Overwatch World Cup 2023 Teams: Who's Competing?
Overwatch's World Cup is happening this year after a long hiatus, and Blizzard has announced the 36 teams that will ultimately battle it out to become the World Champions. Here are the countries you'll be able to watch and root for.
Though the whole process of the World Cup will take several months, and the final competition isn't occurring until the latter part of the year, Blizzard has already got the ball rolling by announcing the 36 countries and regions that will be competing in the tournament.
36 teams, 1 trophy 🏆
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) January 24, 2023
This is the 2023 Overwatch World Cup 🌎
Get involved, rally for your team, and take your shot at the prize pool! 🤩
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Overwatch World Cup 2023 Teams: Who's Competing?
The Overwatch World Cup teams are 36 in number broken up roughly by geographic region and the level of participation in Overwatch that country or region has, explaining why some countries unfortunately didn't make the cut. The 36 countries are:
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Mexico
- Puerto Rico
- The United States
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Columbia
- Ecuador
- Peru
- Belgium
- France
- Great Britain
- Italy
- The Netherlands
- Spain
- Germany
- Norway
- Poland
- Saudi Arabia
- Sweden
- Turkey
- Chinese Taipei
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Japan
- The Philippines
- South Korea
- Australia
- India
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Singapore
- Thailand
China is also participating in the Overwatch World Cup, but is automatically seeded in the Group Stage, meaning the other 36 countries must compete for 15 spots in the Qualifiers.