France vs Norway | Overwatch World Cup 2017 Highlights

On the final day of the Overwatch World Cup Group Stage in Shanghai, China, Team France takes on Team Norway to determine which team will head off to BlizzCon 2017 for the playoffs and the chance to take home the championship title.

France comes into this matchup as the favourites to advance out of the Group Stage and head off to BlizzCon, but Norway has also been able to put up a fairly impressive performance during their run through their group. Norway has not been together as long as France, but have shown that they are flexible with adopting different counter strategies.

Both teams known for their dive compositions start off the series with a Numbani map pick which made for some entertaining high level Overwatch gameplay. However, Team France (Rogue) proved why they are known as the master of the dive and one of the best teams in the west with a clean 3-0 to head off to BlizzCon.

The Overwatch World Cup is an international tournament with the national teams from the 32 participating countries battling it out over the course of the summer in four separate qualifiers around the world hosted in China, Australia, Poland, and the United States.

Two groups will compete at each of the Group Stage qualifiers in a Round Robin format with the top from each group moving onto a single elimination bracket. Each series features four maps with teams seeded based on average Skill Rating. Map priority is given to the higher seeded team for the first map of the series. It is important to remember that these matches are not a best-of-three series and will focus on winning as many maps as possible as the two teams with the most points by the end of the Round Robin stage will advance onto the next round,

The first place team from each group will play the second place team in the opposite group. The winners of this stage will move on to the live playoffs at BlizzCon 2017.

The rosters of the 2017 Overwatch World Cup teams representing Noway and France are as follows

Team Norway

Iko Invision ONIGOD Trob Decod iPN

Team France

Michaël "winz" Bignet Jean-Louis "KnOxXx" Boyer Nicolas "NiCOgdh" Moret Terence "SoOn" Tarlier Dylan "aKm" Bignet

This series was cast by DoA and MonteCristo.

Chapters

0:00 First defense hold

1:25 France attacks first point

2:29 Second map domination

4:32 France holds second map

5:59 Norway's point b push

8:03 Series final map

10:56 Final attack and victory