❘ Revealed: 2025-01-20T17:17:41
OWCS 2024’s Dallas Main occasion
Blizzard revealed which groups it could companion with for the Overwatch Champions Collection (OWCS) and can present new cosmetics for these groups.
Blizzard launched the OWCS Crew Companion Program for its 2025 season, offering an extra income stream for groups by in-game cosmetics and MTX purchases. Overwatch will create group branded skins for partnered groups which followers should purchase, and a portion of income might be shared with these groups.
9 completely different groups had been revealed as companion groups, spanning throughout three completely different areas: North America, Asia, and EMEA. Listed here are the groups you may count on to be featured for the Overwatch World Championship Collection 2025 season.
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New Overwatch group cosmetics are coming
There are 9 groups taking part within the OWCS Crew Companion Program. These groups will all obtain new cosmetics over the course of the 12 months.
North America:
EMEA:
Gen.G
Twisted Minds
Virtus.professional
Asia:
T1
Crew Falcons
Zeta Division
Loopy Raccoon
There have been some notable snubs with this announcement, specifically, NRG which operated the favored and well-performing San Francisco Shock. (Crew proprietor Andy Miller expressed shock on-line that regardless of being one of the crucial profitable groups and doing effectively with merch and different in-game cosmetics, they weren’t chosen for a partnership.)
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The Toronto Defiant, one other notable group inside Overwatch esports, opted to not apply for the OWCS Crew Companion Program as they believed the income cut up wouldn’t be financially viable for the group. Former group proprietor of the Toronto Defiant criticized Blizzard throughout an interview with AVRL, believing that Blizzard just isn’t sufficiently pushing Overwatch for esports and squandering its potential.
Overwatch’s earlier esports enterprise, the Overwatch League, had applied an analogous program earlier than. A share of gross sales generated from purchases of in-game forex had been allotted to every group.
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The OWCS Dallas Main occasion final Might drew a powerful 125,146 viewers in the course of the match between Loopy Raccoon and Toronto Defiant. Regardless of robust viewership, the destiny of Overwatch esports should still be within the air as total Overwatch Twitch viewership is down due to Marvel Rivals.
