The primary official information for the Overwatch League 2023 season has arrived!
Sean Miller and Soe Gschwind took to YouTube to speak concerning the modifications within the upcoming season of the Overwatch League.
Overwatch League 2023
Overwatch League 2023 begins on April twenty seventh! Now straight to the purpose. This season’s construction is a bit complicated.
Within the East, there will probably be Contenders groups taking over Overwatch League groups within the first half of every part this season (to fill time). Within the West, there’s an abundance of Overwatch League groups which means they’ll fill the schedule on their very own with none Contenders groups competing towards them.
In the course of the qualifiers, which is the Common Season, Overwatch League groups will compete in regular aggressive play to get seeded for the Knockouts. Then, by means of the Knockouts, groups will try to qualify for the Midseason Insanity match, or Play-Ins relying on which half of the season it’s. So, moderately than 4 Levels distributing even factors for profitable groups, we have now… this.
The modifications to the season format make Season 6 of the Overwatch League a much less skilled setting with the inclusion of Contenders groups within the East, however when it’s all damaged down, the worldwide occasions are nonetheless going to seem like a really aggressive {and professional} part of the league.
Reside Occasions
Reside occasions aren’t fully again, however there will probably be some! Some, in fact, which means two. Simply as has been with the previous few seasons, solely the worldwide occasions (Midseason Insanity and Playoffs/Grand Finals) will probably be held as dwell occasions. It’s a bummer that we will not exit and help our favourite groups each week, however its the groups that did this in the long run. Final 12 months there was numerous grievance about West groups having to journey to Hawaii earlier than tournaments making them lose observe time and be drained.
April twenty seventh
Overwatch League Opening Day will probably be two totally different types of competitors. Within the West, the season will begin as traditional with Common Season matches. Within the East, the Opens will start with Contenders groups both competing towards one another, or towards one another and Overwatch League groups. That part wasn’t clarified. There’ll possible be one other neighborhood replace earlier than the beginning of the seasons, so there ought to be extra clarification to come back.
