After winning the Spring Open, Spring Cup, and Spring Invitational, our young Rocket League team won the RLCS 2022-23 Spring Split Major in Boston.
A perfect Spring Split for our 3 players: Alpha54, Zen and Radosin, who were attending their very first Major together. This is the first time in the game's history that a team has achieved a perfect Split, meaning winning 3 regionals and the Major.
A memorable run from the lower bracket
This fantastic run began with two victories on July 6 against the American teams Elevate, then Complexity. This good start automatically qualified us for the upper bracket, without having to play again the next day.
And that's where things got complicated, during the first public match on July 8. For the first time on the stage for our young prodigy Zen in the upper-bracket semifinals, our team fell to a team BDS in great form. This defeat, which sent us straight to the lower bracket, was only the second on the split. But it was not enough to demoralize our young players: against GenG, they won 4-0 and qualified for the rest of the competition.
Then, Championship Sunday smiled on us. Despite an attractive Rule One team, our team had no trouble with it, with a 4-0 victory. The team also set the record for overtime in LAN Rocket League against their opponents in game 3 with +12:02 (meaning 17min02 the match). For his first meeting with the other Rocket League prodigy, RW9, Zen therefore won without trembling.
In the lower bracket final, Team Vitality faced its rivals from KCorp. In a very close duel that ended in overtime in game 7, Team Vitality scored 3 goals in 2 minutes. Just enough to qualify us for the grand final against BDS!
Exhausted but determined, our players and their coach Ferra set out on the race for the bracket reset. In two BO7, Team Vitality managed to maintain its status as leader by winning 4-2, then 4-1. Thus, they achieved the feat of the perfect split for their very first Major.
The split of all records
In just two months, our Rocket League team managed to write history: they are the first team to achieve the perfect split. With a great captain Alpha54 and a fiery Radosin, we had a magnificent spring season. But it was Zen who really stood out and left with the Major MVP and Offensive MVP trophies. Beautiful recognitions that come to reward efforts and an incredible performance on the server. Another notable distinction: our incredible coach Ferra becomes the first person on the scene to win a Major as a player and as a coach.
In total, Team Vitality has now accumulated enough points to qualify directly for the Worlds Main Event next August.
Witness to the show offered by this Major, the RLCS Spring Split Major 2023 became the second most watched Rocket League event with a peak audience of 323,000 viewers and an average of 133,212 viewers (according to Esports Charts).