NoLibs esports company N3rd Street Gamers has partnered with videogame publisher Blizzard Entertainment in a bid to officially include its popular Overwatch game in N3rd Street’s upcoming National Championship Series.

As part of the deal, N3rd Street will reach a half-dozen cities with the Overwatch National Championship Series. Amateur players from Philadelphia, Denver, Boston, Arlington and Washington, D.C. will be able to compete for prize pools of up to $50,000. The NCS Grand Finals will take place in October at N3rd Street’s Localhost Arena gaming hub in Denver.

At the end of last year, the NoLibs company announced the National Championship Series as a 10-city esports competition series that would include titles like Overwatch. So what’s the news here?

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