Hello, gamers!
I have a great news, yes... you may have read it from the title already. I got to Diamond finally. What a perfect end to the year. I made it a goal to reach Diamond league before the end of 2022 and last night I achieved it.
It was probably the longest session of competitive play I have ever had in Rocket League. What happend was, I was playing 2v2 and my teammate reached diamond but didn't want to play more games as he was afraid to lose the next game and drop back to platinum. When I told him that I am close to diamond as well. He made it his mission to get me to diamond.
This player was a complete stranger and he put his diamond rank at line only to help me reach diamond as well. What a nice gesture that was. I recorded the whole almost 2 hours intense session with more than 10 games. I didn't edit any part of the video as I want people to see how we gamers go to lengths to help complete strangers. What a nice gesture that was.
Anyways, let's go back to the gameplay. I will share the youtube video here.
God knows how many games we played together, maybe 10 or 12 or even more than that.
Why 2v2 only?
Well, I play all matches 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 but rarely the 4v4 chaos modes. Good that we don't have 4v4 in competitive mode. But my favourite one is 2v2. It feels like a perfect mode for the size of the arena, not too open/empty and not too crowded at the same time, just the way I like that. You can play strategically with 2v2 easily. 1v1 is not my cup of tea. Mostly because I suck at that...lol
The first few games were easier this time, I had started with Plat III div III and went on to the next division easily.
This was the time my teammate wanted to quit and save his diamond rank and didn't want to gamble with new games but after knowing that I was close to the diamond rank as well, he told me to play the games.
We won another couple of games and now we have to win this last game and that would have placed me in diamond but the gaming gods wanted to play with me. I lost the final match by one goal deficit and my dreams of reaching diamond were shattered now. I had to win 2 more games in a row.
We won the next one but again choked in the final game before the diamond. It happened twice now. I was frustrated but my teammate motivated me. Said we are not going until you get to diamond. Gave me the required boost I needed. I played the next couple of game with great focus and energy.
One of my greatest session in gaming history. I was never this much focused to achieve anything. I was thinking that I am wasting his time as well and I have to make it worth it for him.
If you go and watch the last game, We were two goals down in the first minute only. I was disappointed but we came back from that. Scored a goal and then saved a nice shot from going in our goal. The equaliser also came quickly afterwards. It was 2-2 with 3 more minutes to go. My teammate showed his diamond play and score two back to back goals. Now we just needed to defend our two goal lead for another minute but they scored another goal and now with only 1 goal lead we still had 30 seconds to spare.
We did our best and Yesss we did it!!
Look at that shiny diamond trophy. That was worth the effort. Achiving it was special and doing it with someone who was helping me get it and risking his own rank was a bit special to me. I will remember this for a long long time.
I remember the days when I first reached Gold and was all excited for that haha. I have come a long way in this game. I have the sh*ties controls still. I am still using wsad to drive my car and also the same set of keys for air controls. Using the arrow down keys for boost and the arrow left and right keys for air rolls. Probably the weirdest setup you will see for any rocket league player. But I love this and I am now comfortable using this setup.
Anyways, I don't think I will play more competitive games for some time. I don't want to lose the game and drop back to Plat III haha. I will cherish this moment for as long as I could or maybe I will feel bored and play right after finishing this post. Who knows? I am a weird person anyways hehe.
Let me know if any of you want to play with me.
Pro Gamer Tips:
- Blame your teammate for your loss
- You didn't lose, it was laggy
- Only if I had a better monitor and graphics card.
- My little brother was playing the match.
- They were smurfing.
- I didn't sleep for two days.
- And the most important one: the Enemy team was hacking.
Thanks for reading...
Until next time...
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