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Overwatch Pacific Championship 2017 - Season 1

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[e][h]Overwatch Pacific Championship 2017 - Season 1
League Information
Series:
Type:
Offline
Location:
Taiwan Taipei
Venue:
Blizzard Estadium
Format:
Group Stage
Round Robin
Playoffs
Single Elimination
Prize Pool:
NT$8,300,000 TWD
(≃ $272,240 USD)
Start Date:
2017-04-08
End Date:
2017-07-01
Teams:
8
Liquipedia Tier:
Links
Chronology

Information[edit]

An official Asia-Pacific Blizzard tournament based in Taiwan featuring professional Overwatch teams from Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Australia. This event is a Tournament Server competition with 2 twitch streams broadcasting live in Mandarin and in English (Links below)

Tournament is played on the weekend Fridays to Sundays;

  • Friday: 19:00 CST/ 21:00 AEST 1st Match, 21:00 CST/ 23:00 AEST 2nd Match
  • Saturday: 14:00 CST/ 16:00 AEST 1st Match, 16:00 CST/ 18:00 AEST 2nd Match, 19:00 CST/ 21:00 AEST 3rd Match, 21:00 CST/ 23:00 AEST 4th Match
  • Sunday: 14:00 CST/ 16:00 AEST 1st Match, 16:00 CST/ 18:00 AEST 2nd Match, 19:00 CST/ 21:00 AEST 3rd Match, 21:00 CST/ 23:00 AEST 4th Match

Format[edit]

  • Competition Rules
    • Regular Season: Four Rounds of Round-Robin
      • Each of the 8 teams in OPC will play against each of the other teams a total of 4 times. Each match will be played in a best-of-five format (BO5).
    • Playoffs: Bubble Race
      • The top three teams of regular season will advance to the playoffs that will follow a Bubble Race format. There are two rounds of playoffs over a 2-week period, and each week will feature three consecutive match days. Each match day is a best-of-seven format (BO7). The team that takes two wins out of 3 match days will be the winner of a Playoff round.
      • The number 2 and 3 finishers from the Regular Season will compete in the first week of playoffs, and the winner will advance and get the opportunity to compete with the number 1 finisher of the regular season in the final week of playoffs to determine the winner of Season 1.
  • Home/Away Team Rules
    • Regular Season:
      • Eight teams will go through 4 Round-Robin matches in which each team will fight against the same opponent four times, as Home Team two times and Away Team for another two times.
      • In the best-of-five (BO5) matches, the Home Team has the advantage to decide the first, the third and the fifth maps and their attack/defense, while Away team can decide the second and the fourth.
      • Each team will have a “Home Team’s Day” once during regular season, which means that team will have home advantage in two consecutive matches on that day.
    • Playoffs
      • The team that achieved higher place finish in the regular season will have home-team advantage during the Playoffs. In the 3 match days of the Playoffs, this team will have home team advantage on Day 1 and Day 3, while the lower placed team will play as home team on Day 2.
      • In the BO7 matches, the Home Team can decide the first, third, fifth and seventh maps and their attack/defense, while the Away Team can select the second, fourth and sixth.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Mandarin Broadcast[edit]

English Broadcast[edit]

  • Commentators:
    • New Zealand AVRL (Kevin Walker)
    • New Zealand Ezy (Dallas Whaitiri)
    • New Zealand Pixie (Matt Carroll)
    • New Zealand Smite (Matt Ross)

Thai Broadcast[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

8,300,000 TWD (~272,240 USD) is spread among the teams as seen below:

Conversion values taken from xe.com at 2017-03-24. 1 TWD ≈ 0.0328 USD

Participants[edit]

FireBall
Thailand Zynnlol
Main Roster
DPSThailand NzNr
DPSThailand oPuTo
FlexThailand 9th
TankThailand TeetawatV3
TankThailand Zalphx
SupportThailand keRLos
SupportThailand Rocket
Staff
Hong Kong Attitude
Taiwan Jay
Main Roster
DPSTaiwan K4
DPSTaiwan ShaiuLin
FlexTaiwan JinCow
FlexTaiwan Randy
TankTaiwan ATing
SupportTaiwan CQB
SupportHong Kong ManGoJai
Staff
Machi Esports
Taiwan Cassis
Main Roster
DPSTaiwan Nonezz
DPSTaiwan Rai
FlexTaiwan Kant
FlexTaiwan Notalk
TankTaiwan DCrwon
SupportTaiwan Kiyomi
SupportTaiwan Restya
Staff
SunSister
Japan ShirasPan
Main Roster
DPSJapan XQQ
FlexJapan Molis
FlexJapan Odenkun
TankJapan ZETMAN
SupportJapan Elu
SupportJapan kira44
SupportJapan N1ght0wl
Staff

Results[edit]

Regular Season[edit]

Standings
1. Flash WolvesFlash Wolves Flash Wolves 25-3 79-10 +69 75p
2. Blank EsportsBlank Esports Blank Esports 22-6 69-26 +43 66p
3. ahq e-Sports Clubahq e-Sports Club ahq e-Sports Club 21-7 67-31 +36 63p
4. Hong Kong AttitudeHong Kong Attitude Hong Kong Attitude 16-12 58-45 +13 48p
5. Machi EsportsMachi Esports Machi Esports 14-14 49-48 +1 42p
6. FireBallFireBall FireBall 10-18 36-60 -24 30p
7. DeToNator.GOLDDeToNator.GOLD DeToNator.GOLD 3-25 13-77 -64 9p
8. SunSisterSunSister SunSister 1-27 8-82 -74 3p

For detailed results click here.

Playoffs[edit]

Semifinals
Blank EsportsBlank EsportsBLK
2
0
ahq e-Sports Clubahq e-Sports Clubahq
Matches
Grand Final
Flash WolvesFlash WolvesFW
2
0
Blank EsportsBlank EsportsBLK
Matches
Flash WolvesFlash WolvesFW
4
0
Blank EsportsBlank EsportsBLK
June 30, 2017 - 19:00 TST
Flash WolvesFlash WolvesFW
4
2
Blank EsportsBlank EsportsBLK
July 1, 2017 - 19:00 TST


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