Houston Outlaws vs. Atlanta Reign - FINAL

General Discussion
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Stage 1 • Week 5

VS.
Houston Outlaws
  
Atlanta Reign
3-3 -1
Stage 1 Playoffs
Elimination Round
 
3-2 +5
Stage 1 Playoffs
Advancement Round
3-3 -1
  
3-2 +5

Map Schedule
Control • Ilios
Hybrid • King's Row
Assault • Horizon Lunar Colony
Escort • Rialto
TB/Control • ???

Final Score

 
 
1
2
0
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1
2
1
1
3
3
Victory!

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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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  • 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.
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    •Killcam is off
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Playoff Scenarios for this match

  • If Houston Outlaws loses, they are eliminated from Stage 1 Playoff contention.
  • If Houston Outlaws wins with a 3-2 map differential and Vancover Titans wins in the final match versus the Guangzhou Charge, the Houston Outlaws and the Dallas Fuel will be tied and will have to play a sudden death tiebreaker match for playoff standings.
  • If Houston Outlaws wins with a 3-1 map differential or better and Vancover Titans wins in the final match versus the Guangzhou Charge, the Houston Outlaws will advance to the Stage 1 playoffs.
  • If Houston Outlaws wins the Boston Uprising will advance to the Stage 1 Playoffs (regardless of the result of the Charge/Titans match).
  • If Atlanta Reign loses, they are eliminated from Stage 1 Playoff contention.
  • If Atlanta Reign wins, they will advance to the Stage 1 Playoffs and will eliminate both the Houston Outlaws and the Dallas Fuel from contention.
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#TexasHard :cow: :+1:

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So… Hi guys.

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Philly got in, you’re up Houston, let me be sickeningly pompous

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so…now we got some really serious overwatch here

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LETS GO HOUSTON! (probably the only time I’ll ever root for them)

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I can feel a major choke coming from one of these teams… they are both going to choke hard… but who will choke the hardest?

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Come on, Houston…finish this one on a 3-2 so we can see a Battle for Texas…and perhaps get the Fuel in the playoffs…

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I’m just sad we’re not gonna get to see a Reddit playstyle this time around from Atlanta. Maybe they have an ace up their sleeves this match but I bet both teams are taking this match very seriously with all of the playoff implications happening.

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Welp…the stakes are pretty high for this match!

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Yeah dude, Houston are gonna win!!!

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Now we get serious because this game has playoff implications.

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After watching Justice vs Mayhem.

This match will hopefully look less like a bunch of drunk beetles piling over each other.

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what does a bunch of drunk beetles piling over each other look like?

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VS

and thats what i am counting on!

GO! GO! GO! OUTLAWS !!!

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I’ll still never know why people support Houston.

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If Boston makes it into the playoffs it’ll be amazing having seen them climb this far up from where they were at the beginning of the stage (I think they were as low as 14th in the standings).

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Usually not interested in OWL, but pls someone notify me if Dafran pulls out the Torb again.

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Well i’m Houston born, so there’s that, they also have people some enjoy.

They had a very good run Y1S1, and they are fairly underrated.

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Okay hold on, do Philly and Toronto need do a tie breaker, or nah, because technically, Philly have more map wins?