Ubisoft UK has today announced the next season of the Rainbow Six Siege UK Ireland Nationals (UKIN) Division Two, coming in January 2022.
The UKIN Second Division for PC players was created to help nurture up and coming UK and Irish teams as they aim for the UKIN Premier League and beyond.
Ubisoft UK is continuing this commitment into 2022 as it hopes to better support teams in the future and create an eco-system that players of all skills can use to ‘reach their full potential and create an easy defined path’ for Rainbow Six esports in the UK and Ireland.
The Spring 2022 season’s first play day will be on Monday January 3rd, following Siege UKIN Division 2 open qualifiers on December 11th and 12th 2021 which will aim to fill six open spots in the season.
On day one, all teams will enter a Round Robin with the top eight teams heading into day two, where they will compete in a Double Elimination bracket. The top five teams at the end of this will qualify for the UK & Ireland Nationals Second Division’s upcoming spring Season.
There will be a single round robin group stage supporting two play days a week (Mondays and Wednesdays).
The playdays will be played in a round-robin format with five matches a night. The top four teams will go through to the playoffs on Monday February 7th 2022, with first place playing fourth and second place playing third. The winners of those matches will be crowned winners and claim their spots in UKIN.
The top two teams from this season will claim the relegation spots in the UK & Ireland Premier 2022 season. In addition to this, the two winning line-ups will both receive £500.
Additional qualifying spots in UKIN Premier Division may be available as Ubisoft UK confirms participations for teams in 2022.
Elsewhere, teams have recently been playing in the Rainbow Six Siege UKIN Rainbow Rumble, which will feature £25,000 in prizing for teams in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
