This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid.
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This week’s hottest eSports news and highlights for Overwatch. Expect spoilers! Brackets from TeamLiquid.
Contents (Click to Jump to Section) |
Leagues around the world are currently on break until the third week of January, with the LCK starting on January 17th and the NA and EU LCS starting that weekend.
League of Legends eSports currently has six bans, three for each team. However, the LCS is currently considering changing to a 10 ban system in order to increase champion diversity and strategic play.
Read more about this new development here.
The ELEAGUE Major is a Premier Tournament featuring 16 teams and a $1,000,000 USD prize pool. Last week the offline qualifiers, where 16 teams competed for eight spots in a swiss tournament, finished.
To qualify for the main tournament, the eight teams with positive scores (3-2 or better) will advance. Here are the results:
The main tournament is from January 22-29th in Atlanta, Georgia. With a $1,000,000 USD prize pool on the line, 16 teams will be playing in this first Major of the year.
Part of the DreamHack ZOWIE Open, the DreamHack Leipzig 2017 was a Premier tournament featuring eight teams competing for a $100,000 USD prize pool. Going from January 13-15th, the tournament took place in Leipzig, , and featured a Group Stage in a double elimination group format and a single elimination Playoff.
Here are the results:
FlipSid3 Tactics swept the entire tournament not dropping a single match and took home $50,000 USD.
The World Electronic Sports Games 2016 is a premier tournament featuring a group stage and single elimination playoff. 23 teams competed for a $1,500,000 USD prize pool from January 12-15 in Changzhou, China.
Here are the results:
The World Electronic Sports Games 2016 was a premier tournament featuring a group stage and single elimination playoff. 24 teams competed for a $1,500,000 USD prize pool from January 12-15 in Changzhou, China.
Here are the results:
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