This week marks the resumption of the Overwatch League regular season. After a Kickoff Clash showdown and a week of beating, it’s now time for our teams to get back into the fight to try and qualify for the Summer Showdown taking place in August.
The broadcast of the competition will be available on the channel Youtube of the competition, but also on our television channel MGG. All you have to do is connect to Canal+ 159/169 | Orange 142 | Bouygues 68 | Free 91 | SFR 120 | Videofuture 61 | Molotov or Amazon Prime to watch the competition from your couch.
The seventh week results
Patience is the mother of virtue…
Florida Mayhem | 9 p.m. |  London Spitfire |
 Dallas Fuel | 10:30 p.m. |  San Francisco Shock |
 New York Excelsior | midnight |  washington justice |
Friday, June 17 | ||
 Toronto Defiant | 9 p.m. |  London Spitfire |
 Atlanta Reign | 10:30 p.m. |  Boston Uprising |
 Vancouver Titans | midnight |  Los Angeles Gladiators |
Saturday June 18 | ||
 Houston Outlaws | 9 p.m. |  washington justice |
 Paris Eternal | 10:30 p.m. |  Los Angeles Gladiators |
 Dallas Fuel | midnight |  Atlanta Reign |
Sunday June 19 | ||
 Toronto Defiant | 9 p.m. |  Florida Mayhem |
 Boston Uprising | 10:30 p.m. |  San Francisco Shock |
 New York Excelsior | midnight |  Paris Eternal |
 Vancouver Titans | 1h30 |  Houston Outlaws |
The format of the competition throughout the year
The 2022 Overwatch League season won’t be much different from other years; it will consist of four phases (Kickoff Clash, Midseason Madness, Summer Showdown and Countdown Cup) to then give way to the Playoffs. Teams will have to play six games in each phase, so players will have to prove themselves through 24 games for the full season. Each cycle, teams will play six placement matches to determine seeding for the tournament proper. The Kickoff Clash and Summer Showdown will be regional tournaments, Midseason Madness will be a global venue event, and the Countdown Cup, which will serve as the post-season play-off tournament, is also set to be a global venue event.
League Points are also making a comeback, meaning qualifying matches and wins in each tournament can be a deciding factor in the knockout stages. Regarding the elimination stages, the play-ins of the Countdown Cup will allow to finish the teams which will qualify for the championships through these league points.
Clearly, qualifying for the tournaments, as well as the 2022 playoffs, will be based on each team’s total league points. Teams can earn league points through their results in placement matches and tournaments. Each win in placement matches is worth 1 league point, as is each tournament appearance. But, the latter can obtain additional points:
- The second-placed team in each regional tournament gets 2 league points, and the tournament champion team gets 3 league points.
- In the Midseason Madness Global Tournament, the third-placed team will get 2 league points, the second-placed team 3 league points, and the champion 4 league points.
If you want to test Overwatch 2 before its free-to-play release on October 4, 2022, here’s when the next PvP closed beta and the new features will take place.
After a first beta phase last April on Overwatch 2, a second will soon open its doors! Fans will have the opportunity to get their hands on La Reine des Junkers, which was almost more expected. Find out how to participate, who can play and when.