Hero image: The BLAST R6 Osaka Major. Image: Ubisoft
The Swiss phase is done and the eight-team bracket for the Osaka Major is set. All four quarter-finals are on Friday, and you can watch the lot in Sydney daylight hours.
The playoffs of the BLAST R6 Osaka Major start on Friday, and the Ubisoft competition page now has the quarter-final pairings. The playoffs are single elimination, so every match from here sends a team home. This is not an Australian story. It is here because Siege sat 15th on Steam’s most-played chart on Thursday evening. Osaka is two hours behind Sydney, so the whole bracket sits in the middle of your day. The times below are the ones the Ubisoft bracket shows when viewed in Sydney time.
Here is Friday 13 November, in match order. Virtus.pro play M80 at 11:30am AEDT. Team Liquid Alienware play DarkZero at 2:30pm. Team Falcons play Geekay Esports at 5:30pm, and G2 Esports close the day against FaZe Clan at 8:30pm.
The semi-finals are on Saturday 14 November, at 12:15pm and 3:30pm AEDT. The bracket does not show yet which quarter-final winners meet, so check back on the competition page once Friday is done. The final is at 2:30pm AEDT on Sunday 15 November.
Clear Sunday afternoon if you can. The Year 11 Season 4 reveal is part of the grand final day, and the Ubisoft event guide sets the panel for 1:30pm AEDT by our conversion of its Osaka time. That is an hour before the listed start of the final. We covered the panel, the Reveal Charm and the Twitch Drops in our playoffs preview, and the earlier stages in our Osaka schedule.
The bracket lists every quarter-final at 0–0, and predictions for the playoffs are open on the same page now, so get your picks in.
Source: Ubisoft – R6 Esports Osaka Major playoffs, Ubisoft – Your guide to the BLAST R6 Osaka November Major, Rainbow Six Siege – Year 11 Season 4 Reveal Incoming (Steam)