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Sydney Drop Bears the Overwatch Contenders AUS finals winner

22 May 2018
Steve Wright

The Sydney Drop Bears have emerged victorious as the inaugural Overwatch Contenders Australia champions.

The Drop Bears took out Masterminds GC in a decisive 4-0 clean sweep in the Contenders Australia finals, taking its spot as the premier path-to-pro Overwatch team in Australia and New Zealand.

Last weekend’s matches saw the Drop Bears defeat Dark Sided in semi-finals action, with Drop Bears giving Dark Sided its first defeat of the Contenders’ inaugural season. Masterminds GC defeated Blank Blue to make it to finals action.

If you missed out on Overwatch Contenders Australia finals action, you can catch up here.

The second season of Overwatch Contenders Australia will begin on 1 July.

Overwatch is currently available on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.