[ad_1] Overwatch League (OWL) viewership doubled this past weekend as Blizzard experimented with a tournament format. The average audience per minute (AMA) was 63,000 — a big increase from 31,000 the previous week. That marks OWL’s best viewership since the second week of the season, when the AMA was 74,000. Two May Melee tournaments took […]
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The entire Overwatch League regular season will be online-only
[ad_1] After two seasons of OWL matches taking place almost exclusively at a studio in Los Angeles, Blizzard took the league on the road this year. Teams were to play matches at live homestands across North America, Europe and Asia. But coronavirus concerns affected those plans from the jump. The league postponed events that were […]
YouTube will stream Blizzard’s CoD and Overwatch leagues in 2020
[ad_1] Esports lives on @YouTubeGaming. Welcome to the family, Overwatch League, Call of Duty League, and Hearthstone Esports. Let’s get this thing going with the inaugural season of the Call of Duty league kicking off today! https://t.co/9PAUaaQSz0https://t.co/p9kSbD9aAi pic.twitter.com/rBVpf0Re3H — Ryan Wyatt (@Fwiz) January 24, 2020 As part of a multi-year deal, Google Cloud will handle […]
Blizzard reveals Overwatch League details for 2020
[ad_1] Each team will host two weekend-long homestands, and franchises from each division will collaborate on three more regular-season events in their home regions. In total, 52 homestand weekends will take place. Two local events will run simultaneously throughout the season, which will take place between February and August. Each franchise will again play 28 […]
‘Overwatch’ healer Baptiste debuts on March 19th
[ad_1] Baptiste, whose full name is Jean-Baptiste Augustin, is an ex-Talon medic who has fled to Haiti. The captain of his former team, who is sent to capture or kill him, details the healer’s traits in a personal log released by Overwatch. “I know better than to underestimate Baptiste. I helped train him myself, and […]