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RLCS 2021-22 World Championship preview

Tomorrow is the day when Rocket League esports will finally host the World Championship. The 2021-22 season of the... Henrieta | 3. August 2022

Tomorrow is the day when Rocket League esports will finally host the World Championship. The 2021-22 season of the Rocket League Championship Series will kick off its final stage on August 4 and will run until August 14, when the new Rocket League world Champions in nearly three years will be crowned. 

The $2 million RLCS 2021-22 World Championship event will take place offline in Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena in Texas, United States. The competition will feature the top 24 Rocket League teams in Psyonix’s biggest RL esports event of the year. 

Format

The RLCS Worlds tournament format is divided into two stages. The Wildcard Stage will feature 16 teams battling through a Swiss System stage to secure one of the eight spots in the Main Event. There, they will be joined by the eight teams that qualified via RLCS rankings and compete in a double-elimination group stage. Four teams from each group will ultimately advance to the single-elimination playoffs, where the new Champions will take over the trophy along with the $600,000 main prize. All matches will be best-of-seven.

Schedule

Wildcard Stage — August 4-7

Wildcard matches start every day at 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, and 7 pm UTC.

Main Event — August 9-14

Group Stage matches start every day at 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, and 7 pm UTC.

Playoffs — August 14 

  • Quarterfinals matches start at 4 pm, 5 pm, 6 pm, and 7 pm UTC.
  • Semifinal matches start at 8 pm and 9 pm UTC.
  • Grand Final match starts at 10 pm UTC.

Qualified teams 

Many Rocket League teams from around the world competed throughout 2021 and 2022 to get into the World Championship event, however, only the best of the best will get a chance to showcase their skill in front of a live audience in Dickies Arena. Here’s the RLCS 2021-22 World Championship full team line-up: 

RLCS Worlds 2022 lineup

Credit: Psyonix

Favorites 

The leaders of the European rankings Moist Esports is the squad that enters the tournament as its main favorite, following their recent victory at the Spring Split Major. The former Team Queso roster have been playing under the Moist tag only for three months, and even though they entered the international scene during the Spring Major as a relatively unknown squad, they managed to beat some of the top Rocket League teams and quickly let everybody know who they are.

The Saudi org Team Falcons is another team with a high probability of reaching the playoffs, as the squad finished in the top three at all of the events they attended throughout the Spring MENA season while winning three of them and finishing second at the Spring Major. Furthermore, Falcons absolutely dominated the MENA region, having garnered the highest number of circuit points among all RLCS teams — 4279.

Of course, let’s not forget G2 Esports and FaZe Clan, who have both seen fantastic results this season, and the reigning champions from 2019 — The General RNG.

Header: Psyonix