Rivals Online Championship Series

Announcing the Rivals Online Championship Series

In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic forcing Stay-At-Home orders and event cancellations across the globe, the Rivals team is proud to present an online circuit to satisfy some of the competitive hunger this coming Spring and Summer! While we do plan on having some wonderful Season 5 RCS local events, we wanted to help fill the void many players find themselves in with locals being scarce to nonexistant for the foreseeable future.

The Rivals Online Championship Series (ROCS) will encompass six events over the course of two months, leading up to an epic finale on July 11th. In the past, online events have been supplemental to our greater RCS Seasons; this will be the first completely independent online circuit, complete with it’s own unique point system distributed to players in the Top 32 of each event.

Similar to previous RCS Online events, we are excited to unveil some new Champion Premium Skins to reward competitors for their participation and placements along the way. However, since the ROCS is going to be a circuit of it’s own, we figured we could spice up the incentives a bit more… check out our full breakdown below!

Circuit Point System for Qualifiers

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Rewards

• All first-time participants in any ROCS event will receive a brand new Champion Premium Skin.
  • Players must check in and complete their matches, simply registering is not enough!
• Top 8 of each ROCS event will receive a second brand new Champion Premium Skin.

• The Top 32 players of each event will receive points towards the Finals.
• The Top 32 players, by points, after the six qualifying events will be floated directly into the second wave of the Finals on July 11th.
• Players earning 125 or more points during the qualifiers will earn a unique badge and name color DLC for their in-game profiles.

• All participants in the ROCS finals will receive the second brand new Champion Premium Skin.
  • Once again, players must check in and complete their matches, simply registering is not enough!
• Top 8 of the ROCS Finals will receive a third brand new Champion Premium Skin.
• The ROCS Finals winner will receive a travel voucher to the RCS Season 5 Finals.
  • This would be converted into a cash payment in the event that the COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting events.

Rewards Update – 7/10/2020

As the Finals appear on the horizon, we wanted to give participants another chance to earn the upcoming badge and name color DLC. While this prize is meant to be difficult to obtain, it may have been slightly too elusive for some of our top talent. Because of this, we have decided to lower the point requirement from 125 to 100, and to allow the finals from each region to produce points as well! This will make the prize achievable for a few players who make a run in their final event. Good luck!

Full Event Schedule

Sign up for the next event on the league page: smash.gg/ROCS

• April 11th
• April 25th
• May 9th
• May 23rd
• June 6th
• June 20th
• Finals – July 11th

Registration is now OPEN for all events, good luck!