Machine meets Rhino Slam! after a last-point escape
Ultiworld's men's Nationals semifinal broadcast drew nearly 28,000 views in eight hours, an unusually fast start for its full-game coverage.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 58,090 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (4,067).
Machine vs. Rhino Slam! | Men's Semifinal | 2026 Club National Championships
Video summary
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- 1:07Edward Stephens and Danie Proby open the studio show in San Diego.
- 5:00The hosts preview the men's semifinal matchups, including Machine against Rhino Slam!
- 15:52The field commentators revisit Machine's universe-point comeback over PoNY and Portland's route to the semifinal.
- 18:14The opening pull starts the match, with Machine on offense.
- 18:56Nate Goff's over-the-top pass finds Daan De Marrée for Machine's opening goal.
Chicago Machine had already needed a comeback on universe point, ultimate's sudden-death decider, to get past PoNY. Its next assignment in San Diego was Portland Rhino Slam!, with a place in the national final at stake.
Ultiworld's broadcast gives that semifinal room to breathe. Edward Stephens and Danie Proby work through the championship brackets in the studio before Evan Lepler and Mario O'Brien take over at Surf Sports Park. For viewers coming straight for the game, the opening pull arrives just past the eighteen-minute mark.
Machine makes its first possession count: Nate Goff sends an over-the-top pass to Daan De Marrée for the opening goal. "That's what we came to see," Lepler says.
The full broadcast has already drawn far more views than Ultiworld's long games and streams usually receive across an entire first day. That's a different kind of attraction from the spectacular catches behind the channel's most-watched Shorts: here, viewers get the buildup and the whole contest.
The comments offer a little viewing assistance, with timestamps for the opening pull and the second half. Another viewer singles out the contrast between polished play and a point of pickup-style chaos.
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What viewers say
28 points of clinical, world-class fris. 1 point of absolute pickup-type chaos.
@skypowell7396See it on YouTube18:13 First Pull
@TheStandlerSee it on YouTube1:05:00 - 2nd Half First Pull
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- Channel
- Ultiworld - Ultimate Frisbee
- Subscribers
- 281,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 322,628
- Channel views, pace per day
- 143,651 (on a normal day: 26,341)
- Video published
- October 25, 2026
- Video views so far
- 27,581 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 58,090
The numbers
The semifinal's fast start comes alongside a broader lift for Ultiworld, whose daily channel views are more than five times their usual level.
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Portland Rhino Slam! faces Chicago Machine in this men's national semifinal.


