Overwatch's first season of Competitive Play is wrapping up on Aug. 17.
Blizzard made the announcement in the Battle.net forums, outlining not just pertinent dates and times (the season officially ends Wednesday, Aug. 17 at 5:00 p.m. PT, which is Aug. 18 12:00 a.m. UTC) but also the rewards and the breakdown of skill ratings (SRs) and their equivalent competitive points (CPs) for season 1 of Competitive Play. Because of zonal differences, players are advised to take note of the date and time that corresponds to Aug. 17 5:00 p.m. PT in their region.
Currently, Competitive Play's second season is set to launch on Sept. 6 but this could change depending on the status of system improvements Blizzard is working on.
Players who participated in season 1 and completed placement matches are eligible to get a special spray and player icon. These will be received the first time players log into their accounts once the season has ended.
Those who were able to break into the Top 500 list on their platform and region at any point during the season will get an additional animated spray and player icon on top of the seasonal rewards.
CPs will also be doled out depending on the maximum SRs players achieved during season 1 of Competitive Play. The breakdown is as follows:
• SR 0 to 39: 10 CPs
• SR 40 to 45: 20 CPs
• SR 46 to 49: 40 CPs
• SR 50 to 52: 60 CPs
• SR 53 to 55: 80 CPs
• SR 56 to 59: 120 CPs
• SR 60 to 64: 200 CPs
• SR 65+: 300 CPs
Players still have until the end of the season to try and bump up their SRs to receive more CPs, which can be used to buy golden weapon skins.
Competitive Play's season 2 may coincide with the online qualifiers for the Overwatch World Cup, which will be held in September to weed out 16 of the best teams around the world who will duke it out in the finals at BlizzCon 2016.
Overwatch is going strong despite bugs in the game and hackers taking down Blizzard's servers. There have been several attempts already to knock Overwatch offline, the most recent of which was orchestrated by a hacking group called PoodleCorp. It's not clear who's behind the hacking group but there are comments that some of PoodleCorp's members might be one of the players that Blizzard recently banned from Overwatch and in their saltiness decided to exact revenge on the game via hacking.
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