R6 North Rainbow Rumble

In Summer 2023, EPIC.LAN was selected by Ubisoft UK to run the R6 North Rainbow Rumble, a new off-season competition designed for the Northern Europe Region Rainbow 6 Siege community.

EPIC.LAN proposed a easy to follow player-centric tournament with a competitive structure and a massive focus on improving the experience through a high quality customer service approach, a priority on competitive integrity, a refreshed player Discord and a seamless link between the tournament administration teams and tournament platform already operated by EPIC.LAN for a number of years.

In addition, Ubisoft UK wanted to create a refreshed broadcast style, mirroring the values of sports entertainment. EPIC.LAN worked closely with talent and weekly mystery guests to make the product more exciting and engaging to a wider audience, including those from the casual or creator communities that would not normally watch competitive siege. EPIC.LAN also engaged High Viz Media Group to create additional content for each broadcast designed to bring out the player personalities, even down to throwing the occasional spicy promo. The result was a unique broadcast style, delivered to an exceptionally high quality both online during the group stages and culminating in a visually spectacular virtual set hosted from Great West Studio in London.

Client Score - 10/10

Client Feedback

Neale Maker, Ubisoft
We were over the moon with the services EPIC.LAN provided. They understood the brief more than anyone and focussed on making sure we put on a great product for both viewers and the players. The third parties they contracted in were outstanding also and the integration and management of those parties was expertly ran by Jon. All of our expectations were exceeded with this project and I’m looking forward to working with EPIC.LAN again.

Crew Feedback

The live studio! The atmosphere was fantastic, everything was planned and on point, everyone from EPIC and HVMG were great to work with and knew exactly what to do.

Crew Feedback

Hands down the best R6 event I’ve ever worked on. The workflow structure and support from EPIC was great, decisions on things such as formats and scheduling were collaborative, which is really good and it didn’t feel like feedback was disregarded or ignored, its always great to be able to have input on things and it be taken into consideration, this is what more TO’s and events need to be like!!

Production Services

  • Full Project Management
  • Observer Clean Feed Distribution (Qualifiers)
  • Remote Broadcast (Group Stages)
  • Studio Broadcast (Playoffs) from Great West Studio London
  • Live data integration from R6 North website
  • Graphics Operation & VT Playout
  • Observers, Audio and Replay Systems
  • Statistics Operator
  • Talent Management
  • Travel & Logistics
  • Trophy Sourcing (Wrestling Belt & HoF Style Rings)
  • Community Stream Management
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    League Operations

  • 4x Online Qualifiers
  • Online Group Stage
  • Online Playoffs
  • Team Prize Management
  • In House Tournament Platform
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    Content Creation

  • Daily content showcasing players working with High Viz Media Group
  • Weekly mystery guests for remote and on-site broadcasts
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    Project Management

    For a project on this scale, EPIC.LAN adopted an open and transparent approach to project management, giving the client full access to their cloud-based project management tools so that all key information was immediately accessible when needed.


    A clear structure of weekly meetings was established with each project theme (Operations, Content, Socials) along with a Discord setup which allowed all team members, suppliers and clients to communicate with each other quickly when needed to ensure that no team members were blocked from carrying out their roles.

    Qualifiers & Group Stages

    EPIC.LAN assembled some of the best backstage and on-camera talent available in the region to select the teams that would make it through to the playoffs, while also ensuring that opportunities were created for upcoming individuals keen to make their mark on the Siege scene throughout nearly 2 months of qualifiers and group play days.


    Group broadcasts were hosted from EPIC.LAN’s AWS production setup with data integration from the R6 North website allowing player stories to be told visually through enhanced stats graphics.

    Playoffs

    For the final two days of the Rumble, the show moved to London, working alongside High Viz Media Group in to a wrestling arena themed Unreal virtual studio. The mystery guest theme continued, with AEW stars Adam Cole and Claudio Castiglioni joining on day 1 and the popular UK Siege content creator Tom J Sherlock taking part in some hijinks involving a missing prize belt for the finals.


    The broadcast quality stepped up significantly for the finals with all the tools of a full studio available, bringing in dedicated roles for replays, audio, lighting, virtual set/camera operation, stream engineering, hair & makeup and vision mixing integrated with the core crew who had been working through the online stages..

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