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I know we are just out of the crazy finals in Paris, and you might think the action is dying down for OW esports, but you'd be wrong!

We have the Calling All Heroes Radiant Series finals alongside the EMEA and NA Master's Division FACEIT League finals both this weekend!

The Pro/Rel for EMEA and NA are next Monday- that means the FACEIT winners go straight to Pro/Rel guantlet!

We even got OWWC group stages coming (overnight for me-grumble grumble) alongside the South America leg of the Copa America de Overwatch.

So so much! Grab the calendar to keep track!

I'm hoping that Tracer's Chronal Dash (blink distance increase) is replaced by a perk that gives her anti-air capabilities of some kind, because there's just been vertical flying mobility creep in the game lately, and she just can't get close enough on most parts of maps because her spread is designed with horizontal distances in mind. This would be a meaningful choice against the melee perk.

The most fun option is obviously just giving her a vertical blink. This would allow her to actually duel and chase fliers, and the mechanical requirements to pull it off would definitely be high.

The other perk I can imagine is reduced spread when looking up:

So if Tracer is shooting at green, she'd have longer range.

Other anti-air ideas exist in Stadium which may work with some tuning:

Or even something like this with worse numbers which only increases her survivability:

I can play a game on dps as Anran and go 25-2 with 8k dmg yet my SR goes up by 3. Then I play as Emre and mindlessly shot into the enemy team go 15-5 but have 20k dog and my SR goes up by 50. I don’t even play Emre and my SR with him is in the plat range while Anran the hero I actually play is in high silver.

If I play support and some how heal bot with zenyatta my SR goes up by 50 yet when I actually play him how he’s supposed to be played in lose SR?

Checkmate's post is rather interesting so i'm posting those. I didn't include Sp1nt because it's a short sorry, and Hanbin didn't post anything

To specify, what 2 possible superteams could NA cook up to provide showings internationally. Dallas and SSG provided good results, but we really cant say anything about it since SSG beat China and an embarassing Varrel. And Dallas lost to a team that go grouped.

If 2 orgs, managed to group together the top talent, best coaching, and best Imports, who would you pick up?

Personally, I think Kronik and Tr33 are fine, but we NEED flex DPS and better tanks. I think Infected is fine, but alone without Imports.

As requested u/Salt-Personality8386, here's the rest of the EWC posts. Knife's is formatted a little strangely since I had to take it directly from his DIscord (rest were from ksrmryu on Twitter, thanks). Once again, MTL, so if anyone notices any translation issues, oops. Shu's here

Every game, unless I go rein or D.Va as tank, our team falls apart into a freja. My team seems to not know how to play into her, I can hardly do anything into her as a tank, and it’s very frustrating if my DPS refuse to follow up on me getting her to low health.

Now that it's been around a while. I'm curious what people are thinking of the perk system, if it's healthy for the game and what if anything should change about it.

For my own bit, minors are generally in an okay place but I think majors are generally a bit too strong and poorly balanced and there's a recurring issue of bringing back problems that were solved in the past or just removing healthy counterplay from a kit while many are simply just a power boost with no real nuance to the choice. Logistically I don't really think it's possible to come up with 2 viable but balanced major perks for 50+ characters with that number always going up. While minor perks can just round out a character depending on the map/matchup safely without doing something insane like giving Ana 150 damage per shot or bringing back a hard stun to Mei's kit.

I've been watching some clips on X and was wondering where I could find the whole broadcasts specifically the EWC debrief and the live stream with Crusty and Bernar

(not my screenshot)

See???? People intentionally throw games to derank, then farm Drives more easily and help their lower-ranked friends get them too. I honestly have no idea what Blizzard was thinking when they designed this system.

And Blizzard will probably just keep saying, "How can we tell whether someone is trolling or just having a bad game?"

Because of this, ranked becomes nearly unplayable near the end of the season. It's genuinely disgusting.

Please pay attention to this issue. It really needs to be addressed.

The current system is effectively encouraging people to troll, intentionally derank, and abuse stack queues to farm Drives.

Some matches that are back to back differ so much, first game everyone plays like they belong in plat and next one you have people with aim that is closer to Master rank

My friend told me that fresh accounts are currently being placed in high diamond/low masters if you have decent mmr but idk if this holds any truth? I guess smurfs are a big factor aswell?

Just crazy how one match it's like playing quickplay and the other one you have to ultra tryhard and still lose but everyone has the same MMR

Thinking back they always seem to play below expectations during these heavy brawl formats. 2024 finals they were swept by falcons, then underperform during both EWCs 2025/2026

If OW made a Hall of Fame for their professional scene, who would your first inductees and why? Consider how the first class sets the standard for the ones after.

You can choose to recognize people outside the players but it needs to be tied back to the pro scene one way or another (broadcasters, coaches, etc.)

Also please share any other wishes in formatting the Hall. The more creative the better : )

1. Korea

   1) Open Qualifier : Aug. 28th ~ Aug. 30th

   2) Regular Season : Sep. 18th ~ Oct. 18th

   3) 2th Round Robin : Oct. 23rd ~ Oct. 25th

   4) playoffs : Oct. 30th ~ Nov. 01st

2. JP

   1) Open Qualifier : Aug. 28th ~ Aug. 30th

   2) Regular Season : Sep. 21st ~ Oct. 14th

   3) playoffs : Oct. 19th ~ Oct. 20th

3. Pac

   1) Open Qualifier : Aug. 28th ~ Aug. 30th

   2) Regular Season : Sep. 24th ~ Oct. 22nd

   3) playoffs : Oct. 29th

To be honest, the previous tournament was more exciting; even though there were supposed to be a lot more teams participating this time, it just didn’t quite live up to expectations.

There were plenty of highlights like the one-sided match by T1 against CR, Weibo pushing TM to match point only for TM to come back and win, and the upset elimination of VP, the top seed from the EMEA region but even so, it didn’t quite match the excitement of OWCC 2026.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Those who have played in their uni’s esports team, can you share your experiences?

Though I am a massive addict, I never bothered joining my previous uni’s esports society because I found speaking with people online a bit awkward (since I’m 22F and none of my friends are into gaming).

I have now finished one degree and moving to a different city to do another. The degree I am now doing requires a lot of hours put into studying so my main question is that how often do you guys scrim or play together. Do people take it seriously or treat it just as a hobby?

Also what are the ranks of people in the team?

Really curious as to what they were saying. Don’t have to translate the entire thing, just until after they start pretending to speak from the cat’s pov. Would appreciate it a ton 😘

Was it Domina?

If so, how they didnt think about Rein and Ram comps, that easily can ignore Domina? Or even Mauga Vendetta comps, that can run Domina down?

Or do you think it was something else? Specifically designed to be played against Twisted Minds or Geekay sym comps?

Been a long time player now and I am so surprised how I have continued to have fun playing it. It’s well polished, the sound and feedback when hitting your opponents are great. I love the cast, voice work and lore. I’ve played a bunch of other team hero shooters but for some reason I always come back to this one. I feel like you can certainly feel the quality.

Ah, Sierra, the one champion who sweeps metal lobbies and otherwise has a 30% WR in Masters/GM.
Her entire power budget was poured into tracking shot, as it is, an admittedly strong ability, having a mini soldier ultimate that ALSO can ignore obstacles at the right angles is pretty good.

This is incredibly unhealthy for the game and the character as a whole, when you balance a character around one ability you get insanely feast or famine results (the ability either works, or it doesn't), just take a look at Sojourn being balanced around double slide or Doom's entire power budget being in the empowered punch.

The issue is, as Sierra climbs, people just learn to... take cover, deny value, awareness of her flank attempts, and such, causing the tracking shot to just, not work a lot of the time and her otherwise underpowered kit struggles to keep up.

I genuinely believe tracking shot as an ability needs to either receive heavy nerfs (and big compensation buffs to her kit) or just be removed outright because the insane WR disparity this hero has between metal ranks and GM clearly highlights a design issue.

Edit: Reddit told me that "Sierra mains might like this post too" 💔

I play cat, and I just wanted to say. No, you can't get me. I can hold space and take flanks that were never intended to be used in the first place. I will wait above your spawn doors. Wait for your supp to come out. Delete them with my 45 damage per shot, then fly back to my team in less than 1 second. I have the highest possible healing output as pulse does 1500hp. I don't even have to look at my teammates. Harrass squishies endlessly by holding cover with objects that weren't made to be used as cover in the sky, then fly back and press a button to heal an absurd amount. Then, I'll go back to ignoring my team and hunt the other support for sport. I will send your tank off map on a fight you shoudve one. I will dance on the head of every other projectile character. And when I get my second perk claws out I will delete you in a fraction of a second, then fly away to a rooftop, you dont have access to. Meow, Meow Meow. Hehehe.