OWCS 2025 Champions Clash

### Tournament Format

• Bracket Style: Double Elimination (Winners and Losers brackets).
• Match Lengths:
• Upper Bracket Quarterfinals: First-to-2 (Ft2).
• General Matches: First-to-3 (Ft3).
• Grand Finals: First-to-4 (Ft4).

## Hero Ban System

The tournament employs a strategic ban phase before each map to challenge team adaptability:

• Global Impact: Each team bans one hero per map, and the ban applies to both teams for the duration of that map.
• Role Diversity: A team's ban must be from a different role (Tank, Damage, or Support) than the ban chosen by the opposing team.
• Series Constraints: * Teams cannot ban the same hero more than once in a single series.
• However, a team is permitted to ban a hero that their opponent has banned in a previous map.
• Ban Order:
• For the opening of the series, the higher-seeded team bans first.
• For subsequent maps, the team that lost the previous map earns the right to ban first.