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I would love to participate but I am like Gold 2 or Gold 3 and usually have weird Pacific time hours.

pandasuit wrote:

The Middle Aged Noobs discord is doing a 2v2 Heatseeker tournament next Sunday (November 1) at 4pm Eastern (1pm Western). Some matches may be streamed on their Twitch.

You can sign up as a team or as a free agent for random team assignment. Sign up here:
https://battlefy.com/middle-age-noob...

Dorkmanship and I are signed up already.

I’m not sure if you have to be a member of their discord to join but if you do you can join easily here:
https://discord.com/channels/2145388...

Edit: fixed date. Thanks for the correction Norfair.

I just noticed they re-scheduled the tournament to Saturday November the 7th at 4pm Eastern (1pm Western) as the original date no longer works for the team running the tournament.

We ended up doing our own 2v2 Heatseeker tournament this past weekend and it was pretty fun. Used randomly generated teams again. Kinda nice that we can take any mutator mode and roll our own private tournaments. I believe we had a wider range of player skill levels this time and playing a non-standard mode like Heatseeker levels things out a lot more.

Edgar_Newt wrote:

I would love to participate but I am like Gold 2 or Gold 3 and usually have weird Pacific time hours. :)

If you can make it that would be great. We had Gold players in the tournament this past weekend and they fit in really well when we use a mutator like Heatseeker.

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My wife and I started playing unranked couch co-op together on the Xbox One and having a lot of fun. Is anyone still playing bad drunken rottle bockets in the evenings EST?

Drunken rocket league (Bottle Rockets) is on Saturday evenings, other bad rocket league play is every other night. Check the discord server you should see a few folks in there every evening.

The MAN Heatseeker tournament is this Saturday. Still only 2 teams signed up but I talked to their event coordinator today and she says they usually don’t get sign ups until the last moment so she’s still expecting a good turnout. Anyone else here interested in signing up?

https://battlefy.com/middle-age-noob...

Wow. I had a fun competitive run today during kid's nap time. Got a random team and we destroyed a team of 3 like 8-2. Everything was going well. One guy scored 4 or 5, kind of carrying us, and I got a couple goals late. He invited us to party up.

Next game another easy win, and the other guy was MVP. 5-2 or something, other team forfeited early.

Next game I blew a save early, we got down. But then we stormed back, and won 6-4. I got MVP for that one. With 30 seconds left, heard my daughter waking up, so I had to bail.

Wonder how far we could have went? But 3 matches with 3 wins with 3 different MVPs... it was like a dream.

Sent them epic friend requests as I logged off, hopefully I'll run into either of them again sometime.

pandasuit wrote:

The MAN Heatseeker tournament is this Saturday. Still only 2 teams signed up but I talked to their event coordinator today and she says they usually don’t get sign ups until the last moment so she’s still expecting a good turnout. Anyone else here interested in signing up?

https://battlefy.com/middle-age-noob...

Had enough people show up right at the event to make more teams and get a tournament out of it. Dork and I lost our first series, won our second, then lost our third to drop out (won the first match in the series but get destroyed in the second and third).

Some of the people we ran into were very good at bumps and redirects. The best I've seen. It definitely showed where I need to improve in heatseeker.

I hope they do more heatseeker tournaments on MAN and we should keep doing them on GWJ.

ragin_redneck wrote:

Drunken rocket league (Bottle Rockets) is on Saturday evenings, other bad rocket league play is every other night. Check the discord server you should see a few folks in there every evening.

Thank you! I am Mixol on XBL and posted in Discord.

This has been a helpful video since it seems like almost every day for the past couple months has been an off day for me and this ranked season as a whole has been a mess.

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Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Even though it was the longest match we played (10 minutes overtime?) I think the cube ball match was the most fun all night.

pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Even though it was the longest match we played (10 minutes overtime?) I think the cube ball match was the most fun all night.

Yay I was there for the highlight.

Was fun seeing (hearing?) everyone again after several months. I'll try to make it in more regular as babies permit.

pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Even though it was the longest match we played (10 minutes overtime?) I think the cube ball match was the most fun all night.

That was amazing and weird. Glad I could help!

Mixolyde wrote:
pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Even though it was the longest match we played (10 minutes overtime?) I think the cube ball match was the most fun all night.

That was amazing and weird. Glad I could help!

Imagine cube ball with a higher bounce setting on that horseshoe map with the ramp in front of the net? True chaos!

This Bottle Rockets was the closest to the good old days we’ve had in a long time. Laughing, drinking, and ridiculous mutators. Thanks for that!

pandasuit wrote:
pandasuit wrote:

The MAN Heatseeker tournament is this Saturday. Still only 2 teams signed up but I talked to their event coordinator today and she says they usually don’t get sign ups until the last moment so she’s still expecting a good turnout. Anyone else here interested in signing up?

https://battlefy.com/middle-age-noob...

Had enough people show up right at the event to make more teams and get a tournament out of it. Dork and I lost our first series, won our second, then lost our third to drop out (won the first match in the series but get destroyed in the second and third).

Some of the people we ran into were very good at bumps and redirects. The best I've seen. It definitely showed where I need to improve in heatseeker.

I hope they do more heatseeker tournaments on MAN and we should keep doing them on GWJ.

Unfortunately my team mate had to cancel last minute so I got paired up with another random player who'd never played before. I spent most of our two lost matches trying to coach him on some of the finer points. Kinda disappointing but it was fun to watch the other matches after we got eliminated.

pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:
pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Thanks, everyone. The Boss and I had a lot of fun!

Even though it was the longest match we played (10 minutes overtime?) I think the cube ball match was the most fun all night.

That was amazing and weird. Glad I could help!

Imagine cube ball with a higher bounce setting on that horseshoe map with the ramp in front of the net? True chaos!

This Bottle Rockets was the closest to the good old days we’ve had in a long time. Laughing, drinking, and ridiculous mutators. Thanks for that!

I agree, it was a blast. Lets do it again Saturday. Thanks for DJing the mutators Norfair!

No problema. If you come up with combination of mutators you want for next time post it in here and I'll try to remember them.

Small ball, low bounce, heavy

Hockey on the pillars map can be fun.

There’s a freeze tag “mode” you can play where everyone has unlimited boost and flies around the whole time and if you touch the wall or ground you are frozen and can’t move. If a teammate touches you then you are unfrozen. First team fully frozen is out and the other team gets a goal. First to 5 goals wins.

It tends to have fast rounds regardless of player rank because the more experienced aerial players go for mid air demos on each other the whole time which often results in them messing up and hitting a wall. Also people trying to rescue teammates often crash and burn spectacularly. Was pretty fun last time I played it.

There’s another “mode” where one team has one player with unlimited boost and the other teams has 4 players without any boost. Can be really fun. Depending on number of players and comfort level without boost you can have more players fill in on either team to make it more fair.

Tag?

What?

Ok.

Huh another great afternoon. Won 8 or 9 in a row. Went from D1 to D3 in Rumble, all while the kids were napping.

Boss and I are still awful at aerial acrobatics, so not too many of those modes, please.
We should be available again this weekend after toddler bedtime.

If we can find a custom mode that is fun for everyone we should try it in another random team tournament

Honestly, what about Snow Day. I feel like aerial mechanics and ball control are less important in that mode. I would think it would be an easier mode for people of different skill level to be competitive at.

Boss and I both like Snow Day for that reason, just need to practice the wall juggling. How do you normally center or pass in that mode?

Mixolyde wrote:

Boss and I both like Snow Day for that reason, just need to practice the wall juggling. How do you normally center or pass in that mode?

I carry it to the top of the wall and pass off the roof.

pandasuit wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

Boss and I both like Snow Day for that reason, just need to practice the wall juggling. How do you normally center or pass in that mode?

I carry it to the top of the wall and pass off the roof.

You can send it up the wall into the corner aiming for it to drop in front of the net for a teammate.

Is anyone ever online 5 am to 7:30 am CST? I am usually online somewhere in there. I'm working to get my training wheels off again after taking some time off.

Stele wrote:

Huh another great afternoon. Won 8 or 9 in a row. Went from D1 to D3 in Rumble, all while the kids were napping.

Got my diamond season rewards done yesterday. Didn't even notice until later, probably happened during that run.

Probably no hope for champ still, so maybe back to casual to have more fun games and just keep doing weekly stuff to make sure I earn enough coins for the next rocket pass.