Did you miss both the Bronze Match and the Grand Finals at BlizzCon? We have a short recap of the final day of the Overwatch World Cup.
A total of 53 teams were able to compete in the Overwatch World Cup. Countries from all over the world drafted a team to make their nation proud. After the regional qualifiers (Europe, America and Asia-Pacific), we were offered the Group Stage of the main event this week. Sixteen teams remained, only eight would go through to the Quarterfinals. Over the past two days, this number was further reduced until we only had the Finals and Bronze medal match left.
Bronze Match
A Scandinavian clash was awaiting us for the bronze medal decider match. Sweden and Finland battled it out on Hanamura, Route 66 and Nepal as the final map. Sweden managed to defend the point B on Hanamura, while Finland failed to. Finland had to come back, and so they did. With a last deciding teamfight on Route 66 they managed to draw the series 1 to 1. A surprising Bastion pick secured the 1st point for Sweden, but Finland managed to outplay Sweden on the next 2 points. Sweden was able to tie up, so a final 5th point was to be played. Things were looking really bad for Sweden when Finland made it to 99% and Sweden so far was unable to capture the point. One fight was enough for Sweden to recapture and blow Finland away however. After this amazing match, Bronze went to Sweden!
The Grand Finals
Then, the Grand Finals were finally upon us, featuring Russia and South Korea. Russia needed to beat South Korea, a team undefeated up till now (not even dropping a single game). A best-of-seven would decide which country could take home the trophy and the title of World Champions. Russia dropped the first three games, and South Korea was just outplaying them at every fight, over and over again. Russia had a chance on the 4th map, but South Korea maintained their focus and simply blew Russia away, taking down Russia with 4 to 0. Their way of playing together is on another level, high above all other teams. Miro, arguably the World’s best Winston, managed to break all of Russia’s attempts to fight and got voted for MVP of the series, deservedly so. South Korea takes the trophy and will go down in history as the first Overwatch World Champions!
We are sad to see the end of the Overwatch World Cup, but are also already looking forward to next year’s edition AND the Overwatch League coming up!
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