Open Global Competition 2025 Overwatch Champions Series Korea opens Stage 2 on the 9th
May 09, 2025
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In the OWCS Korea Stage 2, a total of nine teams will play the real game. First of all, Crazy Raccoon, who won the OWCS Hangzhou Champions Clash last month and won the throne of the world's strongest team in the 2025 season 1, will participate, and the Team Falcons, who won the last OWCS Asia Stage 1 but lost to Crazy Raccoon in the Champions Clash unfortunately and finished second, will show their enhanced power by joining the team of `Someone' and `Merit' Choi Tae-min.
In addition, Zeta Division, which seeks to make new changes by converting Kim Joon to a healer position, Team WAY, the main character of the last Stage 1 sensation, and T1, which seeks to rebound from this stage, will participate as seed teams.
Poker Face, VEC Seongnam, ONSIDE GAMING, former Alt Tab, and Old Ocean were listed as the four teams that joined through fierce preliminary and promotion competitions. Among them, Old Ocean is a team belonging to the legend of 'Overwatch'e-sports, Ryu Je-hong, and will try to win for the first time in the history of the OWCS regular season, which was not achieved at the 2024 OWCS Korea Stage 2 held last year.
Stage 2's opening match on the 9th begins with a showdown between Stage 1 world champion Crazy Raccoon and Old Ocean, who continues to challenge new things. The second match between the Falcons and T1 is also drawing attention as a match between the two teams, which are classified as strong teams, and the last third match will be against VEC Seongnam and Zeta Division, who have returned to their new rosters, respectively. After that, interesting matchups will be held every week as it will be held in a round robin format where all nine teams will face each other, and a fierce neck-and-neck race is expected until the seed match and the playoffs.
All matches of OWCS Korea Stage 2 will be broadcast live on SOOP, and additional content such as match highlights and clips will be available on the 'Overwatch'esport YouTube channel. A total of four new casters, Kim Jung-min, Shim Ji-soo, Ahn Seung-yong, and Park Han-eul, and three commentators, Jang Ji-soo, Hong Hyun-sung, and Moon Chang-sik, will participate in the Korean broadcast.
Meanwhile, you can watch the game in person at the WDG studio in Hongdae and meet teams and players. On-site ticket sales will be available every Wednesday from 5 p.m. on the page 'Overwatch Champions Series Korea 2025 Reservation' within TicketLink e-Sports. In the case of tickets on the first day of the opening of Stage 2, they sold out almost at the same time as the ticket opened. This is the result of continuing the 12th consecutive sell-out milestone at Stage 1, Blizzard said. Fans who visit the site will be given photo cards with photos and autographs of the nine teams, and various side events such as fan meetings will also be held.
Starting with this Stage 2 regular-season round-robin series, OWCS Korea will go on a seven-week journey to the seed game and the playoffs. Depending on the results, the top two teams will advance to the OWCS midseason championship, which will be held at the Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Esports World Cup, along with Crazy Raccoon, who has already secured a berth, to challenge the throne of the world's strongest team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
