No Overwatch Competitive Play during open beta

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Overwatch's more serious, ranked Competitive Play mode will be disabled during the open beta, up until "sometime" after the game launches on 24th May.
Game director Jeff Kaplan announced this on the Overwatch forum, suggesting there were still kinks with Competitive Play that needed ironing out. People leaving games and not being replaced for the duration - making teams unbalanced - was, speaking from experience, a particular problem.
"We worked extremely hard to get Competitive Play in the game for closed beta," wrote Kaplan. Competitive Play was added early April and so was live for two-and-a-half weeks before the closed beta went offline.
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