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Full information about World Cup 2017 Overwatch. Match results, VODs, streams, team rosters, schedules. Reinforce in season 2 pls.Please. Twitter: https://discord.gg/KukjuRr. Overwatch World Cup replays will be available for a month after the game originally airs, so you can analyze as many games as you want during the feature’s beta test. Starting now, you can pre-download the Overwatch World Cup Viewer before games go live Friday, November 2 at 12:15 PT. Following last night’s 2017 Overwatch World Cup, Blizzard shared a bunch of details about how the game’s upcoming professional league will work, including scheduling, prize money, and how the teams will be split up to create separate divisions. The start date is January 10 of next year.

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Here's what you need to know.

What: The third annual global Overwatch competition with a total prize pool of $488,000.

Who: Twenty-four countries divided into four group stages (six teams per grouping). Top-two countries from each group stage will then compete in the Overwatch World Cup 2018 finals to crown a champion.

Where: The four group stages will be held in cities across the globe: Incheon, South Korea, Los Angeles, Bangkok and Paris. The finals will take place in Anaheim at BlizzCon 2018.

When: Group stages run from Aug. 16-Sept. 23. Overwatch World Cup 2018 finals will take place from Nov. 2-3.

Prize Pool: Each of the 24 teams will receive $15,000 for competing with an additional $16,000 awarded to each of the eight teams who advance to the Overwatch World Cup 2018 finals.

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Country Selection: Through the end of competitive Season 9 (April 28), the 20 countries with the highest average skill rating (SR) of each country's top 150 players were invited to complete in the 2018 Overwatch World Cup. The four hosts (France, South Korea, Thailand and the United States) automatically qualified. If a host country makes the top-20 through average SR, the 21st-ranked country will take their spot, and so on.

Team Breakdown: Each country will be represented by a general manager, coach and community leader. The league selected General Managers while the Overwatch player base voted on coaches and community leaders (final round of coach voting is limited to top-150 players in each region). Rosters contain up to 12 players, top-seven players travel to each Overwatch World Cup event.

Match Details: Each match will consist of four maps, plus a potential fifth map if the score is tied after four maps. Map selection and order for all groups and matches will be decided by Blizzard.

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Group Stages:

South Korea is the clear favorite to advance from this group, and win the entire event. South Korea has won each of the previous two Overwatch World Cups and has yet to lose a single match in the process (13-0, +36 map differential).

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The South Korean team is the only team with all 12 players on Overwatch League (OWL) rosters and is one of three teams to have an OWL coach, Hyeon-sang 'Pavane' Yu of the New York Excelsior. Pavane picked up six players from the Excelsior, the most players from one OWL team on one Overwatch World Cup team.

The rest of the roster consists of All-Star caliber players from around the league, literally. Eleven of their twelve players were selected to join the OWL All-Star game in August, six of which will be starting.

Outside of South Korea, Finland and Russia are the most likely to advance. Finland (7) and Russia (2) are the only two others teams in the group to feature Overwatch League players. Team Russia finished second in the inaugural Overwatch World Cup 2016 (losing to South Korea), but failed to make it out of the group stage in 2017. Finland also had a strong showing in 2016, finishing fourth, but they also failed to make it out of the group stage in 2017.

The Los Angeles group looks to be one of the most predictable of the four groupings, with USA and Canada as the favorites. The United States has nine Overwatch League players, second most among all countries, and has finished among the top-eight each of the last two Overwatch World Cups. The USA also has the coach of Dallas Fuel, Aaron 'Aero' Atkins, who after taking over the Fuel in Stage 4, led the team to a 6-4 record (more wins than it had in Stages 1-3 combined) and an appearance in the Stage 4 playoffs.

Canada, on the other hand, has five current OWL players and Félix 'xQc' Lengyel, who was kicked off the Dallas Fuel roster during Stage 2 after multiple suspensions. Outside of USA and Canada, none of the other countries in this group has any players from the Overwatch League, so it is hard to imagine one of them advancing beyond the group stage.

From the Bangkok group, expect Sweden to advance with relative ease. Sweden's roster contains eight Overwatch league players (third most), and four of those players were on the same team (Florida Mayhem). That synergy should work to Team Sweden's advantage, especially considering Florida Mayhem head coach Vytis 'Mineral' Lasaitis will also be coaching Team Sweden. The Swedes have finished among the top-three each of the previous two Overwatch World Cups; the only other team to do so was South Korea.

Outside of Sweden, the rest of the group appears to be wide open. Spain could be the favorite to advance with three OWL players, but China and Australia both finished among the top-eight in 2017.

The Paris grouping is perhaps the most unpredictable of all groups. There are only five OWL players in the entire group and France has four of them, making them an early favorite. France finished fourth in 2017 and fifth in 2016, joining South Korea and Sweden as the only countries to finish top-five each of the two previous Overwatch World Cups.

Outside of Team France, the United Kingdom might be the other team to watch here. The roster features the only non-French player from the OWL in this group, Isaac 'Boombox' Charles of the Philadelphia Fusion. United Kingdom finished fifth in 2017, but did not qualify in 2016.

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The year 2017 has so far been characterised by the arrival of three newcomers onto the gaming scene. Most notably, the games 'GWENT: The Witcher Card Game' and 'Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG)' came onto the scene seemingly out of nowhere, and are already ridiculously popular, while also boasting huge player numbers. The game 'Overwatch', which began in 2016, has already drawn in more than 30 million players to its base. However, can these relatively new games also catch on as e-sports? And will they replace the scene's big players CS:GO, DOTA2, and LoL?

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds – the 2017 Steam hit

PUBG was able to shoot up the Steam charts in a remarkably short period of time, surging ahead of previously established games like Fallout 4 overnight. In August 2017, up to 875,000 gamers simultaneously played the game, which is actually still in its 'Early Access' phase. From the perspective of e-sports, PUBG is a very promising candidate! For one thing, it includes both a constant map and skill-based gameplay. At gamescom, the PUBG Invitational was the first test of this gaming hit's suitability for e-sports. Future events may prove this battle royale game to be a new e-sports hit.

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GWENT - 'The Witcher' bar game.

GWENT was originally a fun, miniature game included in the popular roleplay title The Witcher 3. Due to the hype it received, CD Projekt Red decided to publish the game as a standalone title. Soon after the closed-beta release, GWENT was already catching the attention of some pro-gamers. In particular, Hearthstone players became quick converts, discovering a new challenge in GWENT. The first large tournament was won by the former Hearthstone professional, Lifecoach. He was followed by other well-known figures, such as the Austrian GameKing, who in 2016 won the IeSF World Hearthstone Championship.

At gamescom 2017, CD Projekt RED announced the official 'GWENT Masters' e-sports series. Over several seasons, players can also collect so-called Crown Points on the Pro Ladder. Furthermore, open tournaments (USD 25,000 prize money) and GWENT challenger tournaments (USD 100,000 prize money) will be held. The GWENT World Masters will see the best eight GWENT Masters players battle it out for the title of 'World Champion' and a USD 250,000 cash prize. In using this format, CD Projekt RED lays the foundations for the e-sports future of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game.

Overwatch - Blizzard's new draw card

Since its mid-2016 release, the multi-player first-person shooter Overwatch has taken its place as one of Blizzard Entertainment's most important games. With the Overwatch World Cup and the Overwatch League, the framework for professional e-sports has already been established. However, Blizzard has this year come under fire for its excessive team franchising fees. Pro team 'Team Solo Mid' was one of many to make a provisional withdrawal. How Overwatch's e-sports future unfolds is solidly dependent on it's publisher, Blizzard. The Overwatch World Cup 2017 finale will take place at BlizzCon in Anaheim (USA) on the 3 - 4 November.

Threatening the 'Big Three'?

League of Legends, DOTA 2, and CS:GO are currently the giants of e-sports. Looking at the USD 20 million DOTA prize money, the 170,000 on-site spectators for the CS:GO Intel Extreme Masters finale, or the LoL Stream Viewer, it's clear that the 'Big Three' have nothing to worry about just yet. Excitingly, the question still remains as to which of the newcomers will be first to make the leap to the upper echelons of e-sports.