SquishyMuffinz

Mariano "SquishyMuffinz" Arruda (born November 29, 2000) is a Canadian Rocket League content creator and former player.^[1] On July 11th, 2024, Squishy returned to Cloud9 as both content creator and co-owner.^[2]

Information

Settings

**Camera settings^[3] (list of)**
Camera shake	FOV	Height	Angle	Distance	Stiffness	Swivel speed	Transition speed	Ball camera
No	110	100	-4.0	260	0.35	7.00	1.30	Toggle

**Control settings (list of)**
Powerslide	Air roll (left/right)	Boost	Jump	Ball cam	Brake	Throttle
	( - / )

**Deadzone settings ^[4]** (list of)
Deadzone Shape	Deadzone	Dodge Deadzone	Aerial Sensitivity	Steering Sensitivity
Cross	0.05	0.70	1.30	1.30

Hardware

Controller	Monitor	Headset
Sony DualSense	ZOWIE XL2540	HyperX Cloud Alpha S

Achievements

Date	Place	Tier		Result	Prize

2022-08-14	5th - 8th	S-Tier	RLCS 2021-22 - World Championship	1 : 4	$100,000
2021-12-12	2nd	S-Tier	RLCS 2021-22 - Fall Split Major	0 : 2	$60,000
2021-06-20	1st	S-Tier	RLCS Season X - North American Championship	2 : 0	$160,000
2021-05-23	1st	S-Tier	RLCS Season X - Spring: NA Major	4 : 2	$36,000
2021-02-28	1st	S-Tier	RLCS Season X - Winter: NA Major	4 : 2	$36,000
2019-06-23	3rd - 4th	S-Tier	RLCS Season 7 - Finals	0 : 4	$40,000
2019-06-02	1st	A-Tier	DreamHack Pro Circuit: Dallas 2019	4 : 2	$50,000
2018-12-02	2nd	S-Tier	ELEAGUE Cup 2018: Rocket League	1 : 4	$30,000
2018-11-11	1st	S-Tier	RLCS Season 6 - Finals	4 : 1	$200,000
2018-08-26	1st	A-Tier	Rocket League Universal Open: Season 2	4 : 3	$32,500
Extended list of results

Awards

Date	Tier		Award	Prize

2018
2018-11-11	S-Tier	RLCS Season 6 - Finals	Day 2 MVP	-
2018-10-13	S-Tier	RLCS Season 6 - North America	Week 1 MVP	-
2018-10-13	S-Tier	RLCS Season 6 - North America	Regular Season MVP 3rd	-
2018-10-06	S-Tier	RLCS Season 6 - North America	Golden Striker 2nd	-
2018-04-14	S-Tier	RLCS Season 5 - North America	Golden Striker 3rd	-
2017
2017-11-12	S-Tier	RLCS Season 4 - Finals	Day 3 MVP	-
2017-10-14	S-Tier	RLCS Season 4 - North America	Regional Championship MVP	-
2017-10-07	S-Tier	RLCS Season 4 - North America	Clutch Playmaker 1st	$250

Biography

Early days

Squishy started his Rocket League career when he realized he could not follow a professional soccer career. "Going pro in football/soccer is something that I always wanted to do. ...Growing up you see so many kids wanting to go pro in that, right? And it just seems impossible..." But that was not the only problem. In his early days he was diagnosed with asthma, which didn't allow him to run for long periods of time.

Squishy started playing in Rocket League’s beta phase in 2015. "Rocket League gave me a concept I loved and allowed me a second chance at a dream I couldn’t be held back from this time."^[5] Within a month of the game's release he started uploading videos of Rocket League on his YouTube channel, where he posted back his highlight goals (like aerial redirect from a pass from Jstn) and montages. He quickly started improving and was outstanding despite not having a background in SARPBC. Squishy says that the reason why he became so mechanically good and consistent is because his internet did not work at all, so for the first two months he was grinding only Free Play.

Professional career

In November 2016, Squishy, Lachinio and Torment formed Iris 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. "Me and Torment decided to give Gimmick a try and we played amazingly." 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 the future World Champion performed the famous ceiling shot goal.

In Season 5, Cloud9 did not perform as well as many predicted. 'Squishy, however, was not disappointed: "...online compared to LAN is two completely different things... ...that season on LAN we finished third, and that is what matters. To us [Cloud 9], making LAN is the most important thing.", he said on his Twitch livestream.

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.

Trivia

Squishy is the fourth Rocket League YouTuber to reach 1 million subscribers.
Squishy actually hates muffins because they are "just dry cupcakes" as he stated on multiple occasions.
Was ranked the 9th best player of 2021 by Octane.gg.^[6]