nd these teams have a lot of catching up to do to end up in the playoff spots.NAs G2 Esports

The Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) is halfway over, and what better way to spend the mid-season break than to look back at the first half? Whether its the world champions struggling or upstarts rising to the challenge, action in the RLCS never disappoints. Without further ado, here are our picks for the most disappointing team and the teams that most exceeded expectations.Underperformer of the TournamentThe RLCS has not been kind to certain teams in the first half of the season, and these teams have a lot of catching up to do to end up in the playoff spots.NAs G2 Esports, the world champions, have been underperforming more than any other team in the world over the last month. The drop in results is unprecedented; two months ago G2 was unquestionably on top of the world of Rocket League and now they sit at 0-3, which is almost out of playoff contention. G2s game score doesnt bode much better as they have only won two of the 11 matches they have played and they did not look cohesive even in victory.G2 is underperforming for a multitude of reasons, some they have admitted and others the community has inferred. When two members of the three-player squad, Cameron Kronovi Bills and Ted Over Zero Keil, move residences in the same month, practice may of course slip. The problems seem deeper though. G2 does not look like a team, instead seeming to play like three individuals and its painfully different from the style that won them the title World Champions of RLCS Season 1. If G2 can return to its fast-paced consistent style from Season 1 anything is possible, but the team has a lot to do during these next two weeks.A look at the stats does not brighten the hopes of any G2 fans, as G2 simply has not put up good numbers anywhere. G2 has shot less than anyone else with 6.44 a game. This may sound like a rather benign stat, but in RLCS Season 1 where they managed to win, they outshot everyone other than runners-up FlipSid3 Tactics. When you dont shoot, you dont score; G2 has scored the fewest goals of any team from either NA or EU, scoring only 1.18 times per game. To compare that to two of its counterparts: Mockit Aces scores nearly 3 times that many goals a game (3.25) and Exodus, the number one North American team, scores more than twice that (2.82).Wherever G2s issues stem from, it does not have long to fix them. We will all wait with bated breath to see if it can revive in the second half of the season.Overperformer(s) of the TournamentFor underperformer of the tournament there could really only be one answer, but for overperformer there are two.Deception and Red Eye, two teams most predicted to be near the bottom of the barrel in their respective regions, are pulling out many more results than anyone but the players themselves thought they would.First off, Deception. The players from Deception had to know they had people unhappy they made it into League Play, yet they did not care if others thought they were undeserving. The very first game of the tournament Deception came out and took Exodus, one of the better teams in the world, to game five. Deception sits on a precipice: one upset and it may make it into the top six and the next stage, yet its loss to Vindicator suggests that a slow fall has already begun.Whatever anyone says about Deception, the squad has a nearly 50 percent W/L result so far (8-9). Deception has been pushing teams to the limit and beyond. Deception also has provided some of the most exciting games in RLCS, scoring the third most per game in the world at 2.47 goals per game. If Deception can tighten up its defense it could legitimately move towards the status of top team come the second half of the season. Either way it will always be very entertaining to watch.Red Eye ... is an interesting team. Most people have them as the sixth or seventh best team in Europe, and that ranking is not necessarily unfair to them. Halfway through the season they sit in fourth though, and that begins to raise questions, are they actually good enough for a top half finish?They currently sit in fourth with a 10-6 game score and look to be prepared to comfortably qualify for the regional playoffs. As a team, Red Eye has very quietly been going about its work and sit in a Grand Finals spot currently; the question for them is truly if they can hold onto that or not. Their stats across the board are very good: second in Win percentage (62.5 percent), fifth in goals per game (2.12) as well as fifth in shot per game (7.81). If Red Eye shores up its game during the next two weeks, it could easily be seen as a Grand Finals contender and perhaps even more.Whether its the world champs crashing, the upstarts pushing towards the top, or even the quiet team unexpectedly sitting in a Grand Finals spot, RLCS has left nothing to desire for hungry Rocket League fans. 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Walker-Kimbrough added 17 points for Maryland, which has started the season 11-0 for the second consecutive year.The Terrapins scored 21 points off 23 turnovers.They are so consistent for us and come ready to play like seniors and leaders should do, Maryland coach Brenda Frese said about Jones and Walker-Kimbrough. But weve got to be able to continue to build the depth out of that to be a dominant team.Maryland has won its last 17 meetings against Loyola and leads the all-time series 22-3.Bri Betz-White led Loyola (4-6) with 17 points, while Lauren Daugherty added 16. Carly Monzo and Stephanie Karcz had 10 points apiece for the Greyhounds, who were out-rebounded 44-23.Jones had eight points and Maryland led 26-12 at the end of the first quarter. The Terrapins were 11 of 14 from the field and outscored Loyola 18-6 inside the paint during that time.Maryland maintained pressure and forced turnovers on Loyolas first three possessions of the second quarter. 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