Overwatch

The Faces Behind The Voices Of The Overwatch Division

Yoshii — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:51:04 GMT

Hey all, I thought in making this post we would get to see all the lovely faces behind our amazing division *cough* *cough* Overwatch. To start things off, This is Yoshii the OW NA DO. Enjoy!

Overwatch 2 Closed Beta - Opt-in for a key now!

Cayne — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:02:14 GMT

>> Click Here to Register <<

You must own a copy of Overwatch 1

The beta will run through this client

>> TAW Overwatch Discord Invite <<

Overwatch Shadow League - Stream Schedule and VODs

Cayne — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 10:47:34 GMT

This post will be updated after each week with links to the latest matches

Matches are streamed over on TAWTV on Sundays. Further dates and times below each tournament stage.

Group Stage - Week 1 - Raccoon Ravager's Vs Strike Team 404

Casters: iHaveAsthma & Lilgreyshark

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1185900041

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG6-iQBG0Ik&t

Group Stage - Week 2 - Raccoon Ravager's Vs Pesky Pachimaris

Casters: Cayne & Lilgreyshark

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1187567314

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFd1lAQDWp0&t

Group Stage - Week 3 - Raccoon Ravager's Vs Suwon Tigers

Casters: Cayne & Yoshii

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1194839938

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um7wEI2UhnE

Playoffs - Raccoon Ravagers Vs Pesky Pachimari's

Streaming November 14th - 19:30 GMT // 14:30 CST

Finals - Strike Team 404 Vs TBD

Streaming December 5th - 19:30 GMT // 14:30 CST

Contact the Overwatch EU staff for information on the tournament or join the discord

Thanks to MMD for getting the VODs up on Youtube

For help from Events Resources click here.

OVERWATCH Mei's snowball offensive Tournament- Sign up here!

lilgreyshark — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:07:22 GMT

Hey everyone!

Saturday, December 30th, 6pm GMT, the OW and ER division are hosting a Mei's snowball offensive Tournament during the winter wonderland event. The tournament will be a knockout bracket with a best of 3 final. We will be also holding death match versions of the game mode so everyone can get involved.

You can sign up a Team or as a Solo.

Sign ups are now open, please use this form:

The whole event will be streamed on TAWTV on twitch

Looking forward to seeing you all there

Lil Grey Shark

Calling all Guitarists! (TAW-Wide Karaoke Night)

Cayne — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 15:21:22 GMT

Hey Everyone!

We're looking for guitarists to help us during this years karaoke session. We want be able to play the I–V–vi–IV progression with key changes between song requests.

This will be one of a few ways people will be able to sing their favourite songs throughout the night.

To volunteer or know more information please contact either:

Arwith@taw.net

Cayne@taw.net

Play Your Part - Schedule for 24 Hour Livestream

Cayne — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:19:24 GMT

Hey Everyone!

Here is the schedule for the 24 hour livestream to raise funds for TAW! Thanks to all the streamers and Divisions taking part, Hope everyone can tune in and donate so we reach our goal! There will be a donation link below the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/tawtv/

Begins: April 17th // 20:00 GMT + 1 // 15:00 EST

See you then!

Play Your Part - 24 Hour Livestream 2 [TAW WIDE]

Cayne — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:59:12 GMT

Hey Everyone,

So last year I hosted a 24 hour livestream to raise donations for TAW. Different Divisions came together to participate and stream their game throughout the 24 hours. We managed to raise a lot of money for TAW last time and I think we can do even better this year.

Last year I approached divisions individually and asked if they wish to participate. This year I'm making this post to ask every division if they'd be willing to take a timeslot. Each timeslot is 3 hours long.

The stream is aimed to start at Friday 10th of April at 20:00 UTC // 16:00 EST.

Here is an example of last years schedule: https://overlay.player.me/0AAKSwrWHSEwCJUn

Please fill in this form if you wish to take a time slot: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc81jxQDqlzXA186mpeJQIDRjhYdzCTzgu5uiavgjcOFVhlDw/viewform

If you have any questions, feel free to ask below! Once all slots are filled I'll invite all those participating to a meeting about how the stream will go.

LIlGreyShark's terrible minimal effort TAW comics

lilgreyshark — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 20:05:12 GMT

Just thought I'd post these comics I drew about stuff that has happened in TAW ( or is Overwatch related). Prewarning they are very bad quality and I use my own handwriting, so sorry if they aren't readable.

Overwatch Training Tool

matte — Wed, 15 May 2019 15:40:17 GMT

Hey everyone

I have been working on a tiny tool to help memorysing OW locations

it’s quite simple at the moment but i plan to add More features later on when i have time

example

https://imgur.com/gallery/3y5CPjUdd

link to installation

https://github.com/Cake-Chaser/Overwatch-Callout-Trainer

Overwatch NA Battalion Medal Ceremony

BlahtheOtter — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:58:27 GMT

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long while and it is way overdue. There are tons of fantastic people in this battalion that have done so much to make this a successful and fun community for everyone so I’ve been working on a way to really show some gratitude for their hard work. See below for many well deserved commendations to members of this battalion.

Years of Service 1

TheDustyDoge: http://taw.net/commendation/157288.aspx

Serene: http://taw.net/commendation/157289.aspx

Royaleqp: http://taw.net/commendation/157290.aspx

RangerRoth: http://taw.net/commendation/157291.aspx

EliteEli: http://taw.net/commendation/157292.aspx

DragonGeo: http://taw.net/commendation/157293.aspx

Years of Service 2

Torkk: http://taw.net/commendation/157294.aspx

Conduct Medal

DragonGeo: http://taw.net/commendation/157262.aspx

Royaleqp: http://taw.net/commendation/157263.aspx

Zendikaar: http://taw.net/commendation/157264.aspx

BionicWaffle: http://taw.net/commendation/157265.aspx

Nicthegiant: http://taw.net/commendation/157266.aspx

Torkk: http://taw.net/commendation/157267.aspx

Ertthehurt: http://taw.net/commendation/157268.aspx

Distinguished Service Medal

Greedyrope: http://taw.net/commendation/157269.aspx

Leadership Medal

Oddie: http://taw.net/commendation/157270.aspx

Barretfiftycal: http://taw.net/commendation/157271.aspx

TheDustyDoge: http://taw.net/commendation/157272.aspx

Medal of Resilience

TheDustyDoge: http://taw.net/commendation/157273.aspx

Morosho: http://taw.net/commendation/157274.aspx

WolfieSan: http://taw.net/commendation/157275.aspx

Bronze Star

Oddie: http://taw.net/commendation/157276.aspx

Nicthegiant: http://taw.net/commendation/157277.aspx

ShimadaOW: http://taw.net/commendation/157278.aspx

Infamy: http://taw.net/commendation/157279.aspx

Officer’s Battlefield Unit Citation

Royaleqp: http://taw.net/commendation/157280.aspx

BarretFiftyCal: http://taw.net/commendation/157281.aspx

Ertthehurt: http://taw.net/commendation/157282.aspx

RavensRose: http://taw.net/commendation/157284.aspx

Shuu: http://taw.net/commendation/157285.aspx

Torkk: http://taw.net/commendation/157286.aspx

Knoweyedear: http://taw.net/commendation/157283.aspx

Thank you to all the contributions from our dedicated battalion members. I normally wouldn't do this many, but it's been a while since we shouted out the amazing members here and this is much deserved.

Congrats to Naughty Tomatoes! - The Shadow League Season 7 Finals

Arwith — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:08:04 GMT

Just Yesterday, Sunday 31st March we held the finals for Overwatch's internal league tournament, The Shadow League Season 7. We had great fun creating and hosting the event throughout our mandatory events, and It's great to see that so many people have enjoyed themselves in competitive spirit over the past 2 months.

Out of 6 teams, Naughty Tomatoes and Lucky Runners made their way into the finals. Both teams showed exemplary commitment to practicing and held a near perfect attendance to all matches across all their players! Through several intense matches, both teams were sweating away in combat in an attempt to take the victory medal, and by a narrow margin (And a quick dip in Rialto's fine waters) Naughty Tomatoes scored the first 3 maps, securing their victory in the finals!

The event was streamed on TAWTV by Myself, with help from my amazing casters Demonspawn and DominiCLT. If you were unable to catch the stream, you will still be able to watch the games on Twitch via this link for the next few weeks. If you did watch the stream, or have comments from the replay, we would really appreciate your feedback (anonymous) to let us know how we can improve for next time! You can do so via this feedback form.

If you would like to see how the brackets went over the season, you can check them out here.

Congratulations Naughty Tomatoes on your win, the winning team lineup is as follows:

Plupple, Trixcold, Nebster, SharkyShark, Mytotick, Mpswagallicious

Well done, and valiant effort to the runners up, Lucky Runners:

Lilgreyshark, Kroma, PhilvP, Findu, Spetox, Hyperi

How to join

Arcticmoo — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:39:45 GMT

wondering how i can re-apply to Taw

OWL (OverWatchLeague)

DragonGeo — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 06:14:28 GMT

HI ya,

Not sure how many people are watching this season.

We are...

Or?

Again... not sure...

Leaving TAW (temp)

Spikeopro — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:31:10 GMT

Im not sure if many of you all know, and im not a particularly known person in TAW Whatsoever. but thanks to the amazing report feature on overwatch i was banned for cheating and their only reason was mass reports. when my account was reviewed i was determined to be innocent and my account was returned to me, but im still banned from comp for the season for whatever reason. for this reason i just stopped playing overwatch to play something else after the ban just killed my mojo. after the ban you'll probably hear from me again as i really loved the Interim season i played and had the honour to manage the 2nd place team.

Its nothing personal and im not just going to be one of the frequent newbies tho just show up and dip out a month later. youll definietly hear back from me

Best wishes

-Spike :)

Gamescom in the summer

MPSenpai — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 14:47:46 GMT

Hello people

This year I finally get to make a trip I have always wanted to do, go to Gamescom in Germany and I am super excited for that!!

But me, being the social awkward person that I am I don't really want to do this trip alone. So here lie the next 2 questions.

1. Does taw actually organise a Gamescom event within the community? And

2nd: do any of the overwatch member plan on going and would they like to set up something together?

Looking forward to seeing all of you on the event, it's gonna be epic!!!

Photos for Teamspeak channels

Wingydingie — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 20:16:18 GMT

TAW Overwatch Secret Santa!

Serene — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:14:21 GMT

Hey Everyone! This Holiday Season we ran a Secret Santa in the NA Overwatch Battalion!

Now it is your time to share your gift that you got. Please include a picture and if you know who sent it to you, let us know!

Thank you all who participated!
-Serene

Leaving TAW

Rdog — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 02:58:37 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I know I havent been able to attend much but due to network problems and timing issues, I have to leave TAW. This group I found both interesting and a great way to socialise with the gaming community. Unfortunately I gotta vamoos. Checking out

Rdog

Looking to join a team

Ras — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:44:10 GMT

Started playing Overwatch during a free weekend in July and got hooked.

Looking to join a team to practice/ladder/clan-games.

-Ras

CC Scrim

Kingcheese — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:52:21 GMT

The CC leadership fielded a team that valiantly took on the Overwatch Division in a scrim the weekend just past.

In the build up to this scrim, the CC team got together and had a few training sessions enabling us to become familiar with the game and settled into characters that worked for each of us. I believe even in that short time we played together we did show signs of improvement and a better understanding of how to work together.

That all said though, in what was an epic battle we did get pretty smashed by the organization and power of the Overwatch team who I can only congratulate on their win. It was well deserved and a great job. Well done guys. I just hope you all enjoyed this event as much as I did.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Rowanrainsong for helping organize this event as well as TrixCold and Snxhardx who put a lot of time to demonstrate and talk through all the different characters and abilities. Additionally in the build up to this scrim, Snxharzard also kindly acted as a FS and helped the CC team with training sessions. Much appreciated mate.

For those involved in this event, a special CC Scrim tab awarded shortly. Thank you.

PPL for compet. climb

CzechMyHand — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 19:00:56 GMT

Hi guys,

new member here, looking for some ppl to climb with.

I am currently 1900+-SR and I am sick and tired of rage quits , throws etc.

If anyone1 is interested, my battletag in profile.

Czech.

Leaviung TaW

GunsAndRozer — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:18:42 GMT

Good evening guys .it was really enjoyable and fun to play with you .for some problem i have to leave TAW .if i did anything wrong please forgive me .love you guys .bye and be safe take care guys ..[:'(]

Shadow League Season 5 Semi Finals

BitzyBoo — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:37:49 GMT

Greetings all, and welcome to the first update for the Overwatch’s divisions Season 5 Shadow League tournament. Last night the epic Semi Final matches were held. Both the matches were held on the following maps: Rialto, a payload map where the attacking team have to escort a payload to the finish and the defending have to stop it, Temple of Anubis, a two point capture the objective map where both teams take turns attacking and defending to capture 2 points, and finally Lijiang Tower, a full control point map where both teams have to battle it out to hold a point till completion, being the tie-breaker map.

For our first semi final match we had Pesky Pachimaries (PP) vs Naughty Tomatoes (NT). It was PP who were attacking first. PP had 2 unsuccessful initial pushes due to Merata, who was playing Reinhardt for NT, getting 2 huge Earth Shatters, his ultimate ability, being able to stun almost all of PP effectively rendering those attempts futile. It was ultimately Aviex playing Junkrat for PP, using Riptire that let PP take the first point. PP tried to rush to the second point but they were abruptly stopped by a solid defence by NT. It took some time before PP could organise themselves as a team before they could make a successful push. It was again Aviex’s tire that allowed PP to take the second point when the match was about to head into overtime. Alaaris, who was playing Zarya, was then able to get an impressive Graviton Surge allowing NT to get the enemy off the payload and ending overtime.

We then swap sides and it was now NT’s turn to attack. Aviex was able to get several picks on the enemy Pharah resulting in NT having to pause their push to wait for a regroup. NootNoot, who was playing Hanzo, got an amazing Dragonstrike which led to an ulting enemy Moira getting killed, denying the enemy a vital source of healing and at the same time allowing NT to get several picks. theTable, who was playing Ana, was able to get several picks on the Pharah, and NootNott was able to get several overtime picks allowing NT to take the first point. After the first point was taken PP just couldn’t get their synergy right as NT was able to snowball through the entire second street phase enabling them to take the third point leading NT to win the map with a score of 3:2 to NT.

After a short recuperation break the second match between PP and NT commenced. It was NT’S turn to attack first and they decided to run with a standard deathball composition. PP was able to halt the first push with Aviex, who was playing Junkrat, getting a double kill with his tire. NT then decided to change it up and go for a dive comp. This worked out much better for them as they were able to focus targets more efficiently. theTable, who was playing Ana, was able to get an insane Biotic Grenade as it managed to hit most of the enemy team thus denying any healing to be done from the enemy’s teams Zenyatta ultimate. This allowed NT to capture the first point with ease and they then proceeded to try and rush second point which did not work out so well so they decided to fall back and regroup fully. Seeing as the dive composition was not working out so well for them, NT decided to change back to deathball for the second point. NT spent some time building ultimates before going for a push. It was a good Dragondstrike by NootNoot combined with a Sleep Dart and Biotic Grenade from theTable that NT were able to take second point ending the first round with a score of 2.

The second round saw PP’s attack phase, where they decided to run a newly formed composition called Goats. This is when a team consists of 3 tanks and supports. The mobility of the set up enabled PP to take first point with ease as NT did not expect PP to run this comp as they have not previously done so in the league. NT soon recovered from this initial shock though and were able to stop a complete snowball effect from occurring. It was at this point that PP were struggling to figure out what to do with Goats so they made the sensible decision to switch back to a composition that they were more comfortable running, which was deathball consisting of Reinhardt and Zarya. However as NT were adept at playing against this kind of comp they were able to hold the second point fairly easily, resulting in PP not being able to get hold of the second point.

This concluded the first match of the semi finals with the results of NT winning both maps and being the first team to proceed to the finals.

How well do you know Overwatch?

LORDmeSHINE — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:32:26 GMT

Hi, so I decided to make a quiz for the Overwatch fans out here. Feel free to give any feedback. I have a source I use for all the answers so if you dont trust my just PM me somewhere.

so.... GLHF

Shine