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First year of Competitive Rainbow Six: Siege has been a blast, with 3 seasons going from March to November. It ended in February with The Six Invitational (on PC and Xbox). We are now a bit further down the Year 2 road, and things have evolved quite a bit since last year. For starter, the roadmap and formats are different:

Just like last year, each season will see a Mid-Season Reinforcement, with major updates, new maps and operators being released into the game. The Velvet Shell Reinforcement introduced a brand new map, Coastline taking place in Spain, along two new Spanish operators:

• Jackal, the attacker who can track your footsteps
• Mira, the defender who can see through walls

As for the competition, 8 teams from each region will take part in the Pro League, consisting of regional group matches leading to the qualification for the Regional Playoffs. As for this first season, in case you missed anything, here are the results with replays:

Now that the groups are over, we are moving on to the LAN Regional Playoffs! Semifinals in North America have been played already, with the great absent being Continuum, current PC Champions, eliminated during the Group Stage.

As for Europe, the matches are scheduled to start on the 27th of April (as in tonight if you read this article the day it gets out!), and high level of play is to be expected!

Finally, last region, but not least, Latin America will see its semifinals be played on the 30th of April, after all 4 qualifying matches got dragged all the way to 3 games, and what games!

Stay tuned for more Rainbow Six: Siege action, and why not take part in one of our Community Open Tournaments yourself?

2017 is to be another amazing year for competitive League of Legends, and we are about to see the end of the first half of it, the Spring Season. This year again, the Season is divided into several tournaments spanning 4 months, 5 continents, hundreds of pro players and more than a thousand matches!
We covered all the major steps of this Season, and are now ready to gather all information into a single place for you to see. As usual, every tournament listed here links to its public page, with detailed results, statistics and replays!

Time to dive into the 2017 Spring Season!

Things started off with the Spring Splits, league play to determine the teams that will reach the Playoffs. Those tournaments lasted for weeks, with points awarded every week depending on the results of each team in their respective matches.
The Challenger Series are a bit of a special case, as they are Tier2 competitions for teams to try to reach the Championship Series (a.k.a the Professional League).

	Challenger Series: North America 6 Teams	25/01/2017 01/03/2017
	Challenger Series: Europe 6 Teams	05/02/2017 05/03/2017
	Championship Series: North America 10 Teams	20/01/2017 26/03/2017
	Championship Series: Europe 2×5 Teams	19/01/2017 02/04/2017
	LOL Champions Korea 10 Teams	17/01/2017 02/04/2017
	LOL Master Series 8 Teams	21/01/2017 09/04/2017
	LOL Pro League 2×6 Teams	19/01/2017 16/04/2017

With the Splits over, a variable number of teams got qualified to participate in the Playoffs of their region. This time, no more points awarded, but Single-Elimination formats where only the strongest were to go forward, to try and qualify for the Mid-Season Invitational. And even though Spring Season doesn’t qualify directly for the Worlds Championship, doing well during the season awards the much wanted points that will award a team with a qualification!
Here are the Playoffs and podium for each one:

	Challenger Series: North America 4 Teams			N/A
	Challenger Series: Europe 4 Teams			N/A
	Championship Series: North America 6 teams
	Championship Series: Europe 6 Teams
	LOL Champions Korea 5 Teams
	LOL Master Series 4 Teams
	LOL Pro League 8 Teams

And when the Spring Season is over, it is time to move on to the Mid-Season segment, where teams from the Challenger Series test their skill against the lowest-ranking LCS teams in the Promotion tournaments:

	Summer Promotion: North America 4 Teams – Winners go to NA LCS
	Summer Promotion: Europe 4 Teams – Winners go to EU LCS

The biggest upset happened in Europe, with both Challenger teams managing to defeat the teams coming from the LCS, and therefore taking the LCS Spots for themselves! No such luck in NA, where the LCS teams managed to hold on to their spots.
As for the Spring Champions, they are now about to face each other in the Mid-Season Invitational, for prize and glory of course, but also and mainly for Worlds’ sake. Indeed, since last year, the MSI is where the seeds for the Worlds are determined. Best ranking teams from the MSI allow their regions to get the best seeds in the Worlds, with a few additional spots available for best-faring secondary regions.

	Mid-Season Invitational Play-In Stage 1 5 Teams – Winners go to MSI Stage 2
	Mid-Season Invitational Play-In Stage 2 4 teams – Winners go to MSI Play-Offs
	Mid-Season Invitational Main Event 6 Teams			N/A

This year, the MSI is about to be played in 3 distinct Stages, with teams starting at different stages of the competition depending on the previous results of their region. The starting seeds are as follows:

1. Teams (Region) seeded into Play-In Stage 1
   (BR) – (CIS) – (JPN) – (LAN)
   (LAS) – (OCE) – (SEA) – (TUR)
2. Teams (Region) seeded into Play-In Stage 2
   (NA) – (LMS)
3. Teams (Region) seeded into Play-Offs (Main Event)
   (LCK) – (CN) – (EU)

Two teams will emerge from the Play-In Stage 1, one per group, and they will move on to fight the two teams seeded in the Stage 2.
They will then have two chances to qualify for the Play-Offs stage, as one win is enough to qualify in a Double-Elimination bracket with 3 out of 4 teams qualified.

Finally, the Main Event will start, with a standard Group Stage + Playoffs structure, at the end of which a MSI Champion will be crowned. It will then be a matter of weeks before the Summer Season starts, inexorably leading to the Championship of all Championships, the Worlds!

This week, alongside our Community Tournaments, you will be able to find some Open Qualifiers for tournaments scheduled to take place in the next weeks/months. Some of them are region-locked OR local tournaments though, so pay attention to the description before registering, or you may find yourself having to travel to Canada to play your matches (even though one could think of a worse fate!).

Here is a selection, but feel free to scour our website for games and tournaments, if you can’t find what you are looking for here!

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Open Tournaments

Over the Limits Qual.by Overdrive- Online	16 Teams Double-Bracket 2000€ CashPrize	21/04/2017 22/04/2017	Register
ASL Champions by SMT – Online	8 Teams Bracket	29/04/2017 20/05/2017	Register
LIGA S1 Division2 by Twenty E-Sports – Online	16 Teams Bracket	30/04/2017	Register

Rainbow Six: Siege Open Tournaments

R6 Cup – April by vaceMedia – Online	32 Teams Bracket	22/04/2017	Register
Spring PT Cup #2 by R6S Portugal – Online	16 Teams Bracket	23/04/2017	Register
Invite League Qual.1 by Senseless 6 – Online	64 Teams Double-Bracket	28/04/2017 29/04/2017	Register

Clash Royale Open Tournaments

ESWC Summer Qual. #1 by Millenium – Online	64 Players (FR Only) Bracket	22/04/2017	Register
ESWC Summer Qual. #2 by Millenium – Online	64 Players (FR Only) Bracket	23/04/2017	Register

Smite Tactics Open Tournaments

Weekly Cup 10 by Hi-Rez Studios – Online

64 Players Double-Bracket 30 CardPacks to win

22/04/2017

Register

Rocket League Open Tournaments

FDJ Open Series RL3 by FDJ eSport – Online	256 Teams Groups + Bracket 450€ CashPrize	23/04/2017	Register
Ligue Bêta by League eSport – Online	10 Teams League	24/04/2017 22/05/2017	Register
RL 29 Avril by La Tanière – LAN	8 Teams Double-Bracket	29/04/2017	Register

Halo 5 Open Tournaments

Casual 4v4 by IrelandUKHalo – Online	16 Teams Double-Bracket	29/04/2017 30/04/2017	Register
Champions League by IrelandUKHalo – Online	16 Players Groups + Brackets	12/05/2017 04/06/2017	Register

Overwatch Open Tournaments

Imagination Art Expoby ImaginationArtExpo – LAN	16 Teams Double-Bracket	22/04/2017	Register
EGA Overwatch by End Game Arena – Online	12 Teams Double-Bracket	29/04/2017	Register
Reddit Championship by /r/Overwatch – Online	32 Teams (OCE Only) Double-Bracket	29/04/2017	Register

Mario Kart 8 Open Tournaments

Tournoi MK8 2017 by GraphiGame – LAN

32 Teams Bracket

21/04/2017

Register

You are an organizer, and would like us to showcase one of your upcoming tournaments? Feel free to contact us on Twitter or Facebook!

Competitive Call of Duty has been around for a long time now, with its roots going back to the first Modern Warfare instance. Last year was played the first World League, completing the Pro Circuit qualifying teams for the 2016 CoD World Championship, and this year, 10 years after Modern Warfare came out, we are about to see a Pro League on Infinite Warfare, with unique events and a 5-weeks long LAN Season pitting the very best teams in the world for Pro Points and Cash Prizes.

Here are all the events having already taken place since the launch of Infinite Warfare, and that count towards the 2017 Season, with results and replays, and the podium for each competition:

	Las Vegas Open 2016 December 2016
	London Invitational 2017 January 2017
	Atlanta Open 2017 February 2017
	Paris Open 2017 February 2017
	Sydney Open 2017 #1 March 2017
	Dallas Open 2017 March 2017
	Birmingham Open 2017 April 2017

16 teams have qualified through the Pro Points standings (10 from North America, 5 from Europe and 1 from Asia-Pacific), and have been seeded into the 4 groups of the Global Pro League. Each group will be played over one of the 4 next week-ends:

The Playoffs will be played with the now-popular Double-Elimination format, with the best 2 teams from each group starting in the Winner Bracket.

The 3rd team from each group will not take part in the Playoffs, but will nonetheless qualify for the Stage 2, the CWL Anaheim Open and the COD World League Championship. The last team from each group will have to go through Relegation to secure their spot in the Stage 2 of the Pro League.

Stay tuned to Toornament for all results and information regarding the CWL Pro League!

A few days back, we introduced you to the Gamers Assembly, one of the most iconic LAN parties in France and Europe, but that was not all! The Copenhagen Games, another landmark in European esports, is happening this week in Denmark. Competitions started yesterday, and are to last until Sunday following a tight and intense schedule.
A thousand participants are expected to fight in half a dozen different tournaments, and we are proud that Toornament was chosen, for the third consecutive year, to be the platform powering the tournaments, listed below:

	CS:GO Open & Main 76 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 53 000€
	Samsung CS:GO Ladies 28 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 14 000€
	Pizzaburger Overwatch 8 Teams – Swiss System + Bracket	Played on PC 9 000€
	ELGiganten Fifa 17 (Tourney #1 and Tourney #2) 2*64 Players – Groups + Bracket	Played on PS4 5 200 €
	Hearthstone 200 Players – Swiss System + Bracket	Played on PC/Mobile 2 660€
	CoD: Infinite Warfare 24 Teams – Double-Bracket	Played on PS4 1 300 €
	League of Legends 8 Teams – Groups + Bracket	Played on PC 1 300 €

But this event is not just for players, the week is also filled with Esport Conferences and Cosplay happenings, among other things.
If you cant not make it to Copenhagen to follow this event live, make sure to check what is happening on the Official Twitch Channel, and the livestreams of the Community Streamers that will follow and comment the whole party!