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I'm no Kronovi, by any stretch of the imagination, but on the off chance any of you are planning to try out Rocket League and, like me, don't have a dedicated group to play it with as a premade, here are some helpful tips so you don't end up being "that guy".

1. Play your sodding position. You don't have to stay in the position you spawn into(randomly) at each kickoff for a whole play, but for Christ's sake if you spawn in the goalie or defender position don't just go full-derp at the ball anyway, you're just wasting your boost(because you physically can't get there faster than the striker position, they spawn closer) and leaving the goal open if the opposing team gets a lucky bounce.

2. Keep your boost full as much as you can, but don't fixate on getting the full-boost pickups all the time, go for them during a lull not when the opposing team are shagging your goal.

3. Learn to rotate around. Even if you're playing with randoms and no voice comms, you can still be effective as a team providing you don't all just lemming at the ball all the time, getting in each others' way and risking giving the opponent a free shot at an open goal when you inevitably lose control of the ball. When you see the other two guys are playing down the side or in the enemy corner, stay near the centre of the pitch ready to take a shot if the ball gets put in or to defend if the opposition get it away; if the rest of your team are fighting the opponent in your own corner or the opposition are belting down either side, move back to the goal and at least try to save, even if you're not particularly good at it; most importantly, learn to make your play and then back off - if you try and stay on the ball constantly all you're doing is getting in the way when a teammate tries to use what you've done(this is especially true when attacking; if you cross the ball in, cross it and rotate back to the centre, trust your team to take the shot, I've lost count of the amount of times someone getting greedy and trying to get the goal themselves after a cross has either blocked their teammate, blocked their teammate's shot, or even knocked their own bloody cross away into their own half).

4. Spamming the "Nice shot!" and "What a save!" quickchats sarcastically at your own team every time the opposition score or a completely unpredictable bounce/deflection scores an own-goal just makes you look like a petulant wee kiddie, and it's not much better when you do it to the opposition in those circumstances either.

5. You might be tempted to try and "psych-out" the other team in chat. Personally I think it's unsporting, but a lot of folk consider it perfectly fair, each to their own I suppose. However, please, do everyone including yourself a favour and don't try to psych-out the opposing team by pulling some creepy, lecherous, 90's Yahoo Chat-stalker crap with the person who has a female name, it's just gross(sadly, this is not a hypothetical example).

All that said, if you've not already, buy this game(and an xbox controller if you're on PC and don't already have one), it is stupid amounts of fun.

People take this game way to seriously...