The regular season of Rocket League consists of each team either playing once or twice every week. Everyone plays 9 games no matter what, at the end of the ten games the top 6 teams on the table will move onto what is call the North America Regional Championship. First and second seed will get a bye and head straight into the semi finals. Third and fourth will be playing each other in a quarter final. The winner from there is going to move on the bracket and play against the second place team that went straight into semi-finals. The loser from those quarter finals isn’t out yet because they have two lives. They head down to the lower bracket and will face against the winner fifth and sixth. From there they head in to the semi-finals to face the first place team. From here on out the teams that win in a best of 7 will face each other in the grand final to compete for best team in North America.
This season, Season 9, the number one seed was SPACESTATION GAMING, the number two seed was G2 ESPORTS. These two teams throughout the entire season were extremely dominant when they were out on the pitch against other teams. SPACESTATION GAMING with a commanding 8-1 record. Losing only to the number 3 seed SONIQS. That loss came early in the season, but after that there was no turning back they stepped on the gas and would not let off. For G2 ESPORTS they started as the hottest team in North America by being 5-0 and only undefeated team. They lost to GHOST GAMING, NRG ESPORTS, and SPACESTATION GAMING. G2 were able to fix their mistakes and adjust so that they could be ready for the Regional Championship.
Heading into the Regional Championship it was SONIQS vs NRG ESPORTS. NRG ESPORTS have historically been so consistently good and have been the best North American team for the past 4-5 seasons. They completely dominated SONIQS and swept them winning 4 consecutive games. That meant that they would move on in the bracket and face against G2 ESPORTS. This is a series that everyone wanted to watch because G2’s offense is the best in the game, they are ruthless and always hungry for more while having an amazing defense as well. NRG are the exact same as them, amazing offense and amazing defense. These two teams battled it out and had to go to game 7 to decide the winner, in the end G2 ESPORTS won and moved on to play in the final.
In the lower bracket it was Cloud 9 vs GHOST GAMING and in this series GHOST dominated Cloud 9 and went on to play against SONIQS in the lower bracket quarter-finals. GHOST kept their dominant form and smacked SONIQS. They moved on and had to face the number 1 team, SPACESTATION. GHOST could not keep up with SPACESTATION and got swept in the semi-finals. Now it was time for the grand final between G2 ESPORTS and SPACESTATION GAMING. The two best teams in North America facing off to see who will be crowned North America Champion. Everyone though that this would be a very close series and perhaps maybe even go to game 7. G2 ESPORTS came out swinging and were completely unstoppable, they swept SPACESTATION in 4 games. G2 are the best team in North America and it is well deserved.
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