Swiss esports organisation Team BDS has announced a new tournament which will take place during the RLCS (Rocket League Championship Series) off-season.
The event, called Take the Throne, is expected to feature some of the world’s best Rocket League teams and aims to be one of the largest esports events in Switzerland. There will be a total of eight teams competing for an undisclosed prize pool in Geneva this November.
The tournament will be organised by Team BDS, an organisation widely known for its success in Rocket League. Team BDS won the RLCS World Championship in 2022 and 2024, the Esports World Cup in 2024, and is the most decorated Rocket League organisation in history. However, Team BDS recently sold its entire roster after the RLCS World Championship 2024, with the company sharing a detailed statement about how it plans to ‘review its investment and position’ in the RLCS.
Team BDS has announced that it will stay in the Rocket League esports space, but will ‘start from scratch’ and work its way up once more. Following the restructuring of its competitive efforts, Team BDS will also focus on tournament organisation, which is to be shown during the off-season through the new tournament.
Take The Throne is to take place on November 23rd, 2024 at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices in Geneva, a historic power plant and waterworks building built in 1883 and updated to include a 1,000-seat auditorium for events in the 1980s.
Take The Throne event’s prize pool was not disclosed by Team BDS, but the company did say that it will be the ‘largest professional esports event in Switzerland’s history’. In addition to six invited teams, two local and regional teams will be able to qualify for the event through the open qualifiers.
Interestingly, Team BDS organised a tournament series of the same name in 2020 during the VALORANT beta, which had eight events and featured rosters of former CS players, stage hosts and talent.
