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RLCS betting: World Championship odds, format and every champion

The Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) is Psyonix's official circuit, and its World Championship crowns the season's best 3v3 team. Team Falcons won the 2026 World Championship in Fort Worth, beating Spacestation Gaming in the final. This page covers the markets bookmakers offer on RLCS, how outright odds move through the bracket, and every world champion since 2016.

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By Liam Fletcher Updated Oct 8, 2026

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2026 world champion: Team Falcons vs Spacestation Gaming, Fort Worth
2026 prize pool: $1.2M Sep 15–20, 2026
Record prize pool: $2.1M 2023, Düsseldorf
Most world titles: 3 teams · 2 Team BDS, Team Vitality, NRG
Teams at 2026 Worlds: 20 3v3 main event

Liquipedia: Rocket League Championship Series (Season 1–8 Finals and World Championships, prize pools). Team names as the organisation is known today (Renault Vitality = Team Vitality, NRG Esports = NRG). No world final in 2020–2021 (COVID-19).

Short answer

How do you bet on RLCS?

Bookmakers price RLCS as a series winner, a game winner inside the series, handicaps and total games, plus outright winners for Majors and the World Championship. Playoff series are long (best-of-five or best-of-seven), which favours the stronger team: a 60% chance per game becomes about 68% over five games and 71% over seven.

60% per game 68.3% best-of-five series

60% per game 71.0% best-of-seven series

World finals 13 2016–2026

Repeat champions 3 teams BDS, Vitality, NRG

Outright vs match

Three ways to bet on RLCS

Outright winner

Pick the champion before or during the event. The bet settles when the final ends.

So what: higher payout, but the price carries the margin of every round and your stake is locked until the trophy is lifted.

Match winner

Pick the winner of one series. It settles when that series ends.

So what: usually the lowest margin on the page, and you can react to form, rosters and the draw.

Specials and props

Total goals in a game, overtime yes/no, exact series score, top goalscorer over the event.

So what: thin markets with wider margins; compare the price on two or three sites before you bet.

Odds through the bracket Example odds

How RLCS outright odds shrink as a team advances

A worked example: a team with a 60% chance in every series and an example outright overround of 25%.

Quarter-final

4.63 fair odds · 3 series to win

3.70 example book odds

Semi-final

2.78 fair odds · 2 series to win

2.22 example book odds

Grand final

1.67 fair odds · 1 series to win

1.33 example book odds

Champion

Won title chance 100%

How it is worked out

Title chance = chance per series to the power of the series left. With 3 series to win: 21.6%, fair odds 4.63. Each series won removes one factor.

What it means: a pre-event outright price at 3.70 includes the margin on every round, so backing the same team series by series can pay more or less depending on the match margins you get.

Longer series make the stronger team more likely to win each round, so a real favourite's per-series chance is often above the per-game chance used here.

Outright odds calculator

Change the series chance and the margin to see the title odds per round.

Chance to win each series 60% Outright overround 25%

Before quarter-final 3.70

Before semi-final 2.22

Before grand final 1.33

With a 60% chance in every series, the title chance before the first round is 21.6% (fair odds 4.63). An overround of 25% cuts that to 3.70. Each series win removes one factor, so the odds fall round by round. Example only, not a forecast.

Worked example, not a forecast. Book odds = fair odds ÷ (1 + overround).

Example odds Example odds

What an RLCS outright market looks like

Example odds, not live prices. The sum of implied probabilities shows the margin.

Team	Example odds	Implied	Fair odds
Team Falcons	4.00	25.0%	4.91
NRG	5.00	20.0%	6.14
Team Vitality	6.00	16.7%	7.37
Karmine Corp	7.00	14.3%	8.60
Spacestation Gaming	9.00	11.1%	11.05
G2 Stride	11.00	9.1%	13.51
Any other team	3.75	26.7%	4.61
Sum		122.8%	margin 18.6%

Reading an outright market

Add up 1 ÷ odds for every team. Here it is 122.8%: the bookmaker keeps 18.6% of outright stakes on average.

What it means: the names show how the table works; they are not predictions.

Example odds set by esportranker. Not live, not a forecast.

Past winners

Every RLCS world champion

10 different champions in 13 editions. Team BDS, Team Vitality and NRG are the only organisations with two world titles. Until 2019 the RLCS had two seasons a year, each with its own world final; since 2021–22 one World Championship ends the season.

Year	City	Champion	Runner-up	Prize pool
2026	Fort Worth	Team Falcons	Spacestation Gaming	$1.20M
2025	Lyon (Décines-Charpieu)	NRG	Team Falcons	$1.20M
2024	Fort Worth	Team BDS	G2 Stride	$1.17M
2023	Düsseldorf	Team Vitality	Team BDS	$2.10M
2022	Fort Worth	Team BDS	G2 Esports	$2.09M
2019	Newark (Season 7)	Team Vitality	G2 Esports	$530K
2019	Madrid (Season 8)	NRG	Team Vitality	$530K
2018	London (Season 5)	Dignitas	NRG	$250K
2018	Las Vegas (Season 6)	Cloud9	Dignitas	$500K
2017	Los Angeles (Season 3)	Northern Gaming	Mock-It eSports EU	$150K
2017	Washington D.C. (Season 4)	Gale Force eSports	Method	$150K
2016	Los Angeles (Season 1)	iBUYPOWER	FlipSid3 Tactics	$55K
2016	Amsterdam (Season 2)	FlipSid3 Tactics	Mock-It eSports EU	$125K

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Where to bet on RLCS

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