Everything you need to know about the Six Invitational.
The Six Invitational is the annual Rainbow Six Siege tournament by Ubisoft. The tournament features the best teams from across the world and acts as the end of the R6 esports year. The event will take place in February at the Stockholmsmässan in Sweden.
One of the first LAN events of the year, the Six Invitational 2022 will feature the best R6 teams from around the world. The tournament acts as a World cup to commemorate the end of the year. Here is everything you need to know about the Six Invitational 2022.
When does the Six Invitational 2022 take place?
The Six Invitational 2022 takes place from February 8-20, 2022. The group stage kicks off on the 8th and will continue for five days ending on the 12th.
After a day’s break, players get back to the thick of things with the playoffs which take place from February 14-20, 2022.
- Group Stage: February 8-12.
- Playoffs: February 14-20.
Participating Teams
There are twenty teams taking part in the Six Invitational 2022. The teams are from all across the world and feature the best Rainbow Six Siege has to offer.
- BDS Esports (Global Standings)
- DAMWON Gaming (Global Standings)
- DarkZero Esports (Global Standings)
- Elevate (Global Standings)
- FaZe Clan (Global Standings)
- FURIA esports (Global Standings)
- Natus Vincere (Global Standings)
- Ninjas in Pyjamas (Global Standings)
- Oxygen Esports (Global Standings)
- Rogue (Global Standings)
- SANDBOX Gaming (Global Standings)
- Soniqs (Global Standings)
- Spacestation Gaming (Global Standings)
- Team Empire (Global Standings)
- Liquid (Global Standings)
- Team oNe esports (Global Standings)
- CYCLOPS Athlete Gaming (Asia Pacific Qualifier)
- MNM Gaming (European Qualifier)
- TSM (North American Qualifier)
- MIBR (LATAM Qualifier)
Where is it taking place?
The Six Invitational 2022 will take place at the Stockholmsmässan in Sweden. The tournament was originally supposed to take place in Quebec, Canada. But organizing an event in Quebec was no longer possible and Ubisoft had to shift the entire tournament to Sweden.
“In light of the renewed regulations and event restrictions in Quebec, Canada, hosting the Six Invitational 2022 there is no longer possible. Therefore we have decided to move the location of the event to Stockholm, Sweden, where the event will take place at the same dates, from February 8 to 20, in a LAN environment following strict sanitary measures. With the health and safety of our players, fans, staff and partners as our top priority, and given the recent evolution of the pandemic, we have also decided to maintain a no live audience policy at the event.”
The developer also announced that the event will not feature a live audience as the safety of the players is of utmost importance. In a bid to bring the best quality Rainbow Six games to the fans, Ubisoft will also allow select streamers to co-stream the matches. This will ensure a wider reach and more fans can enjoy watching the matches with their favorite streamers.
Tournament Format
Group Stage
The 20 teams form four groups of five teams each. The teams play each other once over the duration of five days of the group stage. All matches are best-of-three series.
The winner of each group advances to the Upper Bracket Round 2 of the Playoffs. The next two teams go to the Upper Bracket Round 1 of the Playoffs. The team that places second gets the opportunity to pick its opponent (3rd placed team in any group other than their own). The pick order depends on the scores of all teams that placed second.
The team that places last in the group stage is eliminated from the event. The fourth-placed team moves to the lower bracket of the event.
The points distribution system is as follows:
- 3 points for a 2:0 win
- 2 points for a 2:1 win
- 1 point for a 1:2 loss
- 0 points for a 0:2 loss
Playoffs
The playoffs feature a double-elimination bracket where all matches except the Grand finals are best-of-three series. The Grand finals is a best-of-five event.
Where can you watch Six Invitational 2022?
The Six Invitational 2022 will be available on multiple streams in various languages.
- English (stream A): Twitch.tv/Rainbow6
- The English stream (stream B): Twitch.tv/Rainbow6Bravo
- English: YouTube
- English: Twitch.tv/r6esportsna
- Portuguese (stream A): Twitch.tv/R6esportsBR
- The Portuguese stream (stream B): Twitch.tv/R6esportsBR2
- Portuguese: YouTube
- German: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6DE
- German: YouTube
- Spanish: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6ES
- Spanish: YouTube
- The Spanish stream(LATAM): Twitch.tv/rainbow6latam
- Spanish (LATAM): YouTube
- French: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6FR
- French: YouTube
- Italian: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6IT
- Italian: YouTube
- Russian: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6RU
- Japanese: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6JP
- Japanese: YouTube
- Korean: Twitch.tv/Rainbow6KR
- Korean: YouTube
The English and Portuguese Stream B channels won’t be streaming the final 3 days of the event, which will be streamed on the Stream A channels.
How to get Twitch Drops for Six Invitational 2022?
Ubsifot has allowed streamers to co-stream the event. Fans can get Twitch drops if they watch the official matches on these partnered streams.
After extensive community feedback, Ubisoft has announced that fans will not receive duplicate items from Twitch drops.
From February 8 to 12, packs will drop accordingly:
- 1st pack will drop after 1 hour of watch time.
- 2nd pack will drop after 5 hours of watch time.
- 3rd pack will drop after 9 hours of watch time.
- 4th pack will drop after 13 hours of watch time.
- 5th pack will drop after 17 hours of watch time.
- 6th pack will drop after 21 hours of watch time.
From February 14 to 16: you can earn up to 2 packs per day, the 1st dropping after 4 hours, and the second dropping after 8 hours each day.
From February 18 to 20, packs will drop as follows:
- On February 18 and 19, you can earn up to 2 packs per day:
- 1st pack will drop after 3 hours of watch time.
- 2nd pack will drop after 7 hours of watch time.
- On February 20:
- 1st pack after 2 hours of watch time.
- 2nd pack after 4 hours of watch time.
- 3rd pack will drop after 7 hours of watch time.
- 4th pack will drop after 8 hours of watch time.
Six Invitational 2022 Live Results
Group Stage
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