How to Watch RLCS 2026 Open 6: Schedule, Streams & Format

How to Watch RLCS 2026 Open 6

RLCS 2026 Open 6 is the final regional Open on the road to the Paris Major, and it is arguably the most important weekend of the Split 2 calendar. Teams across every RLCS region are playing for their last direct ticket to La Défense Arena, and for the Circuit Points that decide who survives the mid-season cut. The broadcast wave runs April 24–26, 2026, and everything you need to follow it live, schedule, match pages, reminders, and the Pick'em, lives on the Esport Agenda Rocket League hub.

Quick tip: Lock your RLCS 2026 Open 6 Pick'em before Friday, April 24 to earn full points. Late entries only score on matches that haven't started yet, and with multiple regions on the ticket, even a partial bracket is worth playing.

Note that Open 6 itself is a multi-week online competition in each region; the April 24–26 window is the official RLCS broadcast weekend where the highest-stakes matches (playoffs and bubble games) are covered on the main channels. The earlier broadcast wave ran April 17-19, so if you missed the group-stage action, the vods are on the official YouTube, and every result is already logged on our Open 6 event page.

Schedule & Dates

Open 6 is not a single LAN. It is a simultaneous online event across seven regions, with each region running its own qualifiers, Swiss stage, and bracket. The broadcast calendar focuses on the late-stage matches:

• Friday, April 24 – Sunday, April 26: Main broadcast weekend covering playoffs across the major regions (NA, EU, MENA, SAM, APAC-N, APAC-S, OCE).

Start times stagger across the three days to fit each region's prime-time window, so expect Europe and MENA in European afternoon/evening hours, North and South America in NA evening, and APAC/OCE in Asian primetime. The Esport Agenda Rocket League calendar auto-converts every match to your local time, and you can hit "Add to Calendar" on the Open 6 event page to push the full broadcast schedule straight to Google / Apple / Outlook.

Where to Watch

RLCS broadcasts run across two first-party channels and the official Twitch drop ecosystem. On Esport Agenda, every match page embeds the official stream alongside the live score, map count, and bracket placement, one tab, everything in it.

• Twitch: twitch.tv/RocketLeague (main English broadcast)
• YouTube: youtube.com/@RocketLeagueEsports
• Regional co-streams: Community and first-party co-streams run in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and more. Each match page on our RLCS hub lists the active co-streams alongside the main broadcast.
• Twitch drops: Drops are typically active on broadcast weekends, link your Epic account in Twitch to claim in-game items while you watch.

If you only want to watch your region, use the filters on the Rocket League hub to subscribe to alerts for a single region (or even a single team) rather than the entire event. You can also follow a team from its team page and automatically get future-match alerts, Paris Major included.

Format & Structure

RLCS 2026 retains the split-and-major structure from 2025 while layering in a few notable changes. The headline: 2v2 is an official RLCS mode for the first time, running alongside the main 3v3 circuit. That said, Open 6 remains a 3v3 competition; 2v2 has its own separate calendar, tracked on the Rocket League hub.

Per the official Open 6 structure:

• Qualifiers → Swiss: Matches are best-of-three up to the Top 192 cut, then best-of-five deeper into the bracket.
• Group Stage (16 teams): Top eight teams per group, 16 teams total, feed into the group stage, split into four groups.
• Playoffs: The top four per group (8 teams) advance to the playoffs. Teams finishing 1st–4th in the group start with two lives; teams finishing 5th–8th start with one.

The upshot for viewers: the weekend broadcast is elimination-heavy, best-of-five rich, and every map carries Paris Major implications. It is also tailor-made for the Open 6 Pick'em: one upset in a region's lower bracket can move an entire qualification picture.

Teams to Watch

With the circuit this far in, regional storylines have clear shape:

• Europe: Karmine Corp, Vitality, and Oxygen Esports have traded Opens all split, whichever wins Open 6 has a serious claim as the top European seed.
• North America: Spacestation, G2, and NRG are the usual contenders; expect at least one breakout team to crash the top four given the volatility of the NA region.
• South America: Furia and FURIA Academy-adjacent rosters remain the teams to beat, but SAM is famously volatile.
• MENA, APAC-N, APAC-S, OCE: Each region's ceiling is the Paris Major seeding, a strong Open 6 can flip the regional pecking order overnight.

Click any team on our Rocket League hub to open its team page, full match history, upcoming fixtures, roster, and a one-click "Follow" button that wires all their future matches (Open 6, Paris Major, Worlds) into your notifications feed. Exact qualified rosters for Open 6 are posted on Liquipedia and update as each region's bracket finalizes; we mirror those into the Esport Agenda Rocket League page as they are confirmed.

What's at Stake: The Road to the Paris Major

Open 6 is the last Open of Split 2, which means it is the last chance to climb the Circuit Points standings before the Paris Major (May 20–24, 2026 at La Défense Arena). Paris seeding, and for some regions, Paris qualification itself, comes down to this weekend. Anyone sitting on the bubble has to deliver now.

If you are already thinking ahead to Paris, the Paris Major event page is live, bookmark it, set the reminder, and the Paris Major Pick'em opens as soon as the Open 6 brackets close on our Pick'em hub. It is also the final warmup for 2v2 fans, because the new 2v2 competitive track begins ramping up in parallel as we head toward the World Championship later this year.

Play the Open 6 Pick'em

The RLCS 2026 Open 6 Pick'em is free, takes a couple of minutes to fill, and runs across every region:

• Predict each region's top 4 advancing out of the Swiss stage.
• Lock in your playoff bracket winners.
• Earn bonus points for correctly calling Bo5 scorelines.
• Create a private league to compete with friends, share the link, compare brackets live.

Pick'em locks per-match, so you can still jump in after the Friday kick-off. You'll just miss earlier points. Either way, the leaderboard updates in real time against the global community.

How to Set Up Reminders

With seven regions broadcasting on different days, you do not want to babysit a schedule tab. Esport Agenda makes this painless:

1. Open the Rocket League page and find the RLCS 2026 Open 6 event.
2. Click the bell next to any match (or at the event level) to subscribe.
3. Allow browser notifications when prompted.
4. Apply a region or team filter to cut the noise.
5. Bonus: hit "Add to Calendar" to push the whole weekend into Google / Apple / Outlook.

Alerts fire roughly 15 minutes before a series goes live, which is enough time to queue up the stream and grab a coffee before the kickoff anthem.

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Track every RLCS 2026 Open 6 match live on Esport Agenda. Set reminders, play the Pick'em, and follow your teams so alerts carry straight into the Paris Major. Use our homepage for the rest of this week's esports.