Sign up for the RLCS SSA Spring Open

Do you love playing and competing in some Rocket League esports? Well, then, the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) for Sub-Saharan Africa should be the perfect fit for you and your team. Here’s what you need to know so you don’t miss out.

RLCS SSA Spring Open details

The RLCS SSA Spring Open 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 6 May 2023, with the top eight teams making it to the Closed Qualifier (7 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 (12 to 14 May) of the Spring Open, where $20,000 will be on the line, alongside some precious RLCS Points. At the current Dollar to Rand exchange rate, that’s roughly R360,000!

Check out the complete tournament format below.

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

You can tune into the ACGL Alpha Twitch channel to watch the RLCS 22/23 SSA Spring Open Main Event from 16:30 to 22:00 on the days (12 to 14 May 2023) of the Main Event for some live broadcast action. For more awesome South African esports tournaments, you can keep up to date with all their announcements by following ACGL on Twitter and Facebook and joining their Discord server.

Header image via Psyonix.