FaZe Clan's Back-to-Back Hammers: How Siege Got Its First Repeat Champion
One loss in the whole tournament, two overtime maps in the final and a 3-1 win over Team Secret in Paris. FaZe Clan's Brazilian roster became the first team to win the Six Invitational twice in a row, then added the Esports World Cup.
For nine editions, the Six Invitational had one unbreakable rule: nobody wins it twice in a row. Great teams had lifted the hammer and then come back a year later to lose. In February 2026, at the Adidas Arena in Paris, FaZe Clan broke that rule.
FaZe's Brazilian roster beat Team Secret 3-1 in the grand final on February 15 to win SI 2026, a year after winning SI 2025 in Boston. No team had won Rainbow Six Siege's world championship in consecutive years before. Months later, FaZe also won the Rainbow Six title at the Esports World Cup in Paris. Here is how the most consistent team in Siege built its run.
The road from São Paulo
FaZe's story starts with a loss. At SI 2024 in São Paulo, the team reached the grand final and was beaten by fellow Brazilians w7m esports in front of a home crowd. A year later, it went one better at Boston's MGM Music Hall at Fenway, beating Team BDS to lift the hammer for the first time.
The season between Boston and Paris, Siege's tenth year, showed how hard FaZe was to beat. It finished third at the BLAST R6 Major Munich, which was won by M80, and it won both the South America League regional finals and the Copa Sul-Americana. According to SiegeGG, it earned around $1.2 million in prize money over the year.
One loss all tournament
In Paris, FaZe lost just once, to G2 Esports in the group stage. In the playoffs it stayed in the upper bracket from start to finish, beating Fluxo W7M, Wildcard and Team Falcons to reach the final without needing a second chance.
On the other side was Team Secret, playing for its first hammer. The grand final was a best-of-five, and FaZe started well, taking Consulate and then Bank to go 2-0 up. Secret hit back on Fortress, a marathon map that went into overtime and tied the record for the most rounds on a single map in a Six Invitational grand final.
That pushed the final to a fourth map, Border, and it went to overtime too. FaZe closed it out 10-8 to win the series 3-1 and become the first back-to-back champion in the event's history.
Joining G2 in the record books
The win also made FaZe only the second organisation to win the Six Invitational twice, after G2 Esports, which won in 2019 and 2023. G2's titles came four years apart. FaZe's came twelve months apart, which is what makes this run special.
It also confirmed Brazil's grip on the game. Brazilian rosters won the Invitational in 2021 (Ninjas in Pyjamas), 2024 (w7m), 2025 and 2026 (FaZe). Brazil's place in Siege now recalls Korea's place in StarCraft.
What came next
FaZe did not slow down after Paris. At the Esports World Cup 2026, also held in Paris, it beat another Brazilian team, FURIA, in the Rainbow Six final. For one year, the French capital was FaZe's second home.
The next Six Invitational, in early 2027, gives FaZe the chance to do something even bigger: win three in a row. Rivals such as FURIA, w7m and Team Secret will all be trying to stop it.
If the run has made you curious, Siege X's Free Access lets anyone play Quick Match, Unranked and Dual Front without paying, so you can try the game the pros play. Then find the SI 2026 final and watch Fortress and Border. Two overtime maps, one hammer and a piece of history are a good introduction to why Siege fans are so loyal. For the full history of the scene, read our Rainbow Six esports history.