The first Overwatch tournament called Agent Rising is scheduled to
take place at the eSports Arena in Santa Ana, California on May 28th-29th. The event is organized in less than a week after the game release on May 24th .
Source: Blizzard
The tournament is sponsored by Dolby and has a prize pool of $10,000.
The entry is free for spectators and the team pass is $210. The event
will be covered on the twitch.tv/esportsarena channel and will feature the following casters: AskJoshy, FishStix, Tsquared and Jamerson.
More information on the tournament can be found here.
The event marks the start of the competitive scene for a game that is
promising to be a hit. According to the figures released by Blizzard,
the open beta has attracted 9.7 million players. 82 million hours were
played and if we do the math, each player spent over eight hours on
average during the beta period, including the two days of extension.
So far, the game has received a lot of positive feedback and the beta
figures surpassed the Division’s beta that recorded 6.4 million
players. However, there isn’t enough data to predict the future
Overwatch sales. The Agent Rising tournament is inviting all the NA pro
teams to kick off Overwatch in the competitive scene.
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