Season 7 Rankings: #20-11

Welcome to the North American RCS Season 7 Top 50! Each year we look back on the previous competitive season and the players who influenced our scene by creating a Top 50 Players list. The rankings are created by a community panel that considers data from across the season to construct a comprehensive list that highlights our top players and their accomplishments.

View more articles in the Season Seven NA Rankings Series:

• • Introduction & Methodology
  • #50-41
  • #40-31
  • #30-21
  • #20-11 (You are here.)
  • #10-1

#20 – 11

“Wrastor Sucks” – Big Mike

20. MattyIce

MattyIce is a titan of Rivals history, holding onto one of the longest active local Top 8 streaks and seemingly returning to the game at any time without skipping a beat. MattyIce was able to attend the first Premier event of Season 7 with a 5th place finish while taking down Kodako, MSB, and Backpack on the way. Following GoTE 4The Kids 7, MattyIce made his presence known as an online threat, placing 9th and 7th respectively at both RCS Gold events. Outside of Rivals, MattyIce works for the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays as a Major League Baseball employee. Fittingly, he also competes at a top level in the Mario Superstar Baseball community and holds the world record for the game’s Any % category.

“Mash smarter, not harder.”

19. Codek

Leaping into 19th this season is a Ranno main who originally aimed to crack the top 20 next season. Little did he know that his accomplishments this season would land him comfortably in this goal a year early. Codek secured 3rd place at The Kingpin 10 with big time wins over Seggo, darai, and Sawtooth before having his run extinguished by the #1 and #2 frontrunners of Season 7. After multiple seasons of primarily online events, Codek aims to travel to more LAN events and take a shot at earning his place as the world’s best Ranno.

“It’s ride or get rode.”

18. Gizmo

Gizmo is an old school Rivals player that has been playing and competing online for eight years. Season 7 marks Gizmo’s first appearance on the Top 50 Rankings at an incredible #18 while finally experiencing the thrill of traveling to offline tournaments. Gizmo picked up multiple top 10 wins along the way, proving to be a menace with a deep character pool, ready to counterpick opponents with Zetterburn or Wrastor in the rare occasions his Maypul wasn’t cutting it. Gizmo is now in college and is using his time studying computer science and jazz studies while maintaining a love of the outdoors and weight lifting lifestyles. If you do see him at majors during Season 8, you can expect him to be enjoying his time as a spectator or exploring whatever city he may be in with friends.

“Do you seriously think that I’m going to give you more advice after that blunder you just did?”

17. Giga

Giga comes in at 17, marking the highest placing Sylvanos and Hodan of the Top 50 rankings! He had an extremely active Season 7, traveling to five of the seven LAN Premier events, both RCS Silver, and a RCS Bronze event. During this time, Giga spent a good chunk of the season figuring out how to make his new Hodan co-main work in matchup spreads, starting off Season 7 with a massive 2nd place finish at TAPS 5 and recognizing that Sylvanos could help him make those adjustments to punch even higher above the belt than ever before. This formula looks to boil over into Season 8 as Giga plans to make a run at the top 10 to cement himself even deeper in Rivals history.

“All this McDonalds is finally paying off.”

16. Nbad

Nbad is a veteran Canadian player who has been a community leader and T.O. for the online RCS for several years. While always a top level threat, he had his breakout tournament this year at Heat Wave 5, where his cinderella losers run capped out with seven straight sets to earn a remarkable 4th place at the event. Nbad’s Heat Wave 5 victories consisted of seven unique current and former Top 50 players, including a 3-0 over top 10 mainstay, ZeeBee. Beyond his Heat Wave 5, Nbad had a solid online presence with a 9th place finish at The Kingpin 10 and 13th place at RCS June. Looking to Season 8, Nbad looks forward to helping out with events through T.O. duties at weeklies and seeding for majors.

15. Bagel

As if there was a theme for Canadian players with cinderella stories, coming in at 15 is Bagel, who had been a beacon for consistency up until his grueling losers run at Genesis 9. After giving up on his dream of reaching the big stage at the RCS Finals, Bagel went on the run of a lifetime to take out multiple top 10 players back to back to stun the Rivals world with a 5th place finish. Bagel was incredibly active this season, attending Premier and community events left and right, while also acting as the driving force to bringing Rivals to GOML 2022. As a competitor, and a community leader, Bagel has been batting a thousand, with his eyes set on the return of GOML in 2023, where he hopes to blow the previous year’s event out of the water.

“Please sub to my YouTube.”

14. Sparx21

After breaking into the top 10 in Season 4, Sparx21 felt like he had met his goal of being a threat to any player in the game. After the pandemic hit and locals slowly returned in Season 6, Sparx21 realized that he wanted to remain an active obstacle to anyone trying to make a run, while also spreading himself out to other hobbies and games. He has placed within the top 15 for two seasons in a row and has been able to place in the Top 6 of two separate events in Season 7, soundly accomplishing that goal. Sparx21 is looking forward to entering more traditional FGC games this year while attempting to continue his balancing act at COST 2023 and various other Grassroots League events in Season 8.

“Hydraulics Pumping.”

13. MSB

What can we say about MSB that hasn’t been said since RCS Season 1? The Kragg specialist and legendary competitor attended 14 of the 17 eligible events in Season 7, besting several top 10 players with his signature flair along the way. Despite his exceedingly active lifestyle, MSB has been focusing on content creation, game development, and picking up a new secondary in the few hours he isn’t in a bracket. Since Season 7 has concluded, MSB has already made waves in Season 8 with a 2nd place finish at Major Upset after a thrilling Grand Finals reset, and a trip to Arizona for Smash Camp, where he has been both terrorizing and teaching their local scene the ways of the turnaround rock-shine. Since he has already signed up for GoTE 4TheKids 8, we think it is safe to say that you should expect to see a lot more of the wonder Kragg and his trusty sidekick, Sylvanos at a slew of events throughout the year.

“Que sera, sera.”

12. Tapscott

In his first real season of maining Wrastor, Tapscott has seemingly skyrocketed up the Top 50 with a volley of top level wins and excruciatingly close sets against Rivals legends like CakeAssault and Penguin. Tapscott was able to place in the Top 8 at two Premier events and 5th at TAPS 5, turning heads with his safe and deliberate neutral and his ability to turn a single opening into a stock. Tapscott expects to travel to events less frequently next season, but we can be certain that his intensity and determination to win will put fear into his opponents wherever he appears.

“There’s nothing to it but to do it.”

11. Wai

Wai first came out to an offline major at Genesis 7, where he was able to upset several top level players in a vision of things to come. Fast forward to RCS Season 7 and Wai made a name for himself with a 2nd place finish at Sunnyshore and a shocking run to place 3rd at The Big House 10. Wai became one of the most consistent players in the community with snapshots of glory, including wins over the likes of Penguin, ZeeBee, and many more. He hopes to collect this energy and focus on improving to win a major with Ranno in Season 8. Don’t be surprised with the world’s best fall one by one as Wai continues his journey.