The Saudi Arabian Federation for Electronic and Intellectual Sports and Challenge Arena (SAFEIS) is working together to bring us the Overwatch Saudi Regional Tournament (OSRT).

The tournament will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the players will be from the 9 different eligible countries and they are as follows: Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates.

What the teams are playing for is the 1,000,000 Saudi Riyal prize pool which is roughly $267,000.

*** On May 17th, the deadline to sign up was extended and the tournament was rescheduled to a later date. The tournament was announced to be rescheduled for August 27-30th, 2018, with Qualifications taking place from the 3rd to the 17th of August. ***

*** On August 26th, the tournament finals were rescheduled again, with new dates and venue to be announced. ***