G2 Esports has won the Rainbow Six: Siege Invitational 2023, beating w7m Esports in the grand finals with a score of 3-1. The tournament was held in Montreal from February 7 to 19 and featured twenty teams from different regions with a prize pool of $3,000,000 USD.
Table of Contents
G2 Esports’ Remarkable Journey to Victory
G2 Esports secured the runner-up position in Group A and embarked on a remarkable journey through the lower bracket. They won seven consecutive games, including 2-0 victories over DarkZero and M80, a hard-fought 2-1 win over Wolves, and another 2-0 sweep against both Astralis and Oxygen. They emerged as the champions of the tournament, winning the trophy and $1,000,000 USD. Two of their players, Benjamaster and Doki, won the “Tournament MVP” and the “Most MVP Wins”, respectively.
Dream start of 2023
This victory is a significant achievement for G2 Esports, and they are off to a fantastic start this year, having won two trophies already. They recently won the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023, and now they have won the Rainbow Six Invitational 2023. With this dream start, G2 is already the top contender for an esports team in 2023.
Tournament Format
The tournament consisted of a group stage and playoffs. In the group stage, teams played each other once in a best-of-three series, with the top-placed team from each group advancing to the upper bracket for round two of the playoffs. The second and third-placed teams from each group moved on to the upper bracket round one, while the fourth-placed team advanced to the lower bracket round one. The team with the lowest score in each group was eliminated.
The playoffs, which took place between February 13 and 19, had a double-elimination bracket format, with all matches except for the grand finals being best-of-three series. The grand finals were a best-of-five series.
Next Stop: Brazil
The Rainbow Six: Siege world championship, known as the Six Invitational, is moving to Brazil in 2024 after being held in Montreal, Canada, for five years and once each in Stockholm, Sweden, and Paris, France. This announcement was made prior to the grand finals of the 2023 Six Invitational tournament, and it follows an earlier announcement in 2022 that future Invitationals would take place in various locations worldwide rather than solely in Montreal. The Brazilian crowd is excited for the upcoming event, which will be the first international Rainbow Six: Siege event in the country in over five years.
Brazil last played host to an international Rainbow Six Siege event in November 2018 with the ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals. The upcoming Six Invitational 2024 will mark the first major Rainbow Six: Siege event in Brazil in more than five years. Earlier, the Season 11 Finals were planned to take place in Sao Paulo, which was also the host city for the Season 6 Finals. However, due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, the event had to be called off.