Overwatch League



The Overwatch League is an esport league created by Blizzard Entertainment for professional Overwatch competition. It was announced on November 4, 2016 at BlizzCon 2016.

The preseason for Season 1 began on December 6, 2017 and ended on December 9, 2017.

The inaugural season began on January 10, 2018 and ended on June 16, 2018.

The Second season began on February 14, 2019 and will end on August 25, 2019.

Atlantic Division

 * Atlanta Reign
 * Boston Uprising
 * Florida Mayhem
 * Houston Outlaws
 * London Spitfire
 * New York Excelsior
 * Paris Eternal
 * Philadelphia Fusion
 * Toronto Defiant
 * Washington Justice

Pacific Division

 * Chengdu Hunters
 * Dallas Fuel
 * Guangzhou Charge
 * Hangzhou Spark
 * Los Angeles Gladiators
 * Los Angeles Valiant
 * San Francisco Shock
 * Seoul Dynasty
 * Shanghai Dragons
 * Vancouver Titans

Prize Pool
The winning team earns USD $5 Million, divided by all the members of the team, and the Overwatch League trophy.



The Overwatch League Trophy

All-Star Weekend
The All-Star Weekend is a post-season event where the best players from the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions face off in a series of semi-competitive and fun gamemodes.

2018
Join us for the first-ever Overwatch League All-Star Game, Powered by Intel®.

The All-Star Weekend kicks off on Saturday, August 25, with a series of custom skill matches, and on Sunday, August 26, the Atlantic and Pacific All-Stars go head-to-head in the official All-Star Game.

Location

Blizzard Arena

3000 W Alameda Ave

Burbank, CA 91523

Times

Saturday, August 25 at 4 p.m. PDT

Sunday, August 26 at 11 a.m. PDT

Exhibition Matches


Two teams of Lúcios battle to boop a huge ball into an even huger net.

The Atlantic and Pacific teams will compete in a 3v3 best-of-three series using standard

Lúcioball settings on the Busan Lúcioball Arena map. Each match will last five minutes. If

a match is tied at the end of five minutes, then the next goal wins.


 * Best-of-three series between Atlantic and Pacific divisions
 * Each map is five minutes long
 * Standard Lúcioball settings



Each time a player respawns, they are assigned a different random hero.

Atlantic will face Pacific in a Best-of-three series for honor and glory.

The Atlantic and Pacific teams will compete in a 6v6 Mystery Heroes game using standard

competitive settings in a best-of-three series on control maps Ilios, Lijiang Tower, and

Nepal. For Mystery Heroes, players will be assigned a random hero at the start of each

map, and a new random hero on each respawn.


 * Control maps only
 * Standard 6v6 Mystery Heroes settings



Top Widowmaker players from the Atlantic and Pacific divisions will compete in a

1v1 Headshots Only Elimination bracket.

The Atlantic and Pacific coaches will select their four best Widowmaker players for this

mini-tournament. The four players from each squad will compete head-to-head until

there’s one Atlantic and one Pacific champion. The two champions will face off in the final.

The winner for all matches prior to the final will be first player to reach five eliminations.

The final will be decided by the first to seven eliminations. Eliminations are headshot only,

and automatic firing will be disabled. There will be no capture points, but after 30 seconds

player locations will be visible to both players. A match will result in a draw after five

minutes. This mode will be played on Castillo (quarterfinals), Necropolis (semifinals), and

Ecopoint: Antartica (final).


 * Quarterfinal and Semifinal matches are first to five eliminations.
 * Finals are first to seven eliminations.



Atlantic and Pacific Division coaches will draft teams of Overwatch League casters and analysts for a best-of-three series with standard

competitive game settings.

Prior to All-Star Weekend, the Atlantic and Pacific coaches will draft two teams of casters

and analysts. (Keep an eye on our social channels for draft results!) The two teams will

square off in a 6v6 best-of-three series using standard competitive settings. The first map

played will be King’s Row (hybrid). The team that loses the first map gets to select the

second map. If the series is tied 1-1, a game of Lúcioball will be the tiebreaker. If the

Lúcioball match is tied after five minutes, the next goal wins. Overwatch League players

will help call the game along with the casters and analysts not playing.


 * Players will help cast the match
 * Standard competitive game settings



The Atlantic Division will face the Pacific Division in a best of three Lockout Elimination series.

The Atlantic and Pacific teams will square off in this 6v6 competition using standard

lockout elimination settings. The winner will be determined in a best-of-three series.

The maps for this mode are Oasis University, Necropolis, and Castillo.


 * Lockout Elimination: players do not respawn until the next round begins; the first team to win three rounds wins the map
 * Atlantic and Pacific division coaches will draft each lineup
 * Standard 6v6 settings

Cosmetics
To celebrate the All-Star Game, Blizzard revealed two new legendary Overwatch skins:

the 2018 Atlantic All-Star Tracer and the 2018 Pacific All-Star Genji. Both skins will be available for a limited time from August 17–27.

Each skin is redeemable for 200* Overwatch League Tokens. (*Reduced from the previously announced price of 300.)



Team Skins
Each hero has a themed skin for each Overwatch League team. Unlike the regular cosmetics in Overwatch which are unlockable through Loot Boxes, Overwatch League skins can be unlocked with League Tokens, a purchasable in-game currency. League Tokens can also be earned by watching League streams through the official site, Twitch, or MLG.com.

Twitch exclusive items
Through a partnership with Twitch, the League offers unlockable skins and Twitch emotes through Cheering. Cheering is done through the Twitch chat with Twitch's purchasable items known as Bits. Cheering has individual unlock system where you can cheer bits and unlock skins, team and hero emotes. There is also universal goals for unlocking certain skins after the goalis met, they can be purchased claimed by cheering a certain amount of bits. All progress for these goals are viewable at the League's Twitch page.

Skins
These are all the skins that can be unlocked without the All-Access Pass, and can be unlocked by simply cheering a certain amount of bits, either with or

without a universal unlock goal.

Character Emotes
These are character emotes for Twitch that can be randomly be unlocked with a cheering of 100 bits

Team Emotes
These are twitch emotes that show up when you cheer the amount shown below, these can only be seen when cheering.

An emote is unlocked when you cheer 150 or more to a specific team, this can be used after cheering.

Other Emotes
Unlock 5 emotes by cheering 250 bits or more! Cheer 500 bits or more and you’ll unlock the other 5 and trigger a shower of gifts for others in Chat.

The Overwatch League All-Access Experience


The Overwatch League All-Access Experience can be attained through the $29.99 purchase (or $19.99 purchase with Twitch Prime) of an All Access Pass on Twitch.

Rewards Include:

Exclusive Command Center livestream
"This game-changing stream shows you alternate camera angles, live stats, player POVs, and team facecams all on one multiviewer overlay. Try it for free until Stage 4."

- Overwatch League

Exclusive Q&A Sessions
"After Overwatch League match day broadcasts, enjoy an interactive player Q&A session by submitting your questions in Passholder-only chat. Selected questions will be answered by players live on the Command Center stream."

- Overwatch League

Behind the Screens: Match analysis by players
"Top players from each team will walk you through their thoughts on a match and explain what they did and why in an exclusive video every week, starting April 6th!"

- Overwatch League

Exclusive skins
A preview of McCree's Overwatch League Gray Skin

A preview of Moira's Overwatch League Gray Skin

A preview of Soldier: 76's Overwatch League Gray Skin



A preview of Overwatch League Away skins which were made available May 16, 2018 at the start of the 4th stage of season 1 of the Overwatch League,

with the Overwatch League All-Access Pass. Remember you will get these specific skins.

Exclusive Emote
An exclusive Lúcio Legendary emote was revealed on July 14, 2018, along with at that time unreleased Overwatch League Gray skin. The emote was made available July 24, 2018



Exclusive Twitch Badges
All Access Passholder

OWL Global Badge

Trivia

 * Tracer appears as the silhouette for the logo, making this the second time she appears as an icon for Overwatch (the first being the cover to the game itself).
 * The Overwatch League logo is comparable in design to the logos of sports leagues such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Major League Baseball (MLB).