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It’s the month of March which means, its PachiMarchi time! We had a ton of fun planning this month to celebrate our favorite little alien onion and now want to invite YOU to compete in our Community Clash on March 21 and 22!

The Community Clash will be a 2-day single-elimination tournament for PC players featuring a $20,000 prize pool. We’ll be broadcasting the semifinals and finals on our PlayOverwatch Twitch Channel, along with a fun exhibition game featuring an all-new game mode.

Want to compete? Sign-ups are open to the entire community so gather your team and get registered here by March 16 (11:59 PM PDT): ...

Heroes around the world have put their names forth, and after careful consideration, we’re thrilled to announce the 2023 Overwatch® World Cup competition committees for the 36 invited teams.

Check back later in March for the results of World Cup Trials and committee announcements for the wild card teams!

Argentina

General Manager: Nacho “Desastreger” De Saeger

Head Coach: Gianluca “Xyan” Beer

Social Lead: Ivan “ReptiliaX” Tiviroli

Australia

General Manager: Sam “Face” Merewether

Head Coach: Max “Unter” Unterwurzacher

Social Lead: Jarrod “Frogger” Meredith

Belgium

General Manager: Kevin “Kevh” Hondijk

Head Coach: Neo “TheWeevil” Claes

Social Lead: Demis “Deemzies” Holvoet

Brazil

General Manager: Gabriel “Nitrao” Ribeiro

Head Coach: Mauricio “Honorato” Honorato

Social Lead: Alicia “Mirsthy” Grucci

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A few weeks ago, we published the first in this series of updates on the game. It’s crazy how much has happened since then! We launched Season 3, announced a collab with One-Punch Man, and I’m now dating Genji! I feel so lucky…

I wanted to dive into two topics today. Season 3 balance and the matchmaker.

We feel that the start of Season 3 is in a much better state of balance than the start of Season 2. We hear from players that balance is the best it’s been since the launch of OW2, while the game feels fresh based on all the changes made. It’s been great watching that discussion, and to foster it, I’d like to give a bit more details and a bit less commentary.

Let’s look at the support role first. On the positive side, most supports are viable in nearly every skill tier. Brigitte has really popped this season and has the highest win rate for nearly all skill tiers except for Top 500, where Zen takes the lead, with both averaging out to a nearly 55% w...