Cancellation of Overwatch League All March and April Events Due to Coronavirus

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Cancellation of Overwatch League All March and April Events Due to Coronavirus

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The escape The organization's planned move of teams to their cities a full season of home and away games has come and yet another major obstacle. After separation Cancellation of events in China and South Korea, the league has now pulled the plug on all live events around the world in March and April.

As with the “homeestand” games of China and South Korea, Blizzard made it clear: COVID-19, aka “coronavirus,” remains an unknown value, and the company is not in the business of taking chances.

"We will continue to pay close attention to COVID-19 (coronavirus), the city's recommendations and guidelines, and all guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," OWL he said on Twitter. “After careful review of our partnership with our teams, we canceled everything The escape League events scheduled for March and April. ”

The games are scheduled to take place in places like Florida, Toronto, San Francisco, Atlanta, London, Dallas, Washington, Boston, and Paris.

The league hopes that, in some way, shape, or form, "see that all games are played where it is safe and appropriate, it is always as close to our original schedule as possible." Looking for "different" options yet but not listed. It is notable, however, that other circuit events are move on without a live audience. Blizzard can also take that route.

Currently, "no fix" is scheduled The escape League events will take place soon this year, but as China said of over 50,000 recovery-In addition to having this virus now – a virus has countries like Italy in a state of shutdown. New cases, meanwhile, are continuing to emerge across the US in the middle a sadly programmed response, suggesting that it spreads quickly here. Today, E3 organizers announced that the video game conference, scheduled for June, canceled. With that in mind, things can get more complicated The escape League before it's easy.

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