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Overwatch League Cheering Offers Exclusives for Watching on Twitch

Want some cool Overwatch League-themed stuff for both Overwatch and Twitch? Blizzard and Twitch have teamed up to offer up some new exclusives for Overwatch League viewers.

Ozzie Mejia

February 21, 2018 10:00 AM

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The inaugural Overwatch League regular season is set to resume on Wednesday afternoon. Hours prior to the week's first match, Twitch and Blizzard announced some new plans to help reward the League's loyal viewers for watching as much of the action as possible.

Watching the Overwatch League on Twitch just got a lot more rewarding.

Earn League Tokens just for watching #OWL2018 matches, then Cheer and unlock in-game items that let everyone in chat know you’re *that* kind of fan. Get started here with the blog: https://t.co/BnKAAHOUgk pic.twitter.com/jWmVVCC9WL

— Twitch (@Twitch) February 21, 2018

Stage 2 will usher in Overwatch League Cheering, which rewards viewers with in-game skins, exclusive emotes, and team-themed items simply for watching the Overwatch League and cheering their favorite team on with Bits, the digital Twitch currency. Using Bits can unlock certain Overwatch League-themed hero skins that will have a timed exclusivity to them before they get made available to the rest of the Overwatch-playing public.

Viewers can also earn League Tokens at the rate of one League Token per live map finish. Seeing a match all the way through to the final map during the live broadcast will also have a chance to pick up 100 League Tokens, which is enough to pick up one team skin from Overwatch's in-game shop.

This is just the beginning, with Twitch also teasing a VIP ticket feature to be implemeted later in the season.

All of this is only available to Twitch users that already have their Battle.net IDs linked to their Twitch accounts. More information on Overwatch League Cheering can be found on the Twitch website. Need more on this week's Stage 2 action? Shacknews has you covered, so be sure to catch up with the Overwatch League standings going into Wednesday.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?