ZETA Division tops OWCS Korea, T1 earns LCQ as New Era falls

ZETA DIVISION closed OWCS Korea Stage 1 in first place and did it cleanly, finishing 6-0 with an 18-5 map record and a plus-13 differential to lock the top seed for the next phase. That matters immediately because the Korean regular season now feeds into the Playoffs Seeding Decider Matches on April 24-26, and the order behind ZETA will shape who gets the clearest route through the region’s postseason gauntlet.

The final table turned the top four into the story. Team Falcons finished second at 5-1 with a 17-4 map record and the same plus-13 differential, while T1 took third at 4-2 on map record, ahead of Crazy Raccoon and ONSIDE GAMING, who also finished 4-2. Under the format for the 9-team online stage, the top four advance to the Playoffs Seeding Decider Matches, the next four move into the Last Chance Qualifier, and the bottom team drops into promotion and relegation for Stage 2. That leaves T1, Crazy Raccoon, and ONSIDE GAMING fighting from very different positions than Team Falcons and ZETA DIVISION, even though the gap between those clubs was measured in maps, not match wins.

New Era’s 0-6 finish leaves it on the wrong side of the season’s sharpest cutoff, and the winless record is the one that matters most now that the regular season is over. Cheeseburger also ended the stage at 0-6, but New Era is the name tied to elimination pressure as the field shifts from round-robin play to survival mode. For a region where every map differential can change a seeding line, that is a brutal way to exit a stage with $38,500 on the line.

ZETA’s finish also carries weight beyond one standings table. The team returned to Overwatch competition on June 13, 2024, and this roster, built around Bernar, KNIFE, Mealgaru, Proper, shu and Viol2t, has now turned that comeback into a first-place finish in Korea. Blizzard has described Korea as a cornerstone of the OWCS Asia ecosystem, and the result feeds directly into that larger 2026 picture, where OWCS spans North America, EMEA, Asia and China and Korea’s seeding outcome helps set the tone for the Champions Clash path later in the spring.