Rainbow Rumble 2026

EPIC.LAN has continued to work with Ubisoft UK to operate the Rainbow Rumble, with the 2026 edition smashing all previous records for the Rainbow 6 Community

Since being selected in 2023 to run the Northern Europe edition of the annual tier 2 tournament, EPIC.LAN has continued to work alongside Ubisoft UK to enhance the product year on year, delivering improvements to broadcast, player experience and social media engagement by working with a top tier team internally and partner agencies such as High Viz Media Group (recorded content) and ReadySetMedia (social media).

By providing all of the key services under one roof via EPIC.LAN, the current partnership has allowed the league to flourish as one of the primary tournaments of the new EML Challenger Circuit, giving players true progression opportunities in the Rainbow 6 Siege ecosystem.

For the 2025 and 2026 editions, EPIC.LAN took the studio finals to the high tech facilities at Staffordshire University where the team delivered full broadcast production and set design & build from the Stoke-on-Trent based facilities, working alongside student teams from the university to give real commercial broadcast experience to those currently studying on their esports degree programmes.

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Client Score - 10/10

Client Feedback

Neale Maker, Ubisoft
We've work with EPIC.LAN on 4 interations of this tournament over the last 4 years. The team have spent many hours understanding our needs, the needs of the players and how to efficiently bring all of that together. Because of this, the tournament runs flawlessly. This year ran like clockwork and in turn performed so much better year on year vs prevous years show how well they understand the needs of us and the player. As it stands we wouldn't consider working with anyone else as the EPIC.LAN team have perfected how to work with us and how to continually improve the results of our activity year on year.

Production Services

  • Full Project Management
  • Observer Clean Feed Distribution (Qualifiers)
  • Remote Broadcast (Group Stages)
  • Studio Broadcast (Playoffs) from University of Staffordshire
  • Live data integration and statistics driven storytelling
  • Graphics Operation & VT Playout
  • Set design, lighting and build inspired by "WWE Backstage"
  • Props
  • Observers, Audio and Replay Systems
  • Statistics Operator
  • Talent Management
  • Travel & Logistics
  • Trophy Sourcing (Wrestling Belt)
  • Community Co-Stream Management
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    League Operations

  • 3x Online Qualifiers
  • Online Group Stage
  • Online Double Elimination Playoffs
  • Prize Distribution
  • ChallengerMode Tournament Platform Management
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    Content Creation & Social Media

  • Weekly gameplay driven recorded content
  • Weekly tournament highlights
  • Social media management & graphics
  • Incorporation of mystery guests for remote and on-site broadcasts
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    Project Management

    EPIC.LAN continues to manage the Rainbow Rumble with an open and transparent approach to project management, giving the client full access to EPIC.LAN’s chosen cloud-based project management tool (Click-Up) with key processes such as player penalties, prize payments, logistics arrangements and costream metrics all tracked through the same platform to keep all key project information in one centralised location.


    A weekly structure of meetings continued with the client through the build, live and post tournament phases to ensure that key information was disseminated, with Discord utilised throughout the remote and in person phases to communicate with all key stakeholders.

    Qualifiers & Group Stages

    EPIC.LAN and Ubisoft continued to listen to player feedback from previous seasons to make changes to the qualifying format in 2026 by moving towards a points-based system. This year, improvements were made to the broadcast through the introduction of a permanent host as well as incorporating replays into the weekly broadcasts to enhance analysis segments. The use of statistics continued to grow and were a key part of the season story-telling process, working alongside the replay operator to enhance the broadcast significantly.


    While EPIC.LAN’s tournament platform is no longer used as the public facing platform for player results due to a global change within Ubisoft, it does remain a key driver for tournament statistics, powering the back-end data used on broadcast. Recorded content this season became more gameplay focussed as part of a planned change of creative direction, this content also included working with T1 analyst Jack “FreshOnDesk” Allen to create deep dives in to the previous week’s gameplay.

    Playoffs

    The season finals at Staffordshire University saw the EPIC.LAN custom designed wrestling ring set utilised for desk segments along with a full talent team on site, working with a production team made up of established esports professionals alongside up and coming student talent from the University of Staffordshire. The mystery guest theme continued throughout the finals including an on-site appearance from international Siege royalty, Tim “AceOfPyrite” Lever who joined us for some typical Rumble chaos.

    Key Statistics


    Participation

    Total Unique Teams – 206 (Up from 122 in 2025)

    Total Unique Players – 1066 of which UK was the most represented with 19.6%

    Streaming

    Hours Watched – 191,652 (Up from 31,910 in 2025)

    Total Hours Broadcast – 83

    Total Views – 502440

    Social Media

    Total Impressions – 1.6M

    Season Special Guests

    AceofPyrite

    Sha77e

    SandraKaz

    Pixel Kitty

    Kerrbear

    Kudos

    Ethamabi

    Fanu

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