Despite all the coronavirus issues, controversy, and a noticeable loss of fan interest, the Overwatch League is going strong into its third – Season . The battle of the world’s best teams has left the regular – Season behind and entered the exciting phase of the playoffs, after which only the best of the best remain.
To put the cherry on top of it all, the team that was only considered a meme in the inaugural – Season of the OWL is now comfortably on top and could very well snatch the trophy, silencing all the naysayers once and for all.
The first of the three playoff weekends is now history and the results are in. After many intense battles and several twists between September 3 and 6, 10 teams have made it. They are by far the best in the league and each of them has a realistic chance to advance to the next round – even the shaky candidates Florida Mayhem and Atlanta Reign.
Here you can see all the teams that advanced, more or less ranked by performance:
NA Bracket:
- Philadelphia Fusion
- San Francisco Shock
- Washington Justice
- LA Valiant
- Florida Mayhem
- Atlanta Reign
Asia Bracket:
- Shanghai Dragons
- Seoul Dynasty
- New York Excelsior
- Guangzhou Charge
The next round of the playoffs will take place this weekend and will be streamed via the Overwatch League YouTube gaming channel as well as the official OWL website. The latter is also giving fans 5 OWL tokens for every hour started. Listed below you can find all the matches and their results, which we will update constantly, so stay tuned!
- Atlanta Reign – Florida Mayhem
- Washington Justice – Los Angeles Valiant
- New York Excelsior – Guangzhou Charge
- Seoul Dynasty – Shanghai Dragons
- San Francisco Shock – Philadelphia Fusion
- TBD – TBD
- TBD – TBD
- TBD – TBD
Will Shanghai continue to dominate the playoffs, as they have all – Season ? Will Charge’s crazy team compositions pay off? And will we finally see Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang play something other than Zenyatta? Find out!
Overwatch
Overwatch is a computer game by Blizzard Entertainment (Diablo 3, World of Warcraft) and a first-person shooter with individual fantasy elements. The game was released in May 2016.
In Overwatch, the player must choose between 21 unique characters, which can be freely selected in a loosely held classification system (offensive and defensive class, support unit and tanks).
A character’s three to four different abilities can be controlled and activated through the mouse and keyboard. The game modes already vary from scoring points to cargo hauling. Team play is required in both modes, as each character takes on a specific role in the battlefield (e.g. heal teammates, provide backup, or secure defensive lines).
The name Overwatch derives itself from a fictional elite military unit that came together when robots tried to subjugate humanity in a near future. Individual characters are associated with this unit in the game, while others oppose it. It is not yet known whether the storyline will continue in multiplayer.
Brawl
Brawl is a game mode in which time-limited rule variations of the well-known modes are drawn. Sometimes completely new game modes are used in Brawls.
Rule variations include, for example, the restriction to certain heroes or classes, changes to the cool-down times or certain cards. New game modes that have been playable so far include a soccer game and a PvE mode.
Usually, Brawls are restarted as Brawl of the Week every Tuesday at 22:00 UTC and are then playable for a week. On certain occasions, such as – Season al events, Brawls may also be playable for a longer or shorter period of time.
The game mode is comparable to the card chaos from Hearthstone and was activated for the first time in the beta phase on March 22, 2016 through a patch.
Actions
- Arcade: More health, shorter skill and ultimate cooldowns, and faster resurrection after death.
- Girl Power: Female heroes only.
- Head’s Up!: McCree, Genji, Hanzo, and Widowmaker. Only head hits count.
- High Noon: High Noon on Route 66, only head hits with McCree count.
- Highly Offensive: Only offensive heroes. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
- Junkenstein’s Revenge: Soldier, Hanzo, Ana, Mc Cree only (1 each). The first co-op PVE mode in Overwatch. Part of the – Season al event Halloween Horror.
- Justice rains from Above: Only Mercy and Pharah playable.
- Moba Watch: Only unique heroes per team. No hero switching allowed.
- Mystery Heroes: Upon death, you will be resurrected as a randomly selected Hero.
- Overly Defensive: Only defensive heroes. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
- Show Your Support: Support Heroes only. The limit is two of the same Hero per team.
- Super Shimada Bros: Welcome to Hanamura. Only Hanzo and Genji are playable. Shorter skill cooldowns, longer ultimate cooldowns.
- Tanks A Lot: Tank heroes only. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Only McCree, Reaper and Roadhog playable.
- We’re all Soldiers now: Only Soldier: 76 playable on control cards.
- Lucioball: Lucio only: Soccer mode, 3 vs 3.
- Yeti Hunt: Five meis against a yeti that has the characteristics of Winston.
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