can someone tell me how the tournament is structured?
from what i remember it dragged on and on.
i just want to watch the last round of matches where winning actually means something.
It’s not a tournament, it’s a league.
The season is divided into 4 stages that last for weeks. There are playoffs at the end of each stage based on win/loss (ties decided by map differential).
There’s season playoffs at the end of the year.
It’s more like normal sports.
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Yep, each team plays a total of 28 games (40 last season), Once all stages and games are complete the best teams move on to a playoff to see who will go to and win the championship game.
It feels like it drags on a bit because there’s just so many games being played each week. But they all matter and add up at the end.
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For full details on how the OverWatch League works check out this episode of WatchPoint:
Or read the full official rules here:
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thanks. anyone know when will the final playoffs/championship will be?
personally i wouldnt want to watch it like a sport game as i dont find spectating games interesting enough. but i would like to watch the quater/semi/finals of a big tournament, so i suppose the final playoffs would be the equivalent.
There will be matches for couple months that will always end in 4-0 score.
Then there will be playoffs and finals just like in regular sports, they also will end 4-0.
ALso if you watched one game you can stop watching because every other game is exactly the same. 95% Mirror matches and same picks. With one or two exceptions.
I think this is kind of why I don’t like OWL, or E sports in general. They are like normal sports, except you are some what forced/encouraged to watch every single match by every team. I mean sure you can but most sports work off a home town/state/country and you only watch the games those are involved.
You might watch every game the 49er’s play in but your not forced to watch every game every football team in the country is playing. Which is what I feel like OWL tries to do. They want huge numbers, tons of response from every little pre season match and expect us to treat every one like it’s the super bowl.
Oh and the ads suck. I mean none of the ones I ever saw even remotely seemed targeted towards the kind of people playing games. I mostly saw car ads, and normal boring every day ads. Nothing funny or gaming related.
If blizzard was smart they’d treat Owl more like the super bowl and release trailers for their next game not at E3 or Bliz Con but at some kind of half time show of OWL finals. I mean I still wouldn’t watch it, but more people might.
yeah i just want to watch the last top 8 teams fight it out for a number 1 spot, any more than that i cba. i caught the last games of the world cup and it was ok as i could actually understand what was going on and the winning/losing meant something. all i remember of owl was there was so many games i gave up trying to follow it.
Sorry im 6 months late but oh well.
I would not call it like sports in the slightest. Sports have a dedicated amount of games with teams above X amounts of wins moving on. There is a regular season and playoffs. THEY DO NOT HAVE MULTIPLE STAGES IN THE SAME YEAR. One season, one playoffs. Instead of simply having tournaments like DreamHack they have stages. Why? money. there is no reason in any way shape or form they need to break one season up. With the way they have it the winner of each stage should secure a placement in the finals or why play? money? make the final prize pool bigger, simple solution. Again this comes back to no tourneys. They could simply play X amount of games and the top X amount of teams move on. If there is a tie who ever won the most games against the two tied teams moves on. We can white knight and try and defend it all we want but at the end of the day it is confusing even for a life long sports fan and player.
Why do people keep necroing posts the last couple of days?
It is one season with one playoff. There have been smaller playoffs in between, but they’re getting rid of those next year.