Osaka Major Quarterfinals: DarkZero Edge Liquid, FaZe Outlast G2

DarkZero Esports and FaZe Clan both survived a deciding third map on Friday, November 13, to reach the semifinals of the BLAST R6 Major in Osaka, according to Ubisoft's official match records. DarkZero beat Team Liquid 2-1 and FaZe Clan beat G2 Esports 2-1, while Virtus.pro and Team Falcons each won their quarterfinal 2-0, over M80 and Geekay Esports.

The day settled the last four of the Rainbow Six Siege Major. Virtus.pro now face DarkZero, and Team Falcons face FaZe Clan, in the semifinals on Saturday, November 14, with the final on Sunday, November 15, as Ubisoft's playoff bracket shows. Two of the four series turned on a map won by a single round, and in neither of them did the winner take more rounds over the whole series than the team it eliminated.

Counted from Ubisoft's official match records for the four quarterfinals of November 13, 2026.

Four quarterfinals, map by map

The Osaka Major runs from November 6 to 15 at ATC Hall in Osaka, Japan, with a prize pool of US$600,000, according to a dedicated Rainbow Six news and statistics site. Twenty teams took part across the event, and the sixteen of the Swiss stage, a group phase where teams with the same record play each other, were cut to eight for the playoffs.

Those eight met on Friday in four best-of-three series: the first team to win two maps goes through, and a third map is only played when the first two are split. Each map is itself a contest of rounds, and the score of a map is the number of rounds each team won on it. The table below gives every map played, in order, from Ubisoft's match pages.

The order of play on Ubisoft's schedule ran from Virtus.pro against M80 first, through DarkZero against Team Liquid and Team Falcons against Geekay Esports, to FaZe Clan against G2 Esports last. The two sweeps took four maps between them; the two longer series took six.

DarkZero come back against Team Liquid

The DarkZero series turned on a single round. Team Liquid opened on Kafe Dostoyevsky and won it 7-4, which left DarkZero one map from elimination. The second map, Nighthaven Labs, ran to the longest scoreline of the day: DarkZero took it 8-7, one round ahead, to level the series at one map each.

That sent the series to Clubhouse, the decider, where DarkZero won 7-5. Across the three maps the two teams finished level on rounds, 19 each: 4, 8 and 7 for DarkZero, 7, 7 and 5 for Team Liquid. In a best-of-three, though, rounds are only the way a map is won; the series goes to whoever wins two maps, and DarkZero won the two that came last.

The win keeps a title defense alive. DarkZero won the previous Major, in Salt Lake City in May 2026, beating Shopify Rebellion in the final, as a dedicated Rainbow Six news site reported at the time. For Team Liquid, listed in Ubisoft's records as Team Liquid Alienware, the Osaka run ends in the quarterfinals, one round away from winning the series on Nighthaven Labs.

FaZe Clan hold off G2 Esports

The last series of the day followed the same pattern in a different order. FaZe Clan won the first map, Bank, 7-5. G2 Esports answered on Chalet with a 7-3 win, the widest map margin in either three-map series, and took the series to a decider.

The third map, Lair, was decided 8-7 in favor of FaZe Clan. Over the whole series FaZe Clan won 18 rounds and G2 Esports 19, one more than the team that went through, because G2's win on Chalet was so clear and FaZe's two wins were narrow. It was the second map of the day won 8-7, after Nighthaven Labs, and like Team Liquid, G2 Esports finished one round away from the semifinals.

FaZe Clan arrive in the semifinals as the champions of the Esports World Cup tournament for Rainbow Six Siege, which they won in August against FURIA, according to the Esports World Cup organizers. G2 Esports leave Osaka at the quarterfinal stage.

Virtus.pro and Team Falcons sweep through

The two other quarterfinals were shorter. Virtus.pro opened the day against M80 and won Villa 7-3, then Lair 7-4. Over the two maps Virtus.pro took 14 rounds to M80's 7. Bank, which Ubisoft's match page lists as the third map of the series, was not needed.

Team Falcons beat Geekay Esports on Villa 7-2 and on Chalet 7-3, for 14 rounds to 5 across the series, the widest gap of the four quarterfinals. Clubhouse, listed as the third map, was not played. Team Falcons came into the playoffs unbeaten after finishing the Swiss stage with three wins and no loss, according to a dedicated Rainbow Six statistics site, including a win over FaZe Clan in the third Swiss round.

Both sweeps began on the same map. Virtus.pro and Team Falcons each opened on Villa, and each won it by four rounds or more: 7-3 against M80, 7-2 against Geekay Esports. Neither M80 nor Geekay Esports reached five rounds on any map of their series.

For M80 and Geekay Esports, the Osaka run ends at the last-eight stage after both came through the Swiss stage to reach the playoffs.

How the playoffs work

Ubisoft's bracket describes the playoffs as single elimination: a team that loses one series is out, with no second chance through a lower bracket. That is why a deciding map carries so much weight. A team that drops it does not drop into another part of the draw; it leaves the event.

Every series also begins before the first round is played. Ubisoft's match pages list, for each series, the maps removed from a pool of nine, one map chosen by each team and a decider left at the end: in the DarkZero series, Kafe Dostoyevsky and Nighthaven Labs were the two picks and Clubhouse the decider. The listed third maps that were never played, Bank in the Virtus.pro series and Clubhouse in the Team Falcons series, show that a series has its three maps in place before it starts, whether or not the third one is reached.

The 8-7 scoreline appeared twice on Friday, once on a second map and once on a third. Villa, Lair and Chalet each appeared twice across the four series, and Bank, Kafe Dostoyevsky, Nighthaven Labs and Clubhouse once each.

What comes next in Osaka

Ubisoft's bracket sets the two semifinals. Virtus.pro, who beat M80, meet DarkZero Esports, who beat Team Liquid. Team Falcons, who beat Geekay Esports, meet FaZe Clan, who beat G2 Esports.

The four teams left bring different paths. DarkZero won the Salt Lake City Major in May, and FaZe Clan won the Esports World Cup tournament in August. Team Falcons have not lost a match in Osaka, and Virtus.pro reached the last four without dropping a map in the playoffs.

Beyond Osaka, Ubisoft has announced that the Six Invitational 2027 will be held in São Paulo, with a prize pool of US$3 million and 20 qualified teams. The final standings in Osaka are only fixed once Sunday's final is played.

A quarterfinal day decided by the smallest margins

Friday's results leave a clear record in the numbers. Of the ten maps played, six were won by three or more rounds, two by two rounds, both 7-5, and two by a single round, both 8-7, both in the two series that went to three maps. The teams that won those two maps, DarkZero Esports on Nighthaven Labs and FaZe Clan on Lair, are the two that needed a third map to reach the semifinals.

The round totals tell the same story from another side. DarkZero and Team Liquid finished their series level at 19 rounds each, and G2 Esports won one round more than FaZe Clan over three maps. A best-of-three rewards the team that wins maps, not the team that wins the most rounds, and on Friday that difference sent two teams home and two others through.

In all, 115 rounds were played on Friday: 21 in the Virtus.pro series, 38 between DarkZero Esports and Team Liquid, 19 between Team Falcons and Geekay Esports, and 37 between FaZe Clan and G2 Esports. The two series that went the distance account for 75 of them, close to two thirds of the day.

Virtus.pro and Team Falcons, by contrast, won all four of their maps by at least three rounds. Their semifinals on Saturday decide which two teams play the final in Osaka on Sunday.

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