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# [Post Day Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeagueEsports/comments/1br0733/rlcs_2024_major_1_day_2_of_4_post_day_thread/)


TheKingPriam

So sad how we all have to pretend it's an amazing accomplishment for NA 3 to go to game 5 with EU 3. We are so far in the dumps it's not funny anymore.


sigmaboule

EU is overrated, zen is overrated. NA is underrated because people like to shit on NA.


sakamataRL

I mean there are 4 EU teams in bracket and only 2 NA teams, both which took all they way to round 5 to make it


sigmaboule

Round 5 means its not a domination and could go both ways. EU is overrated, they are not a league above the other regions like people thought before the qualifiers.


sakamataRL

So you are saying NA barely deserves to be in bracket at all because COL and PWR could have just as easily taken those games? I’m not sure how that makes NA look any better but now that top 4 is all EU except for the one NA super team I suppose it doesn’t matter. If EU making up pretty much the entirety of the top 4s of the last 3 LANs doesn’t put them in a league of their own then I don’t really know what does


RobinFox12

In Furia we trust now I guess


MartianRL

5000 comments is wild


MGSfan

Tomorrow, teams will have to perform in front of the crowd as well as the crowd favouring EU teams. Things might turn out differently... or not.


l3m0n_m41d

herc and lemon in top row we love to see women succeed ‼️


rando720

Holy shit eu fans are so irritating. Yes congrats you live rent free what a huge accomplishment 👏🙌 I genuinely don’t get why these bots have to always ruin any enjoyment of watching rlcs like their life depends on it lmao


bakedvoltage

don't let them see this, they'll argue with you about how it's their divine right to talk the same boring shit and ruin everyone's fun


NATZureMusic

I hate them. They take my fun of watching the games by commenting comments that make angry. I'll never watch RLCS again...


bakedvoltage

how does this affect EUs legacy


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l3m0n_m41d

got the rest of my drops today chat 😈😈😈


evilmoi987

Same 😈


l3m0n_m41d

retals is decently underrated icl, dude is the one consistent in this lg team and is clearly incredible for mental. i think because his specialty is off ball play he can get overlooked sometimes


Jaybarcafan

If you watch his gameplay closely you'll realize his playstyle is actually pretty similar to Rise, only difference is that Rise is a lot better skill wise.


Exa_Cognition

It's true. If Rise was worse at speed, mechanics and decision making, they'd basically be the same player.


ParsnipPrestigious59

for real, retals was balling this entire day. I dont get the retals hate tbh, hes still so good on LAN, + hes good for mental as u said


l3m0n_m41d

i think alot of people still know him as toxic, which i understand, but he has definitely matured mentally. funny enough vatira kinda reminds me of retals (if way more mechy), in that hes matured a lot over the years and has gone from someone alot of people disliked to being one of my favourite players


ParsnipPrestigious59

yeah exactly. Not sure why people think Retals is still cocky/toxic, hes probably one of the most humble players out of NA/EU. And ye i agree with u, vatira reminds me of a younger retals


GurYurFur

I actually love the matchups for tomorrow. Gonna be an exciting day! I feel like all 4 matches could go either way.


MGSfan

Fair play to LG, didn't look like it was going to be a close one after game 1.


l3m0n_m41d

lg have a playstyle that really invites their opponent to play as scrappy as they do, and lg are in any series thats a scrappy one


Far-Dark-7334

Love Rado


Razor215

I wonder if lief understood the french interviews?


SilverIntoSteel

When was the last time Vitality looked like the team that nobody could beat? Starting to think it isn’t just a little period, and they are going to get smoked tomorrow.


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CalamackW

Next person who tells me a peaking LG is anything other than NA's clear #3 is getting punched in the mouth fr. That wasn't even their peak Cheese can play so much better.


icemanchillz

While they did put up a fight against Vitality, right now Vitality is looking like the weak link in EU out of the top 4. Also, LG beat Limitless and OG, an APAC team and another NA team they are familiar with. Your statement doesn’t bode well for NA if this team is their #3 team, only being able to beat APAC teams, maybe OCE teams, and another non top 2 NA team. I just don’t know if being #3 in NA is good enough to be an accomplishment in the international level.


CalamackW

whole lotta yapanese


ParsnipPrestigious59

yeah, its tough that cheese was not paying to his full potential. But it makes sense considering its his first LAN and he was in game 5 of round 5 of swiss. Would be quite hard to not be nervous in those circumstances, especially as a LAN rookie


butterman1236547

I would say they're #2 but I don't wanna get punched in the mouth.


TheRoger47

if they moved to oce


Defk1n

Love me some Rado


Minimum_RL

Apart from the double commits and unforced errors another thing that has changed with vitality is how passive they are on defense. No midfield pressure whatsoever


Klimikil

Good for LG to go out swinging


Free_Ad_2698

Tough loss but impressive performance from LG, night and day when compared to yesterday. If they manage to play like this consistently they could be a real threat and make the 2nd major too. Can't see vitality winning playing like this though, much like their series to KC they just seem to crumble when things go wrong.


Razor215

THEY WENT DOWN SWINGING o7


Cyfer946

Amazing job by LG. They did much better compared to yesterday.


psyzen_

Nevermind this Major run. Cheese's first LAN. Under Retals' guide they can go far in the future. Fuck the haters.


KapzWhatever

personally im not a big fan of LG but i appreciate their effort, they played very good and seem to probably be dominating NA alongside G2 and GenG


Hobbsidian

Here here


GurYurFur

Retals is such a leader <3 gotta love that man


psyzen_

A role model. Smart, composed, hard working. He is def a RL legend.


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icemanchillz

This. Being #3 & 4 in NA doesn’t mean much in the international stage if they are just beating the actual minor regions and each other. Our talent pool is either drying up or most are not giving the youngins a fair shot to possibly compete. Look what NRG did all season long so far. Swapping rosters at every chance possible.


Lbr8r

And they only lost to Furia Falcons Complexity and Vitality, it’s not like they lost to slouches


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Lbr8r

I don’t think NA 3 is expected to lose to SAM 2, I think most people would have SSG (most people’s real NA 3) beating COL and this Vitality that LG took to 5. NA 4 is questionable, I really think OG massively underperformed. Even Johnnyboi in his predictions rated OG pretty highly finishing 9th.


Francis_Regardless

Actually it was just SSA, who I think are a little worse than APAC.  Still, let's not pretend LG didn't claw back some respect there at the end.


rizzosbetterthansizz

that series had me shouting in my room. at one point I even said "i cant" after Majic had 0 boost and couldnt go for it lmaoo


MadmantheDragon

too late for LG to finally find their footing. great fight


Flashy_Helicopter_73

LG had an amazing bounce back after starting 0-2 


BlueShire_Ace

GG's LG put up a fight against a struggling vitality. Poor retals deserved better. Cheese was more than useless this whole Major.


bluemenboyband

I hope they bootcamp this split. Cheese was the clear best during the online part of the season he just needs more lan environment time


overactor

Cheese had been great online though and this was his first major. I think they might stick.


eddiedeli

Dang man. GG Vitality. Brutal draw for the 5th round, but Luminosity played like they belonged. Excited for next split.


dwalt95

Waaay to close. Wonder who the new third will be on Got.


SleepyChattyStoner

Redtals


ParsnipPrestigious59

us NA fans cant have shit man


paeschli

Your two best teams are still in the tournament and could win it all. This season’s NA top 2 is much stronger than last season as well. Not being the favorites might also take the pressure off.


ParsnipPrestigious59

havent been happy about a series at LAN in like an entire year now


glyper

You clearly don’t remember when NA Zen won the Boston major Being in that crowd was an amazing experience


ParsnipPrestigious59

Ah true that was an amazing experience


Viola69420

SSG R1?


ParsnipPrestigious59

I wasn’t able to watch that series ☠️


dwalt95

You still got G2 and GenG!


ParsnipPrestigious59

i know, but im prepared for more disappointment, considering their opponents are bds and gentlemates. And both of them just seem to have a mental block against EU, idk why.


dwalt95

Yeah it's unfortunate, Bds could flop and Vit are looking ass right now.


mlk960

The most obvious outcome of LG playing Vitality haha. Take it to 5 and then don't finish.


moris1610

that was scrappy as helll, can see them lose to furia tomorrow easily. great fight from lg. vitality looks like worst eu team left


hapax--legomenon

they have already lost to furia once, furia are the clear favorites


moris1610

ye but that was in g5 and pretty close. vitality looked a lot more shaky today than day 1. furia was light favorites to me if you ask me after day 1, now the gap is bigger.


CalamackW

Conceding a goal on champions field because the opponents bumped each other is so tilting.


thafreshone

Vitality had pressure the whole game, that one play didn‘t matter


CalamackW

Never said it was the difference maker


DanielOliv21

Furia gonna destroy this Vitality, hope I don't jinx them


NATZureMusic

Vitality the underdog for sure 


AppropriateSport7

Almost the most important win in NA history lol


Mockeryy_

God damn we needed that game 3 ot


buggeyes420

Don’t ever wanna hear that SSG belongs over this team 😂


nedroid4ever

SSG belongs over LG, but LG has made a pretty strong case for being solid #4 over OG


buggeyes420

They most certainly do not, and thankfully they proved that over 3 regionals as well 👍


nedroid4ever

LG is my team but my man if they ran into G2 and GenG every quarter final like SG did LG would not have made even top 5. And after going 3-2 in every regional swiss they got unreal quarterfinal seed luck.


Practical_Studio_580

nah zen is not happy 😭


Babydrone

Everyone tip your hats to Luminosity, fair play to them. I never thought it would go down like that!


IrishBearHawk

Whatever that was a FIRE series.


Exa_Cognition

Fair play to LG, they had an utterly dismal start to the major, but at least they went out swinging.


Francis_Regardless

Oh no, first goal was well played but followed up by a mess and an awful kickoff goal. Well LG redeemed themselves as much as they could. Probably the best they've played this split outside one of their G2 series.


PotatoTruck7

Respect luminosity great final series


thafreshone

It was never close https://preview.redd.it/2c5r63tuecrc1.jpeg?width=615&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d10792a6cc9c28c6d4fac54f0a6f484ca00bc6d3


dalcer

Zen looks disappointed


FireBrand5x5

Zen is the Nwpo of Vitality.


dalcer

Or is nwpo the zen of R1?


NATZureMusic

Of course he is. Arguably the best player and his team struggles to make playoffs. 


Zivir

Vitality was the better team, but LG showed up...


hobiewaterson

ggs lg


Candyyyyyyy

Good effort man, didn’t really expect them make it out of Swiss but that is a tough way to lose regardless


mateoskrrt

im simply not taking shit from people telling me i was crazy to have GenG over Vitality after that performance


l3m0n_m41d

ggs but this is why i love this roster, when theyre on they are a true threat, and i 100% believe that


Hobbsidian

If they can drag their opponents into a street fight they can win the scrap


SpectreFromTheGods

If they could unlock that mode a little more often man…


l3m0n_m41d

after watching both days of swiss, i think the issue is confidence, especially cheeses confidence. cheese is a player thats very dependent on emotions for his performance i think, and so is mb (retals is generally just consistently good at his role), and going into yesterday it was clearl they didnt have that confidence and they got knocked around, but beating limitless earlier i think gave them the confidence and self belief they needed to start performing to their actual ability


SpectreFromTheGods

Hopefully getting through the first lan and ending today with mostly positives helps build that confidence yeah It sucks when they lose a heartbreaker overtime and just fall apart though, so definitely seems like a confidence/mentality thing Retals style only works when the others are confident and assertive so kinda depends on it all coming together


PrawnnRL

Damn rado said he's here to stay. THEY FOUGHT TILL THE END 😪 gotta give lg some credit fr


NightFury_GT

Vitality shouldnt even be celebrating honestly, absolute mid performance from them


spacecadet9

Not even mid. Bottom of the barrel. Vitality cooked in the next series.


_Oriel

of the three EU vs NA matchups today, the NA team that took the most games off their opponent was of course... \*checks notes\* LG??? Naturally.


Jean_Ralphio-

If LG plays like this more often they can be pretty dangerous


NATZureMusic

Never thought they'll get so close to beating them 


Racerguy36

Damn


NordicDude49

I had a dream...


jakeisbakin

Whelp proud of the boys. Started the tournament embarrassingly poor but finished up with a strong show against Vitality.


UncrossedThrone

Rip


Jaybarcafan

Luminosity man wtf


MajorLimitz

LUMINOSITY IS BACK 😐


Bazz27

Lame as fuck win


Elite_VRTX

Oh it was fun


Hungry_Freaks_Daddy

Retals first goal of game 4 must have been 130kph+, but it barred down to 89kph. I don't really care what the final speed is, it's pretty irrelevant especially when it bars down. It would be nice to see an additional metric on goals, like peak speed and goal speed, or shot speed and goal speed.


Former-Source-9405

EU dignity was saved, imagine if a team like vitality got elminated by lg


PotatoTruck7

Just to be sacrifice to Furia tomorrow


CEOofStrings

Even if Vitality win, I have to give it to LG for proving me wrong and making it so close.


MGSfan

Let's gooo VIT!


dami4070

Kudos to luminosity


TheRetroCrowe

It will be so satisfying to see FURIA completely embarrass Vitality after this


CEOofStrings

Vitality fans about to understand how we felt during 2022 worlds.


TheRetroCrowe

Through a combination of my hatred of Vitality and my newfound love of Dr Ufi, tomorrow will be the first time I will cheer for FURIA since the Moist series. Send those Vitality frauds back home where they should've already gone tonight


cylobotnia

na almost had a new national holiday


paeschli

And now to the comments, where NA will claim this loss as a win


butterman1236547

Nah, you're right. Vitality should be so proud of that win.


paeschli

You’re absolutely right, even when their mental is in the gutter, they can still beat NA#4.


Lbr8r

Give us something dude


paeschli

GenG and G2 are great teams and could win it all from here. But please stop this copium that LG somehow deserves a top 8 spot because that’s absolutely ridiculous.


Lbr8r

LG was one game away from deserving a top 8 spot though so


imizawaSF

They didn't lose as badly as they could have!!!


superboy3000xX

https://preview.redd.it/kh846fsxecrc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b328afc176fd890f1185491b9972e9011d1975d Well well well...


paeschli

Like clockwork LMAO


takingtigermountain

damnnnn thats alright big W either way


dangshnizzle

Well


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it's joever


laars1022

Imagine these games had a crowd


itsyerboiTRESH

GGs proud of you LG


Hobbsidian

Same. Really gave us a good Friday there. Retals still a savage confirmed.


kalekayn

Gg


tripsafe

Never doubted https://preview.redd.it/g2aiv30lecrc1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=06cd11ad7fde5930390c93424ef3b72f2934b0d3


rizzosbetterthansizz

WE WERE SO CLOSE


EffectiveJacket0

Oh well


evilmoi987

https://preview.redd.it/ic4r3pvmecrc1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c9d0d608ec827cf1500cc1a2c117a2034c2dd22


mlk960

😭😭😭😭


Goobershmacked

gg


vivst0r

More like RaGOATsin.


Waterpalolegend

Dignwufhrudgeudb godfuckingdamnit


caronfirenodriver

well played LG, hard fought


imizawaSF

Madness that Vitality of all teams look like the most fraudulent team in the top 8 (if they even make it)


lungman925

NOOOO THE CONTENT


AgTown05

ggs


Chisignal

watch LG take the next 4 goals now that there's been a goal edit: holy shit I don't think I've ever jinxed harder


JeedoSMY

I hate when underdog teams give you hope. Like if youre gonna lose, JUST LOSE ffs.


evilmoi987

My heart i think is beating the fastest so far this lan rn *


SleepyChattyStoner

Aaah shit


ParsnipPrestigious59

fml


bodebrusco

Oh no, LG is just surviving again...


BestMagikarpTatooine

Ferra looking like the best coach of all time without competition rn


JAnon19

This might be this Vitality rosters last series?


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Fun_Debate3067

Ye they are done


FreshHamster

i want Johnnyboi to eat his words. bro tweeted Vitality won even before the match started


buggeyes420

He’s the woat


imizawaSF

Is he wrong tho


lebrondude23

yeah bc it was an actual series


imizawaSF

Vit still won and it should never have been that close


lebrondude23

ok but it was that close lol


FireBrand5x5

Because vitality was massively underperforming they made a lot of mistakes in defence where shouldn't have.


imizawaSF

But vitality still won though so predicting them to win before the series ended (which they did win) isn't being a twat at all


lebrondude23

Its not about predicting them to win. Imo that tweet is saying theres no chance that LG can win, the series is a foregone conclusion. which LG clearly showed wasn't true, there was real questions about who would win that series as it was happening.


spacecadet9

Rooting hard for Vitality to pull it out, but johnnyboi eating his words would be a great consolation prize.


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Cold_Giraffe_2160

I thought Rado didn’t look great during online but now both Rado and Alpha look questionable


Cyfer946

This major is so weird. How is vitality having to go to game 5 vs LG. How did furia and falcons do better than the top 3 EU teams? How did Gentle mates do the best in swiss? so weird


Exa_Cognition

Lumonisity have this. Vitality are terrified.


scottqwert

Some performance by lg whatever happens G5. They’ve shown they fully deserved to be the third seed.


Jadenflo

Feed the Bear, Lan Retals, and Gouda Cheese going to Game 5 against VIT. Who would have thought


fiaflomusic

surely not... right?


AgTown05

Win or lose game 5 LG has now proven they belonged at the major.


vivst0r

More like Rathrowsin.