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What To Watch This Weekend: Overwatch, Super Smash Bros., And Gears Of War
At this point, you're probably wrapping up your Thanksgiving weekend. The leftovers are running out, your flight or drive home isn't until tomorrow, and you have a day to kill. Luckily, there's a ton of games to watch this weekend.
The Gears of War 4 Columbus Open tournament is this weekend. 96 teams from an open field of competitors will join 12 of the world's best teams to determine who will go home with the $120,000 first-place prize. (Stream / Schedule)
The other big tournament this weekend is Dreamhack, which will have a variety of high-level tournaments going on at once. You can watch tournaments for:
- Overwatch (Stream / Schedule)
- Hearthstone (Stream / Schedule)
- Team Fortress 2 (Stream / Schedule)
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Stream / Schedule)
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (Stream, Schedule on stream page)
While you wait for your tournament of choice to start, you can watch the final, best-of-five match between Team Liquid and Escape gaming in the Dota 2 DreamLeague tournament, the winner of which will go home with $90,000 (Stream) This may be the last match, but if both teams bring their A-game, this could go on for a while.
If you just started playing Heroes of the Storm to get that Genji skin and caught the bug, you can watch some high-level play this weekend at the Gold Club World Championship, which will have teams fighting for a $300,000 prize pool. (Stream, schedule on stream page)
If you're aching to catch a League of Legends tournament, you can watch the Russian LCL Open Cup, which will have local teams battling it out for supremacy. (Stream in Russian / Schedule)
That's it for this weekend! If we missed anything going on this weekend, let us know in the comments below.
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