Hero image: The BLAST R6 Osaka Major. Image: Ubisoft
Two semi-finals on Saturday settled it. DarkZero and FaZe Clan play for the Osaka Major title on Sunday afternoon, Sydney time.
The Rainbow Six Siege Osaka Major is down to two teams, with DarkZero beating Virtus.pro 2–1 in the first semi-final on Saturday and FaZe Clan sweeping Team Falcons 2–0 in the second, according to the playoffs bracket on Ubisoft’s esports site.
The final is on Sunday 15 November at 2:30pm AEDT, which is the time the bracket shows when you load it in Sydney time. That makes it 1:30pm in Brisbane and 11:30am in Perth, by our conversion. To be clear, this is not an Australian story, but the deciding match of a Major played in Japan.
Both finalists came through close quarter-finals on Friday, where DarkZero beat Team Liquid Alienware 2–1 and FaZe Clan beat G2 Esports by the same score. On Saturday DarkZero again needed all three maps against Virtus.pro, who had beaten M80 2–0 to reach the semis. FaZe dropped none against Falcons, who had swept Geekay Esports in their own quarter-final.
The playoffs are single elimination, so the match on Sunday decides the title. The bracket lists scores by series rather than by map, so map-by-map detail will have to wait for the result. The event runs in Osaka from 6 to 15 November.
For the background, we covered the quarter-final schedule on Thursday and the start of the playoffs, with the Year 11 Season 4 reveal also set for Sunday. The opening of the Major has the full field of 20 teams.
For Australian teams, the next stop is closer to home. Our Oceania Gauntlet piece covers the local Tier 2 playoff, with its finals running from 3 to 6 December.
So set an alarm for 2:30pm on Sunday, and pick your side between DarkZero and FaZe Clan before the first round goes live.