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On August 6-7 in Hollywood, California, eight elite North American and European Rocket League teams will go head-to-head in the Rocket League Championship Series live finals for a $55,000 prize pool. Going into an offline final on North American soil, you have to consider the home-team advantage for the North American seeds, especially No. 1 seed Kings of Urban.Kings captain Jayson Fireburner Nunez says his teams play will benefit from having a live audience. When you have a North American LAN, the crowd will be there to hype us up and get us going.Teammate Jacob Jacob McDowell echoes the sentiment. We feed on the hype. Were an emotional team and the hype will build us up.Heading into the finals, Fireburner exudes confidence, saying the team has prepared more than ever for this moment. We are a team that works together very well. We will have the playmaker in Jacob flying high, while I will set him and [teammate Kais SadJunior Zehri] up.The story of Kings had been one of almost for a very long time. From its inception in late August of 2015, the Kings lurked in the shadow of a team named Cosmic Aftershock, which was seen as the team to beat. That is, until relatively recently.Reaching for the starsWhen Kings of Urban first formed, Fireburner sought to find the three best players in North America who were not on Cosmic, which was then a dominant force in the scene. The original roster included Fireburner, Cody Gambit Dover and Kyle Kyle Masc Mascitelli. This new team competed in small weekly ESL tournaments and started pressuring Cosmic, nearly taking a game here and there.Kings sought to improve its roster and decided to swap Masc for Jacob, a high-flying playmaker. The new Kings of Urban showed its very real potential at Major League Gaming Pro League Season 1 in the quarterfinals against Cosmic, where the unthinkable happened: Kings of Urban eliminated Cosmic and moved on to the semifinals.After MLG, Kings moved swiftly to pick up a new third as a replacement for departing ace Gambit. The squad decided on Caleb Moses Nichols, a very solid up-and-coming player who looked to be a potential superstar (see ESPN Esports feature on Moses). Within a month of picking up Moses, Kings of Urban began its North American reign, finally eclipsing the now-sponsored iBUYPOWER Cosmic to hold the top spot in North America for more than a month. During that time Kings looked like a dominant performer in weekly and monthly events, but the stage where it really shined was the Rocket League Central Pro League (RLCPL).The RLCPL was the first large-scale international tournament featuring all of the best teams from North America and Europe competing against each other. This roster from Kings of Urban continued to impress, finishing the regular season with a massive 22-8 record at the top of North America. Kings moved into the playoff bracket as the top seed from North America; unfortunately, losses in the semifinals eliminated it from the Pro League and set its ranking back into the No. 2 spot.Breaking throughWhen the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) Season 1 Qualifier 1 came around, Kings brought in SadJunior as a replacement for Moses in a surprise move that clearly stated its intent to zero in on first place. However, Kings of Urban finished in a consistent second place behind iBUYPOWER, both in regular league play and in the playoff bracket at the end. This was in no way a poor showing, as Kings set itself up to be a top contender for a spot at the LAN finals.In Qualifier 2 for RLCS Season 1, Kings of Urban finished a surprisingly low fourth seed in regular league play, but then showed why it made that roster change. In its first match, it took down the upstart Lucky Bounce, who had emerged from the group stage in first place. Moving into the finals, it faced off against former teammate Moses new team, Exodus. In an incredibly close, acrobatic series, the Kings of Urban took down Exodus 4-3 to secure the top seed in North America in what all three members called their proudest moment. Now the team is on its way to the Live Finals, where it will have the chance to prove it is the best in the world.Fireburner says the team had had faith in itself from the beginning of RLCS: We always believed we could finish first if we put the time in scrims and fixed our small issues that we had at the start of Qualifier 2. We still believe we havent reached our full potential and were excited for the future.In Rocket Leagues short history, Kings of Urban are one of the longest-standing teams in North America and have consistently had one of the best rosters in the world. Through many roster changes, it has hovered between being the best and second-best team in North America, and now it comes into Rocket Leagues biggest tournament yet as the top seed from the region. Who knows what the future will hold, but the Kings reign looks likely to continue. Austin Romine Yankees Jersey . 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Miller reached right to deflect Mikhail Grabovskis attempt with just over 2 minutes remaining in regulation, and then made two more saves in the shootout Sunday to give the Sabres a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals. Rafael dos Anjos could be down on himself after a broken foot cost him a spot in the main event of one of 2016s biggest events and a chance to be the one to give Conor McGregor his first UFC loss.Instead, the UFC lightweight champion is rolling along, moving on to the next challenge: Thursdays title defense against?Eddie Alvarez?at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.My focus right now is on Eddie Alvarez, dos Anjos told ESPN.com. I just want to get back to the Octagon competing.Although theres no doubt dos Anjos missed out on a massive payday and potential star-making moment in March, the Brazilian made it seem that a megafight could still happen between himself and McGregor. And if it does, hes not sweating it.He has qualities, but I dont see anything that worries me about him, dos Anjos said. It would be a good matchup for me. I am a bad matchup for McGregor.Of course, a few things need to go down for that to happen. McGregor needs to avenge a loss to Nate Diaz, the one who stepped in for dos Anjos on 11 days notice at UFC 196. If all goes well, dos Anjos says he wont be hard to find.[McGregor] is the featherweight champion. Im the lightweight champion. I cannot make 145. They would need to cut my leg off, dos Anjos said. Hes the one that wants the lightweight belt. Hes the one that wants to be two-division champion. For now, Im looking for my division. If UFC actually think he deserves a shot in the lightweight, I will be there.Whats next in dos Anjos division is a title fight with Alvarez (27-4) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The former Bellator champion made splashes all across the world before signing with the UFC in 2014. Since falling to Donald Cerrone in his promotional debut, Alvarez has won his past two bouts -- both by split decision -- against Gilbert Melendez and Anthonny Pettis to earn the shot.dddddddddddd.Dos Anjos spent four weeks in Singapore with Evolve MMA to continue his growth in Muay Thai. He then continued his camp for six weeks at Kings MMA in California with trainer Rafael Cordeiro, where they broke down tape of Alvarez and formulated the game plan for Alvarez.Nobody is perfect. Everybody has a hole in his game, and we saw a couple of ways to win the fight and we feel very confident that were going to get the win, dos Anjos said.RDA has been on an epic run, winning five in a row and 10 of his last 11. The oddsmakers currently see dos Anjos as more than a 3-to-1 favorite to retain his title (although Alvarez was more than a 2-to-1 underdog when he beat Pettis in January). At 31, dos Anjos credits his recent run of success to everything going well in and outside of fighting.I just feel that Ive reached a point in my life that I feel very mature, dos Anjos said. I feel very mature, and now Im getting to know my body better, not only physically and everything else, but spiritually. I feel that Im improving my spiritual life a lot.?Im getting to be a better person, a better father, a better husband, and I think everything you do outside of the Octagon has an effect on your life inside the Octagon.Thursdays card kicks off three cards in as many nights for the UFC, with UFC Fight Night airing exclusively on UFC Fight Pass. Although the card doesnt have nearly as high a profile as Saturdays mega UFC 200 pay-per-view card, it could easily be regarded as the most important bout in the short history of the companys streaming service.Dos Anjos agreed, saying, Internet is the future, and Im happy to be part of it. ' ' '