It’s going down.

The best teams in the beta face off for the biggest prize pool yet. Double elimination. Every. Match. Broadcasted.

NOTE: prize pool has been increased to $3,000 thanks to our newest sponsor, Infiniscene!

Been sitting on this for a while, so I gotta be admit, feels damn good to finally put this in writing.

I’ve been working behind the scenes for some months to organize the next chapter to the FishStix Overwatch Invitational which took place all the way back in November. As with the first Invitational, the goal from inception was to push the boundaries for what’s been done in the scene — to organize something fresh, unlike anything else thus far. And, with the help of One Nation of Gamers, GEICO Gaming, and the Video Game Voters Network, we may have done just that.

We want to show just how competitive and exciting Overwatch can be at a high level. We want to make the best possible show for the community.

With further ado…

Let’s get to the details

Invited teams

North America:

EnVyUs

Cloud9

Luminosity Gaming

Life of Hanzo

Europe:

IDDQD

Reunited.GG

#FlatEarth

Melty

Tournament format

8 team invitational (4 NA / 4 EU).

Double elimination bracket.

Round 1–4 (bo3) → WB/LB finals (bo5) → grand finals (bo5)

Day 1: play thru ‘till WB/LB finals.

Day 2: WB/LB finals & grand finals.

Brackets

Live brackets will be updated on GosuGamers.

Rules/scoring

Payload and Capture Point maps will be decided by traditional Stopwatch rules — after taking turns attacking and defending, the quicker time set or the furthest progression wins the point.

If both teams get stuck on the same objective soon then the map will be counted as a tie, and no points awarded to either team.

A win on a Control map counts as a point.

NO hero limit. 6 D.vas all day, if you want.

Map selection process

Use OWDraft.com to select maps — higher seed picks first. Loser picks next.

Bo3 up until WB/LB finals

Bo5 for WB/LB and Grand Final. Grand final bracket can be reset by LB.

Servers

Higher seed picks first. Loser picks next.

Prize pool

$3,000 USD base (subject to change to do additional sponsorships or community support)

$1500 $900 $600

Broadcast logistics

Dates: April 9th-10th from 10am PDT — 6pm PDT

Channel: twitch.tv/onenationofgamers

Shoutcasters: FishStix & AskJoshy

Secondary EN channels / Foreign language channels:

English: Hex & ZP at twitch.tv/gosugamers

English: Jason Kaplan & ToD at twitch.tv/esl_overwatch

French: twitch.tv/esl_alphacast

Credits

None of this would be possible without these folks…

Lynnea “Shayed” Tabatha Rose — lead admin

Daniel “Imagine” Tompos — stream producer

Markus “Mysca” Gur — graphics designer

Deric Ortiz — One Nation of Gamers

Phew. Glad to finally get this out there. If you have any questions you probably already know how to get ahold of me. In the mean time, why don’t you go watch the FishStix Invitational 1? It was pretty sweet, and I’m almost over 10k views on YT. ;)