How Rocket League Tournaments Work

Rocket League Competitive Tournaments provide a unique way to compete. In competitive tournaments, you are matched against teams of similar skill to earn rewards. You can join weekly scheduled Tournaments, and there is no limit to the number of Tournaments you are allowed to join.

You play in Competitive Tournaments to earn Tournament credits, which can be used to buy exclusive Tournament Items. You cannot buy Credits, they must be earned.

In Competitive Tournaments, there are 32 teams and single-elimination brackets according to each team's level of skills. Every round, the teams play one match until they get to play best of three matches in the Semifinals and Finals. If a team loses the first round or is late for the tournament, they can get another try by joining a Second Chance bracket.

In Competitive Tournaments, there are 2v2 matches, 3v3 matches, as well as support parties or solo players. The most skilled player is considered the "base" in mixed-rank parties. Two Platinum II players can team up with a Diamond I player and get into a Diamond Tournament.

In order to ensure that matches always have a hard endpoint, teams need to complete their matches timeously. The total running time of matches should not surpass 11 minutes. This is including time spent on replays and kickoffs. If the game ends in a tie, the team that got the most shots wins the match. If both teams got the same number of shots, then the verdict will be decided by flipping a coin.

If you drop out of a tournament early will result in a 15 minute matchmaking ban as well as a 3 hour Tournament ban. Continuously abandoning Tournaments early, will result in an escalated 24-hour Tournament ban, a 7-day Tournament ban, and even a 24 hour matchmaking ban in extreme cases. Each Tournament you finish counts towards decreasing your potential penalties. If you drop out of a tournament, you forfeit any rewards you've earned in that Tournament.

To get tournament credits, you need to get at least one win in any tournament. You will likely get most of your earnings from your Top 3 Weekly Placements. This gets reset at the end of each week on Sunday. For instance, if you win a Gold Tournament, you will earn approximately 1,200 Tournament Credits. Your Weekly Placement reward for that result will be 4,500 Tournament Credits (5,700 in total). The better your results are, the higher your weekly reward will be.

Tournament schedules are similar to Rocket League’s Competitive Seasons. When a new Competitive Season starts, some Tournament items will be removed and replaced with new items. And the same way Season Reward Titles change with every season, so do the Titles you receive from winning a Tournament.

Now that you've had an introduction to how Rocket League Tournaments work, you can start competing!

Ready to get started?

1. Open Rocket League.
2. Select Play from the Main Menu.
3. Select Tournaments.
4. Select your Play Window.

Good luck!