How a match runs

Before a Quick Play or Competitive match the players vote among 3 maps. Each vote is a chance: with 9 votes for one map and 1 for another, the first wins 90% of the time.

Mystery Heroes had the vote too, until it became 6v6.

A fourth choice picks a random map. A map with 6 more votes than every other wins outright (8 votes are always enough in 5v5, 9 in 6v6).

New and reworked maps are tagged. In Competitive they give 10 extra Competitive Points and a smaller loss penalty.

The three maps always cover at least 2 different modes.

The usual respawn time is 12 seconds, 14 in overtime.

Respawns come in waves: the first death of a team opens a wave, anyone dying within the next 6 seconds joins it and respawns at the same moment, so the wait is between 6 and 12 seconds.

In 6v6 modes the window to join a wave is 3 seconds instead of 6.

There are no waves in overtime or when a payload nears the end of its track.

After a swap you keep at most 15% of your ult charge.

Perk progress starts again for the new hero.

The two best heroes of each team go on stage, players vote for the MVP and can endorse each other from there. Match voice chat is open, but you have to join it.