Derek Nilsen
@dRektRL
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RLCS Statistician for @RLEsports Used to run a card game store, and work for a company as an editor that localizes manga. #NeverDone
Joined June 2016
I've created a new hub sheet that links to the work I've done for not only RLCS but some other events. Dunno how many other events I'll end up doing work for, but if I get hired for any they'll find their way onto here so all my work is in one place.
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I can't believe I'm about to type this. I am joining the RLCS team as the statistician this season.
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Frankly I'd be surprised if they don't make major
@dRektRL What needs to happen for Turbos Cheeks to clinch?.
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Just to recap what @GenG has done this weekend:. First team to sweep G2 with Atomic on the roster.First team in NA to go undefeated in games on final day.Best record for in NA in the playoffs of an NA Regional (12-1).First team with 100% Assist % after Swiss with 20+ goals scored.
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Additional tidbits for the reverse sweep:. - 21st all-time.- 3rd in NA all-time.- 99th this season (Bo5+Bo7).- retals first NA player to record 2 Bo7 reverse sweeps, he recorded the first ever in NA with SSG last season over Oxygen. - Stax has cast all 3 Bo7 reverse sweeps in NA.
Reverse sweep complete. ✅ . This is the third-ever Bo7 reverse sweep in North America, and the first-ever NA Bo7 reverse sweep that locked in a spot at an #RLCS Major! 🤯
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oh man I feel bad for Seikoo, just as bad a mistake as Firstkiller made last Major.
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Coolest thing for me is in a scene that kicks players and breaks up at the drop of a hat, a roster of a 14yo, 16yo and 17yo is sticking after finishing 11th in NA.
Sources: Spacestation Gaming have signed the Snowmen roster which consists of @frostyrl_ , @Scrzbblesrl , @reveal_rl and coach @Xpere_ for the RLCS 2025 season.
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sad Dominus noises. For the first time ever, the Dominus was not used by any player during an RLCS weekend. Only three cars were used between MENA, NA and OCE this weekend. The Fennec (74.93%), Octane (25.02%) and Lamborghini Huracan STO (0.05%).
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easy. just gotta beat. checks notes. G2 Esports and then Complexity, Gen.G or FaZe Clan
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Well, @MoistEsports don't know how to lose game 5s and 7s. Now on a streak of 11 straight wins, they've out scored their opponents in those 11 games 34 to 12 (3.09 to 1.09 PG). They are also now 31-6 (83.78%) in games while on match point since the beginning of Winter. #RLCS.
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#RLCSX Europe Regular Season Statistical Leaders 🏆. Goals: 290 @M0nkeyM00n.Score: 167,630 @M0nkeyM00n.Assists: 262 @M0nkeyM00n.Saves: 756 @M0nkeyM00n.Shots: 1,269 @M0nkeyM00n .Demos: 630 @virtuosoRL.Shot %: 30.07% @RonakyRL.Goal Participation: 71.76% @RonakyRL.
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After @KarmineCorp's victory over Endpoint, @Vatira5 now has an insane 16 straight top 4 finishes in regionals. His teammate rise would have the same length of streak if not for a single 9th-11th finish during Fall of last season.
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Perhaps the greatest collection of names for an RLCS team I've ever seen. I am now a fan of Aufbau.
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rise joyo vatira all top 6. One can only imagine what a team with those 3 on it could do.
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With RLCS roster lock looming, I just want to put this out there:. Make sure you sign up with a substitute. It doesn't matter if that sub is diamond or SSL, just have a sub. Too many times teams have to drop from events because they did not have a sub when something happened.
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Top Performers for #RLCS North America Winter Invitational Day 1 🏆. Goals: 1.64 @AYYJAYYRL.Score: 551.73 @AYYJAYYRL.Assists: 1.18 @Retals.Saves: 2.77 @Firstkiller.Shots: 5.08 @ChronicRL_.Demos: 2.36 @Retals.Shot %: 44.83% @mistRL.GPAR: 86.96% @ReysbullWRLD.
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Had a lot of people ask about @MoistEsports' late game heroics so here we go:. Eight 0 second goals scored to tie or take the lead, 7 were scored by @riseRL_. If you extend that to final 10 seconds, 20 goals scored to tie or take the lead, 15 scored by rise.
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ExoTiiK's career always amazes me. - S9 RLRS, wins promo/rele.- RLCS debut in X, but middling results.- ???Doesn't play in RLCS for an entire year???.- Joins a falling SMPR, impresses at Worlds.- Joins KC, wins Regionals & Major.- Kicked, joins BDS, wins Worlds & Worlds MVP.
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My first RLCS season is done. I was a bit overwhelmed at first but eventually found a good flow. Hopefully I was able to help you guys enjoy the season a little bit more. Could not have asked for better people to work with, everyone is just incredible. Now, vacation time✌️.
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Aided by his record setting 20 demos in one game, @RL_Comm also set another record. Finishing with 106 demos, he set the record for most demos in an NA event. Breaking @Retals record of 100 from last Winter. All-time record belongs to @virtuosoRL with 120 from Fall RLCS X.
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Vitality is, in fact, not at London (yet). There's like a 1% chance they don't make it, but they have not clinched their spot yet.
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To help nail down the idea of how crazy @yanxnz performed at the Spring Major;. He scored 30 goals in 22 games, finishing 3rd in the tournament for total goals. The only two players to finish ahead of him were rise (35) and Vatira (32) who played 42 games, almost double yanxnz.
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It was a bit hard to keep up with 3/4 regions playing each weekend but doable, so I wonder how many will play each weekend this time. Oh, all 7.
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A side effect of tracking my stats on specific maps, I was able to confirm that the like/dislike feature in the game actually works. I was someone who thought it didn't do much, but in 1105 games played my 3 most played maps were liked, and my least played map was disliked.
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Top Performers for NA Fall Open Top 16 Qualifier 🏆. Goals: 1.32 @Firstkiller.Score: 541.38 @BeastModeLK.Assists: 0.95 @mistRL @Sypical.Saves: 2.75 @tcorrellrl.Shots: 4.56 @DanielRL__.Demos: 2.69 @Retals .Shot %: 43.24% @rl_crr.GPAR: 81.82% @ApparentlyJxck @BeastModeLK.
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Team Liquid falls to 0-4 on LAN this season vs NA teams, all 4 went to game 5/7. 2-3 vs V1.2-3 vs FAZE.3-4 vs GENG.2-3 vs COL. Their wins have come against Gladiators (1), Ground Zero (1), PWR (1), Quadrant (1), Secret (2), Vitality (1).
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I wonder if NRG was making a conscious change, or Squishy was just playing well today. Last season, he averaged 357.97 Score and 0.56 Goals across the entire season. In swiss today, he averaged 419.68 Score and 0.95 Goals, up 14.71% and 40.39% respectively.
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On the first crowd day of Worlds, there was an amusing coincidence. The only Americans playing on that day were FaZe Clan. That series was the 1,776th Bo7 ever played in the RLCS. 1776 being the year the US voted to become its own country separating from Britain.
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With the conclusion of online play, the Fennec has officially become the most used car of the season guaranteed. Even if every series at the Major and Worlds went to game 5/7 and every player only used Octane, Fennec would still be #1 with 49.24% usage to Octane's 48.89%.
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juicy proving Joyo right with everything he said about him last season after Moist picked him up.
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SSG throwing vs Pirates just so they don't have to get the Peeps matchup so early.
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Across the entire 22-23 NA #RLCS season, only 3 rookies made main events. creamz, Druee and Evoh. In the first event of this season, there are 10. @WahveyRL .@Nassrl_ .@frostyrl_ .@reveal_rl .@Scrzbblesrl .@rlskippy1 .@PNDHrl .@rlzerl .@kofyrlux .@Fiv3Up.
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I was looking for a reason to make a chart, so decided to look at the car usage for the RLCS. In the Winter Open, Fennec, presumably for the first time ever, has become the most used car in the RLCS. This is all regions combined.
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So, @Retals turned into @its_woodyyyy this event. First player in any region to record 100 or more demos in an #RLCS event this season.
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FURIA learned how to demo their opponents and suddenly go 3-0 in swiss beating NRG, Spacestation and G2. well ok.
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With Gen.G's win there, there are now zero players who have qualified for every LAN since they returned last season. After the Winter Major there were 7;. Firstkiller.Atomic.Chicago.JKnaps.Ahmad.oKhaliD.trk511. All 7 failed to make Boston.
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In case anyone wants more reasons to think @Vatira5 is the best in the world. Between EU/NA, he has played in the 2nd most grand finals (11) and 3rd most regional wins (6). First has 12 and 8, respectively. He did that in 15 regionals, 9 fewer than the players above him (24).
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With today's results, @KarmineCorp have done something the previous 5 LAN winners of the open circuit have yet to do, and that is follow up their LAN win with a strong performance in the following event. Every winner since they returned last season has finished top 8 or worse.
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Is Oxygen the EU FaZe?. - Forms with 2 mechanical players & really solid 3rd.- Wins first regional of season.- Poor Fall 2.- Decent LAN performance in Fall.- Makes a roster move to pick up a third crazy mechanical player.- 3rd-4th finish in first regional with new player.
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@CorelliTV This season:. APAC - furlashh (1.52).EU - VKSailen (2.56).MENA - mzxy (1.58).NA - Comm (2.13).OCE - Torsos (2.35).SAM - AztromicK (1.87).SSA - Zero (2.32).
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sad no new record noises. retals finished the regional with 103 demos, only 3 from tying the NA Regional record, and 4 from setting it.
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The latest 8 LAN results for @G2esports, all with Chicago/JKnaps duo. S7 Worlds (NA): 2nd.DH Valencia (EU): 9th-12th.DH Montreal (NA): 2nd.21 Fall (EU): 9th-11th.21 Winter (NA): 1st.21 Spring (EU): 9th-12th.21 Worlds (NA): 2nd.22 Fall (EU): 9th-11th.22 Winter (NA): Top 2???.
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ok so last season we learned the French were hiding ExoTiiK from us. now we've learned juicy is also him. what French player with middling results in the latest few seasons is gonna break out in 2025?.
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Basic Winter Major scenarios for NA. Like EU, 9 teams control their own fate sorta. FUR/NRG/KNI need a tiebreaker at worst with a regional win. Each team can get in with less, but needs help otherwise. 15 teams fighting for 4 spots. Full scenarios Monday or Tuesday.
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With regional 2s finishing up it's time for LAN scenarios! 10 teams control their own fate. Below is the minimum needed to clinch, but teams can get in with less with help. Full scenarios will be after next weekend's qualifiers to determine the main event teams for regional 3.
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As a result of having full RLCS LAN data now, I'm able to put together other data I wasn't before. Probably one of the funnier stats I've come across, this is all-time RLCS LAN shots by region and the shot differential.
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NA Split 1 Regional 1 (Day 1) Statistical Leaders 🏆. Goals: 1.27 @ApparentlyJxck .Score: 574.33 @rl_evoh.Assists: 0.92 @rl_evoh .Saves: 2.83 @rl_evoh.Shots: 4.14 @At0micRL .Demos: 2.47 @Retals .Shot %: 42.86% @AYYJAYYRL .GPAR: 100% @RL_Comm .OT Goals: 3 @rl_evoh @SquishyMuffinz
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Fun team combinations part 2. This time with some themes rather than just players with similar sounding names. These are all players who have played in the RLCS specifically.
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Oxygen held Karmine scoreless for the final 16min 46sec of the series the longest they've been shutout all season long. The loss ends Karmine's EU RLCS record of 21 straight series victories, and also ends Vatira's championship sunday streak at 26.
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.@GenG finished the swiss stage today with an 100% assist %. That in itself is not unusual, as teams that go 0-3 and score like 10 goals get that on occasion. It's unusual because they did so while scoring 41 goals in 4 series and had 10 games where they scored 3 or more goals.
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The amount of Lj, Arsenal, Cheese and hockser disrespect I'm seeing is too damn high.
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Simple scenarios for NA Invitational;. No team can clinch on Day 1 without help. 10 teams control their own fate. Full team scenarios on Monday or Tuesday, though I'll be starting on them tonight.
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we now live in a world where Rizzo and Turbopolsa have acquired RLCS points again. Rizzo's last time was the end of RLCS X, over 3 years ago and Turbo was the end of 21-22 about 2 years ago.
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Noticed some people asking about LAN leaders during Worlds, but wasn't really able to answer most of them. Here are the leaders in total stats. @riseRL_ leads in Games, Goals and Shots.@At0micRL leads in Assists and Demos.@Vatira5 leads in Saves.@Joyokamii leads in OT Goals
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It's ok guys, even if G2 lose we've still got 2 NA teams. We sent FURIA to SAM from NA so we could take over another region, and Falcons are from ₘₑNA.
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Number of game 7s played in #RLCS regionals this season so far:. EU - 20.APAC N - 20.NA - 19.OCE - 17.APAC S - 15.@DeToNator_GG - 14.SAM - 14.SSA - 13.MENA - 6.
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With Version1's win this past weekend, Daniel became the 27th player in NA to win a regional in the open circuit era. Now only two players remain in the region who have made a final and not won one, Memory and Rapid.
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In the first 2 series at these events;. DeToNator in LA: 7 goals scored, 1-6 game record.BDS in London: 8 goals scored, 0-6 game record. DeToNator = Team BDS?.
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V1 gonna have to get Moist's paypal if they qualify for Worlds, after Moist knocked both the teams they needed to lose to lowers, FURIA and OpTic. 5/8 World Region Spots locked, it's looking like we'll know all the Worlds teams by tomorrow's end unless R1 or OCE go on a run.
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BDS has given Karmine a little bit more hope with their win over OXG. With the EU teams for London basically locked, Karmine currently has one goal in the final event: Finish better than OXG. If KC can get ahead of OXG enough, they would need to make London final to pass KC.
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Gave it to broadcast, but will repeat it here. With the timeout data I have, teams are now 1-56 in series (1.75% win rate) after calling a timeout when down 1-3. Whereas when a team calls a timeout when down 1-2 in the series, they are 10-17 (37.04% win rate) in the series.
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.@KarmineCorp is picking it up at the perfect time, while @EvilGeniuses are dropping at the worst time. Coming into the Spring Split, EG was in 5th place and 500 points ahead of KC in 8th. Following Spring 2, KC is now 7th and only 200 points behind EG in 6th. #RLCS.
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I do love that both the invited teams for SSA are fully from the region.
✨ READY FOR THE GRAND REVEAL 🤩. We are thrilled to announce all the invited teams to the #EsportsWorldCup ft. #RocketLeague ‼️
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For NA fan's sanity, I think we should just choose to believe a bunch of other teams are NA. France's flag is red/white/blue so they're basically American, so that gives us 5 more teams. NA is literally in MENA so 3 more, which gives us 13, so really high odds of winning Worlds!.
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Full EU win list as of this event
THE CURRENT GOAT OF THE REGION! 🐐. @KarmineCorp's @Vatira5 wins his ninth #RLCS regional event within his career, now the MOST out of any player in Europe!
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it's subtle, but retals, majicbear and cheese all tweeting rmc is letting us know that repeat, mist and creamz are teaming.
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so what I've learned is that @JohnnyBoi_i is the only one that has the RLCS knowledge to answer the trivia questions I give for these shows.
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With @Spacestation's clinch to the Major, @hockserRL has set 2 RLCS records;. Most time between LAN appearances at 1,301 days and most LANs between appearances at 6, last making S8 Worlds. The previous holders are CJCJ, Express, and Metsa with 1,125 days and ajg/Reys/Alpha at 4.
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Stop me if you've heard this before:. - Team of relative unknowns, someone been around a bit and 2 newcomers has strong offseason.- First two regionals middling results, final regional they finally start to break through.- Plays Joreuz in QF, close 7 game series w/ multiple OTs.
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.@TeamLiquid's perfect sweep of @MoistEsports:. 6th Bo7 perfect sweep all time.5th Bo7 perfect sweep this season.2nd Bo7 perfect sweep in EU.2nd time Moist has been perfect swept this season.Moist shutout for 27m 46s, longest scoreless streak for them this season. #RLCS.
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@AcroniK Do you prefer Groups (Winter) where you would have finished 9th-12th with today's results? Or Double Elim (Spring) where you would have finish 9th-12th with today's results?. Objectively speaking swiss is the most fair and if not for it you would be 9th-12th instead of top 8.
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G2. Ghost of the Past: Vitality 4-3 Win.Ghost of the Present: BDS 4-1 Win.Ghost of the Future: Karmine/Gentle Mates ???.
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With @G2RocketLeague's win, @At0micRL now sits atop NA with the most regional wins, grand final appearances, top 4 appearances, and top 8 appearances.
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