RLCS is back: Spring Split is just around the corner!

The start will be in the Spring Split in North America, Oceania and the MENA region. While North America and the MENA region each have two teams at the top, the Pioneers are alone in Oceania. But a duel has broken out directly behind them.

FaZe Clan has caught up with Gen.G in North America, with only three points separating the two teams. In the Winter Major, FaZe was able to prevail in a direct duel against Gen.G, but failed in the final at KarmineCorp. The Spring Split promises a gripping battle for the first seed in North America.

Spring split format

The Closed Qualifier will continue to run as a Swiss Stage with sixteen teams, eight seeded and eight qualified teams. Here is the schedule for all Spring Split events:

The Regionals and the Major are played in the Double Elimination Bracket, with sixteen teams. The first two rounds in the lower and upper bracket are best-of-five, followed by best-of-seven.

The upper bracket is the much easier way, it only takes five series to win the title, while teams that drop directly into the lower bracket in round one have to play a full nine games to win the tournament.

The top eight teams with the highest total points in the season are seeded for the Regionals. However, not automatically as seed one to eight, because the seeding depends on the performances in the last three tournaments. As a result, a seeded team with a better overall score may receive a worse seed than a team that prevailed in the closed qualifier.

However, the points accumulated in the Spring Split are important for Major and potential Worlds qualification.

NA Spring Open

The fact that the seeding is based on the current trend makes it possible for the duel FaZe against Gen.G to take place in the upper bracket semifinals and not only in the finals.

This has the advantage for all other teams that they avoid the two heavyweights up to the podium. Beneficiaries of this situation could be G2, Complexity and Version1, who could secure important points in the fight for the worlds and thus increase the gap on the pursuers.

On the other hand, hey bro and Zero2One can cause a lot of chaos, while hey bro goes directly against FaZe, Zero2One can try his luck against Complexity. Both teams earn their first points of the entire season and are the 22nd and 23rd teams to do so in North America. But that the breadth of quality really depends on the region itself, some people have doubts about that: