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Team Peps, Team Falcons, T1 and Virtus.professional gained their opening video games and moved into the quarterfinals of the Overwatch Champions Series Pre-Season Bootcamp on Friday in Seoul.
Peps outlasted Disguised 3-2 in a match that included a uncommon draw within the fourth spherical. Falcons swept VARREL 3-0, Virtus.professional did the identical to All Gamers and T1 defeated Dallas Fuel 3-1.
Twelve groups are taking part within the $25,000 occasion that kicks off the 2026 Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS). Teams from North America, the EMEA area, China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia had been invited.
The single-elimination bracket noticed groups seeded by regional and 2025 World Finals efficiency. All matches are first-to-three till Sunday’s grand finals, that are first-to-four.
On Friday, Disguised jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Peps, profitable 2-1 on Ilios Control and 1-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort.
After Peps clawed one again on Esperanca Push, 89.03m-52.84m, the groups tied 3-3 on Midtown Hybrid. They continued on to New Junk City Flashpoint, the place Peps took the momentum with a 3-0 win earlier than sealing the comeback 2-1 on Watchpoint: Gibraltar Escort.
Falcons didn’t enable VARREL to attain some extent on any map, blanking them 2-0 on Lijiang Tower Control, 3-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort and 3-0 on Midtown Hybrid.
It was the identical story for Virtus.professional, which shut out All Gamers 2-0 on Ilios Control, 1-0 on Eichenwalde Hybrid and 1-0 on Shambali Monastery Escort.
T1 opened its match towards Dallas Fuel with a 2-1 win on Lijiang Tower Control and a 2-0 triumph on Midtown Hybrid. Dallas prolonged the match by taking Havana Escort 3-2, however T1 completed it off with a 3-0 consequence on New Junk City Flashpoint.
The event continues Saturday with the 4 quarterfinal matches:
–Crazy Raccoon vs. Team Peps
–Weibo Gaming vs. Team Falcons
–Twisted Minds vs. T1
–Team Liquid vs. Virtus.professional
Overwatch Champions Series 2026 Pre-Season Bootcamp prize pool
1. $15,000
2. $5,000
3-4. $2,500
5-8. No cash
9-12. No cash — Disguised, VARREL, Dallas Fuel, All Gamers
–Field Level Media