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In every new Rainbow Six Siege season, Ubisoft introduces a load of new weapon charms to celebrate streamers all over the world. In the past, some of the biggest streamers like Michael 'shroud' Grzesiek, Amber Jay 'PaladinAmber' Wadham, and 'AnneMunition' have all had charms, but now four new streamers are set to join the program.

This time around professional player turned streamer 'Braction6', creators 'MrBboy45' and 'Lt Custard', and caster and streamer extraordinaire Jess 'JessGOAT' Bolden have all been selected to receive Y6S1 streamer charms. Braction's features his Yin and Yang inspired logo, MrBboy45's features his flag-bearing anime logo, Lt Custard's is a helmet filled with custard, and JessGOAT's is a geometric design of her as a Siege operator.

These charms (and all of the old ones) are available to Twitch subscribers who have their accounts linked with Uplay. Those of you who have been hunting Twitch Drops in the past will already have this set up, but you can check the process right here.

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Esports organisation T1 entered a new competitive arena yesterday, March 11, picking up a Rainbow Six Siege team for the very first time. The all-South Korean roster, which formerly played under the banner of OhHamMa, was signed up to represent T1 in the APAC League North Division, of which the first stage kicks off next week.

However, T1 has already suffered a major setback after announcing the departure of one of its new Siege players just a day after signing them. Kim 'Demic' Daeyeong is no longer with the team after his contract was terminated, according to the organisation. This announcement comes just 31 hours after T1 revealed its Siege roster.

With just a week to go until Stage 1 of the APAC League North kicks off, T1 now finds itself in a tricky spot. Due to Ubisoft's tournament rules, each team must have a minimum of two players on a roster that qualified for or played in the same tier that the team is currently competing in. With Demic departing, T1 now only has one player that fits that ruling, so must pick up another player that has played at the top regional level.

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Year 6 represents something of a hard reset for Rainbow Six Siege's annual content cycle. Ubisoft is switching from content-saturated seasons - where two new operators and a new map were expected - to a steadier approach that puts quality of life changes and gameplay overhauls at the core of each new season. It's a crucial step on Rainbow Six Siege's journey to cementing itself as one of the greatest multiplayer shooters of all time.

Halving the number of new operators frees the team up to focus on meaningful gameplay changes and tweaks that affect the entire community, whether that's complete newcomers getting to grips with casual modes, or the professionals battling it out for multi-million dollar prize pools. Year 6 promises a new obstacle-smashing secondary weapon, at least five operator reworks, new ways for eliminated players to help out, several map redesigns, and a concerted effort to make attacking easier.

Of course Ubisoft couldn't squeeze every planned change into their Year 6 reveal stream, so we caught up with game director Jean-Baptiste Hallé to fill in some of the gaps.

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Most FPS games have grappled with smurfing in some shape or form. For some players, playing ranked modes on a separate account takes the stress out of losing games as your rank doesn't matter as much. For others, it's the simple joy of beating people who are below their rank. Rainbow Six Siege is no different, but Ubisoft wants to do better at tackling it in a way that's fair for everyone.

"It's a difficult problem, one that the whole industry is fighting with," Rainbow Six Siege director Jean-Baptiste Hallé tells us. "One thing we want to improve on is detection. You can't really prevent people from having multiple accounts, you have the right to do that and you can do that legitimately, but it's important that you don't do it to lie to the matchmaking system about your skill level.

"One thing we need to improve on is to get faster at identifying when the performance you're showing doesn't fit with how young your account is. We need to be better at this."

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