Although the Six Invitational 2025 is starting in two months and Operation Collision Point hasn't been deployed yet, with the news regarding the open and the closed qualifiers, we have decided to write a guide including everything you need to know about the Six Invitational 2025.
Keep on reading to know more about the teams, the format, the location, and more!
Dates and location
The Six Invitational 2025 will take place in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and it will be played from February 3 to February 16.
Format
The Six Invitational 2025 will be divided into three stages, including:
- Group Stage
- Playoffs
- Finals
Here's everything we know so far about each stage:
Group Stage
The Six Invitational 2025 Group Stage will start on February 3 and end on February 7. While no exact details have been revealed so far, we expect the 20 teams to be divided into four groups of five rosters each.
By the conclusion of the group stage, the best four teams from each group should move to the Playoffs. The top seed of each group should directly qualify for the Upper Bracket quarterfinals, while seeds two and three will qualify for the Upper Bracket first round. Meanwhile, the fourth seed of each group should move to the Lower Bracket first round and the fifth seed should be knocked out of the competition.
This format has been used since the Six Invitational 2022, with minor tweaks made in the points distribution.
As confirmed by Ubisoft, all of the matches played in the group stage will be to the best of three maps (BO3).
Playoffs
The Six Invitational 2025 Playoffs will start on February 9 and conclude on February 11. The format used will be a double-elimination bracket, where the teams in the Upper Bracket will have the chance to lose one match, while teams in the Loser Bracket won't be able to afford so. Again, all of the matches will be BO3.
Finals
The Six Invitational 2025 Finals will start on February 14 and conclude on February 16. This will be the only stage of the tournament that's open to the public.
The matches played at the Finals will be BO3 games except for the grand final, which will be a BO5 match. The winner will be crowned as world champion.
Venue
The venue chosen to host the Six Invitational 2025 Finals has been the MGM Music Hall. This is a 5,009-capacity music venue that's located in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
Compared to the Six Invitational 2024 venue, São Paulo's Ginasio do Ibirapuera, the venue could feel slightly small to some. However, this is arguably the perfect venue to host a Six Invitational in the United States.
If you want to attend the Six Invitational 2025 Finals, you can find your tickets here.
Teams
So far, 16 teams have secured their spot to compete in the Six Invitational 2025. The list of participants will be completed in January, after the conclusion of the regional qualifiers. A total of 20 teams will compete at the Six Invitational 2025.
Here's a look at all of the teams that have qualified for the Six Invitational 2025 through the Global Standings:
North America
The Six Invitational 2025 home region, North America, will likely be the most represented region with six teams — five from the Global Standings and one from the regional qualifier.
As of now, five North American rosters have qualified for the Six Invitational 2025, including:
Despite missing out on the BLAST R6 Major Montreal, the BLAST R6 Major Manchester champions Cloud9 Beastcoast was the highest-placed North American side on the Global Standings with 525 SI Points.
In seventh and eighth place on the Global Standings, respectively, DarkZero Esports and Spacestation Gaming follow. Meanwhile, M80 and Soniqs complete the list.
Brazil
Brazil is likely to send five teams to the Six Invitational 2025, four from the Global Standings and one from the regional qualifier — unless a South American roster can upset the six remaining Brazil League 2024 rosters.
With the BLAST R6 Major Montreal-bound Black Dragons, the BLAST R6 Major Manchester-bound E1 Sports, Ninjas in Pyjamas, MIBR, and many more highly competitive rosters in the Six Invitational 2025 race, the South American qualifiers will probably be the toughest of them all.
As of now, four Brazilian rosters have qualified for the Six Invitational 2025, including:
FaZe Clan's Top 8 finishes in Manchester and Montreal combined with the team's regional consistency saw the Brazilian roster finishing in second place on the Global Standings. In third place, despite missing out on the BLAST R6 Major Manchester, we find the BLAST R6 Major Montreal champions w7m esports.
The list is completed with Team Liquid and FURIA Esports, in sixth and twelfth place, respectively.
Europe
The European region will likely only send four teams to the Six Invitational 2024, as only three European rosters have qualified through the Global Standings. The list of qualified teams currently includes:
Despite only being crowned champions at the Esports World Cup 2024, which has no impact on the Global Standings, Team BDS topped the Global Standings with 720 SI Points thanks to back-to-back Europe League 2024 top seeds and BLAST R6 Major second-place finishes.
In this case, the Global Standings can help us understand how consistent has Team BDS been throughout the season: the Europeans finished 150 SI Points above FaZe Clan's tally, of 570 SI Points. This means the Brazilians are mathematically closer to DarkZero Esports (7th, 450 SI Points) than to Team BDS.
The list of European teams is completed with Team Secret and Virtus.pro. While this will be Team Secret's second-ever Six Invitational performance, Boston will be the Russian core's sixth Six Invitational appearance — the seventh for Danil "JoyStiCK" Gabov and Artur "ShepparD" Ipatov, as they played for ROOM FACTORY at the Six Invitational 2018.
MENA
For the second year in a row, the MENA League will send at least one team to the Six Invitational, including:
Following Team Falcons' first-place finish at the MENA League 2024 Stage 2 it looked like the MENA region wouldn't be able to send any team to the Six Invitational 2025. However, the Falcons' unexpected Top 8 finish at the BLAST R6 Major Montreal saw the green roster skyrocketing to tenth place on the Global Standings.
Japan
As of now, Japan is only sending one team to the Six Invitational 2025, including:
The Japan League roster has never failed at taking the region's first seed since the team was invited to compete in Japan's top flight following their Japan League 2022 championship, back when they were a Tier 2 squad. Two years after that, the Japanese squad is undoubtedly the best team in the country.
However, the team's international performances haven't been convincing. After the roster's Top 8 finish at the BLAST R6 Major Copenhagen, SCARZ has been underwhelming. In Year 9, the team's consistency in its home region saw SCARZ securing a fourteenth-place finish on the Global Standings and a spot at the Six Invitational 2025.
Asia
For the first time since the Six Invitational 2022, the Asian region could only be represented by one team. As of now, only one Asian roster has qualified for Boston, including:
The former Bleed Esports roster recently cut ties with the organization after Ubisoft revoked the Asian organization's license. Now, the players are looking for a team to represent at the Six Invitational 2025.
Curiously enough, the Asian roster finished on top of a three-way tie on 15th place alongside PSG Talon and Gaimin Gladiators. After a 2-3 run at the BLAST R6 Major Manchester Phase 2, the Asian squad not only secured a good amount of Major SI Points but also claimed a decisive 7-5 victory against PSG Talon. The result was crucial to make a difference between them and the South Korean lineup on the Global Standings, as both rosters ended the season with the same number of SI Points.
South Korea
The South Korean region will send at least one team to the Six Invitational 2025, with the current list including:
The boys commanded by Fabian "Fabian" Hällsten finished in sixteenth place on the Global Standings due to winning the tiebreaker with Gaimin Gladiators. After finishing the season with the same number of SI Points and Major SI Points, the South Koreans finished in sixteenth place thanks to having a better map win rate than the Australians — 28,57% against 25%.
For more information about how tiebreakers work for the Six Invitational Global Standings, check out BLAST's rulebook (Page 7, 2.4.3.) for Rainbow Six Siege's 2024 season.
Oceania
The Oceania region made a return to the Six Invitational at the Six Invitational 2024 when Team Bliss became the first Australian roster to qualify for the first time since Wilcard's tenth-place finish on the Global Standings 2020.
Realistically, the pink roster was the first team from Oceania to play at a Six Invitational since the Six Invitational 2020, as Wildcard's players weren't allowed to travel to Paris, France, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
One year after the team's Top 8 finish in São Paulo, Brazil, the former Team Bliss core, now under Gaimin Gladiators, could miss out on the Six Invitational 2025 as they finished in seventeenth place in the Global Standings despite having the same number of SI Points than BLED and PSG Talon.
To have one team at the Six Invitational 2025, a team from Oceania must win the APAC closed qualifier. With only one team from each division (Japan, South Korea, Asia, and Oceania) qualifying for the Finals, we will likely see another grand final between Gaimin Gladiators and the Chiefs to keep their Six Invitational 2025 hopes alive.
LATAM
Just like in 2024, no teams from the LATAM League finished among the best sixteen sides in the Global Standings. The BLAST R6 Major Manchester and Esports World Cup-bound Team Cruelty was the closest to doing so, as the Mexican-majority lineup finished in 23rd place.
With the BLAST Rainbow Six Siege competitive format changing in 2025, the LATAM League will disappear as teams from Mexico and South America will join the recently unveiled new top-flight divisions, sharing their league with North American and Brazilian teams, respectively.
In other words, considering the superiority of North American and Brazilian rosters over Mexican and South American lineups, it's fair to say this season was possibly the last one where we could have realistically seen a LATAM roster qualifying for a Six Invitational for the first time.
Teams from Mexico and South America will still have a chance to qualify for the Six Invitational 2025. To do so, they will have to win one of the regional qualifiers. Needless to say, it would be a huge surprise to see them hijacking one of the qualifiers, given the superiority of North American and Brazilian rosters over the LATAM region.