Overwatch Streaming Rewards Guide & Troubleshooting - CLOSED

Good luck on all of your skins I still do not even have my Mercy one after watching all of the European and North American tournaments. I watched it all exactly the same received the Symmetra skin but not the Mercy. I still have not heard anything from support about this at all and have reported this several places.

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for now, my only problem is that stream on youtube and on the OWC website won’t start :confused:

The Contenders ends in november.

Gauntlet event is taking place in December, and they already mentioned that “Special moments in the competitive calendar for Overwatch Contenders (e.g. Gauntlet) may feature event-specific incentives”.

They might do the same setup as the OWL finals with the OWL Tracer sprays & skin, more likely they may just shorten the requirements from 7hrs of watching.

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Let’s hope they offer something.

Its been found that the China broadcasts with English Commentators didn’t count toward the time to the game. And there is a thread at the top of this post that a community member (and the author of this post) is asking for feedback on this to help Blizzard with how they can fix the issue.

Hello there everyone. I am one of the many who haven’t received the Mercy skin even while I watched for more than the amount needed for the skin.
Lets hope they fix that soon.

i didnt receive skyns, i’m too much sad. i watch from italy and i did all the things you suggested in the post. is there a possibility to earn them?

Do we know if there will be anything in December yet?

The terms of the promotion state as much, so you can probably expect another set of skins for 2 new heroes.

New Streaming Promotion Started!

The Symmetra Restoration Challenge Streaaming Promotion has begun, watch up to 6 hours eligible streams on twitch.tv to earn 6 exclusive sprays!

Details and troubleshooting in the starting post!

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I don’t really participate in stream drops much, but was there a change that prevents people from getting drops if they have the stream on mute + but minimised the window/switched to a diff tab?

It’s mentioned in step 8 of the troubleshooting steps:

  1. Make sure that Twitch.tv is not muted in Google Chrome. Open a tab and navigate to Twitch.tv , then right click the tab of the site on the title bar of the window, in the pop-up menu, if it says “Unmute Site” click it to unmute the site.

It’s likely that muting does not work, but I can confirm I have recieved drops when focused on other tabs and leaving the Twitch tab on a lower volume.

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I have been technically able to earn streams with the content out-of-focus, (meaning your active window is not the stream) but if the stream is muted and not visible, the video playback may pause as the web browser works to preserve memory on your system. You should try to keep the player in view with some sound on to avoid problems.

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I’ve watched a ton of contenders on the website and haven’t received either of the skins. I cleared everything before tuning, I haven’t been logged out at any time during the stream, it wasn’t muted and it was on my 2nd monitor the entire time. Any ideas?

edit: I want to know, is Twitch back on the table to watch streams on? I see that there’s a new event through Twitch, does this mean we can also watch Contenders and earn skins through Twitch?

Has anyone, besides one person on this list, received the Lucio contenders skin? I’ve watched well over 23 hours and have the Torb skin for November…no Lucio at all…

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I got my Lucio skin I believe last night at some point. I didn’t check for the skin until like 10 minutes ago. Weird I was able to get the Lucio skin doing the same exact setup that I did while trying to get Mercy and watched more than double the amount of time I did for the Lucio skin.

The live stream is about 2-6 am in my country…

I try to wake up to watch accumulatively for more than 17hrs.

but still don’t get Lucio Skin.

That’s too cruel for me…

Too many problems with contenders watching rewards.

JUst got this back from support:

My name is Tech Specialist Game Master ****** *. Thanks for reaching out to us on this drop issue from the prior months. I do not have any data for you on this at this time.

I do see we have a report in and is being investigated for these. In the past, with these drops, they did what was best for customers and sent them out. I do not have any information regarding that at this time though.

I still haven’t gotten it as well and I too watched way more than the 14 hours needed to get him. Got Torb a good while back but he too took way more than 7 hours to get.

On the contrary, I got all of the Symmetra sprays with no issues at all from Twitch.

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