2016 Overwatch World Cup

Players Blizzard selected the top players from Season One of competitive play of Overwatch to possibly represent their country as a team member. Players with an Overwatch account and a region-specified Battle.net account then voted on who they would like to see on their respective country's roster. Over 3 million votes to decide national teams were cast. Qualification Throughout September 2016, fifty national teams entered to qualify for the Overwatch World Cup through best-of-three online qualifiers. Six teams automatically qualified for the group stages. In total, four teams from the Americas, six from Europe, and six from the Asia-Pacific qualified for the group stages of the World Cup. ;Invitation (6) • • • • • • ;American Qualifier (1) • ;Asia-Pacific (3) • • • ;European Qualifier (6) • • • • • • == Group stage ==

The qualified teams were grouped into four different round-robin style groups, with the matches to be played in online. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage. Group A Group B Group C Group D Tiebreakers == Knockout stage ==