The Longest Esports Matches Ever

every game of League I've ever lost felt like 200 hours so I can relate
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[@w4k3]

For anyone wondering about the AOE game, it got to around 100 hours before rubens internet cut out temporarily and he got disconnected

[@1.Radiance.3]

This is so tragic

[@emred4653]

Oh thats sad. İf i was him i would sue the internet provider

[@schwarz8614]

@@emred4653 because of one match?

[@TheRambunctious]

The lord sends his toughest soldiers his shittiest internet.

[@b4rk_b4rk]

@@schwarz8614 if it was worth money sure, but its not, so it's pointless to sue lol.

[@KevimationYT]

Imagine being the guy who goes AFK in a 72 hour game.

[@SkyNinja759]

Gotta take a dump eventually. Battle of the bowels.

[@neoncamouflage]

It went to almost 100 hours before Ruben disconnected. It was wild, they were trying to time out when the other person was sleeping so they could slowly wear down the castles.

[@ziwuri]

@@SkyNinja759 I play on a gaming laptop😈

[@SkyNinja759]

@@ziwuri I forgot big A's viewers are all true sigma chads.

[@jimmythecrow]

imagine being someone who played a 72 hour game.

[@EnderSword]

Surprised no mention of the 3 hour 20 minute StarCraft 2 game, in a high level tournament, held the entire bracket up for hours. At one point Zerg vs Terran at high level was just standard over an hour long, with tons of 2 hour+ games, it was a horrible period of time.

[@byrontheusurper6505]

Starcraft sounds so fucking interesting!

[@Dexstar3210]

@@byrontheusurper6505 it is and it's not that hard to get into

[@snickle1980]

@@byrontheusurper6505 😐

[@Nickyy64]

Thank god for legacy of the void. This sort of thing doesn’t happen now a days. Players being better also helps. The days of 1 hour TvZ turtle fests are over. Now 40 minute games are super long.

[@belg4r489]

@@Dexstar3210 Bro, like I get liking it a lot, but really, not hard to get into... cmon man

[@dempsea4468]

i love how every story i hear about aiden is him being a great person but also just being so grimy when it comes to winning. After hearing this and the story about him not doing a double or nothing on the yard.

[@shotgotit_]

"The Only Reason We Play Melee" is a fucking masterpiece, I've watched it no fewer than 10 times. One of the best FGC content pieces ever made

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

Videos about Smash History are lowkey goated. To anyone who enjoyed what they saw from that Michael vs Bananas video I'd recommend: Melee Stats, Turn Down For Walt, and PGStats (hope I'm not forgetting any others). Practical TAS also made 2 really good videos about Melee's Break the Targets world records. Lastly I'd also like to recommend GRtr4sh for his videos that use clips and music to paint a picture rather than actually commentary. He mostly does content for the newer Smash games, but his video Mang0: The Musical is possibly my favorite Melee video so if there's one thing I'd recommend over anything else from this comment it would be to watch that.

[@TriopsTrilobite]

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 mang0 the musical is so good for anyone interested in smash

[@imtwisi4039]

@@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569 iirc archivesaus (asumsauce's old channel where he posted clips) is p sick, a lot of legendary melee moments on there with some kinda theme tying them together

[@drakejoshofficialyoutubech5569]

@@imtwisi4039 Thanks for reminding me of Archivesaus (and Asumsaus as well) This is why I included that part about how I hope I didn't forget anyone. I KNEW that I was forgetting a really good channel, but I couldn't remember who it was.

[@gwen6622]

"the game couldnt possibly capture a person's personality, if boring people did not have an avenue to be their boring selves" is such a fire line

[@fiziktetrinet2330]

The 1000 year dynasty Atrioc couldn’t build.

[@deanvandijk9670]

I love how everyone instantly knows it's gonna be about Aimen in the Sheik ditto story

[@jrdnanitsua]

I've been gaming since Day one, Longest gamer out here, Yes Atrioc!

[@daylate]

$100 that's a false statement.

[@xxfloppypillowxx]

Someone needs to tell him about the longest pro dota 2 match that took over 200 minutes or almost 3 and a half hours for a SINGLE game and the worst part is that this was just for a qualifier

[@Spr1ditis]

Was that the one with Purge and OD Pixel commenting?

[@MrMpakobec]

It was fun to watch, game started to break at some point and there was quite a few visual bugs. Teams was speaking to each other all the time and sometimes there was an attempts to end this madness.

[@martinkodet6429]

It also started breaking the game's graphics, and kick-started ODPixels career

[@unexardiximarion1920]

Is it the one with the korean casters yelling SPIRIT BEAR like madmen?

[@bashmash8605]

@@unexardiximarion1920 Nah,game is cloud9 vs scaryfacezz ,this was the c9 squad with EE IF I member correctly

[@Caiser]

"think about eSports on TV and it's best if three so you never know when it'll end" that's basically how tennis works

[@nuclearchocolates]

Isner and Mahut say hello

[@shivamkanodia9826]

14:05 pretty sure thats Aimen at the event, i even remember him telling something about this thing as well on an old ludwig stream

[@Versace_sheets]

Actually is lmao

[@jonnyzee7192]

Atrioc confirmed this lol must’ve been edited out

[@MB-jt9gs]

Didn't even mention the 3+ year game of Diplomacy.

[@nacht6747]

Yoo somebody knows diplomacy

[@saxo689]

Did you watch oliver lugg’s video?

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I LOVE melee history videos, melee stats RULES! I'm not even into smash anymore, never been into melee, but hearing about the melee community is my favourite thing to do on the internet

[@Ridlay_]

This brings me back to the days of the Lego Star Wars III Versus mode. It literally puts you on a giant battlefield and you go around building defenses and raising troops to fight a freaking war. Me and a friend of mine would easily play a single match for over an hour and I don’t think we ever really finished them because one had to go, but we had a blast. That mode was actually amazing.

[@CriticalKunic]

Damn and I thought the 3 hour single round FPS match I played in for the short lived Neotokyo esports scene was long. This one trumps that by quite a bit lol Edit for clarity: 5v5 death is permanent till the next round like in CSGO. Round had no time limit. We stalemated for 3 hours…

[@bepissam7961]

lmfaoo thats wild bro

[@bphelpsy0044]

is there any footage of this wild feat?

[@chunkysweirdtoaster3081]

It's not even a gunfight at that point it's a small-scale siege

[@CriticalKunic]

@@bphelpsy0044 Unfortunately not. This is back late 2009, where most people didn't even have something that could capture video. And even if they did, they didn't have the disk space to store a video of that size. I think there was a Source demo floating around for awhile, but I never had a copy of it =/

[@CriticalKunic]

@@chunkysweirdtoaster3081 This was a game mode like capture the flag, but with something they called a ghost. Whoever held the ghost couldn't use their weapons, but essentially had wall hacks. We had the ghost and used the spotter to see that the entire enemy team was camping our capture point. The 3 hours was us waiting for enough of their members to move in a certain direction in order for us to bolt past them using frags for distraction. Unfortunately, even though this was a tournament match, it didn’t follow standard tournament rules with a turn time limit. Us hitting this ~3 hour single turn time quickly spread around the community and not only became a meme (to “pull a zanshi”, which was our team name) but contributed in the decline of the scene.

[@minionofhavoc7266]

"90 minutes is long" classic lol. Someone tell him the longest pro dota match is over 200 minutes.

[@BigChimppin]

This LoL game isnt even the longest game in MOBA history I remember in 2015 C9 vs SFZ at Dota TI the game went on for 3hours and 20 something minutes

[@SonyOne]

You're right, but it wasn't TI, it was Starladder 12 group stage match

[@whymethough2701]

I think he talked about it a little during the stream, but he knows like nothing about Dota so he didn't talk about it for long.

[@BigChimppin]

@@SonyOne yeah you're right I forgot it's has been so long

[@georgiishmakov9588]

also, fun fact - the Russian cast of this game is fucking hilarious and resembles more a standup comedy session than a dota game, with the casters just reading jokes off of twitter the whole time.

[@jrgenaarvik7671]

I love long DOTA games. Probably patched now but at one point the game just broke if it went too long. Random effects happened all over the map constantly making it super trippy to watch.

[@TG7FN]

R6 siege 2019 invitaional, G2 vs Empire 1st map went a full hour and 20 min long. ended up playing 2 more maps after this in a best of 5 for a 3 hour long series

[@snickle1980]

It's 5am and I'm ready for Atrioc to start screaming at me. Happy Tarketing Tues, chat. 💖

[@essgeekay8091]

Should have included Gerson vs Superboomfan's hour long game 1 in ssb64. At the time, only vanilla ssb64 was used in tournaments which didn't have a timer and the Peruvian scene played on Hyrule. Boom capitalized on this by camping the living hell out of Gerson, including a 23 minute stretch of no damage being dealt whatsoever.

[@asdfjackal]

12:02 The difference between wobbling and what M2K was doing is while M2K was ledge chaining Wobbles could press buttons on his controller and his character would take actions. When you get wobbled you just get to sit there until you die or your opponent drops combo, you don't get to do anything.

[@w4k3]

there was once a Best of 3 overwatch league game that lasted 3 hours and went to map 7 because both teams were so bad they kept drawing

[@ycz6]

do you have a link this sounds hilarious

[@w4k3]

@@ycz6 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4CsXmhnbNmpocU here's the full match!

[@hotshotpc]

I remember a grand finals match in 2019 for Rainbow Six between Empire and G2 went on for 90 minutes and 22 rounds, which is insane for Rainbow. Typically, a long match is 9.

[@Sgtcrazyeyes235]

There was an r6 siege game that went on for like 3 and a half hours which is a long time even in pl, most games finish when one team gets 7 wins but it was finals with unlimited OT where you need a lead of 2 wins, G2 vs team empire the first game went 12-10 because neither team let up for a second. An absolutely insane match that they had to play 2 other games afterwards

[@dudeguy4104]

This is a certified Brandon "I've gotta talk about this" Ewing glazzic

[@charredolive]

13:05 that spike caught me so off guard bro 😂😂😂

[@calebrussell3737]

This is amazing. I heard the Aimen Shiek story like a month ago on The Yard and this is just the best payoff.

[@McMoondog23]

Melee stats makes some of the best content on KZbin bar none

[@natmadgwo6679]

im so sad he didnt see the longest dota 2 game. thats the craziest long game ive ever seen

[@dylanfarris7647]

Yeah it's very weird that as soon as Wobbling gets banned all the IC mains suddenly disappear. It's almost like they were hard carried by an obviously super broken option and didn't deserve their wins in the first place.

[@danlorett2184]

It's almost like Ice Climbers is barely mid tier WITH wobbling, and without wobbling they're pretty fucking bad.

[@hibiki8473]

Ice climbers with wobbling was at best 8th character without it they barely stay mid tier cause sheik at least they fuck up

[@michaelcloss565]

The controller spike was by far the best one. While I have never done that because I don't want to damage my own stuff, I feel that deep in my soul.

[@David-ts2hw]

03:20:34. In 2015 a match between Europe and CIS hopefuls would end in the longest game of competitive Dota 2 ever played.

[@FluffyFluffles]

I feel like you can't do justice to this topic without mentioning game 2 of Stephano vs Petraeus at Lone Star Clash 3.

[@justintkain]

i also immediately thought of that game! free units fighting free units for hours

[@psuw]

The moment someone picked IceBreaker and did the wobble I just would have left without a word

[@pattysalazar6823]

why everyone got a nightmare melee story about Aimen 💀

[@DanielB35]

14:05 i never noticed my Yard boi in this. but since he opened up about his smash passion… i’ve seen him all the time in these kinds of videos

[@a2rhombus2]

CSGO long games: both teams are intensely evenly matched and you're on the edge of your seat the whole time Melee long games: they didn't want to play lol

[@Charlie-hv3dh]

Thanks for linking the video bry!

[@npcwill283]

Me and my buddy played a match of ruse that lasted six hours ! The standard match limit was an hour ! It could have drug out for days about about 3 hours in it was all out war and both had committed to throwing units at the other trying to push the line !

[@zachmarks9683]

This is truly the way Atrioc can make a dynasty last a thousand years

[@tomerik112]

A pro game of Dota2 (the teams were pretty well known, Cloud9 being one of them), went over 200 minutes.

[@VentiLator7]

I watched the League game live 4 years ago. Just another day of watching a random LCK match and it turned out to be the longest game in the history of LoLEsports at 94 minutes and almost crossed over the next boradcast of another league that was playing that day. So insane. These days the average game time is much, much lower around 25-30 minutes for both pro and non pro so this will likely never be beaten.

[@zokora3656]

s13 tank items:

[@reesewest43]

72 HOURS?????

[@technetium9653]

I love the aimen psychopath arc

[@kadenkrauth6309]

Knowing that Atrioc got revenge on Aimen for the chaingrab this past month when they went to New Zealand together and he trolled Aimen with the whole Karl Urvan stunt makes me so happy.

[@HeroicPenguin]

Title: The Longest Esports Matches Ever. Video: All Smash games that reached the 8-minute time limit.

[@nathanbarnes5543]

72 HOURS???

[@reesewest43]

I was so worried that nobody else from the stream would comment this but alas here we are

[@Loxu69]

12:14 Wobbling banned is probably for the best but this is not a good argument. Yeah if you took away a characters best feature people aren't going to win as often. Thats like going "oh they took away jigglypuffs back air and suddenly no jigglypuff can win they didn't earn it" or "they took away foxes shine and now foxes can't win they didnt earn it"

[@jinjay354]

What a crazy thumbnail and title I have never seen before

[@pithlyx]

14:05 now i could be wrong but i feel like i have seen that man in a dream before.

[@John-se6it]

i could not imagine playing a match in a game for that long

[@Quoise_]

Based chaingrabbing Aimen

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I love Michael vs bananas so much, what a legendary video

[@rileyhallock4450]

The whole “playing 45-an hour just for someone to throw”…. Yeah that’s every dota game

[@lxvi2441]

i could watch atrioc react to melee content for hours on end

[@cameroni3696]

That’s so mad that Boaster is a part of Valorant history AND CSGO history

[@pristinerevolver]

I'm happy Atrioc linked the Melee Stats' video. It's nice to be able to watch the full bid. But I wish he had done the same for the League match. I can't seem to find it.

[@AG-ss1ec]

Really glad to see how much melee was in this vid!

[@vicenterodriguez2177]

This guy clearly doesn't know about the 15-year long Yu-Gi-Oh tournament

[@apologeticanarchist326]

72 HOURS?!?

[@ayyanahmad5367]

72 HOURS? what a compelling thumbnail

[@kingbao9733]

Ok am so far down the aatrioc rabbit hole that I’ve been recommended this video twice when I’ve just watched it 2 days ago 💀

[@Kojia986]

16:00 I can still hear the cards shuffling.

[@zok.]

9:50 was hosted in my city, at my school. cool to see since we're a small city that never hosts events

[@SNGJackie]

That AoE game was nearly identical to a plot from Mission Hill where Kevin and his friend were staying up day and night ready to defend their respective castles only to have one finally fall asleep.

[@drops7985]

72 Hours!?!?

[@ryuranzou]

It amazes me how in smash you can do such broken things like the wobble and ledge grabbing over and over. I couldn't imagine selling my dignity to something like this at a tournament.

[@Quoise_]

I love meleestats so much what a quality channel

[@brandondayon6400]

you can see the wood that they havnt got yet on the minimap...

[@ZetaCheese]

The longest rocket league game ever ended in an own goal. Longest esports games in general end in chokes i guess lol

[@hvmikke111]

Really old boxing matches are nuts. Days long

[@Crysal]

didn't even mention the 2015 SLTV star series Season 12 Q9 vs SFZ.. Where the match went so long that it broke the game

[@Noah-wr7od]

Best counter to people who wobble is the scream tactic

[@bart_ender6116]

I had Andre as a coach for AOE2. The guy is super friendly and extremely skilled. He doesn't charge nearly enough for his services. I recommend anyone who wants to get good at aoe look him up and get some coaching its super worth it.

[@mentosssa]

Good editing BryGuy!

[@dawre3124]

sad not to see the legendary 200min c9 vs sfz dota gane. that ao4 game was super cool tho, cool to check in avery now and then when it was live

[@EvanPlaysPc]

When atrioc said "I found a league game" My brain immediately went "It's that fucking sivir game isn't" I swear to Christ that game only didn't end because teddy absolutely refused to lose for 60 minutes after it should have ended

[@michaelharder3055]

They didn't break for tea but they all went and got free healthcare.

[@byrontheusurper6505]

I love Michael vs bananas

[@paulkrasemann3651]

Reminder that SuperBoomFan went to Peru and camped so hard in a SSB64 tournament they had to change the Rules afterward. Like, he went there with the (rumored) explizit purpose of saying "your ruleset is bad and allows for camping, you need to change it". And then he camped a Man out in a Set lasting over an hour, including a 45 minute Game. a 45 Minute Game of Smash bros.. Not a Set. Game!

[@ReluctantReader]

the absolute state of the smash vid audio levels,

[@SirLaurenceNZ_2]

What's great, is they restored for a vill fight conclusion at 100hrs :D

[@janmazur3111]

200 minutes professional Dota 2 game was also interesting

[@ratdoto2148]

Looks at 94 minute league game but not 200 minute DotA 2 game. Seems about right.

[@StarsongKey]

Update: the AoE game that started the video went over 100 hours until Ruben briefly lost connection to Steam and lost to Andre

[@chameleonedm]

"imagine putting esports on TV" Have you seen pro tennis?

[@absenteechild8542]

Honestly before the wobble ban, you could get away with anything against Ice Climbers cuz they deserved it lmao

[@rockfire1669]

12:10 isn’t mewtwoking camping still inputing more buttons than the wobble

[@carronline1]

surely when all the resources are gone they would call it a draw or have a rematch

[@themessenger1680]

I STG Aiden is at that bananas vs Michael game bro

[@Bubblerlol]

I use the stand still tech in every fighting game i play

[@griffo7893]

Atrioc painting himself as the chad sheik player that doesn’t chaingrab or ledgecamp couldn’t be further from the truth LMAO

[@carby6831]

This video makes me wonder why anyone would play melee competitively

[@M1ecd]

More like the longest time between uploads ever

[@keatonwinsor7500]

72 hours?!?

[@VaupellGaming]

In Denmark we do have Esports on TV, just like any other sports activity.. Main difference is eSports has more viewers 😆 except for like big national matches.

[@tygr6701]

bro if my friend did what aiden did it would be over. I would cut them out of my life

[@arcticfox1248]

72 HOURS!!!

[@skipp3252]

old game that doesnt have a draw mechanic I guess. In starcraft it would just automatically be declared as a draw.