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The 2019 Overwatch World Cup is just days away from starting, and we’ve got you covered with everything you’ll need to know to watch teams from across the globe gather together and go for gold.
Where to Watch
All 2019 Overwatch World Cup matches will be livestreamed. Here’s where you can watch them live:
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Mandarin (CN): Zhanqi, CC, Bilibili, Huya
- Mandarin (TW)
- Portuguese (BR)
- Spanish (LatAm)
- Russian
- Vietnamese
Additionally, VODs for all completed matches will be available on the Overwatch League Twitch channel.
Preliminaries
On Thursday, Oct. 31, beginning at 10 a.m. PT, all non-top 5 teams that come to Anaheim will be entered into a bracket tournament. The teams will be seeded into five brackets and will play first-to-three matches. The sixth to 10th seeds—United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Russia, and Finland—will each get byes into the second round of each bracket.
Map set (first round):
- Control—Busan
- Hybrid—Hollywood
- Escort—Rialto
- Assault—Anubis
- Control—Ilios
- Control—Oasis
- Control—Nepal
- Control—Lijiang
Map set (second round):
- Control—Lijiang
- Hybrid—Eichenwalde
- Escort—Junkertown
- Assault—Paris
- Control—Oasis
- Control—Nepal
- Control—Busan
- Control—Ilios
Map set (third round):
- Control—Nepal
- Hybrid—King’s Row
- Escort—Dorado
- Assault—Hanamura
- Control—Busan
- Control—Ilios
- Control—Lijiang
- Control—Oasis
Group Stage Play
On Friday, Nov. 1, beginning at 12:15 p.m. PT, the five teams that advanced from the play-in tournament will be seeded into two groups along with the first to fifth seed teams (South Korea, Canada, China, France, and USA). Each team will play a three-map match against all the teams in their group. The top three teams by record will advance from each group with map differential as the tiebreaker.
Map set (first round):
- Control—Ilios
- Hybrid—Numbani
- Escort—Havana
- Control (tiebreaker)—Nepal
Map set (second round):
- Control—Oasis
- Hybrid—Blizzard World
- Escort—Route 66
- Control (tiebreaker)—Lijiang
Map set (third round):
- Control—Busan
- Hybrid—King’s Row
- Escort—Gibraltar
- Control (tiebreaker)—Ilios
Map set (fourth round):
- Control—Lijiang
- Hybrid—Eichenwalde
- Escort—Rialto
- Control (tiebreaker)—Nepal
Map set (fifth round):
- Control—Nepal
- Hybrid—Hollywood
- Escort—Junkertown
- Control (tiebreaker)—Oasis
Medal Rounds
On Saturday, Nov. 2, at BlizzCon, beginning at 10:15 a.m. PT, the top six teams will begin bracket play, with the top two teams receiving a first-round bye. Each match is first to three map wins. The winners of the two second-round matches will advance to the gold-medal match. The losers of the second-round matches will compete for the bronze medal.
Map set (first round):
- Control—Lijiang
- Hybrid—Blizzard World
- Escort—Junkertown
- Assault—Volskaya
- Control—Oasis
- Control—Ilios
- Control—Nepal
- Control—Busan
Map set (second round):
- Control—Busan
- Hybrid—Hollywood
- Escort—Gibraltar
- Assault—Horizon
- Control—Nepal
- Control—Oasis
- Control—Lijiang
- Control—Ilios
Map set (medal round):
- Control—Ilios
- Hybrid—King’s Row
- Escort—Dorado
- Assault—Hanamura
- Control—Lijiang
- Control—Busan
- Control—Oasis
- Control—Nepal