Contenders broadcasts to feature home and away skins

Mert

August 6, 2018

Blizzard have revealed that Contenders broadcasts are set to receive a visual upgrade with the implementation of a home and away skins system, similar to what can be seen in Overwatch League and World Cup broadcasts. This visual change will first be unveiled during the NA Contenders Quarterfinals on the 8th of August.

Home and away skins are coming to Contenders! 🐉

👉: https://t.co/mHByIxYC09 pic.twitter.com/jTCT4gfRIg
— Overwatch Path to Pro (@owpathtopro) August 6, 2018

The universal home and away skins that will be worn by the heroes of all Contenders teams, unlike the team-specific skins seen in the Overwatch League, can be seen in Blizzard's announcement post. A coin flip will determine who receives the home skin during the regular season, while the higher seeded team in playoffs matches will don home colors.

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Sayabi

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OH MY GOD

PINK RUNAWAY SKINS INCOMING

Mert

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Unfortunately they're just generic green and white/black home and away Contenders skins. Still nice tho :)

FalcoNick

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I don't really care if other teams use the generic skins, I just want RunAway to have their own skins in-game. Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long for them, though ;)

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Unlikely to ever happen since Contenders teams are too volatile to invest into like that. Still love the idea though.

DixR

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When you love black and green but hate Houston Outlaws

FalcoNick

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So conflicted NotLikeThis

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rqr

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Just a theory, but with the Mayhem rebrand seeming very likely, perhaps we'll also see a Outlaws rebrand happening in s2. Perhaps not as drastic as Mayhem's but maybe just enough to really differentiate it from Contender's design?

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Sayabi

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Thing is, Outlaws get their colors from OpTic Gaming, so unlikely to change imo. Plus this color scheme gained them so many fans already.

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rqr

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Damn you're right, I didn't think about that. True that the color scheme is pretty sexy. It's actually the first OWL skin I bought just because of that.

Raisin

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We're all Outlaws now, I guess. Choosing the exact color scheme of an OWL team for contenders seems questionable.

tamagao

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I wanted a generic spectator skin set for events outside of OWL since the start of Contenders. Not quite the same as I wanted, but it's progress nonetheless.

FrozenJackal

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What's strange to me is that they have assets for generic home and away skins in the orange, white, and yellow (see the map type explanations used during OWL playoffs). Why not use those?

Rooky

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Is this to make up for the shitty idea of having finals on a completely different patch

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Emaxmagnus

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no skin can fix the mess they made with the playoffs

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karzahni14

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i only just realised they're contenders based and not houston outlaws skins....

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KoleeKo

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Is it too much to be able to integrate something into the spectator mode where it can input 2/3 colors on a basic template of each hero? I don’t know much about game design just wondering if it’s too big of a task because otherwise I think it would be really cool for Contenders teams.

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irishfire

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Conspiracy theory. Outlaws control the entire contenders system, that's why all the skins are green and black. We never saw them coming. When Jake said he had a surprise, it wasn't the summit, it was this. May God have mercy on us.