Each team is given 4 minutes at the beginning to capture the first point.

The attacking team gains a point any time a control point is captured.

The final score, and the remaining time will be announced after each game. Both teams play two games as a rotation: one attacking team and one defending team, and both teams change sides after one game.Map rule: The first three games will use all three sub-areas of the Control map, and the last two will use random two in three sub-areas.If one team reaches three points, the match ends immediately and that team wins the match.The score will be updated and announced after every game. If one team succeeds capturing a control point, the game ends immediately and the team gains a point.There are at least 3 games and at most 5 games. Two teams play in a best-of-five format.End-of-season Competitive Points reward would still be granted for players at the softcap.įormat This format was used for Season 2.

Player with more than 6000 Points at the beginning of Season 2 would no longer accrue Points until it is spent. A softcap for Competitive Point was implemented, meaning that players would stop receiving Competitive Point at 6000 Points.The reward for a tie match would be less than the reward for a winning match. The Competitive Points earned from Season 1 would be multiplied by 10 as well. The amount earned and the amount required for purchase were multiplied by 10.Time banking was introduced to Hybrid and Escort maps.The time given at the beginning was reduced.A draw result would happen when both team achieve the same result after using up the same span of time. Sudden Death and the Coin Toss were removed.There were a trim in the length of time of some part in a Competitive Match, like 'Assemble your heroes' to make a match shorter.Removed the level restriction in Season 1.Restriction in skill rating in a group was introduced, which only allow people within a range of skill rating to group up in Competitive match.Players who are in Top 500 would be immediately excluded from the Top 500 if they don't play Competitive for 168 hours (7 days). Entry into top 500 started to require playing a minimum of 50 competitive matches each season.The decay stops when player return to play Competitive again or the skill rating drops to the bottom of Diamond tier (3000 skill rating). Diamond, Master and Grandmaster started to subject to ratings decay, which make the skill rating drop 50 points after 168 hours (7 days) without playing Competitive match and will continue to drop 50 points for every 24 hours after.Unless players are in the top tiers (Master and Grandmaster), they won't slip out of the tier they've earned, even if their score falls below that required for the tier.Skill rating tier was reintroduced (from the Open Beta):.The skill rating was being changed to 1-5000, moving away from the 1-100 format of Season 1.

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