COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – With the 2021-22 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments on the horizon, the conference has announced a partnership with Launch Esports to host the
2022 RMAC Soccar Invitational. Participants in the 2022 RMAC Soccar Invitational are limited to students from the RMAC’s 15 member institutions and competitors must use their school email addresses to sign up.
The 2022 RMAC Soccar Invitational is the first-ever RMAC Esports tournament and pits competitors from across the league’s 15 member institutions against each other in Rocket League, a cross-platform game that mashes up soccer and rocket-powered cars. Registration is now open for the event and those interested in signing up must first create a Mainline account. After creating an account, participants can create a three-person team, send invites to teammates before completing the event’s registration form.
“We are very excited to be able to partner with Launch Esports for this inaugural RMAC event,” said RMAC Director of Strategic Communications Zack Chavez. “Our hope for this tournament is to promote the fast-growing area of gaming that is Esports. We have several of our member institutions that already sponsor the sport and we just hope to be able to help grow it even more within the RMAC community.”
The deadline to register for the 2022 RMAC Soccar Invitational is set for 8 p.m. MT on Tuesday, March 1. Tournament play begins Wednesday, March 2, at 6 p.m., with the opening rounds and concludes Thursday, March 3, at 6 p.m., with the semifinal and finals matchups. Each match will consist of a best-of-three format and the tournament itself will be double-elimination. Complete tournament rules can be found
here.
Upper, Lower and Grand Finals of the 2022 RMAC Soccar Invitational will be broadcast at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, on the
Launch Esports Twitch page. Along with tournament play, competitors will be able to participate in the event’s discord, allowing live communication between gamers throughout the length of the tournament.
Each member of the winning team will receive a trophy for the inaugural event, while members of the second-place team will each receive a runner-up trophy. Every participant in the tournament will be awarded a RMAC sticker.
Launch Esports is an organization that provides turnkey esports tournaments and league operations through a custom white-label esports platform that creates branded and proprietary esports offerings. Further, the organization represents several collegiate conferences and institutions by enabling brands to engage with highly desirable communities of student gamers, while also creating whole new activation vertical to drive incremental revenue for the aforementioned entities. Launch Esports has committed to help build and grow the esports communities of its partners by extending reach through streaming and content development pathways.