

If you would like to read all the rules and guidelines for Siege’s pro scene, the ESL has a document explaining it all in great detail.The LEC (League of Legends European Championship) is entering a new decade starting with the inaugural Winter split. Its viewership is higher than ever seen before, with more new people finding themselves tuning in every day. Rainbow Six’s Pro League scene is in a better place than it ever has before. Read more: Rainbow Six Siege: Around the World Battle Pass - Everything you need to know.To round things off, there are some special cosmetics that are banned in Pro League due to their ability to compromise the players’ ability to see the opponent.Ī good majority of these banned cosmetics will never impact the watchability of a game to a viewer, but Valkyrie and Twitch’s elite skins are among the banned cosmetics. Workshop: Rainbow Six Seige Banned Cosmetics in Pro League This is usually because a player has encountered a bug or glitch that would make an unfair playing environment for both teams, and so the match is rehosted in a new lobby to combat this. Sometimes you may have noticed that a match is paused, perhaps even in the middle of a round, and a player calls for a “rehost”. This allows for teams to change up their strategy if the opponent has brought something they didn’t account for. After both teams know which operators they are going against, one person on each team can choose to secretly change which operator they are without the other team knowing. “Six Pick” is a part of Pro League’s operator selection phase where after all players have chosen their operators, their selections will be revealed to the other team. Read more: Rainbow Six: Siege caster Milosh on 20-second meta: "There's too much for attackers to do right now".This allows for teams to play on a variety of objectives, giving more variance to viewers. In Pro League, teams stay on their respective sides (Attack and Defence) for six rounds before swapping sides. There is a maximum of 12 rounds that can be played, so there are two outcomes possible for the teams playing in any standard match.Įither one team wins the match with seven rounds won and receives three points, or the teams tie 6-6 and each receive one point. Winning ConditionsĪs of Season 11 in Pro League, the first team to win seven rounds wins the match. In a tied game, each team is awarded one point. Points Awardedįor any won game in Pro League, the winning team is awarded three points towards their standing against all other teams within their region. Currently, teams from South America are included in “LATAM”, and “APAC” includes all teams stretching from Australia up to Japan. The regions within Siege are as follows: “EU” which covers the entirety of Europe, “NA” which covers all of North America, “LATAM” which covers all of Latin America, “APAC” which stands for Asian-Pacific and covers southeast Asia and all of Australia and New Zealand. Read more: Everything you need to know about the Mafia event for Siegeįor days they only play one match, there is one map chosen, and the number of maps remaining after bans increase if the teams are playing Best of Three or Five.Just before the matches begin, the two teams will determine which maps they do or do not want to play on.Įach team will be provided with the map pool, and each will ban maps going back and forth between them until the teams have created a small map pool for them to play for the day. At larger LANs however, they will do “Best of Three” or “Best of Five” games to determine a winner. After that, the matches begin.įor standard matches, teams will usually only play one map. These include Map Bans/Vetoes, and which team will veto a map first. The first things to learn are the pre-match decisions that the teams must make before playing.
