Earlier this month, 24 countries were selected to participate in this year’s Overwatch World Cup. Among them were the host countries: South Korea, the United States, Thailand, and France.
Now, the committees for all 24 participating teams have been announced. Each committee consists of three important roles.
“After two phases of voting across two months, the competition committees for the Overwatch World Cup have been finalized,” Blizzard wrote on its Overwatch World Cup blog. “Each includes a general manager, coach, and a community lead, who will collectively make decisions regarding each national team’s roster, management, and promotion.”
All Overwatch players from the teams’ respective countries voted for the community lead, but only each country’s top 150 players from consoles and PC voted for coaches. Blizzard had the authoritative say on each team’s general manager.
The results are in!
Find out who made it onto your nation’s competition committee for the 2018 Overwatch World Cup.
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Here are a few of the results. You can find the full results on the Overwatch World Cup website.
United States
- GM: Scott “Bearhands” Tester, former NYXL general manager
- Coach: Aaron “Aero” Atkins, Dallas Fuel coach
- Community Lead: Analynn Dang, Los Angeles Gladiators social media manager
South Korea
- GM: Kyu-hyung “YongBongTang” Hwang, Overwatch commentator
- Coach: Hyeon-sang “Pavane” Yu, NYXL coach
- Community Lead: Hyuna “Flowervin” Lee, RunAway manager
United Kingdom
- GM: Tom “Stylosa” Stewart, Overwatch personality
- Coach: Elliott Hayes, Philadelphia Fusion coach
- Community Lead: Philip “ChipSa” Graham, Overwatch streamer and pro player
China
- GM: Qiong “Tutu” Li, Overwatch commentator
- Coach: Xingrui “RUI” Wang, former Shanghai Dragons coach
- Community Lead: Tsungyu “Xiaogui” Huang, Overwatch caster
Work is to start immediately for these committees, whose job according to Blizzard is to “reveal their own rosters and build the hype for their communities.”
Blizzard will pay all committee members for their time, with travel and accommodations included.
Up next on the road to the World Cup are team tryouts. Tryouts are also open to Overwatch League players and will be held from June 1 to July 5. Then, committees will submit rosters of up to 12 players from June 15 to July 5, but only seven players from each roster will travel to live events.
Competition will kick off in August with the group stages. The tournament will culminate in a battle among the top eight teams in November.