Spacestation punches OWCS ticket

Spacestation Gaming locked up a place at the 2026 Overwatch Champions Series Champions Clash by finishing top two in North America’s Stage 1 playoffs. (esports.overwatch.com) Blizzard’s 2026 rules send teams from regional playoffs to three live events, and Champions Clash is the first of them. North America’s Stage 1 playoff bracket on April 10-12 decided two of the eight spots. (overwatch.blizzard.com, esports.overwatch.com) The official schedule showed Spacestation beat Team Liquid 3-2 in the upper bracket on April 10, then lost 3-1 to Dallas Fuel in the upper-bracket final on April 11. That loss still left Spacestation alive in the double-elimination playoff, with one more path to qualify. (esports.overwatch.com) Liquipedia lists Spacestation as North America’s No. 2 qualifier for Champions Clash, alongside Dallas Fuel as the region’s No. 1 seed. The event is set for May 22-24 in Tachikawa, Tokyo, with eight teams. (liquipedia.net) The roster attached to that berth includes Sugarfree, Lethal, Hawk, Admiral and UltraViolet, with ChrisTFer listed as coach. Liquipedia’s player pages identify Hawk as Xander Domecq and Sugarfree as Kamden Hijada. (liquipedia.net, liquipedia.net, liquipedia.net) For Spacestation, the qualification keeps the organization on the international calendar after a 5th-6th finish at the 2025 Champions Clash. Liquipedia’s results page also shows a 7th-8th finish at the 2025 World Finals and a runner-up finish in North America’s 2025 Stage 3. (liquipedia.net) The team’s Overwatch project has moved fast in two seasons. Liquipedia says Spacestation entered the game on February 29, 2024, competed first in Europe, then pivoted back to North America for the 2025 season. (liquipedia.net) Champions Clash is the first global checkpoint of the 2026 season, and Spacestation is already through. The next step is Tokyo in late May, where North America’s second seed will face qualifiers from Europe, Asia and China. (liquipedia.net, esports.overwatch.com)