RLCS joins forces with Visit Raleigh for Rocket League Major

BLAST, the organisers of the Rocket League Championship Collection (RLCS), has introduced a partnership with Go to Raleigh.

On account of the deal, the Better Raleigh Conference and Guests Bureau might be built-in throughout the occasion’s broadcast and act as a part of the venue’s on-site branding.

Along with the Go to Raleigh branding showing on-site and throughout the published, the collaboration goals to showcase ‘Better Raleigh’s vibrant tradition, world-class hospitality and fame as a hub for innovation.’

The RLCS Raleigh Main takes place on the Lenovo Heart from June twenty sixth to twenty ninth, 2025, that includes 16 groups from world wide competing for a share of a $351,000 (~£257,962) prize pool.

“The RLCS Raleigh Main is a landmark occasion for Rocket League and for the vacation spot,” stated James Woollard, Director of Market Growth at BLAST.

“Partnering with Go to Raleigh permits us to actually showcase the area’s attraction to a worldwide viewers. These occasions aren’t simply in regards to the leisure; they convey actual financial influence by tourism and native enterprise, and we’re proud to assist gas that momentum in Better Raleigh.”

RLCS’s Raleigh Main is the second RLCS LAN occasion of the 2025 season. The primary happened in Birmingham, UK, recording peak viewing figures of 287,987 in accordance with Esports Charts.

The town of Raleigh, North Carolina, has change into a hotbed for the esports business lately. In April, the town hosted ESL One, the first US Dota 2 event operated by ESL FACEIT Group in six years.

In 2023, the town additionally hosted the LCS Spring Finals, with the occasion reportedly producing $2.74m (~£2m) of direct financial influence into the town.

With the RLCS heading to the town on the finish of June, Raleigh continues to see the worth of internet hosting large-scale esports occasions at venues inside the metropolis and the encircling space.