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What you can expect from the RLCS X Spring Split.

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Just like that, League Play for Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) Season 9 has come to an end. That means that this weekend we look forward to crowning North American and European Regional Champions as the end of RLCS Season 9 for both regions. A loser's bracket run that lasted all day saw the defending champions come back to reset the bracket and break the hearts of North America with a Rocket League Championship Series title-claiming.

The Spring Split brings a new challenge for pros to conquer. First was the Swiss format in the Fall Split. Next was the Winter Split’s Double-Elimination format. Now, the Spring Split brings a 20-team format for teams to master. It’s a blend of Round-Robin Group Play, a double-elimination bracket where some teams are seeded directly into the Lower Bracket (we call this the Knockout Gauntlet), and, finally, a single-elimination bracket.

The break it down:

Each Regional Event lasts four days
Teams are split into four groups of five teams
Days 0 and 1 are single Round-Robin play
- Teams that place 5th in their group are eliminated
On Day 2, the 16 remaining teams are seeded into the Knockout Gauntlet
- Seeds 1 and 2 are placed into the Upper Bracket while seeds 3 and 4 are placed into the Lower Bracket
The eight teams that survive qualify for the final single-elimination bracket on Day 3
Winner of the single-elimination bracket wins the Regional Event

The Majors will once again be online and regional. That means each region will have its own Major. The Majors will be a cut-in-half version of the normal Regional Events, with the top ten teams in each region (the nine top points earners and one wildcard from RLCS: The Grid) qualifying for their respective Major. In the Major, the ten qualified teams will be split into two groups of five teams. They’ll play in a Round-Robin with the 5th Place team in each group being eliminated. The remaining eight teams will be seeded into a single-elimination Playoff Bracket, where the winner will earn the title of Major Champions!

Now that the competition’s gotten more elite (only 20 teams per tournament) that means the Regional Event point and prizing distribution has changed. Take a look below:

1st Place: 451 points, $30,000
2nd Place: 350 points, $15,000
T-3rd: 280 points each, $8,000 each
T-5th: 210 points each, $5,000 each
T-9th: 150 points each, $2,000 each
T13th: 110 points each, $1,500 each
T-17th: 70 points each, $1,250 each

For the Majors, points and prizing will be distributed as follows:

1st Place: 902 points, $36,000
2nd Place: 700 points, $18,000
T-3rd: 560 points each, $10,000 each
T-5th: 420 points each, $5,000 each
T-9th: 300 points each, $3,000 each

Because of the sheer amount of matches in the single Round-Robin stage, we’ll be tapping in teams on Day 0 to stream their matches. Day 0 will consist of the first three rounds of the Round-Robin stage. On Day 1, the streams will move to official Rocket League channels, where the last two rounds of the Round-Robin and the remainder of the tournament will be streamed.

Each region will have three Regional Events. Check out the schedule below:

Europe

Regional Event #1: March 11, 12, 13, 14 at 8 a.m. PT (4 p.m. UTC; 3 p.m. UTC on March 14)
Regional Event #2: March 25, 26, 27, 28 at 8 a.m. PDT (3 p.m. UTC)
Regional Event #3: April 15, 16, 17, 18 at 8 a.m. PDT (3 p.m. UTC)
Major: May 15, 16 at 8 a.m. PDT (3 p.m. UTC)

North America

Regional Event #1: March 18, 19, 20 , 21 at 10 a.m. PDT (5 p.m. UTC)
Regional Event #2: April 8, 9, 10, 11 at at 10 a.m. PDT (5 p.m. UTC)
Regional Event #3: April 22, 23, 24, 25 at 10 a.m. PDT (5 p.m. UTC)
Major: May 22, 23 at 10 a.m. PDT (5 p.m. UTC)

IMPROVING RLCS: THE GRID

The Grid has become one of the best ways for organizations, players, and talent to engage directly with the community. With 32 streams going on week after week,

The Grid: Overtime will be returning for the Spring Split! Join Sean “Stax” Stackhouse, Trevor “DudeWithTheNose” Hannah, Alex “Stumpy” Knight, and Emile “Cole” Cole as they guide you through every day’s action in their own informative (and hilarious) ways.

Brand-new format for the Spring Split of The Grid:

The Grid is now a 16-team, single Round-Robin, “League Play” format
Each team will play three matches each day, over the course of five days
The top six teams from League Play will advance to The Grid Playoffs
The Grid Playoffs are a Page Playoff Bracket (similar to the Seasons 7-9 Regional Championship format) played out on a single day

Old-school fans of Rocket League Esports may find this format quite familiar! This new structure will not only ensure players get rewarded for consistency and give them a ton of chances to bid for The Grid Playoffs, but it will also allow teams to have more consistent broadcasts and create predictable schedules for fans.

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This past weekend saw the greatest Rocket League teams in the world meet at the sold-out Avalon Hollywood in California to battle for supremacy at the inaugural Rocket League Championship Series Live International Finals. More than one million viewers tuned in over the weekend to watch the RLCS event on Twitch, which was the largest-ever in Rocket League-viewing history!

Here’s a recap of how how it all went down:

Day 1

The first day’s matches of the RLCS LAN event played out mostly as expected with #1-ranked European team, Northern Gaming, taking down the #4-ranked North American team, Genesis, and NA #3, Exodus, to advance to the Upper Bracket Finals.

#3 iBUYPOWER Cosmic (NA) turned heads by taking down #2 FlipSid3 Tactics (EU) in a dramatic back-and-forth opening match.

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The biggest shocker of the day was when #1 North American team, Kings of Urban, lost their opening match to #4 EU seed, The Flying Dutchmen. The loss put KOU in the lower bracket, where they would lose again to FlipSid3 Tactics — eliminating the team that many had picked to win the whole thing on the very first day.

Following in Kings of Urban’s footsteps, #3, Mock-it eSports EU, would also lose their first two matches and find themselves knocked-out of tournament earlier than expected.

Day 2

Dark horse team, The Flying Dutchmen, who took down Kings of Urban in the first round before confidently exclaiming “We’re going to win LAN!,” found themselves in the Lower Bracket after losing to the surging, iBUYPOWER Cosmic. Unwilling to let their championship dreams die, the Dutchmen bounced back with a big victory over Genesis in the first match of Day 2.