{"id":2859,"date":"2020-02-21T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/rlcs-week-3-na-and-eu-preview"},"modified":"2024-07-22T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T04:15:09","slug":"rlcs-week-3-na-and-eu-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/rlcs-week-3-na-and-eu-preview","title":{"rendered":"RLCS Week 3 NA & EU Preview: The Time Travelling Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

This season of the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and unpredictable yet. <\/p>\n

In Week 2 Soniqs showed what they are capable of with their defeat of Spacestation Gaming, Team Singularity made everyone sit up and take notice with their takedown of Team Vitality and can anyone pass the ball like Dignitas?<\/p>\n

It’s all set up Week 3 nicely – teams are finding their groove, stories are emerging and Flakes keeps meme’ing with his car selections. <\/p>\n

We are also in the fortunate position of getting an extra game this week. Psyonix announced the rescheduling to account for the delayed start to the season meaning Week 4’s matches were moved to this weekend.<\/p>\n

So with more action than expected, we shouldn’t wait around so here is a look at this weekend’s North America and Europe league play matches.<\/p>\n

Missed out on Week 2? Get caught up with our weekly recap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We start off Week 3 with a bottom of the table clash Cloud9<\/strong> vs Flight<\/strong> (how that must hurt to hear for fans of Cloud9). No disrespect to Flight but all eyes will be on Cloud 9 for this match, if they lose here a bad start becomes a disaster and with Flight being arguably the worst team in the league any fear teams have of facing Cloud9 would evaporate.<\/p>\n

For Cloud9 to win, Kyle “Torment” Storer needs up his game, he has been poor at both ends of the pitch and after his post-game comments on Twitter<\/a>, it’s clear he is lacking confidence.<\/p>\n

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That’s why Flight are the best team they could hope for. Also winless, they haven’t really impressed since their first couple of games against Pittsburgh Knights in Week 1. <\/p>\n

Prediction Cloud9 3-0 Flight<\/h3>\n

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The next tie is mouthwatering. A Rogue<\/strong> side on the up led by Cameron “Kronovi” Bills who is clearly fired up by their new signing Jason “firstkiller” Corral going up against the Susquehanna Soniqs<\/strong> who in, Nathan “Shock” Frommelt, have an early (okay, very early) contender for Player of the Season. <\/p>\n

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This game is a close one to call. Soniqs looked like a real team against Spacestation Gaming in Week 2 and almost caught a sleeping NRG out in Week 1. They are functional if not exactly spectacular and they have shown enough in the season to make the case that the chances of them going down are slim. Rogue has a higher ceiling though, and as firstkiller gets more attune to his teammates they can do some real damage to teams.<\/p>\n

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Prediction Rogue 3-2 Susquehanna Soniqs<\/h3>\n

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Flight<\/strong> in action again, and facing the in-form G2<\/strong> – a tough game for any side at the moment but you have to feel for Flight, they could end week 3 with a 0-4 record and they probably will – you look at their roster and you have to ask where the goals are coming from. This G2 side is at the top of the table for a reason, losing only one game all season and there is a feeling they had to get out of second gear  – their passing play is the best in the league, and the only way you will beat them is outscoring them. <\/p>\n

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