2016 Overwatch World Cup

The 2016 Overwatch World Cup was the inaugural Overwatch World Cup, an annual Overwatch esports tournament, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer. It was the first of the series, and the final tournament took place at BlizzCon at the Anaheim Convention Center from November 4–5, 2016.[1]

2016 Overwatch World Cup

Tournament information
Game	Overwatch
Location	Anaheim, California, United States
Dates	October 29–November 5
Administrator(s)	Blizzard Entertainment
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Venue(s)	Anaheim Convention Center
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	South Korea
1st runner-up	Russia
2nd runner-up	Sweden
MVP	Gong "Miro" Jin-hyuk

The final took place on November 5 between South Korea and Russia. South Korea won 4–0 to win the first World Cup title.

Teams

Players

Blizzard selected the top players from Season One of competitive play of Overwatch to possibly represent their country as a team member. Players with an Overwatch account and a region-specified Battle.net account then voted on who they would like to see on their respective country's roster.[2] Over 3 million votes to decide national teams were cast.[3]

Qualification

Throughout September 2016, fifty national teams entered to qualify for the Overwatch World Cup through best-of-three online qualifiers. Six teams automatically qualified for the group stages. In total, four teams from the Americas, six from Europe, and six from the Asia-Pacific qualified for the group stages of the World Cup.[4][5]

Invitation (6)  Australasia  Brazil  Canada  China  South Korea  United States

American Qualifier (1)  Chile Asia-Pacific (3)  Chinese Taipei  Thailand  Singapore

European Qualifier (6)  Germany  Finland  France  Sweden  Russia  Spain

Automatically qualified   Qualified   Did not qualify   Did not participate

Group stage

The qualified teams were grouped into four different round-robin style groups, with the matches to be played in online. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage.[4]

Group A

Pos	Team	W	L	MW	ML	MD	Qualification
1	Spain	3	0	6	2	+4	Advance to knockout stage
2	Sweden	2	1	5	2	+3
3	Canada	1	2	3	4	-1
4	Brazil	0	3	0	6	-6

Group B

Pos	Team	W	L	MW	ML	MD	Qualification
1	Russia	3	0	6	1	+5	Advance to knockout stage
2	United States	2	1	5	2	+3
3	Germany	1	2	2	4	-2
4	Chile	0	3	0	6	-6

Group C

Pos	Team	W	L	MW	ML	MD	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	0	6	0	+6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Finland	2	1	4	3	+1
3	Australia	1	2	2	4	-2
4	Chinese Taipei	0	3	1	6	-5

Group D

Pos	Team	W	L	MW	ML	MD	Qualification
1	France	2	1	5	3	+2	Advance to tiebreakers
1	China	2	1	5	3	+2
1	Thailand	2	1	5	3	+2
4	Singapore	0	3	0	6	-6

Tiebreakers

Pos	Team	W	L	MW	ML	MD	Qualification
1	China	2	0	2	0	+2	Advance to knockout stage
2	France	1	1	1	1	0
3	Thailand	0	2	0	2	-2

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals
	South Korea	2
	United States	0
					South Korea	2
					Sweden	0
	China	0
	Sweden	2
									South Korea	4
									Russia	0
	Russia	2
	France	1
					Russia	2
					Finland	0			Third place
	Spain	1
	Finland	2
									Sweden	2
									Finland	1

Awards

References

1. Prescott, Shaun (August 5, 2016). "Overwatch World Cup 2016 announced, finals will take place at Blizzcon". PC Gamer. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
2. McKeand, Kirk (August 5, 2016). "The Overwatch World Cup won't be the only Overwatch eSports announcement this year". PC Games News. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
3. Chalk, Andy (March 29, 2017). "The 2017 Overwatch World Cup has already begun". PC Gamer. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
4. Craddock, David (August 4, 2016). "Overwatch World Cup coming to BlizzCon". Shack News. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
5. Brian, Matt (September 22, 2016). "Blizzard finds its 'Overwatch' World Cup teams". Engadget. Retrieved May 1, 2019.

External links

• Overwatch World Cup