With this setup, the league was able to equal latencies for all participating players with a "minimum-latency tool" developed by Activision. The internet service provider at the University of Hawaii was directly connected to a cloud-based server in Tokyo, Japan via an underwater sea cable, while the qualifying Eastern teams did not travel anywhere and connected to the Tokyo server from Asia.
In an effort to minimize lag, the qualifying Western teams traveled to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for each interregional tournament. The top six teams from the West and the top four teams from the East advanced to regional knockout matches, and the top two teams from each region advanced from the knockouts to play in the interregional tournament. For each tournament, teams played four weeks of regional qualifier matches. Hero pools, a system in which some heroes are unplayable, were used in two of the four tournaments: the June Joust and Countdown Cup. Four standalone tournaments, the May Melee, June Joust, Summer Showdown, and Countdown Cup, were spread throughout the regular season with teams from both regions competing against each other. The league expanded upon the tournament format that was introduced in the 2020 season. Additionally, the Dallas Fuel hosted a homestand in July at Esports Stadium Arlington. The Charge's homestand in August was cancelled, however, due to COVID-19 concerns. All five China-based teams travelled to these events, while the three Korea-based teams played at the events remotely via the league's cloud server. Three live events were planned to be hosted by three teams in China: Hangzhou Spark in June, Shanghai Dragons in July, and Guangzhou Charge in August. The majority of matches in the 2021 season were played online. Eight teams from China and South Korea competed in the East Region, while twelve teams from North America and Europe competed in the West Division. For the 2021 season, the twenty teams were be divided into two regions, the East and West. The Shanghai Dragons won the Grand Finals over the Atlanta Reign to win their first OWL championship.įormat Regions and live events Īfter all matches were rescheduled to be played strictly online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 season saw the OWL divide teams into two regions, North America and Asia, in an effort to reduce lag due to online play. The playoffs began on September 21 and culminated with the Grand Finals on September 25. The postseason began on September 4 with two regional play-in tournaments acting as qualifiers for the season playoffs. The season marks the second year of the Overwatch League's broadcast partnership with YouTube, their third with Sport1, and their first with Bilibili. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most matches were played online, with the exception of several live events throughout the season. Similar to the 2020 season, teams are split into two geographical regions. The season featured four midseason tournaments throughout the regular season along with a new point system for season playoff seeding. The regular season began on April 16, 2021, and concluded on August 21.
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Seeding is based on the National Swiss and Seeding mixer.The 2021 Overwatch League season was the fourth season of the Overwatch League (OWL), a professional esports league for the video game Overwatch.The Playoffs will be a single-elimination where the teams will compete for tournament placement and prizing.The winner of the 7-3 bracket and all teams in the 9-1 and 8-2 brackets advance to the National Championship.The seeding mixer will be a single-elimination tournament that will aid in producing seeding values for Playoffs.The maximum number of teams that will be seeded as a Buy-In Team is 4 teams.For each Buy-In team that makes it into the Seeding Mixer, one less team will be seeded through the Varsity Wildcard. Teams that are a part of our Partner leagues will join the Varsity Wildcard winners and move into the Seeding mixer.The minimum number of teams that will be seeded through the Varsity Wildcard is 4 teams.For each buy in team that progresses to Seeding Mixer, one less team from the Varsity Wildcard will progress to the seeding mixer. The number of teams progressing out of this stage will be based on the number of Buy-In Teams.Varsity teams that do not place in the top 24 of the National Swiss will be invited to participate in the Varsity Wildcard bracket.All teams regardless of Varsity status are eligible to compete in the National Swiss.
Winners of the National Swiss will move onto the Seeding mixer.
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