The Rocket League World Championship (RLCS) 2024 has come to an end, and with that came some important format changes for RLCS 2025.
Team BDS took the RLCS 2024 trophy with players Samy “dralii,” Evan “M0nkey M00n” Rogez, and Brice “ExoTiik” Bigeard, coached by Andy “Kassio” Landais. They won against G2 Stride, giving M0nkey M00n a second World Championship title and rookie dralii a first.
First and foremost is the RLCS 2025 one-versus-one format, which will run alongside the three-versus-three season. This new format will be available in regions. There will be one Open Qualifier in each of the two splits.
Split One will include EU, SAM, and APAC, with the winners in EU and SAM going to a one-versus-one Final at Major One. Split Two will include NA, MENA, OCE, and SSA, with the winners in NA and MENA going to the over-versus-one Final at Major Two.
The two Major winners will compete at a one-versus-one Final at RLCS 2025. There will also be cash prizes for the top 128 players in NA and EU; top 64 in SAM, MENA, and OCE; and top 32 in SSA and APAC. These winners will pull from the $5 million prize pool.
The one-versus-one qualifiers, majors, and finals won’t be scheduled at the same time as any of the three-versus-three tournaments. This means that players can compete in both formats if they’d like. Plus, organizations can have more than one player entered into the one-versus-one format.
A new online Last Chance Open Qualifier will also be implemented in the top four strongest regions. These regions will be chosen based on the average performance of their teams at in-person RLCS Majors. The winner of each region will go to the RLCS.
The Rocket League World Championship 2025 will also larger because of this. There will be 20 teams fighting for the trophy instead of 16, pulling in the winners from the Last Chance Open Qualifiers. They’ll go against the four lowest-seeded teams that made it to RLCS.
Open Qualifiers are also going to look different, making it so that top-performing teams will progress to a later stage in the next Qualifiers. Essentially, this means that the top performers won’t have to keep going through the early rounds of Qualifiers.
The RLCS 2025 schedule is as follows:
- Open Qualifier 1: January to February
- Open Qualifier 2: mid-January to mid-February
- Open Qualifier 3: late January to late February
- Region One-Versus-One Window A: February to March
- Open Qualifier 4: April to May
- Open Qualifier 5: mid-April to mid-May
- Open Qualifier 6: late April to late May
- Regional One-Versus-One Window B: May to June
- Last Chance Qualifiers: July to August
- RLCS 2025 and One-Versus-One Final: September
Fans can watch the last day of the event here on the official Rocket League Esports YouTube channel.
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