How Overwatch’s Anniversary Event Stacks Up to Past Seasonal Events

Year of The Rooster

• When: January 24, 2017 to February 13, 2017
• 124 new items
  • 13 Skins
  • 3 Emotes
  • 7 Victory Poses
  • 23 Voice Lines
  • 52 Sprays (including 2 Sprays from achievements)
  • 3 Highlight Intros
  • 23 Player Icons
• New Arcade Brawl: Capture the Rooster (CTF)
• New Map: Lunar New Year reskin of Lijiang Tower

The Year of the Rooster celebrated the Lunar New Year with a new game type and seasonal reskin of Lijang Tower. The update was divisive among the community over the new Capture the Flag mode. One opinion was that it was a welcome change to the usual payload and control point modes, while another was that the old maps were not fit for a CTF mode.

The still available mode was a fun diversion, but games often went one of two ways. Either the match became a stalemate, or one team would roll the other for an early flag capture and then defend heavily for the rest of the match.