2026 RKO Pairings and Lineup Announcements

This is the official forum where pairings for each round will be announced. Team Leaders are also welcome to announce their lineups for each round here before individual pairings are announced.

Team Pairings will be announced as soon as they are generated by this Challonge bracket: https://challonge.com/2026RKO

Team Rosters can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/rexrk/2026-rko/teams

Lineups will be due no later than Monday of each week. If the matches of the previous round are not completed before the deadline, lineups may need to be given before team pairings are announced.

Individual Pairings will be announced shortly after the deadline for lineups of each round.

The Team Pairings for Round 1 are:

Prepless Racers vs RNG (Rising New Generations)
Team gen 5 with a switch vs RB - Proteim
Lichess Buddies vs Very random people who play racing kings
Tayberry Limequat Soda vs The Buzzing Berserking RCC & Nicholas

Ok thanks.

RB - proteim is team of me OlliePArker, Telecaster12 and LC RAcing, we are not very random players. That needs a change

@Gleb_Momot said in #4:

RB - proteim is team of me OlliePArker, Telecaster12 and LC RAcing, we are not very random players. That needs a change

There's not a single place that I'm aware of that your team is recorded incorrectly. Where does it need to be changed?

Now I realized why its wrong, nothing is wrong its just a design fail https://sites.google.com/view/rexrk/2026-rko/teams . I think many people would understand it better if you move it up. It's looking like it's not us but them...

Round 1:

Prepless Racers vs RNG (Rising New Generations)
6 Games of 3+2: @QueenEatingDragon vs @Ztirom_0
10 Games of 1.5+1: @arjan_chess2 vs @OscarSM80
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @panagiskosmatos vs @NilSeWon

Team gen 5 with a switch vs RB - Proteim
6 Games of 3+2: @seth_777 vs @LC-Racing
10 Games of 1.5+1: @sachmaty8 vs @gleb_momot
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @nataniel123 vs @Ollieparker

Lichess Buddies vs Very random people who play racing kings
6 Games of 3+2: @CyberShredder vs @sky_water
10 Games of 1.5+1: @mete0ra_return vs @corywong8888
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @TGAinVaibhavGrand vs @fatherwar587

Tayberry Limequat Soda vs The Buzzing Berserking RCC & Nicholas
6 Games of 3+2: @DiegoMorante0610 vs @AshaneStNicholas
10 Games of 1.5+1: @Natso vs @chen-rcc
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @Law17Enforcer1 vs @Che147

Games should be scheduled and played by December 21st 23:59 UTC. Second round will begin December 22nd.

@james126 said in #7:

Round 1:

Prepless Racers vs RNG (Rising New Generations)
6 Games of 3+2: @QueenEatingDragon vs @Ztirom_0
10 Games of 1.5+1: @arjan_chess2 vs @OscarSM80
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @panagiskosmatos vs @NilSeWon

Team gen 5 with a switch vs RB - Proteim
6 Games of 3+2: @seth_777 vs @LC-Racing
10 Games of 1.5+1: @sachmaty8 vs @gleb_momot
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @nataniel123 vs @Ollieparker

Lichess Buddies vs Very random people who play racing kings
6 Games of 3+2: @CyberShredder vs @sky_water
10 Games of 1.5+1: @mete0ra_return vs @corywong8888
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @TGAinVaibhavGrand vs @fatherwar587

Tayberry Limequat Soda vs The Buzzing Berserking RCC & Nicholas
6 Games of 3+2: @DiegoMorante0610 vs @AshaneStNicholas
10 Games of 1.5+1: @Natso vs @chen-rcc
16 Games of 3⁄4+0: @Law17Enforcer1 vs @Che147

Games should be scheduled and played by December 21st 23:59 UTC. Second round will begin December 22nd.

dat scary

@Gleb_Momot said in #6:

Now I realized why its wrong, nothing is wrong its just a design fail https://sites.google.com/view/rexrk/2026-rko/teams . I think many people would understand it better if you move it up. It's looking like it's not us but them...

I redesigned it now. Please let me know if that looks better. Thanks!

The 4 strongest teams aren't playing each other