Following the conclusion of the Challenger Series 2025, the future of Rainbow Six Siege's Tier 2 scene was quickly up in the air again. Fortunately for fans and players in Europe, Ubisoft has already announced the first steps of Siege's European Tier 2 in the 2025 season.
On May 28, 2025, Ubisoft revealed the shape of the European Tier 2 circuit, including information related to the tournaments that will be played, their prize pools, locations, and the competitions' rulebook.
Without further delay, here's everything you need to know about Siege X's Tier 2 European Circuit 2025!
Tier 2 European Circuit 2025 Overview
Europe's Tier 2 calendar for the 2025 season will consist of three primary tournaments, including:
- R6 Central Combine: June to July
- R6 Rainbow Rumble: August to September
- R6 South Breach: September to November
Ubisoft has also announced the possibility of creating partnered secondary tournaments, which would take place across Europe and contribute to shaping Rainbow Six Siege's European Tier 2 scene.
By the end of November, the best four teams across the primary and secondary competitions will qualify for the EU T2 Grand Finals. The champion and the grand finalist will automatically qualify for the Europe and MENA League Challenger Series 2026.
Prize pool and Competitive Points
Each primary tournament will have a prize pool of 20,000€. Meanwhile, the EU T2 Grand Finals will have a prize pool of 15,000€. In total, the Tier 2 Europe Circuit 2025 will offer 75,000€ in prize pool money.
Additionally, tournaments will also offer players the chance to secure Competitive Points. The more Competitive Points a team has, the more chances they will have to qualify for the EU T2 Grand Finals.
Here's the distribution of Competitive Points across primary and secondary competitions, according to the official rulebook:
- Primary Circuit:
- R6 Central Combine: 680 Competitive Points
- R6 Rainbow Rumble: 680 Competitive Points
- R6 South Breach: 680 Competitive Points
- Secondary Circuit:
- Online EU Tournament with 16 Teams or more participating: 225 Competitive Points
- Online EU Tournament with 8 to 15 Teams participating: 105 Competitive Points
- Regional Tournaments with 16 Teams or more participating: 180 Competitive Points
- Regional Tournament with 8 to 15 Teams participating: 105 Competitive Points
- LAN Tournament with 8 Teams or more participating: 225 Competitive Points
- LAN Tournament with 4 to 7 Teams participating: 105 Competitive Points
Controversy
Unfortunately, although making more information public about Siege's European Tier 2 scene is great news, the MENA competitive community have already been extremely vocal about Ubisoft's decision to not allow dual participation in the Saudi eLeague and the R6 EU T2 Circuit.
One of the biggest changes made to the shape of the 2025 season was the unification of Europe and MENA's top-flights to create the Europe and MENA League. Therefore, teams competing in the Saudi eLeague expected to be able to take part in Europe's T2 circuit. However, that won't be the case.
Here's what the rulebook says regarding the participation of MENA teams in Europe's Tier 2 circuit:
4.3.2. No dual participation in Saudi eLeague and R6 EU T2 Circuit
Due to each system being a qualification path to EML Challenger Series 2025 the following restrictions applies to Team and Players participating in the Saudi eLeague and the T2 EU Circuit for Season 2025:
- Any Player part of any Team of the EU T2 Circuit can choose to either participate in the Saudi eLeague or to the EU T2 Circuit, but may not participate to both concurrently; and
- In the event where a Team accrues EU T2 Circuit Competitive Points and then registers to participate in the Saudi eLeague, then such Team’s accrued Competitive Points will be automatically forfeited.
- Players that have been part of any roster in the Saudi eLeague 2025 in any stage are ineligible to be part of any T2 EU Circuit Team roster Page 11 sur 30
- If a team accrues T2 EU Circuit points but has any Saudi eLeague 2025 players on the roster the team will Immediately forfeit the points and the points will not be reassigned
Based on what the rulebook says, we should understand that the Saudi eLeague will be another way for teams to qualify for the next EML Challenger Series. Therefore, allowing MENA teams to be part of the European Tier 2 circuit, which is a completely different path to the next EML Challenger Series, would be unfair.
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