World Cup | Overwatch day 1

Blizzard declared after the next map of the South Korea vs United States show that it would be the final of the evening of this first day, with the semifinal matches originally program for this night, being transferred to tomorrow. This article's schedule has been updated to reflect that.

The day has come, since the best eight teams have been set to square off against one another in the 2017 Overwatch World Cup. Just following this year's BlizzCon gets underway, the finest national teams in the world will compete for the title of World Champion.

The tournament's first day in BlizzCon will comprise the quarterfinals and semifinals as the top eight teams have been cut down to only four, to ascertain who will perform in tomorrow's Finals and third place game. The marquee match up of day one will occur during the quarterfinals once the tournament favorites, will continue the home team, as South Korea face off against the United States.

This will be the first chance that fans will get to see each of the newest Overwatch spectator changes that Blizzard has made to the game during the past several months, including team uniforms, specially colored visual results and improved camera moves.