The Overwatch League is not starting immediately, but to tide the community over on March 23, 2023 competitive play will return. This will be in the form of a 3-week-long Season 6 Overwatch League Pro-Am tournament.
Pro-Am is not a term that is familiar to the Overwatch Community as there have been only a few events that have happened before this point. Pro-Am refers to professional plays teaming with and or competing against amateur players. In this scenario, those amateur players will be contender teams. The tournament will be in the West for both the Overwatch League teams and the Contender teams.
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The Pro-Am competition will give Contenders teams in NA and EMEA regions a chance to compete against Overwatch League teams. Not only is this great integration between the T2 and T1 scenes, but it will also bring publicity to new up-and-coming names in the Overwatch community.
There will be tournaments in the Contenders scene in late February that will qualify teams to be a part of the tournament. These qualifying teams will join the Western region’s Overwatch League teams in a 20-team field. There will be 4 groups of 5 teams for two weeks of round-robin matches. The top 2 teams from each group will then go on to play in an 8-team single elimination bracket during the third week of the Pro-Am. The winning team at the end of it all will take home a 100k prize.
For more details on how a team can register and qualify through Open Division and Contenders, keep an
eye on the Overwatch Path to Pro social media channels.
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The Pro-Am scene has never been a huge element in the Overwatch League before this season. In APAC, during the exhibition Runaway vs Lunatic-Hai match there was a Pro-Am match between Yang ‘Tobi’ Jinmo and Kim ‘Slime’ Sung-jun. Both had fielded a roster of contenders players in which they played a best of 5 against each other.
Meanwhile, the other most notable Pro-Am was not with the Overwatch League but with the Overwatch World Cup. There was a tradition of the South Korean OWWC team playing the top contender team as an online scrim. Other than PUGs that happened on stream, Pro-Ams weren’t common in the Overwatch community.
Season 6 of the Overwatch League is bringing Pro-Am into the Overwatch community. It is exciting to see this movement towards the integration of Contenders teams and players getting a platform to showcase their talent in the T1 realm. The wait is almost over for the competition to return in the form of the Pro-Am tournament coming at the end of March.
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