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The European region of the Rivals Championship Series is getting a big expansion this year, debuting for the first time ever at several major European Smash events. Along with these new inclusions we’re also happy to announce that Rivals will be returning to some community-run favorites. Sign-ups are available now for Summer events with more information to follow on ones later in the year. Many of these events have an entrant cap so make sure to plan out your year of competitive Rivals ahead of time and register now.

EU Rivals Championship Series 2019 Schedule

EU RCS Rewards Update

In addition to our traditional travel voucher awarded to first place, we’re also adding some new rewards for our European community this year. This season first through eighth place in the standings will receive limited edition RCS prizes.

With each season seeing more competition and dedicated players we wanted to extend the prizes beyond the current first place focus. We’ll be revealing more about what exactly the limited edition items entail later this year!

We hope you’re excited to watch and attend European RCS events this season. Let us know what you think of the schedule in the comments below.

Season 4 of the Rivals Championship Series kicks off this month for the Australian region, and today we’re excited to reveal this year’s full schedule. You can register for some events right now (with more to follow soon) to start planning your year of competitive Rivals.

AU Rivals Championship Series 2019 Schedule

AU RCS Rewards Update

In addition to our traditional travel voucher awarded to first place, we’re also adding some new rewards for our Australian community this year. This season first through fourth place in the standings will receive limited edition RCS prizes.

With each season seeing more competition and dedicated players we wanted to extend the prizes beyond the current first place focus. We’ll be revealing more about what exactly the limited edition items entail later this year!

We hope you’re excited to watch and attend Australian RCS events this season. Let us know what you think of the schedule in the comments below.

Season 4 of the Rivals Championship Series kicks off today, and this year we’re revealing the entire regular season schedule at once. You can register for some events right now (with more to follow this month) so you can start planning your year of competitive Rivals.

Rivals Championship Series 2019 Schedule

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Season 4 Events Primer

One of the first things fans will notice this year is that there’s now more time between events. Even though there’s no shortage of great tournaments to be a part of, we would rather make the pacing more manageable instead of forcing attendees to pick and choose.

Our goal for the circuit is to make each event one worth traveling to. Each stop on the circuit promises new cities, more games, high quality production, and the biggest stages for Rivals players to compete on. This year we’ve continued the tradition of representing our community alongside the greater FGC, and have even expanded to some exciting new events to keep tournaments bigger and better.

This season also features much fewer online events than previous years. While online events are easy to join, we’ve heard loud and clear that players prefer the competitive integrity of offline events for the official circuit. The ones we do feature on the circuit this year will be huge, but not a place to get your weekly or monthly tournament fix like previous seasons. Make sure to visit our discord server and check out the tournament section for daily online events.

Finally, one other notable reason we’ve slimmed down our event schedule is to allow the flourishing grassroots scene room to grow. This is something we’ve been honored and humbled to see happening, and this year seemed like the right time to let these events really come into their own. These are events where Rivals is the focus, the schedule is dedicated to it, the stream is dedicated to it, and the fans are coming out for it – so make sure to support these events when you can.

We hope you’re excited to watch and attend our events this year! Let us know what you think of the schedule in the comments below.