MRVN
Country: United Kingdom
Registered: November 6, 2017
Last post: November 9, 2017 at 11:34 AM
Posts: 1

Hello,

I'm trying to make sense of the 4 league formats that Overwatch has and condense their structure into a list of bullet points so that I can follow the scene more easily. Below you can see what I have come up with. Please correct any mistakes, add if something important is missing and if possible provide answers for the questions that I have put into parentheses. Please also tell me if I'm being silly because there is an easier/better way to follow the scene already.

||| Overwatch Open Division |||

[The very first Season started Sat, 08 Jul 2017, 18:00 GMT]

[Regular Season]

  • Anyone can participate if in a team and Master Rank or higher (skill rating 3500+)
  • Sign up here:
    https://www.faceit.com/en/blizzard
  • Teams play Best of 7 maps in each matchup
  • Default match date & time: Every Saturday, 19:00 CEST
  • Matches may be rescheduled to start between 17:00 - 21:00 CEST on Thursday-Saturday.
  • Lasts for 6 Weekends in total

[Playoffs]

  • Top 8-16 teams advance to playoffs
  • Teams play Best of 5 maps, except for Finals, which is Best of 7
  • Playoffs happen on the 7th Weekend of the Season
  • Playoffs are played over the course of 2 days (Sat/Sun)
  • Prize money is $50.00 Blizzard Balance for 1st Place
  • No matches on 8th Weekend
  • New Season starts on the 9th Weekend

||| Overwatch Contenders: |||

[The very first regular Season started Sat, August 19 2017]
[There was a test Season "zero" in the months before that]

[Regular Season]

  • 8 best Overwatch teams in each region (how is this determined? are these the teams that competed in the Open Division?)
  • Matches played every Weekend (Sat/Sun)
  • 6 Weekends of matches
  • 7th Weekend no matches
  • Top 4 teams of each region advance to playoffs

[Playoffs]

  • 8th Weekend
  • Prize money of $100K per region

||| Overwatch World Cup: |||

  • Average skill rating of top 100 players from each nation determines which countries qualify (is this based on the Skill Rating of the Competitive Ladder or/and related to the Open Divison and Contenders results?)
  • 32 countries can qualify and then move on to Group Stages
  • An elected committee in each nation crafts a roster to represent the nation (Who is this elected committee, who elects them?)

[Group Stages]
[Top 32]

  • 8 groups of 4
  • Compete at group stage events in various countries
  • The top 2 of each group move on to Top 16

[Top 16 Playoffs]

  • The top two nations of each group play against eachother
  • The winners move on to the Finals

[Top 8 Finals @ BlizzCon]

  • No prize money
  • Claim title of best players in the world

||| Overwatch Leage: |||

[Preseason]

  • Early December
  • Played at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles

[Regular Season]

  • Played at Blizzard Arena
  • Every Wednesday through Saturday
  • January till June
  • 4 Stages of 5 Weeks with 1 Week Break between each Stage
  • Sunday of Week 5 of each Stage is the Title Match for Bonus Prize Money

[Postseason]

  • Best teams (how many??) advance to playoffs
  • Playoffs happen in mid July
  • The Grand Finals happen end of July
  • Winner received OWL trophy + $1 Million bonus

[All-Star Weekend]

  • Weekend in mid August
  • Community's favourite players (how is this determined?)
  • Funny game rules, unexpected challenges

[No matches until Preason time in December]

(Can we expect the format of the Open Division, Contenders, League and World Cup to remain like this? Or can we expect a drastic change in structure like the one from Contenders Season Zero to Season One?)

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