RLCS SSA Spring Cup qualifiers this weekend
If you are part of a Rocket League esports team in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and would love to compete in some great action, then you shouldn’t miss out on the RLCS 2023 SSA Spring Cup open qualifier taking place this weekend. Here’s what you need to know.
RLCS SSA Spring Cup open qualifier details
The RLCS SSA Spring Cup starts with an open qualifier. It is completely free to sign up. Simply head on over to the event’s Start.gg page to get started.
The Open Qualifier takes place on Saturday, 20 May 2023, with the top eight teams making it to the Closed Qualifier (21 May) to compete against others who’ve already made it through via RLCS Points ranking. The top eight teams from the Closed Qualifier will make their way into the Main Event (26 to 28 May) of the Spring Cup, where $20,000 will be on the line, as well as a bunch of RLCS points. At the current Dollar to Rand exchange rate, that’s roughly R380,000!
Check out the complete tournament format below, from the Open Qualifier to the Closed Qualifier to the Spring Cup main event.
Open Qualifier – Day 1 (Double Elimination):
- Teams losing a match in the Upper Bracket drop to the Lower Bracket
- Losing a match in the Lower Bracket eliminates a team
- 8 teams advance to Day 2
Closed Qualifier – Day 2 (Swiss System):
- Best-of-Five
- 16 teams (8 teams ranked 9th-16th in RLCS points & 8 teams from Day 1 Double Elimination Bracket)
- Teams winning 3 matches qualify to the Main Event
- Teams losing 3 matches are eliminated
Main Event – (Double Elimination):
- Winners’ Round 1, Quarter-Finals, Losers’ Round 1, Round 2 and Round 3 are Best-of-Five
- Winners’ Semi-Finals, Final, Losers’ Quarter-Finals, Semi-Final, Final, and Grand Final are Best-of-Seven
- 16 teams, all starting in the Upper Bracket
- 8 teams qualify through the Open Qualifier and join 8 invited teams based on total RLCS points from the Season
- In the Spring Invitational, 16 teams are invited instead and no teams qualify
- Teams losing a match in the Upper Bracket drop to the Lower Bracket
- Teams losing a match in the Lower Bracket are eliminated
- The team in the Grand Finals advancing from the Upper Bracket must be defeated twice by the team from the Lower Bracket before they are eliminated (‘Bracket Reset’).
- The winner of the Grand Finals wins the Regional
- Winners’ Round 1, Losers’ Round 1, Winners’ Quarter-Finals, Losers’ Round 2 played on Day 1
- Losers’ Round 3, Winners’ Semi-Finals, Losers’ Quarter-Finals played on Day 2
- Winners’ Finals, Losers’ Semi-Finals, Losers’ Finals, and Grand Finals played on Day 3
In the final of the RLCS SSA Spring Open, we saw Limitless demolish French Class to win the event. Will their winning ways continue in the Spring Cup? We can’t wait to find out!
Header image via Psyonix/Epic Games.
