Rodel
Rodel was Cargo Champ's inaugural world champion in 2024. He defended his title in Q1 2025, and he finished second in Q2 2025 before retiring as a thrower.
As a thrower, Rodel was durable, precise, and dependable. He had an unbreakable work ethic that defined the earliest era of competitive throwing. Rodel wasn’t just strong; he was relentlessly consistent and worked every shift with a sense of calm focus and quiet determination.
Rodel's distinctive style also made him unforgettable. Instead of throwing boxes directly on the line, he'd bank them off the wall of the trailer, generating an unforgettable string of rhythmic "thuds" as he made his way to the back of the truck. Even after Rodel's retirement, his style lives on in stories and the emerging, highly-personal styles of new throwers.
Rodel’s championship pedigree, his technical creativity, and his dependability made him one of the foundational figures of the early Cargo Champs era. His influence is still visible today: in the standards he set, the records he held, and the generations of throwers who learned from the way he worked.
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| Nationality | Home Store |
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| 🇺🇸 | Walmart #2031 (Union City, CA, USA) |
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⭐ + bold dates/seasons indicate a currently-held record.
The following charts track three key performance metrics that measure a thrower's effort, pace, and competitive edge.
Together, these metrics strip away noise like truck size or teammate mix. They measure what’s truly in the thrower’s control.
⭐ indicates a thrower's personal best MPP, BPM, and Speed Bonus.
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The graphs represent the running cumulative average of a thrower's metrics across time and include only trucks where the thrower or throwing team threw 90%+ of the truck.
Trendlines attempt to reflect the behavior of a particular performance metric.
Minutes Per Panel (MPP) uses a LOESS trendline, a locally weighted regression that smooths short-term fluctuations while preserving the natural, nonlinear “learning-curve” shape of skill improvement over time.
Boxes Per Minute (BPM) uses a moving-average trendline, which filters random noise from day-to-day variation and highlights changes in throughput consistency and stamina.
Speed Bonus uses a linear-regression trendline, showing the athlete’s overall direction of improvement relative to normalized truck size and peer averages.
Together these trendlines attempt to balance clarity and realism, revealing long-term progress without distorting the underlying data.