Top 5 most successful Rocket League teams 2022

The leaderboard starts off with a surprise — FURIA Esports is sitting at the top by almost $40,000 ahead of World Champion Team BDS. The reason is obvious — a $500,000 win at the Gamers8 tournament in Saudi Arabia catapulted the Brazilian organization to number one.

The tournament mixed up the ranking of the most successful teams a bit, because the prize pool at this LAN was only $85,000 below the prize pool of the RLCS 2021-22 Worlds. Also due to the changing organizations, some teams in our ranking might come as a bit of a surprise, since the ranking is based on income.

1. FURIA Esports

With four wins in South America at Regionals and victory in the Gamer8 tournament, FURIA were able to collect $536,000 in prize money alone. The strong performance at the Worlds added another $200,000 to the organization’s bankroll. With the team’s move to North America, not a single top-four placement has followed, and at the end of the year, the team suffered a sobering elimination in the group stage of the regional.

It’s the team’s historically worst finish at a Regional since the organization entered the Rocket League scene. Despite this, the team sits at the forefront of the Rocket League scene with $788,400 in revenue as of the end of this calendar year 2022.

2. Team BDS

The reigning World Champions bring home $690,000 in prize money after winning the Worlds and winning three Regionals in Europe. While the very first Regionals of this calendar year was won together with the Spaniard MaRc_By_8, the Spring Split saw the switch to a completely French roster with Seikoo.

After the change followed a successful period for the Swiss organization, but as with FURIA, there was a break in the placements for the new season. That was tantamount to both teams not qualifying for the Fall Major. Still, with $748,000 in revenue, they’re still well ahead of the third-place team on this list.

3. G2 Esports

A change also followed in the G2 roster, since the beginning of the year the North American roster has consisted of Atomic, JKnaps and Chicago. Atomic came on, dreaz had to go, both players simply swapped spots at the time. The team played a good winter split and crowned it by winning the Major against Team Queso from Europe. The team carried this strength into the Spring Split, two wins and a second place spoke a clear language. The team has collected $217,000 in prize money to date. Two disappointing placements at the Spring Major and the Gamers8-Lan (mist played as a sub for JKnaps) followed, but G2 still finished second at the Worlds, only beaten by BDS in the Grand Final.

Unlike FURIA and BDS, G2 qualified for the Major in Rotterdam, but were eliminated in the group stage, so the local audience didn’t see the team. But like the first two teams, $678,100 for G2 is enough for a top spot in our ranking.

4. FaZe Clan

FaZe, consisting of Firstkiller, Sypical and AYYJAYY, went neither forward nor backward into May. The North American team consistently finished third or fourth, whether regional or major. Then in mid-May the slump and a worse placement, only to immediately bag the first regional win of the calendar year in the next regional. Then in the Spring Major there was great disappointment and the end against FURIA, one game away from the live crowd. By July, the team had only won $102,600 in 2022.

With two semi-finals each at the Gamers8 tournament and the Worlds, a whopping $ 200,000 per event was added. And with three first places in smaller tournaments and a regional victory in the new season, you could continue to increase your own income. But at the last major of the year, of all places, a third or fourth place followed with the end in the semifinals against the eventual winner Gen.G Esports. But this also brought FaZe revenue and so it is fourth place in our ranking with $ 601,770.

5. Team Falcons

Fifth place, fourth region, that’s how diverse the Rocket League scene is. It is not without reason that the MENA region is often seen as an appendage of Europe. The best example of this is the currently running 1 vs. 1 tournament of the American streamer Feer, half of the players from “Europe” come from Saudi Arabia. Two of them, oKhalid and trk511 belong to the Falcons roster, the third player on the roster is Ahmad, he is from the same country. The above-mentioned roster for Team Falcons has only been hunting for the title since April, the organization’s old roster did not get past second place. Opponents and tournament winners were always the above players.

Since signing the new roster, the team has only dropped one regional, finished second there, and failed to play top-flight in only the Worlds and the Fall Major. Only three placements outside the top four in this calendar year speak a clear language of dominance in the MENA region. The gap to sixth place is nearly $100,000, a whopping sum. For example, the Saudi Arabian roster sits fifth on the Rocket League scene at $424,022 and could potentially become the first roster to win a Major that isn’t from Europe or North America.