On Sunday, June 23, the Season 7 Rocket League World Championship came to a close with Renault Vitality taking home the trophy after besting G2 Esports. With this win, the Rocket League Esports Twitter account indicates that Renault Vitality "writes themselves into esports history," but that was not the only history that was made during the event, as a dedicated crowd put their minds towards a monumental task: breaking a world record.

The world record in question is that for the longest wave, which clocked in at 17 minutes 14 seconds prior to the aforementioned Rocket League event. While most sports fans will be quite familiar with the wave, for the uninitiated, it is a group undertaking that requires a crowd to sit and stand in successive groups, creating the effect of a wave rolling through the audience. Indeed, at most events, the wave appears only briefly, but that was certainly not the case at the Rocket League World Championship.

At this event, fans not only broke the previous record for the longest wave, they completely obliterated it. Specifically, when the Rocket League crowd had finally tired themselves out, they had been engaged in the choreography for nearly 27 minutes. While not a certainty, it seems that this new record is likely to stand for quite some time, considering just how far the Rocket League fans went beyond the established record.

With respect to the previous record for the longest wave, it was set on September 23, 2015 at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. This occurred at a concert headlined by the Japanese rock band Tube, and over two thousand attendees worked together to make the record a reality.

Certainly, longest wave is not the only record that has been set by a community that is focused around a video game. Just last year, for example, Fortnite fans set a Guinness World Record for most participants in a video game emote routine. That said, this does not diminish the accomplishment of the Rocket League World Championship attendees, and they can be happy knowing that their wave will be noted in the history books for the foreseeable future.

Rocket League is available for PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, and Xbox One.

Source: Guinness World Records