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- FC Barcelona has entered the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) via the signing of a European team.
- It is the soccer club’s second esports team, after establishing a Pro Evolution Soccer squad in March 2018.
- Fellow clubs Paris Saint-Germain F.C. and Servette FC also field Rocket League teams.
Spanish soccer club FC Barcelona has signed a professional Rocket League 
that will compete in the European Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS), the club announced today.
FC Barcelona picked up the team formerly known as “Savage!,” which earned an RLCS spot at the end of last season after competing in the lower-tier Rival Series. The club first entered esports in March 2018 with the formation of a squad for Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer League. It remained FC Barcelona’s only esports team until now.
FC Barcelona is the latest traditional soccer organization to enter Rocket League. French club Paris Saint-Germain’s esports arm, PSG Esports , has been competing in the RLCS since September 2017 and won the DreamHack Leipzig tournament in 2018, while Swiss club Servette FC previously competed in the Rival Series and still fields a team outside of the official RLCS league structure.
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RLCS Season 7, which has a $1M USD prize pool and introduces South America as a new region, begins regular-season league play this weekend. Rocket League developer Psyonix will launch an in-game Esports Shop on April 16, which will feature branded team items and provide a cut of revenue to partnered organizations.
Psyonix has not yet revealed which teams are participating in the initial revenue-sharing pilot program, how the revenue will be split, or what kinds of branded items will be sold. More details are promised next week ahead of the store’s debut.
