{"id":101318,"date":"2016-08-16T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101318"},"modified":"2016-08-16T10:24:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:24:50","slug":"overwatchs-competitive-play-is-being-completely-re-worked-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101318-overwatchs-competitive-play-is-being-completely-re-worked-for-season-2","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch&#8217;s Competitive Play is being completely re-worked for Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Overwatch players have expressed their dissatisfaction with Overwatch&#8217;s current ranking system for Competitive Play, specifically the game&#8217;s ranking system and sudden death system.<\/p>\n<p>Following its trend of interacting with the play base, the Overwatch development team has acknowledged the issues with the current ranking system and will completely overhaul Competitive Play for Season Two.<\/p>\n<p>Director Jeff Kaplan has addressed a vast array of issues in the latest Overwatch Developer Update video, including <strong>skill ratings<\/strong>, <strong>rewards<\/strong>, and <strong>sudden death<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Overwatch&#8217;s new competitive ranking system will consist of <strong>different tiers<\/strong>, such as Silver and Gold, and these tiers will reflect the competitive bracket in\u00a0which players\u00a0are rated.<\/p>\n<p>The Skill Rating system\u00a0will remain, although it\u00a0will now be on a scale from <strong>1 &#8211; 5,000<\/strong> and will determine which tier players are placed in.<\/p>\n<p>Players will be able to advance to higher tiers by increasing their Skill Rating and will receive rewards based on\u00a0the highest tier they achieved in the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>Sudden death is also being <strong>completely removed<\/strong>, and will be replaced by multiple changes to Competitive matchmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below for a full break-down of the upcoming changes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nqh8tnHhIjg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How this man tricked Windows tech support scammers into installing malware\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101140-how-this-man-tricked-windows-tech-support-scammers-into-installing-malware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How this man tricked Windows tech support scammers into installing malware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The awesome new features in the PlayStation 4 4.0 update\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/101278-the-awesome-new-features-in-the-playstation-4-4-0-update.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The awesome new features in the PlayStation 4 4.0 update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MyGaming has a new logo \u2013 thank you for helping us choose it\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/101274-mygaming-has-a-new-logo-thank-you-for-helping-us-choose-it.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">MyGaming has a new logo \u2013 thank you for helping us choose it<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overwatch&#8217;s Competitive Play is getting bigger and better for Season Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":93639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,2072,15157,9422,10096,15397,17606,1853,13021,21230,21226,21228,20180,21232,243],"class_list":["post-101318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-changes","tag-competitive","tag-developer","tag-overwatch","tag-pc","tag-play","tag-playstation4","tag-ranking","tag-removal","tag-season-two","tag-sudden-death","tag-system","tag-tiers","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}