Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major

One of the most anticipated Rocket League eSports competitions of 2025 will take place at the end of March in the United Kingdom: the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major (also labeled as the RLCS 2025 Major 1). It will be the first arena, i.e., in-person, event of the official Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) in 3v3 mode for the 2025 season, the 14th season of the Psyonix-funded professional Rocket League competition.
Subject Rocket League
Start Date March 27, 2025
End Date March 30, 2025
Status Coming Soon
Location bp pulse LIVE (Solihull, England, UK)
Prize Pool US$351,000
Participants 16 men’s teams
Type LAN
Tournament Champion Not defined
Format Group Stage (Swiss System) and Playoffs (double elimination)
Organizer Epic Games and BLAST

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Ever since Epic Games has acquired Psyonix—the developer of Rocket League—all competitions under the RLCS, including the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major are organized by an American video game and software developer and publisher. There’s also a Danish eSports entertainment company, BLAST, which co-organizes the event after announcing a multi-year deal and collaboration with Epic Games to run their prestigious competitive tournaments a year ago. Solihull Council is collaborating with BLAST, the British Esports Federation, NEC Group, West Midlands Growth Company, and the University of Warwick on the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major organization.

Where and When Will the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major Be Held?

Sixteen of the world’s best teams will converge on Solihull, the town just outside of Birmingham, England, on March 27 to compete for the first trophy of the RLCS 2025 season in front of a live audience at the bp pulse LIVE arena. The name of the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major winner will be known on the last day of the competition, which is on March 30.

During the 2024 RLCS World Championship in Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States, several major revisions to the series were announced. One of these was that teams and individuals would compete throughout the year for a larger prize pool of US$5,000,000 in the 2025 RLCS format. There will be a US$351,000 prize fund for the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major specifically, and it will be divided as follows:

PositionPrize Money (USD)
1stUS$102,000
2ndUS$51,000
3rd-4thUS$36,000
5th-6thUS$22,500
7th-8thUS$15,000
9th-11thUS$9,000
12th-14thUS$6,000
15th-16thUS$3,000

Which Teams Will Take Part in the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major?

Sixteen eligible teams from the first three Opens from seven regions will compete in the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major. Birmingham Major’s Opens will grant RLCS Points for the regional rankings, which will be utilized as the qualifying procedure for the Major, which is the same procedure for the other season’s Major in Raleigh. Whoever reaches 30 points in its respective regional ranking will compete in Birmingham, according to the following quotas per region:
Karmine Corp
1
Vatira
2
Atow.
3
dralii
Karmine Corp
NRG
1
Atomic
2
BeastMode
3
Daniel
NRG
FURIA Esports
1
yANXNZ
2
DRUFINHO
3
Lostt
FURIA Esports
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  • 4 teams from Europe Ranking (Karmine Corp first to qualify)
  • 4 teams from North America Ranking (NRG first to qualify)
  • 2 teams from Oceania Ranking
  • 2 teams from South America Ranking (FURIA Esports first to qualify)
  • 2 teams from Middle East and North Africa Ranking
  • 1 team from Asia-Pacific Ranking
  • 1 team from Sub-Saharan Africa Ranking

As you can see from the list, so far, only three teams have qualified for the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major.

Features of the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major

All 16 eligible teams will start competing in a best-of-five format in the Swiss Stage (March 27–29), which kicks off the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major. A team will move on to the Hybrid Elimination Bracket, which is basically the Playoffs (March 29–30), if it wins three games in the Swiss Stage. A team will be eliminated from the tournament if it loses three games in this Swiss Stage.

The top eight Swiss Stage teams, divided into two starting groups (brackets) according to each team’s advancement through the Swiss Stage, will compete in the Hybrid Elimination Bracket. The Upper Group (Upper Bracket) will consist of the teams ranked 1–4, while the Lower Group (Lower Bracket) will consist of the teams seeded 5–8. This stage’s matches will all be best-of-seven.

Apart from the trophy, the teams will vie for RLCS Points in the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major, and the teams with the most cumulative RLCS Points after this and the second Major will play in the Rocket League World Championship, using the same regional quota as for the two Majors. This is how the RLCS Points will be distributed at the end of the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major:

PositionPoints
1st30
2nd20
3rd-4th14
5th-6th10
7th-8th6
9th-11th5
12th-14th4
15th-16th3

Who’ll Win the Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major?

The favorites will be decided later because the qualifying is still in progress, and we don’t yet know who’ll compete at the Birmingham Major aside from the three teams stated above.

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With extra regions and an upgraded format, RLCS 2021-22—the second RLCS season in 2021 that continued into 2022 and the 11th overall—introduced the most significant modifications to the RLCS system to date. Each of the three splits—fall, winter, and spring—has three regional competitions before an international Major. Each team earns points from each of these competitions, which will decide whether they advance to the World Championship or the World Championship Wildcard.

RLCS Majors are very interesting to watch. The Rocket League Championship Series 2024 – Major 1: Copenhagen, for example, had the second-highest viewership in the history of the series: 434,669 peak views. Only the Rocket League Championship Series 2022-23 – World Championship had more: nearly 469,000 peak views.

Rocket League’s two Twitch channels, as well as YouTube and TikTok are a safe haven for watching a stream of Rocket League: RLCS 2025 – Birmingham Major with an English commentary, but most likely there will be various Twitch and YouTube channels with the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and other widespread languages with the tournament streaming.

Pros and Cons of Playing Rocket League

PROSCONS
It appeals to gamers because, at the same time, it has football gameplay, and it controls like a racing game.It takes a large amount of precision to do even fundamental things well.
A new mechanic or technique is released every few months.It takes some time and a lot of practice to reach the point where you can truly enjoy the game.
The majority of meta pieces seem good.If you wish to become a professional RL player, you must meet the ridiculously high skill requirement.
The training content is excellent and continues to be beneficial at a very high level of expertise.Extras and cosmetics won’t help you much in the game.
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Publication date : 17.02.2025
Last modified date: 17.02.2025

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