Teams may begin submitting player trades for league office review.
Overwatch league season 2. Blizzard anticipated the overwatch league would have a seven figure payoff for the winning team at the end of a season. Overwatch league season 2 will start feb. The first shortened season of the league was expected to start in q3 2017 with full seasons starting in 2018 with the league having half year long seasonal breaks starting in q4 of that year. The short version of the story is that it sounds like blizzard might.
These teams will be pitted against each other in a single elimination tournament with the top 2 teams being able to join the playoffs for a total of 8 teams. 14 2019 but rosters for most of the teams and expansion franchises have already been revealed. The 2019 all star weekend will take place in the middle of the overwatch league regular season during a larger break between stages 2 and 3. Of the eight new teams two were from the united states two were from canada one was from france and three were from china.
All player trades are subject to league office approval prior to becoming effective. This page is an archive for the format and ruleset of competitive season 2. Championship match concludes 2020 season schedule. The 2019 overwatch league season was the second season of the overwatch league owl an esport based on the video game overwatch the league expanded from 12 teams from the inaugural season to 20 teams.
While blizzard said that the company had and i quote no idea when overwatch 2 would be coming out during last year s blizzcon some reports coming out of the overwatch league s next season as well as word from a leaker with some established credibility might give us a hint about when the sequel is finally coming. 1 season 2 changes 2 format 2 1 control maps 2 2 assault maps 2 3 escort maps 2 4 hybrid maps 3 skill rating 3 1 tiers 3 2 rating decay 3 3 top 500 3 4 group skill rating. Teams may also begin extending or otherwise signing their current players to standard contracts. Welcome to the overwatch league your home for all the latest information news scores and stats from the league.
In addition to eight new expansion teams each of the league s 20 teams will play 28 matches across five stages.