Chengdu Hunters vs. Guangzhou Charge (Play-In Round 1) - FINAL


Play-in Tournament • Round 1


#12 Chengdu Hunters
 
#9 Guangzhou Charge

Final Score• First to Four

 
 
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Victory!

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Rules of Season Playoffs • Play-in Tournament

  • 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 Play-in Tournament is single elimination. The winner of the first-round matches will move on to face off against the London Spitfire or the Seoul Dynasty. (Teams will be reseeded in the second round according to season ranking.)

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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Hey everyone, getting the topic starting now as I have a quick task to take care of. League Picks questions do not appear to be live yet either. As a reminder, there are no Twitch weekly rewards this time around. (Playoffs week 1 will have the chance to earn some new emotes.)

wish i could throw out something intelligent but all of the games from here til grand finals can go either way since we have 0 idea how these teams will do with a new patch and hero…

like are there actual favorites? based on what?

The best way to go about it is past trends. That being said the Pro Meta game has been consisting mostly of Orisa, Sigma, Symmetra and Mei.

right…but we have no idea who does well with that…not like anyone has been running it…havent seen sigma…i saw some sym from Atl…not sure about the others

I guess we’ll just have to…

…err Overwatch League.

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as long as that doesnt mean theres a zarya charging up a grav for 4 episodes…

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Kamehameha intensifies

It would be cool to see Hunters have Jiqiren on Orisa, Ameng on Sigma, and Elsa on Sym. In this season, Elsa was the first player to use Sym more than like 5 seconds in a match lol.

EDIT: Bren thought the same as well lol

Really not sure who’s winning this. Rumours suggest Chengdu have been crushing scrims, but GZ were brilliant in Stage 4. Favouring GZ though.

Hey everyone just so you guys know the league pick questions are now live. It looks like they’re only doing the match prediction question, and one map question at a time.

Looks like the most prestigious award of the league is being awarded later today:

Request for Wyoming: dont suppose you can include a playoff bracket (or a link to one) in these official threads? just think its nice to have a visual…no worries if not…you do enough as is

I’m excited to see Symmetra and Sigma

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Bren in a face off AGAINST Shanghai?! We are truly in the twilight zone

I dont think using sym against sigma would be pro game. They didnt use it against Orisa who is easier to build beam

The difference is that now it’s double shields, not single. More shields means quicker charge time for Sym, making her stronger

Interesting, first game and already seeing Sigma.

But as you see now. Symmetra is too squishy to survive in a pro level focus fire…or maybe the Junkrat was even more weaker hmm…

Not really sure why anyone expected anything but double barrier