Rocket League’s Paris Major arrives with cash, points, and a crowded field

Rocket League is heading to Paris for its next major, and the stakes are exactly what you would expect from a late-season RLCS event. The Paris Major runs from May 20 to May 24 at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, where 16 teams from seven regions will fight for $354,000 and a pile of RLCS points that matter for both Esports World Cup qualification and the road to Worlds.

Rocket League Esports said the event starts on Wednesday, May 20, in a May 12 post that read “PARIS MAJOR NEXT WEEK” and showed the first-day match order: Rocket League Esports’ May 12 update.

PARIS MAJOR NEXT WEEK ‼️

Here's your match order for the first day of action on Wednesday, May 20 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/IbpzmuRmAs

— Rocket League Esports (@RLEsports) May 12, 2026

The timing also lines up with Season 22, which introduced Bracket Rivals, the in-game event tied to Paris, before the major arrived.

Schedule and venue

The first two days will take place behind closed doors. Once the bracket narrows, the top 12 will play in front of a live crowd, with the event expected to draw tens of thousands of fans.

• Wednesday, May 20: Group stage begins
• Thursday, May 21: Group stage ends
• Friday, May 22: 12-team playoffs begin with a live audience, with Lower Bracket matches only
• Saturday, May 23: Lower Bracket continues and Upper Bracket begins, with multiple elimination matches deciding the final six
• Sunday, May 24: The final five matches are played in best-of-seven series to crown the RLCS Paris Major 2026 champion

Prize pool and bundle

Rocket League also announced the Paris Major Bundle in a May 11 post. The bundle arrives on May 19, costs 1,000 credits, and all net sales go to the competing players and teams: Rocket League’s bundle announcement.

Half of that funding will go to the best-performing individual players across three rewards. The other half will be split between the teams, with the higher finishers taking a larger share.

The prize pool itself sits at $354,000, broken down like this:

• 1st: $102,000 and 36 RLCS points
• 2nd: $51,000 and 24 RLCS points
• 3rd-4th: $36,000 and 16 RLCS points
• 5th-6th: $22,500 and 12 RLCS points
• 7th-8th: $15,000 and 8 RLCS points
• 9th-12th: $9,000 and 6 RLCS points
• 13th-16th: $4,500 and 4 RLCS points

How the tournament works

The Paris Major will open with four groups of four. Every team will play the other three teams in its group once. Group winners advance straight to the Upper Bracket and quarterfinals, second and third place move to the Lower Bracket, and fourth place goes home.

The playoffs will use the “Final Eight” system. Each group winner starts with two lives before the final four, while every other team gets one. Every series will be best-of-five until the last five series, which will all be best-of-seven.

Rocket League also posted a fresh reminder on May 15 with the same event details here: Rocket League’s May 15 post.

The groups

The opening draw landed these teams in four groups:

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Rocket League

Developed by Psyonix

Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and basketball-inspired Extra Modes, and more than 500 trillion possible cosmetic customization combinations.

• Genre: Racing, Sport, Indie
• Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
• Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
• Release: 2015-07-06
• Publisher: Psyonix
• Age Rating: USK 6 / CLASS_IND L / PEGI 3 / CERO A / GRAC ALL / ACB G / ESRB E
• IGDB Rating: 81.8/100

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