If dressing Overwatch heroes up as bees, firefighters or David Bowie tributes isn’t sufficient for you, then I’ve acquired excellent news – from the beginning of subsequent 12 months, you’ll be capable of don the colors of your favorite esports crew. Blizzard have introduced that the customized crew skins out there for every crew competing in the Overwatch League will even be out there for his or her supporters, although they will solely be purchased utilizing a particular forex. I’ve laid out all the small print beneath, together with the lowdown on the Overwatch League itself.
Here’s Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer asserting the brand new skins.
Nate compares the skins to sports activities jerseys, and highlights how among the cash from every buy will go into the pockets of that crew. It’s all consistent with the Overwatch League’s objective of offering a aggressive atmosphere that’s just like conventional sports activities, the place the gamers all obtain a wage and medical health insurance along with any prize earnings. The skins might be purchased utilizing League Tokens, and everybody will obtain sufficient to purchase their first pores and skin free of charge. It’s not confirmed whether or not you’ll have to put down some actual cash to get extra tokens, however my guess could be that you’ll.
Redditor FieryREIGN has gathered an instance pores and skin from every crew into one helpful picture.
So, how will the Overwatch League work? In brief, it’s a worldwide esports league with city-based groups that’ll conclude on July 28 subsequent 12 months with a cool $1,000,000 going to the successful crew. In lengthy:
The league correct will begin in Los Angeles on January 10, with the primary of 4 levels that’ll every final 5 weeks. Each crew will play twice every week, so there’ll be three matches a day operating from Wednesday to Saturday. At the tip of every stage, there’ll be a playoff the place the successful crew will take residence $125,000, earlier than a 10-day hole earlier than the subsequent stage. The total league standings might be based mostly on every crew’s efficiency throughout each stage.
There’s a Pacific and an Atlantic division, and throughout the 4 levels every crew will play 20 video games inside their division and 20 cross-division video games. The highest scoring crew from every division will go straight into the championships playoffs that run from June 11 – July 22, the place they’ll be joined by the subsequent 4 highest scoring groups from both division. The grand remaining will happen from July 26-28.
You can discover (many) extra particulars in this post, and right here’s a youtube playlist introducing every of the groups.
If you possibly can’t wait, there are 12 preseason exhibition matches that begin from tomorrow – right here’s the schedule in full.
