From the first year of Rocket League esports through the RLCS Season 5 world stage, few European players were as consistently present as Philip “Paschy90” Paschmeyer. A German forward with a deliberate, dribble heavy style, he helped build some of the earliest European superteams, fought Flipsid3 Tactics in the scene’s first great rivalry, and reached a World Championship grand final with Mockit Aces. Even without a world title, his story traces the rise of European Rocket League from community leagues to fully professional organizations.
Foundations In Early Rocket League
Paschmeyer entered competitive Rocket League in 2015, when the esport was still built around weekly online circuits and community run leagues rather than official seasons. His early team history reads like a tour of the formative European scene. By late summer he was competing with Swarm Gaming, then moved through Peacehater before landing on Crown & Jewels at the end of 2015.
With Crown & Jewels, Paschy and his teammates became known for upsetting FlipSid3 Tactics in the RLC Pro League, a series where FlipSid3 lost a lead in one of the first major “choke” storylines of competitive Rocket League. The series cemented Crown & Jewels as a serious threat and gave Paschy a reputation as part of the first European lineup that could truly challenge the early kings of the game.
Those months also refined the style that would follow him for years. Contemporaneous coverage during RLCS Season 2 league play described Mockit, and Paschy in particular, as measured and dribble focused, a forward who preferred control and solo plays to constant aerial chaos.
Mock-It EU And The Birth Of A Rivalry
In March 2016, Paschy joined Mock-It eSports EU, a move that shifted him into one of the strongest European cores available at the time. With rotating lineups including Miztik and Sikii, Mock-It spent the first RLCS season fighting for European seeding, placing deep in Rocket Royale and PPL events while learning the demands of a formal league.
Mock-It did not lift the Season 1 trophy, but the constant clashes with FlipSid3 Tactics became the backbone of early Rocket League storylines. In later community retrospectives, fans would remember “Paschy versus F3” as the first true rivalry that helped bring spectators into the scene and gave Europe a clear narrative of favorites, challengers, and upsets.
Mockit Aces And The RLCS Season 2 Grand Final
The peak of that rivalry arrived during RLCS Season 2. In September 2016 Mock-It acquired the Aces roster of Paschy, Deevo, and ViolentPanda, rebranding them as Mockit Aces.
That trio quickly established itself as part of Europe’s “big three.” They took third at the European Regional Championship, a finish that secured a ticket to the Grand Finals in Amsterdam. At Worlds, Mockit Aces reverse swept Orbit in one of the most memorable lower bracket series of the weekend, then survived a seven game winners bracket final against Northern Gaming to reach the grand final.
Waiting for them there was FlipSid3 Tactics. In a best of seven double elimination grand final, F3 fought back from the lower bracket, resetting the bracket and then winning the World Championship, leaving Mockit Aces in second place. For Paschy, that runner up finish would stand as his closest approach to an RLCS world title. It also fixed his place in the early canon of the esport as the star striker of a world finalist and the face of Europe’s first sustained challenge to FlipSid3’s dominance.
Short Stints, Pocket Aces, And Gale Force
Season 2’s success came with a cost. The roster shuffle that followed Worlds scattered the Mockit Aces trio. In late 2016 and early 2017, Paschy’s team history shows a rapid sequence of lineups under the Aces and Pocket Aces banners, experiments in recreating a title contender in a shifting European field.
In February 2017 he linked up with ViolentPanda and Chausette45 as Pocket Aces, a combination impressive enough that Gale Force Esports acquired the roster in April. Gale Force entered RLCS Season 3 League Play as one of Europe’s most hyped squads and finished with a winning record and a fourth place standing in the regional table.
Yet the finish at the European Championship was disappointing. At the RLCS Season 3 European Regional Championship, Gale Force finished fifth to sixth and missed the World Championship. Within weeks, Gale Force released Paschy and turned toward the Kaydop era that would eventually deliver a World Championship.
For Paschy, it was a turning point. He had once again helped assemble a threatening core, only to exit before it reached its ultimate peak.
Mockit’s Veteran Core And The ELEAGUE Era
After leaving Gale Force, Paschy returned to familiar colors. In June 2017 he rejoined Mock-It Esports, this time alongside Fairy Peak and FreaKii, forming a trio of experienced European stars.
Across the remainder of 2017 the roster carved out a space as Europe’s dangerous second tier behind Gale Force and Method. They finished fifth to eighth at DreamHack Atlanta, placed third at the ELEAGUE Cup, and finished third in the RLCS Season 4 European Championship, securing a World Championship spot. At RLCS Season 4 Worlds, Mock-It exited in the quarterfinal range, recorded in official standings as a seventh to eighth place finish.
It was a year that showcased both Paschy’s consistency and his ceiling. He was still a reliable starter on top European teams, still capable of qualifying for Worlds and deep international events like ELEAGUE, but the gap between regular contention and a trophy lifting Sunday performance remained.
Renault Vitality And A European Championship
In early 2018, Paschy joined the newly launched Rocket League division of Team Vitality, a partnership branded Renault Sport Team Vitality. The roster of Fairy Peak, Freakii, and Paschy entered Gfinity’s United Kingdom Elite Series Season 3 as one of the most talented lineups in Europe.
Vitality’s first major success came in that very league. In April 2018 they defeated Team Envy in the Gfinity Elite Series Season 3 final, taking the Rocket League European Championship title, the first major trophy of the Renault Sport Team Vitality collaboration. A Renault press release celebrating the win highlighted Paschmeyer, Locquet (Fairy Peak), and Holzworth (Freakii) as the trio that delivered the organization’s first silverware.
The same core carried its form into RLCS Season 5. Vitality finished third in the European League Play table and then reached the grand final of the Season 5 European Championship, falling one series short of a regional title. At the Season 5 World Championship, however, they were eliminated in the lower portions of the bracket, tied for ninth to tenth.
For a veteran who had once stood on the stage in Amsterdam, it was a familiar pattern. Regional excellence and a continental trophy at Gfinity showed that Paschy could still be part of a winning core, but the RLCS world title remained elusive.
Retirement, RLRS Attempts, And Content Creation
After RLCS Season 5, Vitality began to retool. In early 2019, following his removal from the roster, Paschy announced that he was stepping away from professional Rocket League. In a statement shared on social media and quoted in contemporary reporting, he explained that he had private plans he wanted to pursue and that it was time to quit competitive Rocket League, thanking the game and community for the ride.
Even that farewell did not fully close the door. Community discussion in early 2019 noted that he attempted one more run at competition in the RLRS play ins with Buzzer Beaters, a bubble team that fell short of promotion. When that effort ended, the scene treated his retirement as final.
Across this period, Paschy’s streaming and content work created its own legacy. On YouTube and Twitch he produced educational and entertainment series such as “Road to Grand Champ,” which fans later remembered as one of the first long form rank grind series that showed viewers how a high level player thought through games. Those videos, combined with his on stage presence, helped bridge the gap between a small early community and a broader audience of aspiring competitive players.
By the time EsportsEarnings and other tracking sites summarized his career, they credited him with just under sixty three thousand dollars in prize money across more than one hundred tournaments, a figure that reflects both his longevity and the era he played in, before Rocket League’s prize pools grew into the hundreds of thousands per major.
Playing Style And Competitive Identity
Throughout his career, Paschy was defined less by single highlight mechanics and more by his understanding of pressure, possession, and support play. Early RLCS era coverage described Mockit’s style as measured and noted his preference for controlled dribbles, a contrast with the all in aerial aggression of some contemporaries.
Teammates often filled different roles. On Mockit Aces, Deevo’s backboard reads and ViolentPanda’s positioning paired with Paschy’s patient approach. On Gale Force, he shared the field with ViolentPanda again, alongside the emerging talent of Chausette45. On Vitality, Fairy Peak’s mechanical explosiveness and Freakii’s versatility meshed with his veteran stability.
That flexibility, moving between star roles and more supportive positions, helped explain how he remained relevant across so many roster eras. He was rarely the flashiest striker on any given team, yet he consistently found starting spots on lineups filled with future world champions.
Legacy In The Esports Historian Frame
Looking back from an Esports Legacy Profile perspective, Paschy occupies a distinct place in Rocket League history.
He was a founding era professional, present in RLCS from Season 1 onward and central to early storylines against FlipSid3 Tactics. He captained or co anchored rosters that reached an RLCS World Championship grand final, multiple European Championships, ELEAGUE playoffs, and Gfinity titles.
At the same time, he became, in the eyes of many fans, one of the strongest players never to win an RLCS title, a veteran whose teams always seemed to peak just short of a world trophy. That near miss quality, combined with his content work and the longevity of his name in bracket graphics, turned him into a reference point for an entire generation of Rocket League viewers.
In total, Philip “Paschy90” Paschmeyer’s career traces the arc of early European Rocket League, from community leagues and Pro League upsets to RLCS finals in Amsterdam and branded partnerships with Formula 1 backed organizations. His absence from modern rosters is one of the clearest reminders that the original class of players has largely given way to a new era, but his rivalry with FlipSid3, his grand final run with Mockit Aces, and his championship with Renault Vitality still stand as foundational chapters in the esport’s history.