For the first time in a Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six game, players will engage in sieges, a new style of assault where enemies have the means to transform their environments into modern strongholds while Rainbow Six teams lead the assault to breach the enemy’s position. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege gives players unprecedented control over their ability to fortify their position - by reinforcing walls and floors, using barbed wire, deployable shields and mines, and more - or breach the enemies’ using observation drones, sheet charges, rappelling, and more. The fast pace, lethality and uniqueness of each siege sets a new bar for intense firefights, strategic gameplay and competitive gaming.

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege also features a technological breakthrough that redefines the way players interact with a game environment. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege incorporates procedural destruction that is realistic and unscripted, meaning the environment reacts authentically, distinctively and dynamically, based on variables like the caliber of bullets or the amount of explosives used. This advance allows players to leverage destruction in meaningful ways. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire. Ceilings and floors can be breached to create new access points. This ability to modify the level design in real time enables players to create new gameplay opportunities directly within the game level.

A selection of the top sixteen Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six teams worldwide will compete for the title of World Champion in the 2019 edition of the Six Invitational. The third year of the Six Invitational brings together fans, professional players, developers and content creators to celebrate Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. Taking place from February 11th to 17th in Montreal, Canada, the birth city of the game, the Six Invitational 2019 will also feature the live broadcast global premiere of esports documentary “To Win It All: The Road to the Six Invitational,” as well as exclusive insights on Year 4 Plans for Rainbow Six Siege from the development team.

This year’s championship features an over $1,000,000 prize pool, which is a record-setting pool for the league thanks to the passion of the Rainbow Six Siege community: 30% of all revenue made during the on-going Road To The Six Invitational in-game event is added to the pot. The in-game event is still available until February 17, 2019 for those looking to get in on the action. The total prize pool across all official Year 3 tournaments is now more than $1,500,000.

In celebration of the many facets of the Rainbow Six Siege Community, Behind the Siege, a video series highlighting the many perspectives from the community of over 40 million will also premiere at the Six Invitational 2019 to offer a glimpse into what the game means for key community members. Interview subjects will include shoutcasters and concept, esports, and community artists.

The Six Invitational 2019 will take place at the Place Bell in Montreal, Canada from February 11th to 17th. The complete run of show and survival guide of all things at Six Invitational can be found the Rainbow Six Siege website, with the daily competition schedule being as follows:

• February 11-13: Group Phase
• February 15: Quarter Finals
• February 16: Semi Finals
• February 17: Grand Final

In addition to the highly anticipated competition, the Six Invitational will host the worldwide live broadcast premiere of the Rainbow Six esports documentary “To Win It All: The Road to the Six Invitational”, which follows the real behind-the-spotlight lives of three pro players, their joys and struggles as they compete for this year’s World Championship title: Pengu (G2 Esports), Canadian (Evil Geniuses), and Zig (Team Liquid). Join us at the event or tune into the Six Invitational livestream to watch the elite of Siege as they compete and train around the clock for the Six Invitational 2019 and its life-changing $1,000,000+ prize pool..

The Six Invitational 2019 will also feature announcements on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Year 4 game updates, including but not limited to the upcoming Operation, insights from the development team behind Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege and the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six esports scene itself, during dedicated panels at the event. Make sure to follow the competition on our broadcast channels to watch all competitive matches live and learn all the details on our major announcements and reveals as they happen.

Here is the complete list of the sixteen teams competing for the Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Year 3 World Champion title, qualified via previous victories in the Major, in Pro League events, Minors or Online qualifiers:

• EVIL GENIUSES (NA):
• FAZE CLAN (LATAM):
• FNATIC (APAC):
• G2 ESPORTS (EU):
• LESTREAM ESPORT (EU):
• IMMORTALS (LATAM):
• MANTIS FPS (APAC):
• MOCK-IT ESPORTS (EU):
• NINJAS IN PYJAMAS (LATAM):
• NORA-RENGO (APAC):
• PENTA SPORTS (EU):
• ROGUE (NA):
• SPACESTATION GAMING (NA):
• TEAM EMPIRE (EU):
• TEAM LIQUID (LATAM):
• TEAM RECIPROCITY (NA):

Key Features

• Counter terrorist operatives are trained to handle extreme situations, such as hostage rescue, with surgical precision. As “short range” specialists, their training is concentrated on indoor environments. Operating in tight formations, they are experts of close quarter combat, demolition, and coordinated assaults.
• For the first time in Rainbow Six, players will engage in sieges, a brand-new style of assault. Enemies now have the means to transform their environments into strongholds: they can trap, fortify, and create defensive systems to prevent breach by Rainbow teams. To face this challenge, players have a level of freedom unrivaled by any previous Rainbow Six game. Combining tactical maps, observation drones, and a new rappel system, Rainbow teams have more options than ever before to plan, attack, and diffuse these situations.
• Destruction is at the heart of the siege gameplay. Leveraging Ubisoft Montreal’s proprietary Realblast engine, players now have the unprecedented ability to destroy environments. Walls can be shattered, opening new lines of fire, and ceiling and floors can be breached, creating new access points. Everything in the environment reacts realistically, dynamically, and uniquely based on the size and caliber of bullets you are using or the amount of explosives you have set. In Rainbow Six Siege, destruction is meaningful and mastering it is often the key to victory.