Three open qualifiers across all Rocket League esports regions lead to the offline matches of the Raleigh Major.
The Rocket League community is pretty excited about the most recent competitive announcement: the monthly Cash Cups. At first sight, these tournaments have little connection to the primary esports league, Rocket League Championship Series 2 (RLCS) 2025 and its Split 2 — which starts at the end of April. On the other hand, smaller events should shake the somewhat settled scene, at least potentially.
The open qualifiers of Split 1 and the Birmingham Major itself proved a drastic dominance of some teams: on the regional and international levels. Sure, unexpected results occurred back then, but they were mainly in Open 3, when the leaders had already qualified for the Major 1.
With RLCS 2025 Split 2, everyone expects big upsets to make the show spicier — we kind of hope for them. Take a look at the detailed schedule for the second hal of the Rocket League esports season! Can the favorites and regional underdogs really surprise us this time?
RLCS 2025 Split 2 schedule
The competition takes place in seven regions. With the current Rocket League tournament schedule, some regions have their matches on the same day, while others play within a week gap.
Like in RLCS 2025 Split 1, each Open event consists of a few stages.
- Double Elimination and Swiss Stage kick off the qualifiers. From a huge mass of participating teams, only 16 remain to advance further.
- Group Stage and Playoffs are the main tournament parts. The best teams in each region battle for the standing points.
Sure, these are only qualifiers, but the stakes are still high: qualification for the Raleigh Major RLCS 2025 that takes place from June 26 to June 29. Landing high in the Playoffs is crucial to be on the top of the regional leaderboards.
Open 4
NA | EU | SAM, APAC | MENA | OCE, SSA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Elimination | April 18–19 | April 25–26 | April 26 | April 18 | April 19 |
| Swiss Stage | April 20 | April 27 | April 27 | April 19 | April 20 |
| Group Stage | April 25 | May 2 | May 2 | April 24 | April 25 |
| Playoffs | April 26–27 | May 3–4 | May 3–4 | April 26–27 | April 26–27 |
Open 5
NA | EU | SAM, APAC | MENA | OCE, SSA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Elimination | May 2–3 | May 9–10 | May 10 | May 2 | May 3 |
| Swiss Stage | May 4 | May 11 | May 11 | May 3 | May 4 |
| Group Stage | May 9 | May 16 | May 16 | May 8 | May 9 |
| Playoffs | May 10–11 | May 17–18 | May 17–18 | May 9–10 | May 10–11 |
Open 6
NA | EU | SAM, APAC | MENA | OCE, SSA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Double Elimination | May 16–17 | May 23–24 | May 24 | May 16 | May 17 |
| Swiss Stage | May 18 | May 25 | May 25 | May 17 | May 18 |
| Group Stage | May 22 | May 30 | May 30 | May 22 | May 23 |
| Playoffs | May 24–25 | May 31–June 1 | May 31–June 1 | May 23–22 | May 24–25 |
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1v1 Rocket League esports: RLCS 2025 Split 2
During Split 1, three regions participated in the 1v1 Rocket League championship. Mawkzy won the European qualifier, and yanxnz was the best in South America. They played in the grand final at the Birmingham Major, and Mawkzy qualified for the RLCS 2025 World Championship.
The third region was Asia-Pacific (APAC), and shadi won it. However, it wasn’t part of the qualification series.
As for Split 2, the 1v1 RLCS 2025 qualifiers happen in North America (NA) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The winners play in the grand final at the Rocket League esports Major 2 in Raleigh.
There also are tournaments in Oceania and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), but the winners do not advance to the offline Major.
Here is the 1v1 schedule of RLCS 2025 Split 2.
NA, MENA, OCE, SSA | |
|---|---|
| Double Elimination | May 30–31 |
| Swiss Stage | June 1 |
| Group Stage | June 6 |
| Playoffs | June 7–8 |
Hopes for upsets: What to expect from RLCS 2025 Split 2
Domination of one-two teams was the name of the game in all regions during open qualifiers of Slit 1.
- FUT Esports won all three qualifiers in SSA. They were known as Maestros Del Esférico in Open 1 and 2.
- Luminosity Gaming won three qualifiers in APAC.
- Wildcard celebrated two victories in Oceania.
- FURIA Esports and Team Secret are on the top in South America.
- Team Falcons and Twisted Minds dominated in MENA.
- NRG won two first qualifiers in NA. Then, having the qualification spot in their pocket, NRG let the other teams show their power.
- Karmine Corp dominated the European Rocket League scene.
The biggest surprises of Split 1 happened in Open 3. When Karmine Corp was already on the list of the Birmingham Major participants, Geekay Esports suddenly made it to the top.
We absolutely need more stories like this in the RLCS 2025 Split 2 qualifiers. If some underdog teams start winning, even the favorites have stronger motivation to play better! The entire community is up for spectacularly close Rocket League esports!
Roster changes before Split 2
Unlike the inter-season period, the transfer window between Splits 1 and 2 did not bring us major roster changes.
The most notable shift happened in Gen.G Mobil1 Racing. The winners of NA Open 3 released Slater “Retals” Thomas. The former captain of Gen.G is now in Shopify Rebellion. He was replaced with Justin “jstn.” Morales, who was a Shopify Rebellion player before.
The tournaments of RLCS 2025 Split 2 should demonstrate whether this was a good move.
There is a gap in the official Rocket League esports schedule after the Raleigh Major. The RLCS 2025 World Championship is from Sept. 9 to Sept. 14. However, the game has a tournament at the Esports World Cup 2025, from Aug. 14 to Aug. 17.
Last year, Team BDS won the Esports World Cup 2024 event and the World Champions title. That roster is in different teams now, which makes the biggest offline tournaments especially interesting.
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