OWCS Asia Stage 3 opens on the road to Busan

Nov 11, 2026, 9:45 AM · 3 min read

Live schedule and standings: OWCS Asia Stage 3 2026

OWCS Asia Stage 3 opens on the road to Busan

The OWCS Asia Stage 3 2026 in Overwatch 2 runs from 11 to 22 November. The group stage is online, on 11, 12 and 13 November. The playoffs are offline, on 20, 21 and 22 November, at the BEXCO Auditorium in Busan, South Korea, during G-STAR 2026. Eight teams are taking part: four from Korea, three from Japan and one from the Pacific region. The prize pool is $40,000, with $25,000 for first place, $8,000 for second and $3,000 for third. The event also decides Asia's remaining places at the OWCS World Finals, held from 2 to 6 December in Guangzhou, China.

The group stage opened on Wednesday, 11 November. T1 beat The Gatos Guapos in the first series. Liquipedia records the score as 3-0.

Format and World Finals places

The eight teams are split into two groups of four and play a single round robin. Every group match is a best-of-five, first to three maps. The top three in each group go to Busan. The last team in each group is eliminated.

The playoffs are a six-team single-elimination bracket. Most series are best-of-five. The playoffs run from 20 to 22 November. On 22 November, a third-place match is scheduled at 10:30 (Europe/Paris, CET), and the grand final follows at 12:30, in a best-of-seven, first to four maps.

Four Asia places are available for the World Finals. T1 already qualified by winning Korea Stage 3: on 8 November it beat ZETA DIVISION in the regional final. The top two Korean teams at this event also receive places. If T1 is among those two, the next Korean team takes the leftover place. One further place goes to the highest-finishing team from Japan or the Pacific region.

The groups

Group A is T1, Falcons, MURASH GAMING and The Gatos Guapos. Group B is ZETA DIVISION, Crazy Raccoon, VARREL and ENTER FORCE.36. T1, ZETA DIVISION, Crazy Raccoon and Falcons qualified as the top four in Korea Stage 3. VARREL, MURASH GAMING and ENTER FORCE.36 are the three Japanese teams, and The Gatos Guapos is the Pacific team. ZETA DIVISION also won the 2026 OWCS Midseason Championship.