The fi

rst half of Year 4 will conclude this week with the second Six Major event taking place at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. It is going to feature 16 of the best teams from across the world who will compete for a total prize pool of $500,000.

In addition to the matches, Ubisoft will reveal the next season of Rainbow 6 just before the Grand Final on Sunday.

Schedule

The event will be kicking off on Monday, August 12th with the group stage. The schedule for it looks as follows:

Group Stage Schedule Overview (EDT timezone)

The broadcast will be split across two streams during the first two days of group stage, more information below under Broadcast Information.

After a break on Thursday, the playoffs will run throughout the weekend. Here's the schedule:

Playoffs Schedule Overview (EDT timezone)

Teams & Groups

Group A:

• Team Empire (ShepparD 🇷🇺, JoyStiCK 🇷🇺, karzheka 🇪🇪, Scyther 🇷🇺, Dan 🇷🇺)
• Nora-Rengo (Merieux 🇯🇵, Papilia 🇯🇵, ReyCyil 🇯🇵, Ramu 🇯🇵, YoshiNNGO 🇯🇵)
• MIBR (Cyb3r 🇧🇷, Novys 🇧🇷, Bullet1 🇧🇷, MKing 🇧🇷, pX 🇧🇷)
• Team SoloMid (Achieved 🇺🇸, b1ologic 🇺🇸, Pojoman 🇨🇦, Merc 🇺🇸, Beaulo 🇺🇸)

Group B:

• G2 Esports (Pengu 🇩🇰, Goga 🇪🇸, Fabian 🇸🇪, Kantoraketti 🇫🇮, UUNO 🇫🇮)
• Rogue (Ecl9pse 🇺🇸, Slashug 🇺🇸, Easilyy 🇺🇸, Shuttle 🇺🇸, VertcL 🇺🇸)
• Team Secret (meepeY 🇬🇧, LeonGids 🇬🇧, Elemzje 🇫🇷, Fonkers 🇫🇮, Ferral 🇬🇧)
• CYCLOPS athlete gaming (Shokei 🇯🇵, Anitun 🇯🇵, SuzuC 🇯🇵, gatorada 🇯🇵, BlackRay 🇯🇵)

Group C:

• Evil Geniuses (Canadian 🇨🇦, nvK 🇺🇸, Yung 🇺🇸, Geoometrics 🇲🇽, Necrox 🇺🇸)
• Vodafone Giants (Hicks 🇫🇷, risze 🇧🇪, Alphama 🇫🇷, AceeZ 🇩🇪, korey 🇩🇪)
• Spacestation Gaming (Chala 🇺🇸, ThinkingNade 🇺🇸, Rampy 🇺🇸, Bosco 🇺🇸, Fultz 🇺🇸)
• Ninjas in Pyjamas (Kamikaze 🇧🇷, Psycho 🇧🇷, julio 🇧🇷, pino 🇧🇷, Muzi 🇧🇷)

Group D:

• FaZe Clan (Astro 🇧🇷, cameram4n 🇧🇷, mav 🇧🇷, yoona 🇧🇷, ion 🇧🇷)
• FNATIC (Magnet 🇦🇺, Lusty 🇦🇺, RizRaz 🇦🇺, Acez 🇦🇺, Virtue 🇦🇺)
• DarkZero Esports (Mint 🇺🇸, Hotancold 🇺🇸, Nyx 🇺🇸, BC 🇺🇸, Hyper 🇬🇷)
• forZe (cawkx 🇷🇺, Rask 🇷🇺, Shockwave 🇷🇺, KaMa 🇷🇺, p4sh4 🇷🇺)

Panels & Showmatches

Year 4 Season 3 Reveal & Esports Panel

Ubisoft will be hosting a panel just before the Grand Final on Sunday at 01:30 PM EDT. Topics include details about the new Operators, information about the upcoming Kanal rework, updates to playlists, new in-game items, and more.

Note: In an effort to combat spam, r/Rainbow6 will not be accepting any new posts for the duration of the panel. Instead the moderation team will host a megathread that you can use for discussion.

Showmatches

Two showmatches will be hosted on the weekend (Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT & Sunday at 11:00 AM EDT). Details about the teams playing will be revealed during the group stage.

Twitch Drops

Raleigh Major Twitch Drops

Twitch Drops will make a return for the Six Major in Raleigh. You can earn these exclusive in-game charms by connecting your Ubisoft and Twitch accounts and watching the event over the weekend (16th to 18th) -- the more watch time you accumulate, the more charms you will receive.

• Copper: 1 hours of viewing
• Bronze: 5 hours of viewing
• Silver: 10 hours of viewing
• Gold: 15 hours of viewing
• Platinum: 20 hours of viewing
• Diamond: 25 hours of viewing

All Twitch channels listed below are eligible for Twitch Drops.

Esports User Flairs

Esports user flairs are also making a return for the Six Major! Let everyone know who you're rooting for by choosing a flair corresponding to one of the 16 teams competing in Raleigh.

Esports User Flair Options

These flairs will only be accessible during the event but once you get your flair it won't be removed.

If you don't know how to change your flair, check out the tutorials in our Subreddit Meta Guide.

Note: Flairs only available on Reddit's redesign and mobile apps. Changing user flair through comments not possible for limited-time events like this. While the team icons will be available for custom flairs for the duration of this event, they will not continue to work beyond that.

Broadcast Information

Twitch Broadcasts

• 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 English: Rainbow6 on Twitch
• 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 English (Secondary): Rainbow6Bravo on Twitch (only during the first two days of group stages)
• 🇫🇷 French: Rainbow6FR on Twitch
• 🇩🇪 German: Rainbow6DE on Twitch
• 🇵🇹/🇧🇷 Portugese: Rainbow6BR on Twitch
• 🇯🇵 Japanese: Rainbow6JP on Twitch
• 🇪🇸 Spanish (Spain): Rainbow6ES on Twitch
• 🇲🇽/🇨🇴/🇦🇷 Spanish (Latin America): Rainbow6LATAM on Twitch
• 🇷🇺 Russian: Rainbow6RU on Twitch
• 🇮🇹 Italian: Rainbow6IT on Twitch
• 🇰🇷 Korean: Rainbow6KR on Twitch
• 🇵🇱 Polish: Rainbow6PL on Twitch
• 🇹🇼 Taiwanese (Mandarin): Rainbow6TW on Twitch
• 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (Cantonese): Rainbow6HK on Twitch
• 🇹🇭 Thai: Rainbow6TH on Twitch

YouTube Broadcasts

• 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 English: Rainbow Six Esports on YouTube (both primary and secondary streams)

Mixer Broadcasts

• 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 English: Rainbow6 on Mixer

The English broadcast will be brought to you by:

Broadcast Talent

Note: All Twitch channels listed here are eligible for Twitch Drops.

Related Coverage

• r/R6ProLeague -- Rainbow 6 esports subreddit
• SiegeGG -- Rainbow 6 esports news & information
  • Match highlights will be available on their YouTube channel
• Liquipedia -- Rainbow 6 esports wiki
• Official social media accounts
  • @R6esports on Twitter
  • @Rainbow6Game on Twitter
  • @ESLRainbowSix on Twitter
  • Rainbow Six Esports on YouTube -- full VODs will be uploaded here
• Official Six Major website
• Ubisoft blog post: Six Major Raleigh Survival Guide

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