Thanks to the support from our sponsors ROCCAT, DXRacer, Matcherino, G2A - and of course all of you who watched and perhaps donated - we were able to reward over $1100 in prize money this weekend. We were in turn rewarded with an amazing weekend of matches. Read on for a summary of this weekend.?
We had another amazing weekend of GosuGamers Weeklies just now, and we are excited that both the fans and players are supporting the competitive scene time and time again. With the help of our partners we were able to give a total of $1100 in prizes this weekend. If you missed the action, here is a small recap for you:
GosuGamers Overwatch Weekly EU #9
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We know we say this a lot, but that's only the case because it's true: IDDQD is currently the best Overwatch team. They show it week after week, usually while playing exciting compositions and strategies. Since IDDQD is a European team, they seem to have decided to stick to only the EU weeklies for the time being, allowing some of the NA teams spotlight on Sunday.
More interesting than IDDQD's side of the bracket (featuring well-performing teams like Quake Fortress and Gringos), was the side with top teams Luminosity Gaming and REUNITED.gg as well as up-and-coming teams like unknown_ and IMPULSE 11. Especially those three teams put up a lot of exciting games, in which the results could possibly have gone either way. REUNITED.gg's experience as a team made the difference however, and with the help of new addition Kruise they were able to defeat Luminosity 2-0 in their Semi-Finals. Route 66 was one of the maps played in this Semi-Finals, and already showed signs of being a very good addition to the map pool.
GosuGamers Overwatch Weekly NA #9
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This Sunday it was Easter Holiday, which showed in the amount of teams signing up. Still though, we got a very good combination of top teams and up-and-comers. EU team IMPULSE 11 was back this time around, joined by the French teams Metatrone and Cooldown (both playing from the Gamers Assembly LAN). Korean team LuxuryWatch was also back for a second time, and with some more success. Most of the focus was on Cloud9 and Luminosity Gaming however, both top teams that were expected to make it to the Grand Finals.
But Code7 put a stop to that dream in the Semi-Finals. On Watchpoint: Gibraltar, Code7's ability to stall the game after the first checkpoint due to their strategically placed Soldier: 76's guaranteed them that map win. Dorado started out a lot closer, but Code7 yet again showed their strength on defence. It seems the best defense is in fact defense.
For the finals, while Cloud9 managed to win 3-0 it wasn't as easy for them as that score would imply. Both teams showed to have strong defense phases, but Cloud9 did end up edging out the win time and time again. Especially on the final map that was played, Nepal, Cloud9's grasp of the Control gamemode proved to be vastly superior.
Shoutouts
We'd like to thank all the casters of this weekend, without whom we would not have been able to provide as wide of a coverage as we did:
- ZP & Hexagrams, who provide the English main stream every weekend
- InGame, who provided German commentary for our EU Weekly
- Aptittude ESports TV, who provided Swedish commentary for our EU Weekly
- Bryak, who again covered the EU Weekly in Russian
- Direct eSports, who have provided Spanish commentary for weeks now
- AskJoshy & FishStix, who were back this week to provide a secondary English stream for the NA Weekly
- VecetTV, who provided a Portuguese broadcast for the NA weekly
Secondly, thanks to our sponsors who help us put up prizepools weekend after weekend. Don't forget that we are still running giveaways:
- For the past two weekend's we have been able to giveaway Overwatch copies thanks to G2A. For the upcoming giveaway simply keep browsing our website or visit our forum. Alternatively you can also stay up to date by following our twitter or our facebook.
- There is still time left to join our DXRacer Chair giveaway. The deadline to participate is the 3rd of April. All information can be found here.
We hope to see all of you next weekend, where we might see a whole other meta yet again (maybe with some help from a new patch)? Registrations for both Weeklies are already open (EU & NA); can we make it to a 32 team bracket this weekend?
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