300 hours in and I didn't know that hand-braking while you're landing at an angle to your momentum preserves your momentum instead of jack-knifing you. That and slamming the brakes while you're on the wall right before you hit the ball gives you a lot more control. I suppose there's a tips and tricks thread on reddit that has all this but I'm lazy.

All you need to know is: I didn't score a single goal last night with you guys. You're welcome!

Someone should find it and link to it.

Weevil in goal

Weevil in front of goal

https://gfycat.com/AcrobaticWaryGermanshepherd

Looks like a drunken malus aerial, amirite

Hotshot is for winners!

I definitely should have started this game, a long long time ago.

Been playing 2's with Walski
http://www.twitch.tv/jackitos/

Picking this up tmw probably; assuming my new psu gets here and that's the problem with my computer.

Fun game, no clue at all about what I am doing

Welcome to the previous 637 posts.

Never forget: http://gfycat.com/HairyShallowCoqui

RIP Krayz

I can't stop laughing when I see that

I still laugh every time I see it... the whiff, followed by the desperation... it's hilarious

Managing to stay unranked in 2v2 and solo 3v3, but am carrying games pretty solidly. Losing to dumb mistakes from me or my team.

Carried like 9 games last night. Won 6 or 7 of them. May get BRONZE 1 soon.

I feel that I'm miles above people in that area, but way far below silvers and a few bronze 3 players that I know.

protip: stop smashing the ball back to the other team and start controlling the ball.

I don't really understand what this guy keeps going on about with waiting for the bounce and slowing things down:
- you often need the momentum of the ball to do anything with it, a still ball isn't going to do a lot for you especially if you don't have distance to gain speed before hitting it
- in a game with rockets attached to the back of your car you really don't have THAT much time to do something brilliant with the ball before they're flying at you and you don't pick where it goes anymore cause it's now a 50/50

Like, the first instance in that video where he says the guy made the right decision by slowing it down and waiting, the ensuing play probably should have been a disaster for his team - he made a ****ty, slow hit off the wall and the attacking blue player then whiffed, his teammate hits it forward meekly and another blue player gets a solid hit into the red zone that gets blocked by the previously mentioned blue attacking player. Like, everything went right for red on that play and it still wasn't very good!

There's definitely some merit to thinking through your actions a little more thoroughly when you have the time to plan out a more optimal way to strike the ball, but I have a hard time taking it to the extreme that this guy does (at our skill level, anyway).

Plus, I just love it when the game is fast-paced and people are flying all over the place.

Well. I would consider that he's on the #1 team in North America and try to implement the advice before burning it. I think a main takeaway is trying to make passes and control the ball rather than just hitting it as hard as you can at the other team for an easy clear. You probably have to be able to do some dribbling for it to work properly.

Pretty sure the optimal strat is to drive as fast as you can towards the ball 100% of the time.

That's what's known as the bluef0x strat and if you've seen it in action it is definitely suboptimal.