https://playoverwatch.com/en-gb/blog/20252894
Teams and players just announced! I'm actually really excited to watch this. Unfortunate that it was very popularity focused this year, but hopefully that'll help grow the competitive spectator scene significantly. Looking forward to see Blizzard's production!
Benelux team is such a joke though. And that popular streamers / youtubers with ranks around 30-40 are picked into this tournament is also big LUL.
Finland and Sweden are pretty much the teams that have highest seed to win the tournament though :)
(Finlands lineup for the tournament http://i.imgur.com/syA0Hyx.jpg )
Not sure did Estonia even get invited or not?
Brazilian team has an youtuber who has like 2 videos playing Overwatch and is SR 50 (and made a video for his 4 million subscribers asking for votes to "fulfill his dreams", even though he lives in Canada and goes to Blizzcon every year), a Rainbow Six proplayer who doesn't even play overwatch (has like 20 hours played and has never played competitive matchmaking), another youtuber who, at least, plays well, someone who nobody from the competitive scene has ever heard about and 2 competitive players (who were indicated by the team captain).
This worldcup was seen as something that could boost the competitive scene in here, but Brazil's team will just be an embarrassment...
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