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Dude. This is next level. We need more of this type of analytical content with your in depth game knowledge. And the pausing is fine. It helps a lot more understand your point

Don't listen to the people saying you shouldn't stop much, you're doing a god damn analysis! My take: pause often but make them short and don't repeat yourself too much, if there is something we didn't understand, we can just rewind a couple of seconds.

Squishy in his coaching era

Crazy how much a pro can analyze other pros. What a legend squishy

I noticed last season that it felt like NA was held back because I felt they were always chasing/diving when the ball moved laterally across the field against EU. Specifically watching the old G2 and SSG rosters. This video makes so much sense and it shows that NAs issue isn't anything mechanical, its their field coverage.

Pretty bold to assume diamonds would try to cover the field. If you are in dia and want to Rank up, assume that your mates will cover nothing and that you always have to be ready to make Up for them If they make mistakes xD

You need to do more of these type of vids!

Yes more facecam 🙂 love this style vid too. Don't hesitate to pause the footage. your insight is valuable

I don't mind the pausing. You are explaining what is happening. Anyone who doesn't like you pausing throughout the video doesn't watch their own replays and don't care to rank up. Game play is nice and all but this is awesome, love hearing your perspective on the highest level of the game. Very cool stuff very innovative and anyone can take notes from this. Very cool video. ❤️

Flakes actually talks about this positioning a lot on his twitch. He says a lot of teams play 3s like it’s 2s and no one ever plays across

I remember a Coach talking about Triangle Defense, where if you drew a triangle of where each player were, a big, wide triangle is usually ideal to have better field coverage. Another coach said that 2nd man covers "best case scenario" and 3rd man covers "worst case scenario". I think Eversax applied both with these "Leftovers" and made a Major winning squad. Good on them

The more I watch rocket league the more it really is soccer. I’ve played soccer for 15+ years and they’re running a triangle almost perfect. In soccer, one of the most effective ways to dissect a defense is by utilizing 3 players in a triangle. Whether that’s with running overlaps, using through-balls, or simply passing amongst each other. Super cool to see them using this in rocket league.

I didn’t want to relive this but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna miss a Squishy breakdown vid

There may be alot of people complaining about you pausing too much. But the majority enjoy it, its just the people who dont are all openly complaining about it. Why dont you do a vote on stream to get the actual numbers i'd guess 70/30 in favor of them enjoing you analyse the plays.

I play and position myself this way. It works REALLY well if you're in a team that also plays this way, the moment it doesn't there will be a lot of double commits and it'll be a case of YOU not seeing what your teammates are doing because you're over there playing a rotation and game the others ain't (at lower levels Dia-Champ). At higher GC1+ people usually have the awareness of where you are and that you'll be ready, or at the very least adapt after they've seen your play, positioning and what you go for 1-2 times. In lower ranks, unless with a team that knows what's up, you'll find A LOT of people will cut you off or panic because they're not used to people being there, or they think you're slow/out of boost for not going earlier. In reality you have full control and is just setting yourself up, or even slowing down the pace in order for teammates to get into a position so you can pass to them. Trying to play like this solo won't work as well due to people's expectations being different, rotations they have and what they deem as a dangerous situation from their perspective. However, this is the correct play, you just need all on board so they're aware of what they're actually covering, what they should go for and what to do next. Without the latter there will be a lot of situations where two people are in the wrong spot, team bumps and double commits. I've had games with below 100 points playing this way because the other two cuts in front and doesn't trust the rotation/game plan.

Love this type of content Squishy, keep it up! Having a pro break down gameplay like this is super helpful as someone stuck in high champ - low grand champ. Also I think the pausing is totally fine it helps you provide a clear snapshot of positioning and lets you explain your point.

This is really interesting, would love more match reviews (maybe even past games?)!

This is actually one of your best videos, I love the slow down, I love the personality, & we obviously love learning from you! Please keep making these! ❤️

This was a fascinating watch, thanks for the breakdown squishy. I certainly makes a lot of sense as all the way through the major I could never pinpoint one player doing the most work on Gentlemates, despite Itachi and Seiko being renowned for their mechanics on previous teams, yet they took down the likes of KC and G2 who had been so dominant in the qualifiers. I will be looking out for this playstyle from GM8s and other teams in the upcoming quals for Major 2 as surely other coaches will have picked up on this.

This is so good! Even I as a plat can take a lot out of this from a game sense perspective. Really really nice video and analysis!

One of the best videos ive seen in a long time. Love the analysis. Great work you legend

Glad you're mixing some analysis vids in with your gameplay vids. I'm all for it dude. As for facecam, I'm cool with it, I don't mind either way. I don't mind how much you pause either.

please keep doing this bro, this is genuinely the most helpful vod review ive ever seen

Squish when you're talking about the intentional boost grab Seikoo does even though he has 100 boost, if you notice immediately after at 24:11, Atomic is empty and going for the mid Seikoo just stole. They keep the pressure going for an additional 15 seconds because of that boost grab. Such clean rocket league.

You should do tons of this, very entertaining!!!

Ive never really enjoyed replay analysis but this was really interesting and easy to understand

I instantly tried this myself, went into 3s ranked and won all three games I played. Will continue to do that now and hopefully can reach GC after being hardstuck in Champ for like 3 years. Thank you so much for bringing this strategy up Squishy

I have no problem with stopping to explain stuff. I'd love this kind of insight for 2's

Please make more of these types of videos squishy!! They are SO insightful and you are doing what you are doing perfectly! Pause as much as you need to pause. There is a point you are trying to get across and you are pausing with purpose. I can't see why people would complain so much. It's a review, not a reaction. People can get over how much you pause/rewind.

First time I've ever heard Squishy do an ad read where he sounds genuinely excited about the thing.

Great analysis, my problem with doing this in low champ is that my teammates will be covering the opponents' left and right posts like they give out free candy and I'm left alone with a whole field to cover.

Top tier analysis. Would like to see more of this!

going to implement this with my team thats around low gc1 rn, i think we will climb a lot bc this is one thing we dont do nearly as well as we should

Thanks for doing this sqeeesheee As a football player who dabbles in RL I've found the priority of shape to be too low in RL compared to football. It'll be great to see the next step up in top level pro RL include strict shapes!

Im pushing for SSL this season (currently i am low GC3) and this is definitely something i will take into my games. Thanks squishy

If you search up goldenlight channel, hes whole thing is talking about this structure by dividing the field in half, 1 guy to the left, 1 guy to the right and last guy generally half field away behind the person the person that has the ball. Goes on about how situations should be handled, proper movement, proper spacing etc. Edit: To add something else; With this structure it really shows a flaw that g2 had and its mirroring matchup. 1st man is clearly vs a 1st man, but people tend to forget or get tunnel visioned, theres 2nd man vs 2nd man and/or 3rd man vs 3rd man and if you dont really cover your guy just like in any other sport, that guy will be a threat if the team sees that opening. Having this structure that you mentioned (1 guy left and right and 1 behind) makes it so 3rd man on the opposite team (g2) has to cover his matchup thats in the opposite side of the ball, because if every player was on the same side, then yea they dont really have to worry to much about a pass going across the field. This off the ball movement is CRUCIAL in team play.

Great stuff! Would be good to maybe mix in one of the losing games next time to see if anything changed for those.

bro tried to sneak in G2 and thought we wouldnt notice

Crazy how you can see these things. I definitely try to do everything you say and will be drilling this into my buddies heads next time we get on! Ps run it back for the one 1 time and see how much this makes a difference 🙏🏽🤣

Ring looks good on you squish, congrats ^_^

Great analysis and tips!

Absolutely awesome video. Love the pause - more pause. Around 11 minutes you broke down what every player was and should be doing with perfect pauses. How you explain why is so helpful. A lot of content creators leave out the “why”

this positioning stuff is so logical I wonder why most of people positioning is so chaotic!!

Squishy teaching fundamentals to pros

enjoyed the ramble makes sense why they beat them

breakthrough analysis! we finna make it out of champ!

Would love to see geng or kc match. Both of those went the distance and felt closer imo.

Dude was so sad to see you retire, but this... if we get this from it maybe it was worth it :' )

I wonder if G2 plays closer cause it works better against teams that are disrupters. If the opposing team goes for bumps a lot and forces you out of position does this strategy still work as well?

their strategy makes a ton of sense it seems obvious that every team would try to play that way, but the gentlem8s are on another level of implementing it the same way zen is on another level mechanically. also shocking to see how often g2, who is also one of the best teams in the world just have such bad positioning and are all 3 grouped up in a corner.

Squishy do you think they use comms like “covering *area of field*”

WOOW love this

Not just the best player but the best analyser too

Great video Squishy!

I feel like we learned this in 2016 but the proliferation of high skill, insane solo plays/double commit metas kinda took over as everyone got better and faster, maybe this major will be the catalyst for a huge meta shift, or maybe it will take a team winning worlds with this playstyle for everyone to take it seriously. Regardless, interesting times ahead I think.

Great analysis

Pause as much as you want it’s your channel and your thoughts that we are here to learn from

new meta unlocked: remember how to rotate

@Squishy Did cloud9 think about positions like this when you were in the team?

thank you great vid! Very interesting

You should get into coaching. Great insight into the games

This is tiki taka, pioneered by Pep Guardiola at Barcelona FC, but applied to Rocket League concepts.

Really is pretty insane how OP playstyles are. I'd guess that indivdually, every player on G2 is bette than gentleM8s by a wide margin. Especially Seiko. But a better playstyle makes them the better team. Crazy.

Love this analysis vids

My brain does their rotations because it makes the most sense I just whiff sometimes and that's why I'm still just champ. I'll get yelled at for ball chasing just because I'm at the right spot at the right time

yoo squishy. you will be a great coach. with that said i know you thought about it at least once, and will you try coaching a rocket league team in your near future??????

pls make more videos analyzing pro games

In regards to how you view the replay, I would say you're the one with the best judgement in this case. If you feel you should pause and explain something, then do that. Considering it's a replay review, pausing makes sense to me. We're here to watch you and what you have to offer.

If you aren't going to compete any time soon then I think you could be a pretty good coach not gonna lie.

Positioning beats mechs everyday and twice on Sunday🙏

Love the face cam Squishy and the content.

I don't mind stopping the replay.

Squishy would be an amazing coach

Positioning is always number 1 in rocket league!

I'm so down for Squishy's content creator era, his videos during the pandemic where what made me actually get better at the game. Maybe he will reignite my love for it, which lately has been taken away by epic games and great single player games xD

being sponsored by Porsche is insane

Can we get some road to ssl 3s?

Good vid fr

This spacing is exactly what I try to tell my teammates but instead (I’m GC btw) the guy who is supposed to be behind the 1st man (1st man=guy on ball) he instead pushes in the middle where he 1/10 times gets a shot opportunity and all the other times it’s cleared to the wall side where he should be at, or he’s middle but he’s so far in that is goes over his head and then now the 3rd man is all alone

Appreciate you

Eversax is a good coach! he doesn't get enough credit

Hope many RL players watch this, so many with shaky positioning at all ranks

bring back the controller overlay pls, love the facecam

i thought having this triangle formation is the basics? and i thought all teams knew to do this

BRO YOU ACTUALLY GOT SPONSORED BY PORSCHE. wholly fuck thats sick

Fundamentals bruh, it’s all it takes

More of this kind of thing.

Hey Squishy can you turn your mic volume up a little bit, please? You're pretty quiet compared to most of the other videos I watch on YT.

Wow. Impressive. I am not good but love to try to be. You make me want to try to for sure. Thank you. 🙏

This is what it looks like when you fully trust your teammates. I'm not familiar with this game.

This is proof that having mechanics doesn’t make you the best if you can’t position yourself along with your team

so good

Rocket league is slowly by slowly adapting to football

It's so obvious once you spell it out, thanks. Also, I think the cam could be a bit smaller.

Need my random c2 team mates not to throw after we're down only one goal.

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bruh... iRacing sponsorship in a rocket league video is wild

STOOOOP, ur making wanna run RL

Is squishy in Texas?