Overwatch League 2019 Week One Schedule Revealed

The Overwatch League was always intended to be a tournament that would be different from other esports events. The eventual goal that Blizzard had in mind, would be for the teams of the Overwatch League to have their home cities, and would be playing both home and away games in an effort to bring the action of the OWL to fans outside of Los Angeles.

Now, new details have emerged during an Overwatch League preview show, that point to some of these matches happening sooner than we might have expected. “We’re going to play a handful of matches in a few home cities this year,” Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer said during the preview show. The league is expecting to be fully city based by 2020, though more details should be emerging over the next week.

Another major detail revealed during the stream was that the expected number of games is being reduced from 40 down to 28 per team, as the number of teams increase from 12 to 20. Additionally, Nanzer also revealed that the balance team would be trying to time the patches during the stage breaks, to better reflect the state of the main game, however he stressed that nothing can be guaranteed at this time.

The final piece of information to be revealed is the schedule for the first week of games, which will see the Philadelphia Fusion taking on the London Spitfire in a Grand Final rematch. The Overwatch League will pick up again in mid-February, with even more teams battling it out to be crowned the champions.