2025 Overwatch Champions Series Midseason Championship opens at the eSports World Cup on the 31st
Jul 29, 2025
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The '2025 Overwatch Champions Series 2025 Midseason Championship', which determines the global strongest of the open global e-sports competition '2025 Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS), will open at the e-Sports World Cup at 10 p.m. on the 31st (Korea time), and the world's top teams will compete fiercely.
The four-day midseason championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 31st to 3rd August, will be held as a 'Overwatch 2' event of the Esports World Cup 2025 (Esports World Cup 2025) and as an official international competition program of the OWCS Stage 2.
The tournament will feature 16 teams that have established themselves as the strongest teams in each region at the 2025 OWCS. The strongest five teams in Asia, including Crazy Raccoon, the winner of the 2025 OWCS Champions Class, T1, who finished second in the OWCS Korea Stage 2, All Gamers Global, who finished third in OWCS Korea, VARREL, the winner of the OWCS Japan Stage 2, and The Gatos Guapos, the winner of the OWCS Pacific Stage 2, and the five strongest teams in Asia who participated in the EWC Last Chance Qualifier on the 20th and obtained tickets to the midseason championship, A total of 16 teams, including those representing South America, will compete for the world's strongest team.
During the first two days of the tournament, the entire team will be divided into four groups for a group stage, and the top two teams in each group will advance to the quarter-finals playoff stage, after which the final winner will be decided by a single elimination method.
The highest level of compensation ever will also be prepared for viewers who will be with us through broadcasting. It provides special rewards for players and fans, including sprays and icons, profile cards, loot boxes and skins of heroes representing 'Overwatch' such as Kiriko, Genji and Juno, depending on the accumulated daily viewing time during the four days of the game. Rewards for viewing can be obtained through Zizik Drops, and after logging in to Naver's account, watch the eSports World Cup (EWC) on Zizik's official channel and coast trimmer channel.
This competition will be available live on the official EWC (ESports World Cup) channel. A total of five broadcasters, including Shim Ji-soo, Park Han-eul Caster and Jang Ji-soo, Hong Hyun-sung and Moon Chang-sik, will participate in the Korean broadcast.
Ahead of the opening of the tournament, team packs containing various in-game items themed with OWCS partner teams were also unveiled. The team pack bundle, designed to express their affection for the team they support, consists of hero skins and items from a total of nine OWCS partner teams, including Crazy Raccoon, Zeta Division, T1, and Team Falcons, with some of the sales revenue going to each team to support the players' activities. In addition, the new legend skin 'Radiant Angel Mercy' will also be sold for a certain period of time, and the profit will also be used as a support fund for OWCS partner teams.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
