "I won a League of Blitzball with only Goalkeepers, so you don't have to." LMAO

Imagine how good the team would be with Nimrook in place of Keepa and Wedge, I think you would have to TRY to LOSE.

Its crazy to see so many challenges recently on this old gem of a game I didnt realise people could push their limits much more for things like this honestly I couldnt even push my limits to grab the rest of the celestial weapons and all the super bosses I only did up to dark dark shiva and even that was enough for me heck I never even won one blitzball god only knows how to do that shit

I used to love playing blitzball back in the day. I had a save file dedicated solely to playing blitzball. I never reached full level 99s in the league, I never did anything cheesy to grind levels like pass the ball for the whole game. But I did get a few players to high 80s through just playing normally. All the nap techniques are OP. My opening for every game was to swim around and gather as many defenders as possible than use nap pass to put as many to sleep as possible then attack from there. I used drain tackle on defense to gain back hp to use as many nap passes as possible on offense.

You could’ve done this at 99 so Keepa would have max shot, the highest in the game. Would everyone else be better? Who knows.

hire every goal keeper so no one else has one

I use Kyou in MF every play through. He’s the best tank/tackler ever.

My challenge is just using the Besaid team. I do have tidas though.

I always use Jamal on my team as goalkeeper 🤷🏻‍♀️

Wait the Albed Psyches are good? The same team that had so little confidence in themselves that they decided that kidnapping a summoner would be easier then beating a team who hadn't won a game in 20 years? Why?

Okay okay hear me out. Can you beat a league with the base aurochs? No recruiting just the og team all the way. I'm not super familiar with blitzballs mechanics as i haven't played ff10 since i was 8. So it might not be that bad. But I'm curious.

Let's go!

I'm playing blitzball to lvl 99 🥺

Excuse me I play till level 99 n above

Now do it 2 more times for wakkas ultimate weapon and overdrive

Are you being held hostage and streaming these challenges is the only way to communicate with the outside? Make a celestial weapons run if yes…

before watching, wedge ends up best as a goalie, does he count?

You're hilarious 🤩

im so sad this series is ending soon. do you have any plans to still upload afterwards?

Surprised pickahu face

Is my game bugged? lmao I get the ball the first blitzoff of each half but literally not a single time other than that. Every single time after the first is the enemy team.

The explanation around 20:00 is completely wrong. Catch (and tackle) work within a 50% to 150% range of their value, but with a caveat. So, if you have 10 Catch, you will FOR SURE catch a shot of 5 or weaker. However, for some reason you can only go up to 14, not 15. Block is the exception, as it could go up to 15, but the formula for tackles and catch is basically FLOOR(value x (random 0.5~1.499999)) Also, I don't know why you keep dribbling after attempting breakthroughs when your main objective is to put the goalkeeper to sleep. Just shoot from a distance instead of risking to lose the ball on your next break.

Surprised this didn't degenerate into leveling Keepa to 99 to get him to 99 shot and claim his throne as Spira's #1 scorer.

I was such a spiteful queer as a kid with blitzball. “You want me to play SPORTS? 💅🏼” Already down the path of fucking athletes and never watching em.

Kyou I believe is meant to be pronounced "kee-yohh" based on Japanese phonetics.

Always called him. K, you ?

Pretty sure Miyu and Kyou sound the same, they havd similar armour I think they go together like Biggs and Wedge. You're saying Miyu right.