Homestands cancelled for remainder of the regular season

tamagao

March 31, 2020

The Overwatch League has announced that homestands will be cancelled for the remainder of the regular season and the league will shift to online play. However, the league has declared they hope to return to live events before the 2020 season concludes.

Match schedule for Week 9 is here!

We're also shifting live events for the remainder of the regular season to online matches.

Read here ➡ https://t.co/chsrd29QRl pic.twitter.com/SOpAz2l3eG
— overwatchleague (@overwatchleague) March 31, 2020

This announcement follows the league's first weekend of online matches. The league initially cancelled homestand events in March and April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

All matches will continued to be broadcast live on the league's YouTube channel. The league will release details about the playoffs and the Grand Finals for the 2020 season at a later date.

For now, the league has revealed the schedule for Week 9 and Week 10. Both weekends have 10 matches on their slate. Matches are scheduled to take place at the same time on both days on both weekends.

Schedules for later weekends will be announced at a later date.

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not a surprise

stay stafe everyone

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"They hope to return to live events before the 2020 season concludes." They said this before didn't they? Guess its to be expected, not really worth the risk of reopening homestands.

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Well they said that a month ago, when situation was different than it currently is in many countries. Even, if things get better by June nobody would take a risk and host any big event in next few weeks or even months unless there's some miracle vaccine by then, which is also unlikely.

But Playoffs or Grand Finals are at end of August or September so it's really hard to predict how things go for next 4 months. Maybe teams can gather in some location to play those games, but don't think we see event with crowd this year.

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I know but it's strange for them to say that twice over; wouldn't it have been better to just halt off homestands and do it all online since here we are? Not really reassuring/semantics.

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Pretty much every major sports league tried to keep going as long as possible (American or European Leagues), but almost all of them shutdown on same week. Some leagues/countries took it seriously from the beginning (having all those safety measures etc. for hygiene), but none probably thought it would affect like it have.

It's just something you can't really prepare for. It's not like everyone even gets to "experience" some kind of serious virus pandemic in their lives.

As silly as it sounds, but it was either Aliens attacking or something like this, what would make world to work together for greater good.

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