Blizzard Changes How Wins are Determined in Overwatch's Competitive Mode
There may be more ties, however the 1% rule has officially been dropped.
As part of a recent update, Blizzard the ways in which ties are resolved in competitive Overwatch matches. In a post yesterday [https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20754425436#post-1], the developer further detailed the changes and explained the reasoning behind the change.
Previously, the rules stated that one team had to capture one more objective than the opposing team in order to win. However, that was changed to award victory to the team that makes more progress toward the objective in order to limit the number of ties.
However, it also ended up resulting in one team having one percent more completion than the other achieving victory. In the most recent update, Blizzard changed this - the winning team must now earn 33 percent in order to be able to win.
"Instead of needing to simply earn 1% more progress on an objective than the enemy team to break a tie and win, a team will also now also need to achieve a minimum of 33% progress," Blizzard wrote.
The company has shared some specific examples of how this will work in matches, which you can check out below:
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There may be more ties, however the 1% rule has officially been dropped.
As part of a recent update, Blizzard the ways in which ties are resolved in competitive Overwatch matches. In a post yesterday [https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20754425436#post-1], the developer further detailed the changes and explained the reasoning behind the change.
Previously, the rules stated that one team had to capture one more objective than the opposing team in order to win. However, that was changed to award victory to the team that makes more progress toward the objective in order to limit the number of ties.
However, it also ended up resulting in one team having one percent more completion than the other achieving victory. In the most recent update, Blizzard changed this - the winning team must now earn 33 percent in order to be able to win.
"Instead of needing to simply earn 1% more progress on an objective than the enemy team to break a tie and win, a team will also now also need to achieve a minimum of 33% progress," Blizzard wrote.
The company has shared some specific examples of how this will work in matches, which you can check out below:
The update also changes how streaks affect your Skill Rating for healers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/170069-Overwatch-Update-1-10-Tweaks-Win-Loss-Streaks-Skill-Rating#&gid=gallery_7194&pid=1], Blizzard has said that it is investigating this matter.
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