The tournament itself is a large step forwards for Overwatch’s competitive scene. The game doesn’t post the same numbers as ESL’s popular Counter Strike: Global Offensive matches but the sheer visibility of the Atlantic Showdown combined with absolute top notch play, highlighting Overwatch’s unique team dynamics and metagame full of hero picks and map selections made strong argument for the game’s vitality as an eSport.

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The final match between Rogue and ReUnited stressed certain differences between European and North American play. Map selections featured plenty of payload maps but also featured a higher number of pure control point matches. Exciting DPS play showed a particularly methodical and brutal intensity. Rogue’s Dylan “aKm” Bigne is the best McCrees I’ve ever seen and ReUnited’s Finley “Kyb” Adisi is a terrifying Genji.

In a nail-biting final round on King’s Row, Rogue was hard pressed to answer ReUnited but managed to push down to the objective with less than a minute left on the clock, taking the match and the tournament. They brought home a grand prize of $40,000 dollars and will go down in the game’s history as the first international tournament winners. Cheers, loves! You earned it!