• News

Rocket League down, servers under maintenance, RLCS 9 matches postponed

Rocket League was set to kick off their next RLCS season this weekend, but Psyonix still is trying to figure out what is going on with their servers. The devs posted to Twitter that RLCS will be delayed by a week.

Asif Khan

February 2, 2020 10:50 AM

3

Anyone expecting to watch some RLCS Season 9 this weekend will have to wait. Psyonix is dealing with server issues, and have put Rocket League into Maintenance Mode.

Hello everyone, we are putting Rocket League into maintenance mode. Updates to follow when PsyNet access is restored.

— Rocket League (@RocketLeague) February 2, 2020

This really stinks as fans were super excited to watch the season kickoff of RLCS 9.

Today's RLCS matches have been postponed and will be moved to a later date. We understand that this is frustrating, but we feel it is in the best interest of competitive integrity to move them rather than attempt to play them out.

We apologize and we'll have more updates soon.

— Rocket League Esports (@RLEsports) February 1, 2020

Some pros are wondering why Rocket League can't just bring back LAN play for their esports competitions.

Postpone the whole season and give us lan league play 🤝

— C9 Torment (@Torment) February 1, 2020

Several Rocket League pros are in agreement with C9 Torment. It will be interesting to see how Psyonix responds to call for LAN play instead of dependence on their servers for esports competitions.

RLCS Update: As issues with PsyNet are still ongoing, the EU RLCS matches scheduled for tomorrow will be postponed.

We will have updates on match rescheduling early next week. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

— Rocket League Esports (@RLEsports) February 1, 2020

We chatted with the devs from Rocket League last year, in case you missed it.

Here's the latest update from Psyonix:

Hi everyone, unfortunately we had to drop Rocket League into maintenance mode again today, and we wanted to share some info on what’s been happening behind the scenes since last week.

On Thursday last week, we performed scheduled maintenance to move our backend infrastructure (also known as PsyNet) to an updated version of MySQL. Once we hit a peak number of 315,000 concurrent players on Friday, PsyNet started experiencing critical errors, which continued throughout the weekend, and today. We had to repeat this process several times over the weekend, which is why we made the difficult decisions to delay the starts of RLCS, Rivals Play-Ins, and CRL.

We are still investigating the root cause of the problem within PsyNet. This is something we’ve been working on non-stop over the weekend, and we are committed to getting PsyNet back into a stable state as soon as we possibly can. Once we have PsyNet back in a stable state, we will share more on the specifics on what happened, and what we’re going to do to prevent stability issues like this in the future.

Finally, we are still moving forward with tomorrow’s content update at 10 a.m. PST / 6 p.m. UTC, and we’ll post patch notes here before the update goes live on all platforms.

We want to apologize for all of the issues over the last four days. Know that we are working as hard and quickly as possible to fix this, and get it right. Thank you.

Developing...

Asif Khan

CEO/EIC/EIEIO

Asif Khan is the CEO, EIC, and majority shareholder of Shacknews. He began his career in video game journalism as a freelancer in 2001 for Tendobox.com. Asif is a CPA and was formerly an investment adviser representative. After much success in his own personal investments, he retired from his day job in financial services and is currently focused on new private investments. His favorite PC game of all time is Duke Nukem 3D, and he is an unapologetic fan of most things Nintendo. Asif first frequented the Shack when it was sCary's Shugashack to find all things Quake. When he is not immersed in investments or gaming he is a purveyor of fine electronic music. Asif also has an irrational love of Cleveland sports.