After seven North American Qualifiers, we’re ready for the first weekend of in-studio Regionals for the Universal Open Rocket League! The best 2v2 teams from the East Coast of the United States will head to the pitch in two Regional events this weekend. The East Regional will take place on Saturday, August 5 and the Northeast Regional on Sunday, August 6. Both events will be livestreamed on NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, and Twitch, with the final hour of each Regional televised on all eight NBC Sports Regional Networks. As we approach the first studio broadcast, let's take a look at who will be fighting for regional supremacy and their ticket to the Grand Finals in Santa Ana, California.

The East is bringing some of its best, with JKnaps and Rizzo teaming up as G2 Esports, and Kronovi and TheJahzo as G2 Esports B, to battle for two tickets to the Grand Finals. While the road to Santa Ana won’t be easy, all eyes will be on both G2 squads to see how they perform against the other teams that fought their way through the open qualifiers to the East Regional. We’ll also be keeping an eye on Ascension, featuring Oshnatour and community-favorite Skaxy, to make their mark in the East.

• Saturday, August 5 broadcast live at http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=34646 and Twitch from 12:30pm ET to 5:00pm ET
• Saturday, August 5 final hour televised on the below channels:

A classic rivalry finding its way into Rocket League, the best players from New York and New England fight for two tickets out to sunny California. With DreamHack Atlanta Champions, SquishyMuffinz and Torment representing Cloud 9, they’re the crowd favorites here. However, Fireburner and Moses are teaming up to try and make a run to Santa Ana. With Onslaught Esports and Ambition Esports qualifying as well, the Northeast is bringing some of the best Rocket League players to the pitch on Sunday.

• Sunday, August 6 broadcast live at http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=34647 and Twitch from 4:30pm ET to 9:00pm ET
• Sunday, August 6 final hour televised on the below channels:

To kick off the start of the Universal Open official TV broadcasts, we wanted to give our fans tuning in live on Twitch something to look out for as well. All streams for the Universal Open on https://www.twitch.tv/faceittv will have the Fan Rewards drop system on for each live broadcast! If you missed how the drop system works, be sure to check out our blog here to sign up for a chance to unlock Fan Rewards during the Universal Open!

Fan Rewards Sign-Up Page

As the broadcasts begin this weekend, we also have the broadcast talent lineup set for the Regional events leading all the way up to the Grand Finals. All events will be hosted by Kevin Knocke who will be joined by community casters: Caleb “WavePunk” Simmons, Jack “Corelli” Collier, James “Jamesbot” Villar, Joey “Jorby” Ahrens and Michael “Quinn Lobdell” Behrouzi, with Larry Ridley as the reporter for all productions.

This is just the first weekend of 2v2 action heading your way in August for the Universal Open Rocket League. Be sure to stay tuned all weekend to get improve your chances at Fan Rewards, see which teams qualify for their chance at $100,000 in Santa Ana, California, and if you haven’t already, be sure to buy your ticket for the live Grand Finals on August 26-27!

 

After seven North American Qualifiers, we’re ready for the first weekend of in-studio Regionals for the Universal Open Rocket League! The best 2v2 teams from the East Coast of the United States will head to the pitch in two Regional events this weekend. The East Regional will take place on Saturday, August 5 and the Northeast Regional on Sunday, August 6. Both events will be livestreamed on NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, and Twitch, with the final hour of each Regional televised on all eight NBC Sports Regional Networks. As we approach the first studio broadcast, let's take a look at who will be fighting for regional supremacy and their ticket to the Grand Finals in Santa Ana, California.

The East is bringing some of its best, with JKnaps and Rizzo teaming up as G2 Esports, and Kronovi and TheJahzo as G2 Esports B, to battle for two tickets to the Grand Finals. While the road to Santa Ana won’t be easy, all eyes will be on both G2 squads to see how they perform against the other teams that fought their way through the open qualifiers to the East Regional. We’ll also be keeping an eye on Ascension, featuring Oshnatour and community-favorite Skaxy, to make their mark in the East.

• Saturday, August 5 broadcast live at http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=34646 and Twitch from 12:30pm ET to 5:00pm ET
• Saturday, August 5 final hour televised on the below channels:

A classic rivalry finding its way into Rocket League, the best players from New York and New England fight for two tickets out to sunny California. With DreamHack Atlanta Champions, SquishyMuffinz and Torment representing Cloud 9, they’re the crowd favorites here. However, Fireburner and Moses are teaming up to try and make a run to Santa Ana. With Onslaught Esports and Ambition Esports qualifying as well, the Northeast is bringing some of the best Rocket League players to the pitch on Sunday.

• Sunday, August 6 broadcast live at http://stream.nbcsports.com/nbc/?pid=34647 and Twitch from 4:30pm ET to 9:00pm ET
• Sunday, August 6 final hour televised on the below channels:

To kick off the start of the Universal Open official TV broadcasts, we wanted to give our fans tuning in live on Twitch something to look out for as well. All streams for the Universal Open on https://www.twitch.tv/faceittv will have the Fan Rewards drop system on for each live broadcast! If you missed how the drop system works, be sure to check out our blog here to sign up for a chance to unlock Fan Rewards during the Universal Open!

Fan Rewards Sign-Up Page

As the broadcasts begin this weekend, we also have the broadcast talent lineup set for the Regional events leading all the way up to the Grand Finals. All events will be hosted by Kevin Knocke who will be joined by community casters: Caleb “WavePunk” Simmons, Jack “Corelli” Collier, James “Jamesbot” Villar, Joey “Jorby” Ahrens and Michael “Quinn Lobdell” Behrouzi, with Larry Ridley as the reporter for all productions.

This is just the first weekend of 2v2 action heading your way in August for the Universal Open Rocket League. Be sure to stay tuned all weekend to get improve your chances at Fan Rewards, see which teams qualify for their chance at $100,000 in Santa Ana, California, and if you haven’t already, be sure to buy your ticket for the live Grand Finals on August 26-27!

 

It’s finally here! We’re excited to announce a major expansion to Rocket League's inventory Trade-In System, and it starts RIGHT NOW! If you recall, this system allows you to exchange five items of the same quality for one item of a higher quality.

Until now, you’ve only been able to trade in your Uncommon and Rare online drops, leaving many of you stuck with a stockpile of Very Rare Rocket Boosts. We’re now expanding the system to allow you to go all the way up to Import and Exotic quality!


Trading in five of your Very Rare drops will net you one new Import Painted Body or Boost. These items are painted versions of the classic cars and boosts from the original game and they always come painted.

Available in this Trade-In expansion are the following:

Bodies

• Breakout
• Merc
• Octane
• Road Hog
• Venom
• X-Devil

Rocket Boosts

• Datastream
• Flamethrower
• Ion
• Lightning
• Plasma
• Sacred
• Sparkles
• Standard
• Thermal

As with many Painted items, not every color will be available for every boost. Paints that are too close to the default color for a Rocket Boost are excluded from dropping, though fans of the Standard boost will be happy to know that “Crimson” Standard Boost is indeed available.


If you’re willing to give up five of the new Import items we detailed above, you’ll receive an Exotic Painted Wheel. Painted editions of classic Wheels will no longer infrequently drop at Uncommon quality, but will instead be drops at the Exotic tier.

The Wheels available in this Trade-In expansion include:

• Alchemist
• Almas
• Dieci
• Falco
• Invader
• Lowrider
• Neptune
• Octavian
• OEM
• Rat Rod
• Spyder
• Stern
• Sunburst
• Trahere
• Tunica
• Veloce
• Vortex

Existing Painted copies of the aforementioned wheels will remain Uncommon, but all-new copies obtained via the Trade In system will be Exotic.

The Trade-In expansion still uses the rules as the previous system, so items you trade in will all need to be from the same Crate Series, or they would all need to come via online drops.

In the interest of full disclosure, we do plan to add new items at Rare and Very Rare qualities in the next major game update to add more diversity to the free item drop pool.

While we can’t go into detail about these items just yet, you may want to consider carefully before liquidating your entire Uncommon and Rare inventory.

It’s finally here! We’re excited to announce a major expansion to Rocket League's inventory Trade-In System, and it starts RIGHT NOW! If you recall, this system allows you to exchange five items of the same quality for one item of a higher quality.

Until now, you’ve only been able to trade in your Uncommon and Rare online drops, leaving many of you stuck with a stockpile of Very Rare Rocket Boosts. We’re now expanding the system to allow you to go all the way up to Import and Exotic quality!


Trading in five of your Very Rare drops will net you one new Import Painted Body or Boost. These items are painted versions of the classic cars and boosts from the original game and they always come painted.

Available in this Trade-In expansion are the following:

Bodies

• Breakout
• Merc
• Octane
• Road Hog
• Venom
• X-Devil

Rocket Boosts

• Datastream
• Flamethrower
• Ion
• Lightning
• Plasma
• Sacred
• Sparkles
• Standard
• Thermal

As with many Painted items, not every color will be available for every boost. Paints that are too close to the default color for a Rocket Boost are excluded from dropping, though fans of the Standard boost will be happy to know that “Crimson” Standard Boost is indeed available.


If you’re willing to give up five of the new Import items we detailed above, you’ll receive an Exotic Painted Wheel. Painted editions of classic Wheels will no longer infrequently drop at Uncommon quality, but will instead be drops at the Exotic tier.

The Wheels available in this Trade-In expansion include:

• Alchemist
• Almas
• Dieci
• Falco
• Invader
• Lowrider
• Neptune
• Octavian
• OEM
• Rat Rod
• Spyder
• Stern
• Sunburst
• Trahere
• Tunica
• Veloce
• Vortex

Existing Painted copies of the aforementioned wheels will remain Uncommon, but all-new copies obtained via the Trade In system will be Exotic.

The Trade-In expansion still uses the rules as the previous system, so items you trade in will all need to be from the same Crate Series, or they would all need to come via online drops.

In the interest of full disclosure, we do plan to add new items at Rare and Very Rare qualities in the next major game update to add more diversity to the free item drop pool.

While we can’t go into detail about these items just yet, you may want to consider carefully before liquidating your entire Uncommon and Rare inventory.

In the two years since Rocket League launched in July of 2015, our community has grown to an astounding 34 million players worldwide. As our community grows larger still, so too does the need to ensure that Rocket League is a consistently-safe, harassment-free place where players of all ages and backgrounds can come together and execute the sweetest of aerial goals and backflip saves. The cornerstone of addressing in-game harassment is our 'Player Mute' and 'Report' systems, which can be accessed from the in-game menu mid-match.

This week, we’re building on our Player Report system by adding a new layer of automation to the report-ban process. This automation, simply called the 'Language Ban' system, will automatically ban players from online matches when certain words -- racial slurs, for example -- are seen in reports filed by our players.

While we have an initial list of over 20 words and variants, this list (which we will not be making public) will continue to evolve over time, and include words and phrases from multiple languages. Each word has its own threshold, and once a threshold for any word has been reached, that player will be automatically subject to a ban. These bans will typically start at 24 hours, then escalate to 72 hours, one week, and finally, a permanent ban.

Of the thousands of reports we receive every day, the majority are tied to in-game abuse and harassment -- typically in the form of abusive language. This new Language Ban system will help us address reports quickly and precisely while we also continue our usual monitoring of Reddit and other social channels for feedback.

We will organically update our ban policies and system logic as time goes on, of course, but the Rocket League community is the most important element of them all. So, if you see another player using abusive language during your match, please report them, mute them, and let us take care of the rest.

Just as we did at the of Competitive Season 3, we have also denied Season 4 Rewards to several hundreds of players at the end of Competitive Season 4. When the Reward Trails were issued last month, players who were found abusing the matchmaking system to increase their rank (such as gaming the system to force a win or a loss, etc), were not rewarded for their actions.

We will continue to monitor match results and matchmaking abuse throughout Competitive Season 5.

In the two years since Rocket League launched in July of 2015, our community has grown to an astounding 34 million players worldwide. As our community grows larger still, so too does the need to ensure that Rocket League is a consistently-safe, harassment-free place where players of all ages and backgrounds can come together and execute the sweetest of aerial goals and backflip saves. The cornerstone of addressing in-game harassment is our 'Player Mute' and 'Report' systems, which can be accessed from the in-game menu mid-match.

This week, we’re building on our Player Report system by adding a new layer of automation to the report-ban process. This automation, simply called the 'Language Ban' system, will automatically ban players from online matches when certain words -- racial slurs, for example -- are seen in reports filed by our players.

While we have an initial list of over 20 words and variants, this list (which we will not be making public) will continue to evolve over time, and include words and phrases from multiple languages. Each word has its own threshold, and once a threshold for any word has been reached, that player will be automatically subject to a ban. These bans will typically start at 24 hours, then escalate to 72 hours, one week, and finally, a permanent ban.

Of the thousands of reports we receive every day, the majority are tied to in-game abuse and harassment -- typically in the form of abusive language. This new Language Ban system will help us address reports quickly and precisely while we also continue our usual monitoring of Reddit and other social channels for feedback.

We will organically update our ban policies and system logic as time goes on, of course, but the Rocket League community is the most important element of them all. So, if you see another player using abusive language during your match, please report them, mute them, and let us take care of the rest.

Just as we did at the of Competitive Season 3, we have also denied Season 4 Rewards to several hundreds of players at the end of Competitive Season 4. When the Reward Trails were issued last month, players who were found abusing the matchmaking system to increase their rank (such as gaming the system to force a win or a loss, etc), were not rewarded for their actions.

We will continue to monitor match results and matchmaking abuse throughout Competitive Season 5.

For any European Rocket League players looking to get involved with the Universal Open, now is your chance to grab a friend and head to the pitch!

Starting August 3rd, FACEIT will be hosting four events for PC and Xbox One players in a search for the best 2v2 European teams in Rocket League. Dubbed the “Road to Santa Ana,” these four events will find the top four teams from each qualifier to become the top 16 2v2 teams in Europe.

Note: You cannot participate in another Road to Santa Ana event if you have already made the top four teams in an existing qualifier.

After all four Road to Santa Ana events are completed, the top 16 teams (four from each event) will then be invited to participate in the Universal Open European Invitational Regional on August 12. The top four teams from that event will earn a spot in the Universal Open Grand Finals, live from Santa Ana, CA on August 26 and 27.

Registration is now open, so be sure to sign up for the European Road to Santa Ana events through FACEIT!

SIGN UP LINK

• Road to Santa Ana #1 on August 3rd at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #2 on August 5th at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #3 on August 6th at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #4 on August 9th at 18:00 CEST

 

For any European Rocket League players looking to get involved with the Universal Open, now is your chance to grab a friend and head to the pitch!

Starting August 3rd, FACEIT will be hosting four events for PC and Xbox One players in a search for the best 2v2 European teams in Rocket League. Dubbed the “Road to Santa Ana,” these four events will find the top four teams from each qualifier to become the top 16 2v2 teams in Europe.

Note: You cannot participate in another Road to Santa Ana event if you have already made the top four teams in an existing qualifier.

After all four Road to Santa Ana events are completed, the top 16 teams (four from each event) will then be invited to participate in the Universal Open European Invitational Regional on August 12. The top four teams from that event will earn a spot in the Universal Open Grand Finals, live from Santa Ana, CA on August 26 and 27.

Registration is now open, so be sure to sign up for the European Road to Santa Ana events through FACEIT!

SIGN UP LINK

• Road to Santa Ana #1 on August 3rd at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #2 on August 5th at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #3 on August 6th at 18:00 CEST
• Road to Santa Ana #4 on August 9th at 18:00 CEST