Chendu Hunters vs. Guangzhou Charge - FINAL

General Discussion
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Stage 1 • Week 1

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Map Schedule
Control • Busan
Hybrid • Numbani
Assault • Volskaya Industries
Escort • Dorado
TB/Control • Nepal

Final Score/Tiebreaker

 
 
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Click here for 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. Here’s the map pool for Stage 1:
Map 1
Map 2
Map 3
Map 4
Busan Hollywood Temple of Anubis Rialto
Ilios King's Row Horizon Lunar Colony Dorado
Nepal Numbani Volskaya Industries Route 66

The tiebreaker map will be played on one of the two control maps not played in the series.

For more details see the official 2019 Competition Rules here.


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  • Each Overwatch League match will play 4 maps.
  • Maps to be played in each match are predetermined by the league and posted on the official schedule in advance.
  • After the fourth map, the team with the most map wins will be the winner of that match.
  • In the event of a tie, a fifth Control tiebreaker map will be played.
  • Scoring for the league season and stage is based on match record, followed by map record, followed by head-to-head map differential, followed by head-to-head match differtial. If a tie still persists a tiebreaker match will be played before the start of the stage or season playoffs.
  • Overwatch League matches plays with the following game mode options:
    •Competitive Play Ruleset
    •Killcam is off
  • Stage 1 is currently played on patch 1.32.1.1 (Lunar New Year 2019).

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Two expansion teams, I don’t know what to expect. Hopefully its a good match and not one team dominating the entire match.

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Gonna have to skip this one. It’s too late and I’m not really invested too much in either team. I’ll predict 3-1 GZ though.

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Someone please explain to me how Pokemon Grim Reaper is playing main heals.

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We are now at 28 heroes who have applied any amount of damage in a Overwatch League match this season. (Missing Solider.76)

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Has Soldier really not done a moderate amount of damage? I know Outlaws used him for a bit earlier today.

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Watching it atm. GZ owns Chengdu noobs. I think Chengdu players are too nervous, they need to get their act together.

That hog hook vs 4 players is too good for OWL lol

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I’m curious as to why they went with Roadhog. I always thought that he was just an ult battery with a pretty weak ult. Does anyone have any insight?

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After Map 1

 
 
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Roadhog was a decent choice against that specific comp. But yeah, still didn’t make it count.

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habit?

Really I think Hunters have some severe nerves issues. Considering that they were the pick for weakest team got to them.

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And that is why you don’t charge right into the attack spawn…

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Well that was an improvement.

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That was an awful rotation by the Charge. They lost the match because they ended up far behind the payload and had to rush back to prevent the cap.

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After Map 2

 
 
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Bit a C9 there. Not a true C9 but bit of one.

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These are interesting team comps for this map.

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Good to see a competitive game after the last two steam rolls by Atalanta and SF.

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Yep and relatively free of goats too. Feels like a 2018 Stage 3 match.

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well now that is all 29 heroes.