R6 Siege Operator League Season 1 with R10,000 prize pool

Attention Rainbow Six Siege players! South African tournament organizer Mettlestate has announced the Rainbow Six Siege Operator League Season 1, featuring a huge prize pool of R10,000, and recently changed the platform to PC. Let’s dive straight into the details.

Rainbow Six Siege Operator League details

The first Rainbow Six Siege Operator league from Mettlestate runs from 6 February to 4 March 2023. It is completely free to enter with your team of five. You can simply head on over to the tournament’s dedicated page on the Mettlestate website to enter. Registration closes on Sunday, 5 February 2023, so don’t miss out.

Despite registration being free, there is a prize pool of R10,000 for PC gamers to compete for. Check out the prize pool distribution below.

• 1st place – R5,000
• 2nd place – R3,000
• 3rd place – R2,000

There are three stages of the competition for the Rainbow Six Siege Operator League Season 1, starting with the group stage, then the playoffs, and finally, the grand finals. Check out the format of each stage alongside the important dates below.

Group Stage Format

• Registrations for the group stages close on the 5th of February 2023.
• Group stages will be played between the 6th of February and the 26th of February.
• All participants will be placed into separate groups.
• All Participants will schedule their matches via the allocated WhatsApp group for the league.
• All matches will be played as a best-of-three.
• Top 2 from each group will qualify for playoffs at the end of the group stage.

Playoffs Format

• Playoffs will commence for qualifying participants on the 27th of February 2023 and end on the 3rd of March 2023.
• The top 2 participants from each group will be promoted to the playoffs.
• Qualifying participants will be placed into a single elimination bracket
• Each bracket will play a best-of-three to determine which participant proceeds through to the next round.
• Participants will play up until the final round to determine who proceeds to the grand finals.

Grand Finals Format

• Grand finals will be on the 4th of March 2023.
• The final two participants will play a best-of-five matches.
• The grands finals will be streamed to twitch and potentially more platforms.
• At the end of the best-of-five, the participant with 3 match wins will be crowned the grand champions.

If you want to learn more about the tournament, then we suggest reading through all the rules and the game settings for the Rainbow Six Siege Operator League Season 1.

Don’t forget to keep up to date with the latest happenings for Mettlestate tournaments by following them on Twitter and joining their Discord server.

Header image via Ubisoft.