2023 Overwatch World Cup
The 2023 Overwatch World Cup (OWWC) will be the fifth edition of the Overwatch World Cup, an Overwatch esports tournament, organized by the game's developer Blizzard Entertainment. Over 40 teams from various countries and regions competed for one of the 16 spots in the 2023 OWWC. The group stage be a no audience LAN event and will take place from October 29 to November 1. The knockout stage will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, during BlizzCon from November 3 to 4, 2023. It will be the first World Cup event since 2019 and the first of Overwatch 2. Teams

Committees and players 
Each country has a National Competition Committee, consisting of a general manager, head coach, and social lead, who are responsible for organizing tryouts for their country. Blizzard chose committees via an application process, which began in February 2023. Throughout three weekends in February, every committee hosted an open format tournament, called World Cup Trials. The winning team of each World Cup Trial won  and earned an automatic invitation to their country's team tryouts in March 2023. Committees will also finalize a seven-person roster by April 2023. Qualification 

A total of 36 countries and regions were invited, based on Overwatch 2 player population data, to play in online qualifiers for the 2023 OWWC, with the teams evenly divided into six regions. An additional four teams also played in the online qualifiers via a "wild card challenge". Of the teams, a total of 15 advanced to the group stage of the OWWC. China received a direct invitation to the group stage due to "the current dynamics in China". Automatically qualified (1)

Americas (5)

Europe and Middle East (5)

Asia-Pacific (5)

Venue

Online qualifiers

Americas 

Group A

Group B

Europe and Middle East 

Group A

Group B

Asia-Pacific 

Group A

Group B

Group stage 
The group stage run from October 29 to November 1, 2023, and will be a LAN event in Southern California without an audience. A total of 16 teams, determined from the online qualifiers, will be divided into groups, and each group will compete in a round-robin tournament. Of the 16 teams, eight will advance to the knockouts. Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage 
The knockout stage will take place from November 3–4, 2023, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anahieim, California, during BlizzCon. The top eight teams from the group stage will compete in a single-elimination tournament. Bracket

Prize pool 
The 2023 World Cup prize pool will be generated through crowdfunding via the sales of in-game cosmetics within Overwatch 2. A total of 25% of the revenue generated from Overwatch World Cup cosmetics and bundled packages will contribute to the overall prize pool of the Overwatch World Cup. There is no preset limit or cap on these contributions, so the prize pool can grow until the end of the crowdfunding initiative, which takes place on the final day of the Overwatch World Cup Finals. A segment of the prize pool will be allocated to the all competing teams in the tournament. The specific distribution percentages will be determined based on each team's placement in the tournament. The top 16 teams that qualify for the LAN event will be awarded 73% of the total prize pool, while the remaining 27% will be equitably divided among the teams that participated in the Online Qualifiers and the Wild Card Challenge. The prize pool distribution is detailed below. References

External links 
 Official website

Overwatch
Overwatch World Cup