BLAST R6 Major Munich 2025
The BLAST R6 Major Munich 2025 is one of the most prominent and significant major international tournaments on the official agenda for the tactical shooter game Rainbow Six Siege in 2025. This global tournament took place in Munich, Germany, co-organized by Ubisoft and the global BLAST group, bringing together the best clubs and players from various competitive regions around the world.
Format
Swiss Stage (November 8 – 11, 2025)
The main phase of the tournament utilizes a 16-team Swiss System format to filter the field, where teams with identical win-loss records are repeatedly matched against one another.
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Match Style:
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High-stakes Promotion and Elimination matches (where a team is playing to either advance or avoid knockout) are contested as Best-of-3 (Bo3) series.
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All other standard regulatory rounds are played as fast-paced Best-of-1 (Bo1) matches.
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Complex Seeding & Advancement Outcomes: Instead of a standard cut-off, the final Swiss standings distribute teams directly into specific starting positions for the final bracket:
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Top 2 Teams (1st & 2nd): Secure premium placement, qualifying directly to the Upper Bracket Semifinals of the Finals.
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3rd to 6th Place Teams: Qualify to the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals of the Finals.
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7th & 8th Place Teams: Barely survive the stage, qualifying to the treacherous Lower Bracket Round 1 of the Finals.
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Remaining Teams (9th – 16th): Eliminated from the tournament.
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Finals (November 12 – 16, 2025)
The tournament culminates in a dramatic live-audience phase featuring the 8 surviving squads battling through an unforgiving bracket structure.
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Format: An 8-team Hybrid Double-Elimination Bracket, giving upper-seeded teams a safety net while punishing lower seeds with immediate elimination.
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Match Style (Standard Rounds): To ensure competitive integrity, all matches throughout the bracket phase—excluding the ultimate showdown—are played as Best-of-3 (Bo3) series.
The Grand Final
The ultimate crowning match of the Major scales up the competitive requirements to determine the undisputed champion.
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Match Style: The Grand Final is contested as an extended Best-of-5 (Bo5) series.
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Overtime Rules: The final series utilizes standard infinite overtime rules, ensuring the champion must win by a clear margin of two rounds without any artificial tiebreakers or map advantages.