The Esports Nations Cup has officially unveiled its Rainbow Six Siege rosters for the inaugural tournament.
A total of 24 teams will compete for the $1.32 million prize pool in Riyadh, or perhaps Paris like the Esports World Cup if conflicts continue.
However, a total of 81 Rainbow Six national rosters have been revealed so far, including Bolivia, Greece, and Brunei Darussalam.
However, only 12 teams will be directly invited to the tournament by fielding the highest-ranked rosters.
A scoring system ranks every player judging off of performances from recent events to give each nation a combined score of their top five players.
The remaining countries will have to compete through local qualifiers or a wildcard tournament to secure their place.
The 12 Invited Rainbow Six ENC Teams
The 12 nations and official rosters that have been directly invited to the Esports Nations Cup 2026 are:
- Brazil – VITAKING, Paluh, Handyy, Kheyze, Cyber, Loira (S), and Jv92 (S)
- France – LikEfac, BlaZ, Mowwwgli, BriD, Shaiiko, SkyZs (S), and bbySharKK (S)
- United States – Gunnar, Gaveni, Stompn, Ambi, Fultz, Bae94 (S), and njr (S)
- Great Britain – Doki, CTZN, Nafe, Wizard, and Yuzus
- Sweden – Spoit, Noa, Treiko, Elizaard, Shmari, KaneB (S), and Lurifax (S)
- Indonesia – Hovenherst, Ape, Elang, Toliji, Rixx, Griv (S), and Sunan (S)
- China – Reeps96, Txonly, SoloMiD, MoonL1ght, YaaaaZ, and OnJuly (S)
- Australia – Brendo, Jigsaw, Kyro, Relaes, Playxr, Wettables (S), and Virtue (S)
- Germany – Hungry, jume, cryn, Jay, korey, Nono (S), and Bio (S)
- New Zealand – Terd, Tuhan, Kqrma, Japer, Machine, and Campo (S)
- Poland – Adrian, Gruby, nudl, Saves, PingWIN, Vexliss (S), and Dexir (S)
- Portugal– Flexy, Enshilaz, Tridly, TomHates, Savage, Tnqz (S), Thuunder (S)
Team Brazil will be heavy favourites for the title with the FaZe Clan trio of Thiago ‘Handyy’ Ferreira, Victor ‘VITAKING’ Santos, and Jaime ‘Cyber’ Ramos back-to-back, defending Six Invitational champions.
Meanwhile, Team France is reuniting the French trio that won the Esports World Cup 2024 tournament with Team BDS: Stéphane ‘Shaiiko’ Lebleu, Loïc ‘BriD’ Chongthep, and Théo ‘LikEfac’ Mariano.
Turkey just narrowly missed out on qualifying for a direct invite, with Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Chinese Taipei following close behind.
Can anyone defeat Brazil for the ENC R6 title? Share your predictions on the Insider Gaming Discord.
Meanwhile, the recent BLAST R6 Major Salt Lake City broke viewership records for the esport title.
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