Atlanta Reign vs. Hangzhou Spark (Playoffs | Losers Bracket) - FINAL

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Playoffs • Losers Bracket


#6 Atlanta Reign
  
#4 Hangzhou Spark

Final Score • First to Four

 
 
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Victory!

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Rules of Season Playoffs

  • Each Overwatch League Season Playoff match continue to play until a team wins 4 maps. If there is a draw, neither team will be awarded with a map win.
  • For the starting map, the team with the higher seed will select the starting map for the scheduled map type. The lower seed will select to whether attack or defend.
  • For the every map in succession, the team that lost the previous round select the next map for the scheduled map type. The winning team will select to whether attack or defend. In the event of a draw, the selections goes to the most recent previous round that did not end in a draw.
  • The Season Playoffs is a Double Elimination event. The winner of this round will advance to play the winner of the Gladiators/Shock match later tonight. The loser will be eliminated.

Click here for overall 2019 Overwatch League Changes
  • The Atlanta Reign, Paris Eternal, Toronto Defiant, and Washington Justice will join the Atlantic Division.
  • The Chengdu Hunters, Guangzhou Charge, Hangzhou Spark, and Vancouver Titans will join the Pacific Division.
  • All teams will play a 28-match schedule this season, down from 40 from the 2018 season.
  • The All-Star Game and other skills competitions will be held between Stages 2 and 3.
  • Stage Finals will be held after Stages 1, 2, and 3. Eight teams will qualify, including the two division leaders in that stage, along with the next six teams in the stage standings regardless of division.
  • For the postseason, the two division winners along with the next best four teams by record, regardless of division, will automatically qualify. Two additional teams will qualify through a play-in tournament between the seventh- through 12th-place teams. Those final eight teams will compete for the league championship in a double-elimination bracket.
  • The prize pool for the 2019 season is $5 million, up from $3.5 million in 2018.
  • Stage Playoffs Prize Pool (for each of Stage 1, 2, and 3):
    •Winner gets $200K
    •Runner-up gets $100K
    •3rd and 4th place teams get $50K each
    •5th through 8th place teams get $25K each
  • Season Playoffs Prize Pool:
    •Champion gets $1.1M
    •Runner-up gets $600K
    •3rd place team gets $450K
    •4th place team gets $350K
    •5th and 6th place teams get $300K each
    •7th and 8th place teams get $200K each
  • The map pool for each stage has been expanded to 12 maps.

    • For more details see the official 2019 Competition Rules here.


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I’m loving the updated OWL logos with the shine to them.

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I did that myself, trying to appeal to the playoffs brand standards based on what I have seen.

#BlizzardPleaseDontSueMe

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Oh really, thought it was OW official

very nice job.

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dont know for how long i will be able to stick arround, but i am curious what will happen tonight

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If you wanted a Shock v Spark match on Saturday then I’m afraid I have some bad news. They’re both going home tonight

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Can somebody give me an update on whether the playoffs have been good lately?

My WiFi died last week and I haven’t been able to watch anything. :sob:

What’s the Meta like? Is Sym being played? Any interesting plays?

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Sym’s something like the 5th or 6th most picked DPS. Doom/Reaper is the meta pairing, though Bastion has been gaining recently, as has Pharah and McCree.

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The amount of barriers and in-your-face play from Reaper and DF make it tough to watch and keep track of.

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Cmon Reign… I think we take it.

**I use the Spark player icon because I use Spark skins in game.

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Its a little bit of this…

and a bit of this…

and a whole lot of this…

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Hey guys good news, all five questions for the matches are now live at once… no more waiting for the next map.

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im still on the reign will make it all the way train sooooo…

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Obviously I want Spark to win, but it’s been such bull that basically all prior performance is rendered so irrelevant by a whole new meta, as well as the playoff system.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Reign win this as a result, as all that seems to suit them better. But then Spark do seem to get stronger as matches role on.

Not sure how much of this I’ll get to see as I’m away working, but I just felt a need to express that I just don’t feel like this is a good way to run a contest, by keep moving goalposts.

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By the ways this week might be the last week for the Blizzard Arena. I have been keeping an eye on the Blizzard Esports website and it looks like there is no more events schedule for the arena (for any game) after this week.

I think they have already also discontinued the Blizzard Arena in Taipei. I think this will be the end of a legacy.

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Hmm…does that mean a city is hosting All-Star weekend next season?

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I’m kinda expecting it to become the Activision Arena, and be used for the first couple of seasons of the COD WL

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That would make a lot of sense.

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over 96% pickrate…oof

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I believe that’s higher than S1 Stage 1 Mercy, wowzer