2018 Overwatch World Cup

The 2018 Overwatch World Cup was an Overwatch esports tournament, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer. It was the third Overwatch World Cup. It featured 24 represented nations from around the world, with the final tournament taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center during BlizzCon from November 2–3, 2018.[2]

2018 Overwatch World Cup
Tournament information
GameOverwatch
DateAugust 17–November 2
Administrator(s)Blizzard Entertainment
Tournament
format(s)
Round-robin and Knockout
Venue(s)
Teams24
Final positions
Champions South Korea
1st runner-up China
2nd runner-up Canada
MVP Bang "JJonak" Sung-hyeon [1]

The final took place on November 2 between South Korea and China. South Korea won 4–0, winning their third straight World Cup title.

Teams

Committees

Each country has a National Competition Committee, consisting of a general manager, head coach, and community lead. Blizzard selected each team's general manager, while the head coach and community leads were selected through a two-step voting process, that took place from May 24 to May 30.[3][4]

Any player with a Blizzard account in good standing was welcome to apply for a head coaching position for their country; the country's top 150 players voted for who they would like to be their country's head coach. The top three candidates from the first round of voting moved on to a second round of voting, and the person with the most votes in the second round was selected as the country's head coach.[3]

The community leaders are responsible for "rallying their community and marketing their team to the masses."[4] Like the head coaches, the community lead for each country was chosen through a two-step voting process. A country's entire player base voted for the community lead. After the first round of voting, the top 10 from that round were candidates for the second round; the person with the most votes in the second round was selected as their country's community lead.[3]

Players

They players representing each country were selected by their National Competition Committee. The Committees selected up to 12 players from June 1 to July 5 to represent their country and then had to cut it down to 7 players to be their final roster.[5]

Qualification

From March 28 to April 28, 2018, Blizzard tracked the average skill rating of the top 150 players from the top 20 countries to determine the countries who qualified for the tournament. The four host countries, South Korea, Thailand, France, and the United States, automatically qualified.[2]

Venues
Incheon Bangkok
Studio Paradise Royal Paragon Hall
Capacity: 2,300[6] Capacity: 2,000[7]
Los Angeles Paris
Blizzard Arena Espace Grande Arche
Capacity: 450[8] Capacity: 2,500[9]
Anaheim
Anaheim Convention Center
Capacity: 7,500[10]

Group stage

The top 24 national teams were grouped into four different round-robin style groups, with the matches played in Incheon, Los Angeles, Bangkok, and Paris. The top two teams in each group advanced to a single-elimination playoff bracket, with the matches played in Anaheim.[2][11]

Incheon stage
Pos Team W L MW ML MD Qualification
1 South Korea50192+17Advance to playoffs
2 Finland41164+12
3 Russia32127+5
4 Japan23812-4
5 Chinese Taipei14515-10
6 Hong Kong05020-20
Day 1 August 17 Russia  4 – 0  Hong Kong Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 1 August 17 South Korea  4 – 0  Chinese Taipei Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 1 August 17 Hong Kong  0 – 4  Finland Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 1 August 17 Russia  3 – 1  Japan Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 1 August 17 Finland  2 – 3  South Korea Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 2 August 18 Hong Kong  0 – 4  South Korea Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 2 August 18 Japan  3 – 1  Chinese Taipei Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 2 August 18 Russia  1 – 2  Finland Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 2 August 18 Chinese Taipei  4 – 0  Hong Kong Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 2 August 18 South Korea  4 – 0  Japan Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 3 August 19 Finland  4 – 0  Japan Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 3 August 19 Russia  4 – 0  Chinese Taipei Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 3 August 19 Japan  4 – 0  Hong Kong Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 3 August 19 Russia  0 – 4  South Korea Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise
Day 3 August 19 Chinese Taipei  0 – 4  Finland Incheon, KR
    Studio Paradise

Source: OWWC

Los Angeles stage
Pos Team W L MW ML MD Qualification
1 United States50182+16Advance to playoffs
2 Canada41173+14
3 Brazil321011-1
4 Norway23813-5
5 Austria14516-11
6 Switzerland05417-13
Day 1 September 7 Austria  0 – 4  Canada Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 1 September 7 Norway  3 – 1   Switzerland Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 1 September 7 Canada  4 – 0  Brazil Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 1 September 7 Austria  0 – 4  United States Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 1 September 7 Norway  2 – 3  Brazil Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 2 September 8 Switzerland   2 – 3  Austria Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 2 September 8 Brazil  1 – 3  United States Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 2 September 8 Norway  0 – 4  Canada Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 2 September 8 United States  4 – 0   Switzerland Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 2 September 8 Brazil  3 – 1  Austria Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 3 September 9 Norway  3 – 1  Austria Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 3 September 9 Canada  4 – 0   Switzerland Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 3 September 9 Norway  0 – 4  United States Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 3 September 9 Switzerland   1 – 3  Brazil Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena
Day 3 September 9 Canada  1 – 3  United States Los Angeles, CA
    Blizzard Arena

Source: OWWC

Bangkok stage
Pos Team W L MW ML MD Qualification
1 China50167+9Advance to playoffs
2 Australia32147+7
3 Denmark32129+3
4 Sweden321110+1
5 Thailand14714-7
6 Spain05316-13
Day 1 September 14 Denmark  3 – 1  Thailand Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 1 September 14 Spain  1 – 3  Australia Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 1 September 14 China  3 – 1  Sweden Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 1 September 14 Spain  1 – 2  Denmark Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 1 September 14 Thailand  0 – 4  Australia Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 2 September 15 Australia  1 – 3  Denmark Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 2 September 15 China  3 – 2  Thailand Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 2 September 15 Sweden  0 – 4  Australia Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 2 September 15 Denmark  2 – 3  China Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 2 September 15 Spain  0 – 4  Sweden Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 3 September 16 Thailand  1 – 3  Sweden Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 3 September 16 Spain  0 – 4  China Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 3 September 16 Sweden  3 – 2  Denmark Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 3 September 16 Australia  2 – 3  China Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall
Day 3 September 16 Spain  1 – 3  Thailand Bangkok, CN
    Royal Paragon Hall

Source: OWWC

Paris stage
Pos Team W L MW ML MD Qualification
1 France50192+17Advance to playoffs
2 United Kingdom41155+10
3 Netherlands321010±0
4 Germany231012-2
5 Italy14516-11
6 Poland05418-14
Day 1 September 21 Netherlands  0 – 4  France Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 1 September 21 Germany  1 – 3  United Kingdom Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 1 September 21 Poland  2 – 3  Italy Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 1 September 21 Netherlands  3 – 1  Germany Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 1 September 21 Poland  0 – 4  United Kingdom Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 2 September 22 Germany  2 – 3  France Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 2 September 22 Italy  1 – 3  Netherlands Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 2 September 22 Poland  2 – 3  Germany Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 2 September 22 Italy  0 – 4  France Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 2 September 22 Netherlands  0 – 4  United Kingdom Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 3 September 23 Italy  1 – 3  Germany Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 3 September 23 Poland  0 – 4  France Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 3 September 23 Italy  0 – 4  United Kingdom Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 3 September 23 Poland  0 – 4  Netherlands Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche
Day 3 September 23 United Kingdom  0 – 4  France Paris, FR
    Espace Grande Arche

Source: OWWC

Knockout stage

The top two teams from each group advanced to the playoff bracket. All of the playoff rounds took place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California during BlizzCon.[12]

To coincide with the event, Blizzard launched the "Overwatch World Cup Viewer," a standalone program that allows users to view World Cup matches in real time in Overwatch's spectator mode, roam around the map in a free camera, and take the perspectives of the players. Users were also able to view replays of each map played in the client.[13]

Bracket
 
QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
 
          
 
 
 
 
 United Kingdom 3
 
 
 
 United States 1
 
 United Kingdom 0
 
 
 
 South Korea 2
 
 Australia 0
 
 
 
 South Korea 3
 
 South Korea 4
 
 
 
 China 0
 
 China 3
 
 
 
 Finland 0
 
 China 3
 
 
 
 Canada 0 Third place
 
 Canada 3
 
 
 
 France 0
 
 Canada 3
 
 
 United Kingdom 2
 

Quarterfinals
Quarterfinals November 2 United States  1 – 3  United Kingdom Anaheim, CA
1:15 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Ilios 0
0 King's Row 1
3 Volskaya Industries 4
2 Route 66 3
Quarterfinals November 2 South Korea  3 – 0  Australia Anaheim, CA
7:15 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Busan 0
3 Blizzard World 2
2 Temple of Anubis 1
Quarterfinals November 2 China  3 – 0  Finland Anaheim, CA
5:15 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Lijiang Tower 1
3 Hollywood 1
4 Hanamura 3
Quarterfinals November 2 France  0 – 3  Canada Anaheim, CA
3:15 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
1 Busan 2
2 Eichenwalde 3
4 Temple of Anubis 5

Semifinals
Semifinals November 3 United Kingdom  0 – 2  South Korea Anaheim, CA
9:30 am PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
1 Nepal 2
3 King's Row 3
3 Volskaya Industries 3
1 Rialto 2
Semifinals November 3 China  3 – 0  Canada Anaheim, CA
11:30 am PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Oasis 1
3 Blizzard World 0
2 Temple of Anubis 1

Third place
Third place November 3 United Kingdom  2 – 3  Canada Anaheim, CA
1:30 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Busan 0
1 Blizzard World 2
3 Volskaya Industries 2
2 Junkertown 3
0 Lijiang Tower 2


Finals
Finals November 3 South Korea  4 – 0  China Anaheim, CA
3:45 pm PDT     Anaheim Convention Center
2 Ilios 0
3 King's Row 1
2 Temple of Anubis 1
4 Watchpoint: Gibraltar 3
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