Can esports sell out two stadiums in one weekend? Signs point to yes 🤞

Top-Tier: The Overwatch League Finals 🏆 San Francisco Shock vs. Vancouver Titans

OWL Season 2 Grand Finals

It’s finally time for the grand finals of Overwatch League’s second season, and it should come as no surprise to hear that our finalists are none other than San Francisco Shock and Vancouver Titans. These two teams were dominant throughout the entire season, despite facing significant game balance changes (including 2–2–2 role lock) and massive meta shifts — turns out, teamwork is pretty important no matter what meta you’re playing in. But this Sunday 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT, we’ll finally know who’s the best Overwatch team on the planet.

For this one, we head to the Wells Fargo Center in Philly, the city of love, which has now officially sold out of tickets. This is a massive sports stadium of 19,500 capacity, making this the potentially the biggest live audience ever for an Overwatch match to date. The San Francisco Shock and Vancouver Titans will face off in a first-to-four-map series (best of 7) for a humungo sum of $1,100,000, and if there are any surprise strategies up either teams sleeve, this is when they will make themselves known.

Some will claim that this was a rocky season for the Overwatch League due to wild shifts and turns in the meta, but I, for one, can’t wait to find out how this one concludes. Make sure to tune in to the Grand Finals this Sunday on Juked.

Epic: ESL One NYC (CS:GO), TwitchCon, & GSL Code S Finals (StarCraft 2)

ESL One: New York 2019

It wouldn’t be a big esports weekend if we “only” sold out one major sports arena with nearly 20,000 seats, would it? How about two?

ESL One NYC now continues what has been an absolutely crazy summer for Counter-Strike fans, returning to New York’s Barclay’s Center, a 19,000 seat capacity arena, with another S-Tier CS:GO tournament.

Big-name teams Astralis, ENCE, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses (formerly the NRG roster, as of this morning), OpTic Gaming, G2 Esports, and eUnited will compete for the next few days in an absolute brawl for $200,000, so check out the info below.

• When: September 26th — September 29th
• Where: Barclays Center, NYC
• Watch it live on Juked

TwitchCon 2019

I can hear it now: “BuT tWiTchCoN iSn’T aN eSpOrTs EvEnT!!”

And to you I say: yes, yes it is. Here’s our breakdown of the many esports tournaments to catch this weekend in San Diego under the Twitch Rivals brand:

• Fortnite Showdown — $1,300,000 in prizing
• League of Legends Showdown — $50,000
• Teamfight Tactics Showdown: $75,000
• Apex Legends Showdown: $500,000

It’s a mix of pros, influencers, and streamers, but it’s still esports as far as we’re concerned. Watch it all on Twitch Rivals.

GSL Code S Finals (StarCraft 2)

This weekend, GSL Code S 2019 Season 3 comes to a conclusion and a $140,000 prize pool, as Rogue (Zerg) and Trap (Protoss) advance to finals! These two titans both went 4–1 in their respective portions of semis, so this match can’t be missed by any StarCraft fans.

• When: September 28th @ 1am PDT
• Where: Seoul, Korea
• Watch live on Juked

Honorable mentions:

• 800 players gather at the REV Major in the Philippines for a Tekken World Tour Master Event, September 28th — September 29th.
• Midas Mode 2 continues with a less serious, slightly whimsical Dota 2 tournament from now until October 2nd.
• Blink Fighting Fest is a Street Fighter V tournament, featuring Capcom Pro Tour “Ranking” points, live from the Dominican Republic.

Please note — we are working hard to start adding new games to Juked. The backend is almost in place, so expect to start seeing Rocket League, Rainbow 6, Street Fighter, Tekken, Apex Legends, Mortal Kombat, Teamfight Tactics, and more very soon. Thanks for your patience as we bug test and spin things up! 🧡

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