This good news opened the door for the Chinese team to compete, but greater difficulties followed. However, fortunately, in the OW project, the attitude towards the mainland has changed dramatically, in January this year, Overwatch Esports officially announced that considering the current situation in Chinese mainland, and the teams in Chinese mainland have always performed well, winning the runner-up in the last two 'Overwatch World Cup', a team from Chinese mainland will directly qualify for the group stage invitation (directly into the round of 16).

In the Hearthstone project that first announced the 2023 esports plan, the official once said in the announcement that players living in China (English exactly refers to Chinese mainland) could not participate in the 2023 Hearthstone competition, which triggered widespread protests from the player community and also made the author have certain doubts about whether the Chinese team can participate in the Overwatch competition this year. It all started with the 'breakup' between Blizzard and NetEase at the end of last year, and after the breakup, Blizzard's e-sports projects have been ambiguous about China. Before the start of this World Cup, in fact, the author did not expect to see the Chinese team on the field. This means that the existing Overwatch League may be disbanded.īefore talking about the Overwatch project itself, I would like to talk about the Overwatch World Cup this time.

OFF THE FIELD, ACCORDING TO ESPN, ACTIVISION BLIZZARD IS SIGNING A CONTRACT WITH SAUDI ARABIA'S ESL FACEIT GROUP TO OPERATE THE OVERWATCH SEASON IN 2024. The Chinese team was overturned with a 2-0 lead, which was also the third consecutive time that the Chinese team won the Overwatch World Cup runner-up after 20. 04:20:09 After winning the World Cup, OWL will also be taken over by Saudi Arabia? | Esports worldįoreword: In the final of the 2023 'Overwatch' World Cup held at the BlizzCon Carnival yesterday, the Chinese team was successfully completed by the Saudi Arabian team and lost to the Saudi Arabian team 2:3 and won the World Cup runner-up.

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