Overwatch League Standings After Stage 3, Week 4
Stage 3 of the Overwatch League concludes this week, so let's take a look at the standings going into this final leg of this chunk of the regular season.
Stage 3 of the Overwatch League concludes this week. There's a bit of a disparity between the overall standings and the Stage 3 standings, the latter of which will see four teams compete for a $125,000 prize pool.
So for this week, let's take a look at the overall standings, as we always do. Remember that the top six teams at the end of the regular season advance to the playoffs.
Overwatch League Standings After Stage 3, Week 4 (Win-Loss, Map Differential)
- 1. New York Excelsior (25-3, +62)
- 2. Boston Uprising (20-8, +24)
- 3. London Spitfire (18-10, +35)
- 4. Seoul Dynasty (18-10, +16)
- 5. Los Angeles Valiant (17-11, +21)
- 6. Philadelphia Fusion (17-11, +8)
- 7. Houston Outlaws (16-12, +18)
- 8. Los Angeles Gladiators (15-13, +4)
- 9. San Francisco Shock (10-18, -19)
- 10. Dallas Fuel (6-22, -41)
- 11. Florida Mayhem (6-22, -44)
- 12. Shanghai Dragons (0-28, -84)
We're also looking at the Stage 3 standings going into this final week of this portion of the regular season. The top four teams at the end of Stage 3 will advance to play on Sunday for the aforementioned $125,000 prize pool.
Overwatch League Stage 3 Standings After 4 Weeks (Win-Loss, Map Differential)
- 1. Boston Uprising (8-0, +15)
- 2. New York Excelsior (7-1, +16)
- 3. Los Angeles Valiant (6-2, +13)
- 4. Los Angeles Gladiators (5-3, +5)
- 5. Houston Outlaws (4-4, +1)
- 6. Philadelphia Fusion (4-4, 0)
- 7. Seoul Dynasty (4-4, -2)
- 8. San Francisco Shock (4-4, -4)
- 9. London Spitfire (3-5, 0)
- 10. Florida Mayhem (2-6, -10)
- 11. Dallas Fuel (1-7, -15)
- 12. Shanghai Dragons (0-8, -19)
Game of the Week
For as well as the London Spitfire have played all season, they've seemed to have found their demon in the form of the Los Angeles Gladiators. The Gladiators went into last week having beaten the Spitfire in all of their encounters this season. This meeting proved to be no different.
The Gladiators set the tempo quickly, with Lane "Surefour" Roberts leading the Los Angeles squad in an early stomping on Volskaya Industries. Los Angeles cruised to an early win on the offensive round, with the defense stepping up near the end. Meanwhile, the London Spitfire were playing completely out of sorts, especially without star player Kim "Birdring" Ji-hyeok, who is currently out with a wrist injury. The Spitfire couldn't keep up with the fireball Gladiators offense and also displayed a number of communication issues, losing twice in the early goings with crushing C9s. (A "C9" is where a team on offense will accidentally abandon the payload during an Overtime push, ending the match.)
London came back fierce in the second half, tying up the series and forcing a tiebreaker map. Unfortunately, that tiebreaker map was Oasis, where London has fared terribly all year. London continued to struggle on this map, allowing former Spitfire player Chan-hyung "Fissure" Baek to run wild with his Winston.
One team looks to be on the rise, while another is on the ropes. Check out the game if you missed it below.
Stage 3, Week 5 Schedule
This is the schedule for the fourth week of Stage 3:
- Philadelphia Fusion v. Dallas Fuel - 5/2, 4PM PT
- Florida Mayhem v. Los Angeles Gladiators - 5/2, 6PM PT
- Houston Outlaws v. San Francisco Shock - 5/2, 8PM PT
- San Francisco Shock v. Florida Mayhem - 5/3, 4PM PT
- Boston Uprising v. Los Angeles Valiant - 5/3, 6PM PT
- Dallas Fuel v. New York Excelsior - 5/3, 8PM PT
- Los Angeles Gladiators v. Boston Uprising - 5/4, 4PM PT
- New York Excelsior v. Shanghai Dragons - 5/4, 6PM PT
- London Spitfire v. Seoul Dynasty - 5/4, 8PM PT
- Shanghai Dragons v. London Spitfire - 5/5, 1PM PT
- Seoul Dynasty v. Houston Outlaws - 5/5, 3PM PT
- Los Angeles Valiant v. Philadelphia Fusion - 5/5, 5PM PT
- Stage 3 Title Match Semi-Final #1 - 5/6, 1PM PT
- Stage 3 Title Match Semi-Final #2 - 5/6, 3PM PT
- Stage 3 Title Match Finals - 5/6, 5PM
All of the action can be seen on the Overwatch League Twitch channel or on the Overwatch League website.
