RCS Finals Month is Coming!
January marks the end of our 5th Season of the Rivals Championship Series. Each year we bring our Series to a crescendo with a massive finals event, bringing top players together from around the world with huge pot bonuses and a finals day event at the Paramount Theatre on Genesis Finals day.
We can’t wait for the return of offline events
To accompany each RCS season, we put together a compendium to support Rivals Esports, featuring skins and other merch with 100% of profits going to our community. The compendium shop for Season 5 would fund every single RCS Major in each of our three regions.
Collectively, the Rivals community helped raise over $20,000 for RCS events with $5,200 adding to Developer matches for our regular season events and $15,000 for the finals. Even our sponsor, Hit Box, joined the fray by contributing an additional $2,000! The RCS Season 5 Finals promises to be the biggest online tournament Rivals has ever seen.
To add to our fabulous prizes, players will be able to earn the brand new Champion Ori and Shovel Knight skins just for playing and for reaching phase two of the Singles bracket, respectively.
Let’s take a look at what’s to come:
NA Finals Week
True to our roots, we have decided to make the RCS Finals a multi-day event, chock full of side events! On the docket we have our main Rivals Singles event, Rivals Workshop, Rivals Doubles, and Tetherball Doubles. All events will be streamed on the official Rivals of Aether Twitch and Steam accounts.
Here is our current schedule:
- Friday, January 15th: A high stakes Tetherball Doubles event!
- All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin for participating.
- Players will compete for their share of a $500 prize pool.
- Saturday, January 16th: Rivals Doubles, Rivals Workshop, and Rivals singles!
- Rivals Doubles returns to our finals with a $1,000 prize pool.
- Bracket will play up to Top 8 (subject to change based on total entrants).
- Rivals Workshop has been thriving since its creation, now we bring it back to the RCS finals with a $1,000 prize pool!
- Bracket will play up to Top 16 (subject to change based on total entrants).
- Rivals Singles is our main event with a prize pool of over $10,000!
- Bracket will play up to Top 32.
- Rivals Doubles returns to our finals with a $1,000 prize pool.
- Sunday, January 17th: Finals for Rivals Doubles, Rivals Workshop, and Rivals singles!
- Rivals Doubles to completion
- Rivals Workshop to completion
- Rivals Singles to completion
Friday Tournaments with BIG Prizes
While there is no elemental theme for the month itself, our weekly Discord events hosted by TheFailWhale and Menace13 have been such a hit, we wanted to honor them! After the New Year’s Holiday, we are going to celebrate each week with the phase 2 DLC prize from each Elemental Major.
- January 1st: No prize due to the Holiday. TheFailWhale and Menace13 have been kind enough to run a stress free bracket for those who still want to get their Rivals fix!
- January 8th: All participants earn a Champion Clairen skin.
- January 15th: All participants earn a Champion Elliana skin. This event will double as the RCS Finals Tetherball event.
- January 22nd: All participants earn a Champion Maypul skin.
- January 29th: All participants earn a Champion Ranno skin.
EU Finals
More information is on its way regarding the European RCS Finals, but we wanted to cover prize splits before dates are formally announced.
- European Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,500
- At 150 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,000.
- At 200 entrants, there will be an additional $500 added to the pool for a total of $2,500
AU Finals
More information is on its way regarding the Australian RCS Finals, but we wanted to cover prize splits before dates are formally announced.
- Australian Finals will be a two day event with a stacking prize pool.
- Starting prize pool will be $1,000
- At 75 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,250.
- At 125 entrants, there will be an additional $250 added to the pool for a total of $1,500.
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