BEAT Invitational returns with $5000 Season 2

Admirable

June 16, 2017

Canada's BEAT esports has announced their return to Overwatch with a $5000 tournament for North America one year after the original BEAT Invitational.

Set to commence on Friday 7th July, the three day online event will be played out over an eight team double elimination bracket. All fixtures will be best-of-fives up until the best-of-seven Grand Final. Other specifics such as map pool are as yet unknown, but organisers state that "rule updates to be confirmed by June 30th".

Invited teams

Only Cloud9 and Liquid return from the first BEAT Invitational, but without EnVyUs or Rogue in attendance, Cloud9 might be hoping for better than a 3rd place finish this time. All invitees bar EG are already competing in Blizzard's Overwatch Contenders Season Zero, but luckily the event will have concluded on July 2nd, the weekend prior to BEAT, by which time their might be a new pecking order in North America.

Fan favourites Robert "hexagrams" Kirkbride and Andrew "ZP" Rush are confirmed for the main English language stream on twitch.tv/beatesports. Additional language streams are likely but yet to be announced.

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Pretty stacked ! PogChamp !

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I would hope without Rogue or EnVyUs present, Cloud 9 can take the whole thing. That being said, there is some fierce competition lined up.

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I wanted to see FNRGFE and the new Faze. Hope they show up in contenders and get invites to future tournaments.

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I want to see liquid put out a consistent performance. they've gor what it takes to win this, but are they going to be the liquid that beat selfless or the liquid that lostto splyce?

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No RNG FeelsBadMan

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another tourney of the month for NA, instead of having OMM.

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where nv?

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Taimou doesn't get out of bed for less than $10k

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Interesting, aKm says Rogue not invited
https://twitter.com/rogue_akm/status/875802079062654976

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faze machine broke?

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victococoblazin

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Yea,they presumed rogue would still be in Korea ans Faze to be in the bottom of the barrel before the rework

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It does look good for a scene when you have limited invites and too many good teams. They'd pretty much would have had to double the spots to fit more of the top teams.

I'd put my money on Immortals and C9 for this but considering Contenders I'd be wary to count anyone out prematurely.

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Rogue replaces Team Liquid.

http://www.gosugamers.net/overwatch/news/44815-rogue-to-replace-team-liquid-in-overwatch-beat-invitational

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out of all the teams to replace they choose liquid

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Liquid dropped, not the other way around.

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Some of the teams here have changed since the before contenders so we might get to see a different trend but in the end I gotta give this to Rogue. Other than our Korean overlords no one seems to have figured out a reliable way to beat them.

I'm still hoping for a surprise challenge if not an upset though.

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