European Rivals Championship Series – S7

RCS Season 7 Comes to Europe

Following our recent announcement of the RCS Powered by start.gg, it is time to bring back Official Rivals Championship Series events to Europe!

Time to hit the jackpot!

Format and Schedule

After two seasons of online only events due to the pandemic, it is finally time to bring back RCS LAN events to the EU! We have worked directly with community leaders from the region to tailor a season balancing several different countries for LAN events and maintaining four separate online events between July 10th and January. We hope the spread of in-person majors and the accessibility of online events can work in harmony to provide the best RCS season yet for the European Region.

Here is our official schedule:

European Season 7 Reward Structure

As seen above, the official lineup of events for the EU RCS is varied and exciting to say the least. Each LAN event will receive $400 as a default pot bonus directly from the Rivals team, while every single event will also be eligible for funding through the start.gg RCS Tier System. This means that LAN events can receive a total of $900 each, and Online events can receive up to $500 each.

Finally, this season we are happy to re-introduce Champion Skins to the RCS. Our four newcomers have yet to receive any DLC skins, and there is no better time than the present to announce that Champion Olympia and Champion Mollo will be available as free prizes to all participants of specific Online events. Players who enter either the RCS July or RCS August Online events will receive Champion Olympia. More information on Champion Mollo will be revealed as Season 7 progresses!

EU Season 7 Finals

The EU specific RCS Finals in Seasons 5 and 6 were initially created to work around an uncertain world with a raging pandemic. What came to pass grew into a celebration of the EU scene that had not been seen before. Instead of sending out a single champion to the United States the EU scene saw its best players square off one final time in each season for the highest stakes of each respective year. The EU Finals has become a staple for the EU scene, with it being the main place for exciting side events such as Doubles and Crew Battles to send off the year in style.

Travel restrictions have loosened up, but the unforeseen delay of Genesis 8 still proves that even the best laid plans are capable of being uprooted. We are happy to announce that following a discussion with the EU T.O.s, the EU Online Finals will in fact be making a return. This event will have an open compendium goal, the same as North America, with all proceeds feeding directly into the community.

Players may earn points through our official lineup of events, or through EU community events that qualify as RCS Bronze-Gold. The final event to count towards the regular season tally will be the final official tournament in December (Dates are TBA).

Ranking Guidelines

The European panel has put together guidelines for the Season 7 EU Power Rankings. Players and Tournament Organizers can expect events that follow that fall under the following scope to count towards the end of season rankings.

• All events announced as official events in the EU RCS Season 7.
• Offline events that achieve Bronze or greater status as RCS opt-ins.
• Online Majors ran by the EU scene during months without an official online bracket.
• Events accepted by the EU PR council. Tournament organizers can apply for their brackets to count here.

Links!

We are aware that this post has a lot of information to digest, so please refer to all relevant links in this one convenient spot!

• RCS Season 7 League Page
• RCS Shop
• EU RCS Online – July
• Regen 2022
• Bifrost 4
• EU RCS Online – August

Registration is now OPEN for all of the above events!