Tortonto Defiant vs. Houston Outlaws - FINAL

General Discussion
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Stage 1 • Week 1

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Map Schedule
Control • Nepal
Hybrid • Numbani
Assault • Volskaya Industries
Escort • Route 66
TB/Control • Busan

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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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  • Each Overwatch League match will play 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
    •Killcam is off
  • Stage 1 is currently played on patch 1.32.1.1 (Lunar New Year 2019).

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I will be carefully tracking token payouts to see if any problems continue today. Be sure to follow @BlizzardCS on Twitter for any news updates if there are continuing problems.

As a reminder the Watchpoint Pre-show and Post-show technically do not count toward token drop time accumulation officially.

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Day 2 here we go!

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I just got 6 tokens, I guess they might be trying to make up for yesterday.

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I can confirm. That is nice to see!

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So did I. GO Houston! :smiley:

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Two great color schemes facing off. Kinda hoping to see Toronto start off strong!

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Two Edgelords enter, one Muma leaves. :heart:

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So do I earn tokens from watching the stream for an hour or for watching a match for an hour?

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welcome to day 2 of owl gamers. lets go houston!

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By watching for an hour overall, time is cumulative so it does not have to be watching constantly.

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Activision has hacked your webcam and you only get tokens when you smile at the Toyota™ logo.

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get out of my face monte i hate seeing your ugly mustache

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Lulz… at least we know why he grew the mustache now

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Soooo glad Achillios and Wolf are in so I can stop saying Monte is my favorite OWL caster

Also this accent is making my ears bleed

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I think I’ll have to run to the store during the Chinese match. I care about it, just the least.

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I like this skit. Hope they do these throughout the rest of the season.

Wasn’t supposed to reply to you

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Kinda wanna pull out a guitar and solo over this drum track

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Calling Defiant win 3:2, let’s see how badly this ages

Edit nvm, without Neko I’m saying Houston 3:1

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I know close to nothing about the new teams and players so I can’t give a good guess. I just want to see some good games with different comps other than just GOATS. I like seeing how the teams have been changing their strategies already.