Toronto Defiant vs. Florida Mayhem - FINAL


Week 5 • Day 1


VS.

Toronto Defiant
 
Florida Mayhem
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Final Score

 
 
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Victory!

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Heroes banned from Week 5 in OWL


Reinhardt

McCree

Widowmaker

Moira

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Conferences and Divisions

With teams playing matches in their home cities, we’re breaking the 20 teams into two conferences, with two divisions in each conference.

PACIFIC EAST PACIFIC WEST ATLANTIC SOUTH ATLANTIC NORTH
Chengdu Hunters Dallas Fuel Atlanta Reign Boston Uprising
Guangzhou Charge Los Angeles Gladiators Florida Mayhem London Spitfire
Hangzhou Spark Los Angeles Valiant Houston Outlaws New York Excelsior
Seoul Dynasty San Francisco Shock Philadelphia Fusion Paris Eternal
Shanghai Dragons Vancouver Titans Washington Justice Toronto Defiant

Each team will play 28 total regular-season matches, which includes two matches against each in-conference opponent and one match against all out-of-conference teams. The regular season will consist of 26 weeks—with all matches played over weekends—and will include a break for All-Stars and a midseason tournament between Weeks 12 and 13.

Each team will host at least two home weekend events during the season, with an additional 12 events—three per division—collectively hosted by teams in their home territories. Tickets are now available for most of those events, and additional location and ticketing information will be released soon.

Match Structure

New in 2020, teams will play regular-season matches in a first-to-three format. Each match will open with control, and then teams will play hybrid, assault, and escort in an order that rotates across matches to ensure they are played evenly throughout the season. If a match reaches the fifth map, only control maps will be played until a team gets to three map wins. After every two maps played, teams will get a quick break to strategize.

In order to keep the map variety fresh, we’ll be changing out the map pool four times during the season. All control maps will be in play throughout the entire season and each map pool will feature three maps from each of the other game modes. A new map pool will be used for the postseason.

Throughout the season, we expect Overwatch to receive several game patches. Overwatch League matches will take place on the most updated patch, but the rollout of those patches will be somewhat delayed from the actual game to the Overwatch League to ensure we’re able to properly deploy them and provide teams a window to practice on the new patch before they are asked to compete on it.

All-Stars and Midseason Tournament

After Week 12 of the season we’ll take a break for All-Stars festivities—and a new midseason tournament. All-Stars will feature the league’s best players competing in a series of fun game modes. We’re also planning some 1v1 action and another Talent Takedown. Stay tuned for more details. These All-Stars events will have a total prize pool of US $250K, so there’s more than just bragging rights on the line in 2020.

The midseason tournament will feature the top four teams in the league: the top team from each conference and the next best two teams by record from either conference. In order to manage logistical requirements for teams around the world, the teams will qualify based on their record over their first nine matches in the 2020 season. Those teams will play in a single-elimination bracket, with the top seed picking their opening-round opponent.

Postseason

The 2019 postseason was epic, and we heard positive feedback on the format from our players and our fans. The 2020 postseason format is similar to 2019, with a play-in tournament followed by double-elimination bracket play culminating in the 2020 Grand Finals. The seventh- through 12th-seeded teams in the standings will qualify for the play-in tournament.

The double-elimination bracket will feature the following eight teams:

  • The two top teams per conference as the top seeds (as determined by record with map differential as the tiebreaker)
  • The next four teams across both conferences as the three to six seeds
  • The two teams that advance from the play-in tournament as the seven and eight seeds

We’ll share more details about the postseason as the season progresses.

Prize Pools

Midseason Tournament

  • First place—$500K
  • Second place—$250K
  • Third place—$150K
  • Fourth place—$150K

All-Stars

  • Total prize pool—$250K

Season Playoffs

  • First place—$1.5M
  • Second place—$800K
  • Third place—$500K
  • Fourth place—$300K
  • Fifth place—$200K
  • Sixth place —$200K
  • Seventh place—$100K
  • Eighth place—$100K
     
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I predict the meta’s now gonna be Dive + Hackfist, maybe some Tracer/Soldier.

Pulling for Defiant in this one. They have such talent on the team and just can’t quite turn it into wins but I’d love to see them do well.

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It’s going to be Reaper, Mei, for dps, Lucio, Ana for support, and tanks… Idk.

I’m leaning towards Florida Mayhem, but this looks like a toss up. It’s anyone’s game.

Zenyatta, well Toronto is playing with fire.

76 on both sides? Good to see it.

I loved the statistic about Soldier.

“This is the first time this season Soldier 76 has been played for more than 30 seconds.” lol

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I figured Soldier/Tracer would be meta if not hackfist.

Reaper is dead as a fish.

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Florida had to switch off Mei, she doesn’t do well in dive. That’s why she is always played with Rein. Can’t wait to see what the stats for the ladder bans turn out to be. Will dive be played, since Rein is still in?

If not that might tell the devs Rein may need the nerf.

That’s not what I saw, it looked like Mei was the reason as to why they were handling Winston and why they’re dominating the point as it is right now.

By that I mean if she’s dove she struggles, since mobility is strong against her, especially when executed by more skilled players.

By the ways, somebody in Hangzhou had WAY too much time on their hands…

Could you imagine if Widow wasn’t banned this weekend while Rein still was?

Widow dive would probably occur.

True.

What Mayhem should do is get off the Ana pick.

She’s getting wrecked by Dive.

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Logix did them nasty.

Toranto is playing Zen, which is pretty squishy and doesn’t have an out like Ana’s sleep dart. But the dmg orb is so useful.

It’s more that the second Ana gets dove, 9 times out of 10 she’s going to die.

Brigitte & Mei can only peel so much.