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The San Francisco Shock swept the New York Excelsior 4-0 in the losers-bracket final in Burbank, Calif., on Sunday to book a spot in the Grand Finals of the Overwatch League Season 2 Playoffs.

The Shock will face the top-seeded Vancouver Titans — who beat the Excelsior 4-3 in the winners’-bracket final on Friday — in a best-of-seven battle on Sept. 29 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, with $1.1 million going to the winner. The runner-up will pocket $600,000.

The Titans and Shock met in each of the first two stage playoff finals this year, with the Titans winning the Stage 1 title with a 4-3 victory and the Shock claiming Stage 2 with a 4-2 win. The sides also split two regular-season meetings, a 3-1 Vancouver win in February and a 3-2 San Francisco victory in August.

The third-seeded Shock, who fell 4-3 to the Atlanta Reign in the first round of the winners’ bracket, took it to the second-seeded Excelsior from the start on Sunday. They won 2-1 on Lijiang Tower, 3-2 on King’s Row, 6-5 on Temple of Anubis and 3-2 on Rialto. More than 170,000 watched the match on Twitch at its peak.

The Excelsior had won each of the previous four meetings with the Shock, though only one of those came in 2019.

Since losing to the Reign, the Shock have swept four straight matches. The 16-map win streak is the second-longest by any team in 2019, behind only San Francisco’s 28-map run during a perfect Stage 2.

The Excelsior earned $450,000 for the third-place finish.

OVERWATCH LEAGUE PLAYOFF PRIZE POOL

Season champion: $1.1 million
Runner-up: $600,000
3rd Place: $450,000 — New York Excelsior
4th Place: $350,000 — Hangzhou Spark
5th-6th: $300,000 — Los Angeles Gladiators, Atlanta Reign
7th-8th: $200,000 — London Spitfire, Seoul Dynasty
9th-10th: no prize money — Guangzhou Charge, Shanghai Dragons
11th-12th: no prize money — Philadelphia Fusion, Chengdu Hunters

–Field Level Media