Draft:SquishyMuffinz

SquishyMuffinz

SquishyMuffinz
SquishyMuffinz in 2018
Current team
Team	G.A.S.
Game	Rocket League
Personal information
Name	Marriano Arruda
Born	November 29, 2000 (age 24)
Career information
Playing career	2016–present

Mariano Arruda, better known as SquishyMuffinz, or simply Squishy, is a Canadian Rocket League content creator and professional player.

Widely regarded as one of the best players of all time, he is best known for being a member of the team Cloud9, between 2017 and 2020. Squishy and Cloud9 won Season 6 of the Rocket League Championship Series.

He also notably played for NRG Esports between 2020 and 2023. He currently plays for G.A.S., a team he co-founded with his team mates GarrettG and AYYJAYY.

Career

Early Career and Prime

Within a month of the game's release in 2015, he started uploading videos of Rocket League on his YouTube channel, where he posted back his highlight goals and montages. He quickly started improving, and was outstanding, despite not having a background in SARPBC, the prequel game to Rocket League.

In November 2016, Squishy formed a team called Iris with two other players: the Season 1 RLCS champion Lachinio, and Torment, in preparation for Season 3 of RLCS. With that being unsuccessful, Squishy, Torment and former substitute gimmick left Iris and formed a new team: "The Muffin Men", named after SquishyMuffinz. With the new team, they qualified for DreamHack Atlanta, where they finished 1st.

After this, "The Muffin Men" were picked up by a top organization: Cloud9, and finished 1st in RLCS 4 North American Regionals. After being eliminated in game 5 from the upper bracket by PSG Esports, they had a successful streak of wins in the Losers' Bracket. They were eliminated from the tournament in Losers' Finals by Method. It was in this match, where he performed the famous ceiling shot goal, a revolutionary mechanic that he pioneered himself, and is widespread in the game to this day.

In Season 5, Cloud9 did not perform as well as many predicted, yet the team stayed together for the next season: Season 6. During the knockout stages in RLCS 6, Cloud9 lost their first match to We Dem Girlz and went to the Losers' Bracket, where they dominated and dethroned Dignitas in the Grand Finals, with Cloud9 becoming the RLCS Season 6 World Champions. This resulted in Cloud9 receiving around $200,000 in prize money. This was the most success Squishy has experienced thus far in his career.

NRG Esports

In June 2020, Cloud9 released their roster due to poor tournament results, and Squishy transferred to new RLCS champions NRG Esports, where he replaced Turbopolsa, and joined GarrettG and jstn. He remained at NRG Esports until 2023 when he was released, having won nothing of note with the team.

Post-NRG and Retirement

In 2023, following his release from NRG Esports, Squishy reformed his old team "The Muffin Men", with former team mate gimmick and new team mate Aqua. After a few mediocre performances in Open Qualifiers, the team disbanded, and Squishy officially retired from professional Rocket League.

Post-retirement

Squishy came back to the professional scene in May 2024, when he joined the team "Lil' Step Bros", along with fellow pros kofyr and AlphaKep. They played a few unofficial tournaments together until December 2024, when he and kofyr both left the team.

In November 2024, whilst still playing for "Lil' Step Bros", he created a new team alongside former NRG Esports team mate GarrettG, and fellow veteran AYYJAYY, called "G.A.S.". The team name is made up of the first letters of each of the players' names. They most recently missed out on qualification for the Birmingham Major in 2025, and are attempting to qualify for the upcoming Raleigh Major.