Playoffs • Winners Bracket
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#1 Vancouver Titans |
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Rules of Season Playoffs
- The Season Playoffs will play on patch 1.39.0.2 Sigma/Role Queue release.
- New Tank Hero Sigma is now playable..
- The map pool has updated for the 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 the Grand Finals in two weeks, the loser will play against the winner of the Shock/Spark match on Sunday to compete for the final spot in the Grand Finals.
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.
Click here for Match Rules
- Each Overwatch League Regular Season match will play a minimum 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
• Roles are restricted to 2 Tanks, 2 Damage, and 2 Support (starting in Stage 4).
• Killcam is off
• Default skins are used in the Player POV
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