Overwatch - This Week in Tournaments/Esports (May 1st - May 7th)

This Week in Tournaments/Esports (May 1st - May 7th)
Blowing up ALL the books in Volskaya
Sombra Looks for Safety Behind Enemy Lines
I thought our Symmetra was acting strange, but then...
Officer D.va skin has police sirens blaring when she boosts.
When your team's only healer realizes you're wearing the new Officer D.Va skin in the middle of a match. . .
Overwatch Heroes according to someone who isn't very good
It's High N..........ut punch
Zarya Sharpshooter POTG
How to deal with an Ulting Bastion.
Parents know there's no pausing in online games; kids know how to "accidentally" join another round.
Never thought this would happen to me
Involuntarily saving the President.
Straight out of a horror movie
This nearly cost us the game. Blizzard pls
The ultimate Pharah movement guide | Valkia (500+ hours)
Real-life, fully functional Endothermic Blaster (Mei's freeze gun)
Blizzard, thank you for the Uprising Event
When Blizzard wants everyone to know how bad you are at Widow
Ster hiding from DVA
Sometimes I can actually aim!
The Uprising Event is officially over
You can see my hand shaking from laughing
Calculated
New Overwatch FunkoPOP Available Now
The most ridiculous Reinhardt charge of all time

This Week in Tournaments/Esports (May 1st - May 7th)

Posted: 01 May 2017 08:38 AM PDT

This thread is a compilation of all the upcoming Overwatch tournaments and esports over the next week. All links can be found on the sidebar under UPCOMING EVENTS.

Professional Play

OGN APEX Season 3

APEX returns for Season 3 with 16 invited and qualifying teams from KR and NA for a combined ₩200,000,000 KRW ($178,000 USD) prize pool. The teams are as follows:

Team	Region	Team	Region	Team	Region	Team	Region
Lunatic-Hai	KR	RunAway	KR	LW Blue	KR	Meta Athena	KR
KongDoo Panthera	KR	AF.Blue	KR	CONBOX Spirit	KR	BK Stars	KR
Mighty AOD	KR	KongDoo Uncia	KR	Flash Lux	KR	Rhinos Gaming Wings	KR
Rogue	NA	X6-Gaming	KR	MVP Space	KR	EnVyUS	NA

This week's schedule:

Group	Matchup	Date	Start Time
C	LW Blue vs CB Spirit	May 2nd	19:00 KST (5 AM EST/10 AM GMT)
D	Meta.A vs BK Stars	May 2nd	20:30 KST(6:30 AM EST/11:30 AM GMT)
B	KD Uncia vs X6	May 5th	19:00 KST (5 AM EST/10 AM GMT)
A	Rogue vs Mighty AOD	May 5th	20:30 KST(6:30 AM EST/11:30 AM GMT)

Matches will be streamed at OGNGlobal.

Overwatch Pacific Championship

Australasian region tournament with 3 teams from Taiwan, 2 teams from Japan and a team from Thailand, Hong Kong and Australia. Second round matches run Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays (starting at 21:00 AEST, 16:00 AEST, and 16:00 AEST respectively).

Matches are streamed at FullCircle.

Overwatch TaKeOver 2

6 invited and 2 qualifier teams fight for a $50,000 prize pool. Invited teams include Rogue and NiP (Ninjas in Pyjamas). Sign up here for May 6th and/or May 13th qualifiers. Playoffs run June 1st - 4th 12 CEST.

Matches will be streamed at TaKeTV.

Community Events

HND: Overwatch Open VI

HND Gaming returns with another competitive EU tournament. Test your teams might against some of EU's best. Qualifiers begin May 5th 7 PM CEST.

Matches will be streamed at HNDlive.

HASTE $1k Tournament Series

Provided by HASTE and hosted by the OverGuard, this 4 week PC tournament will run every Thursday for the 3 weeks. The top 4 teams qualify for the playoffs in Week 4. Week 2 begins May 6th 11 AM PDT.

Matches will be streamed at TheOverguard.

Overwatch Scrub Cup

The Scrub Cup is a tournament for players 2500 SR and below wanting to experience a tournament with players at their skill level. Players will sign up individually and be sorted by SR and prefered role.

Announcement thread and signup links.

EU tournament will run May 6th and May 19th - 21st. NA tournament will run May 13th and May 26th - 28th.

Local Events

Overwatch Chicago League (Season 2)

Local Chicago-area event held at the Ignite Gaming Lounge. 4 teams compete over 4 weeks for a cash prize. Matches run every Thursday at 7 CST continuing on May 4th, and will be streamed at overwatchchicago.

Signups

UGC OW League Season 4

Signup here for one of the 5 regions available (NA, EU, Asia, SA, and AUS/NZ). Season begins May 17th.

*This thread will be updated as new information and events come up.

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Blowing up ALL the books in Volskaya

Posted: 02 May 2017 08:25 AM PDT

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Sombra Looks for Safety Behind Enemy Lines

Posted: 02 May 2017 05:43 AM PDT

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I thought our Symmetra was acting strange, but then...

Posted: 02 May 2017 01:09 PM PDT

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Officer D.va skin has police sirens blaring when she boosts.

Posted: 02 May 2017 12:02 PM PDT

That's all. It's the cutest thing ever.

In video: https://streamable.com/ob6bq

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When your team's only healer realizes you're wearing the new Officer D.Va skin in the middle of a match. . .

Posted: 02 May 2017 12:41 PM PDT

We had a Lucio, until halfway through the round. . .

http://i.imgur.com/xU6pKQq.jpg

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Overwatch Heroes according to someone who isn't very good

Posted: 02 May 2017 01:24 PM PDT

http://imgur.com/gallery/WQ0oV

I made this for my last assignment in my comics class. b gentle

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It's High N..........ut punch

Posted: 02 May 2017 08:37 AM PDT

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Zarya Sharpshooter POTG

Posted: 02 May 2017 05:46 AM PDT

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How to deal with an Ulting Bastion.

Posted: 02 May 2017 11:09 AM PDT

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Parents know there's no pausing in online games; kids know how to "accidentally" join another round.

Posted: 02 May 2017 09:43 AM PDT

A comment in another thread made me think of posting about this. [Most people here probably are aged out of living under their parents' rules/supervision. But in case there are some younger forumites here...]

I'm a long time video gamer (since the 70s). I play with both my sons (high school, middle school). I know online games can't be paused, and they can't be immediately dropped. (I've educated my wife/their mother on this.) So when I see they're playing something, and dinner times comes, or bed time, or "you have to get outside for some fresh air" time, etc., I tell them to wrap up their play time. I know they can't just immediately quit it.

Playing Overwatch (or Hearthstone), they can finish their current game, then log off. Playing WoW, they should head towards the nearest inn for log off.

Aggravatingly, though, too often after their current game, they "forget" and join another game. I'm forgiving/lenient with a mistake the first time. But I have a few times forced them to leave a game (never a comp match*) in progress.

If this post has a point, it's this: Kids - your gamer parent can be the biggest supporter of your gaming entertainment. Don't abuse their knowledge (that you can't pause an online game) by trying to sneak in more game time "accidentally." Don't make your gaming time an aggravation for your parents.

I'd never make them leave a comp team. (That would be punishing 5 other, innocent players.) But if they joined another after I told them to quit, they'd get restricted from playing comp again for a week or so. After a couple of restrictions, they no longer make this "mistake".

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Never thought this would happen to me

Posted: 01 May 2017 11:59 PM PDT

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Involuntarily saving the President.

Posted: 02 May 2017 04:13 AM PDT

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Straight out of a horror movie

Posted: 01 May 2017 07:07 PM PDT

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This nearly cost us the game. Blizzard pls

Posted: 02 May 2017 12:34 AM PDT

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The ultimate Pharah movement guide | Valkia (500+ hours)

Posted: 02 May 2017 04:18 AM PDT

Hey everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, recently I asked my community what videos they would like to see and I'm working through them one by one. This video is the ultimate Pharah movement guide, which talks about techniques that I use.

Click here to watch the guide

I hope you enjoy it!

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Real-life, fully functional Endothermic Blaster (Mei's freeze gun)

Posted: 02 May 2017 07:25 AM PDT

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Blizzard, thank you for the Uprising Event

Posted: 02 May 2017 05:34 AM PDT

Overall, Uprising was pretty simple and if you knew what you were doing, it was easy to abuse to get your three arcade wins. But in the end, I really appreciated the event. It provided a fun co-op experience that gave us a little dive into some of the lore of the game. As we come up on the anniversary of release, it was nice to have a PVE experience that was still engaging after multiple playthroughs. I would like to see more of this in the future.

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When Blizzard wants everyone to know how bad you are at Widow

Posted: 02 May 2017 07:55 AM PDT