Emerging from the mangled, wreck of a playoff bracket and conquering the madness that was Spring League 2010 were Trippin’ Ballz. Perhaps one of what only seems like a handful of teams that weren’t accused to being douchebags in one fashion or another. For their miraculous efforts, I felt I needed to put something together for them as a salute to their accomplishment.

The video preceding this article is that salute.

I had the opportunity to neutral host the third and final game of the Amateur championship between Trippin’ Ballz and <3 Raifanbaugh. It was a fantastic game. Though the stats may have indicated otherwise, it was nothing short of a struggle. I watched as two teams with very different playing styles pushed and shoved for 50 minutes, trading the lead on several occasions until finally Trippin’ Ballz emerged as the champs. The final score was 5-4. This after <3 Raifanbaugh took a 4-3 lead and looked as though they were going to ride momentum and pull away with the win. Thanks to both teams for allowing me a front row seat. It was a lot of fun to watch.

In true CAG fashion, every team member went negative for the season, the team still had a winning season, and then they made a montage of all their greatest hits.

Personally I think it’s a nice touch regardless of the reasons and something to consider doing each season for the championship teams.

Highlights for the Summer have not been released yet and I believe there’s still time if you haven’t already sent yours in for the first few weeks of the season. Check out the FAQ over on Grifball.com to learn about the highlight submission process. It’s simple and really shouldn’t take much time, as long as you’ve been saving your films and creating clips throughout the season.

So why did it take so long for the Hub to post them? I decided I wanted to wait until all the highlights had been released so that I could include them all at the same time. So this will be the first of three posts featuring highlights from the Spring 2009 season.

Apparently there were some mishaps along the way which delayed last season’s highlights. Things happen, and rarely does anything go exactly as planned. We should all be fortunate that we do get highlights each season, even if they do come a bit late.

The following reel is for weeks one and two of the Spring season.

Commentary for week three is provided by I CITI I of Separate Intelligence. He does a fantastic job, however if you’re a little sensitive when it comes to more colorful language, you may wish to cover your ears.

Week one and two highlights feature voice commentary by Adam Pisani, more commonly known as LBCountry on the Rooster Teeth forums. Adam plays for the legacy team Separate Intelligence.

A couple notes before you watch –
This is both parts 1 and 2 of the GBSML08 highlights. After watching part 1, you will need to click the forward button on the player interface to move on to part two of the highlight reel.

During part two we see a highlight featuring Zeg from Shut Your Lips and Learn. It was later learned that the guys from Rooster Teeth made a goof and the player in the highlight is actually Shadow s16

This highlight clip contains all five weeks. In order to view them all, simply use the forward and back buttons on the media player interface.