The Overwatch Winter Premiere, brought to you by NGE, is an Open Play tournament that gives every team in North America an opportunity to compete for their piece of the $100,000 prize pool.

Teams that qualify in the Open Play tournament will move on to Group Play, an online, round robin tournament which will determine the Top 4 teams in North America.

From there, the teams will be flown out to the Live Finals!

Points Per Open Play Day:

• 1st Place: Qualified
• 2nd Place: 100 points
• 3rd Place: 50 points
• 4th Place: 40 points
• 5th through 8th Place: 20 points

At the End of All Open Play Days:

• 1st place teams of each day advance to the group stage
• 1st through 4th highest points teams will advance to the Group Play

Schedule:

• Open Play
  • December 10th-13th
  • Four play days
• Round of 8
  • January 3rd-15th
  • Round Robin
  • Six teams advance
• Round of 6
  • January 16th-19th
  • Round Robin
  • Four teams advance
• Live Finals
  • End of January
  • 2 day event

Open Play Standings:

#	Team	#1	#2	#3	#4	Points
1			100	0	100	200
2		0	0	100	50	150
3		100	20	0	20	140
4		20	40	50	20	130
5		50	20	0	0	70
6		20	0	0	40	60
7		0	20	20	0	40
7		0	0	20	20	40
7		0	0	20	20	40
8		20	0	0	0	20
8		0	0	20	0	20