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Overwatch Winter Premier Finals going to PAX South with $100,000 prize pool

Zorine Te
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The Overwatch Winter Premiere will have a $100,000 prize pool. (Blizzard)

Competitive Overwatch fans will be happy to hear that the Overwatch Winter Premiere Live Finals will be taking place at PAX South, Next Generation Esports announced today. The finals will be hosted at the PAX Arena and feature four finalists who will play on a LAN format.

The event culminates the Overwatch Winter Premiere, which is in its third week of online play with six teams remaining: Renegades, CompLexity Gaming, Immortals, Luminosity, Kungarna, and Team Liquid.

The finals will have a $100,000 prize pool and will be hosted in partnership with Twitch. They will take place on January 27 and be live streamed on two Twitch channels simultaneously.

“The Winter Premiere was designed to highlight the best talent of Overwatch in North America,” said Andy Vander Woude, co-founder and CEO at NGE. “It’s only fitting to bring these all-star teams to the PAX Arena stage, where their effort and talent can be celebrated by an even wider audience.”

The Overwatch Winter Premiere was first announced in November and started in December, with over 500 North American teams competing in the four day-long open qualifier. Entry into the tournament was free. The remaining group stages will be live streamed via Twitch from the NGE studios in Burbank, California.

Haven’t been keeping up with the tournament’s progress? Yahoo Esports has got you covered, with this breakdown of the biggest revelations from the Winter Premiere so far.