A Note Regarding The Updated 2020 Schedules
Update, 3/31: I’ve revised the schedules again, based on what we know at this time — i.e., everything through week 10 — and nothing more. Every match listed after week 10 has been deleted. I’ll continue updating the schedules on a piecemeal basis as we learn them from week to week.
The revised 2020 Overwatch League schedules have been posted as of today (March 18), covering action from Weeks 8-12. (Note that there is no Week 7.) The location of each match is listed as ONC, ONP, or ONA, indicating that it’s an online match being played between teams in one of three regions: China, U.S. Pacific, or U.S. Atlantic. (Update, 4/20/20: I’ve scrapped that notation and just gone with “ONL” for all online matches.)
What’s a little more difficult to convey is what time those matches are occurring. The original OWL schedule listed matches by the local times where the homestands were due to occur, so a 4 p.m. match in China would actually take place at around 4 a.m. in the U.S. Rather than try to figure out all the different time zones, I put those into the schedules as they were listed. All games that were played at, and are currently scheduled for future, homestands retain their original convention of using local time.
This new slate of matches, however, was listed on the OWL site in my local time (U.S. Eastern); I imagine it would be the same for you, depending on where you live. Rather than trying to translate them into local times for where the matches are being played — a technical impossibility, since some of the Atlantic matches will be played in Texas, in the Central Time Zone — I simply translated all of them to U.S. Pacific Time. For reference, that’s nine hours ahead of China and three hours behind the U.S. east coast, so a match listed at “1 a.m.” is taking place at 4 p.m. in China and 4 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone. Here’s a handy Time Zone Converter website, if you need it.
A little confusion is a small price to pay for us to get more games, though, isn’t it?