Major League Gaming’s first major Overwatch tournament is quickly approaching, but participating professional players aren’t happy about the way it’s set up.

MLG revealed today that it’s forgoing a map drafting phase — which has become traditional in competitive Overwatch — for a preset map pool during the tournament (Dec. 16–18 in Las Vegas). Maps for each game through group play and brackets have already been determined: Teams will not be able to ban out any maps from the tournament. Given the prevalence of map drafting in the Overwatch tournament scene, many maps simply aren’t practiced by professional Overwatch teams.

“It’s just idiotic to force maps that no one plays and force maps that are permanently banned with drafts that every — or nearly every — tournament has used in the past,” Rise Nation DPS player Nathan “xRetzi” Telen told Dot Esports. “It’s arbitrarily punishing teams for not choosing to practice certain maps when there was no reason to in the past.”

Control map Ilios will be played at least nine times throughout the tournament, with assault map Temple of Anubus and escort map Route 66 being played five times. From there, hybrid maps Eichenwalde and King’s Row will see play four times. All of Overwatch’s live maps — save the new arena map Ecopoint: Antarctica — will see at least two games.

“There are too many maps in this game to expect teams to practice all of them, so I think it’s pretty stupid to force teams to play all maps in a tournament,” Jack “Shake” Kaplan, support player for compLexity Gaming, told Dot Esports. “The fact that certain maps are played way more than others makes it even worse.”

Ilios is the biggest problem for many professional Overwatch players — which makes its staggering play number at MLG Vegas all the more confusing. “A lot of teams don’t even scrim Ilios, so having that map played nine times is pretty disappointing,” Shake added.

But that’s not the only problem. Ridding the tournament of a map draft takes away from some of Overwatch’s depth of strategy. CompLexity Gaming — and many, if not all, Overwatch teams — practice specifically for the draft, flex player Anthony “harbleu” Ballo said. “Our team spends hours doing mock drafts to prepare for different teams and bans differently depending on who we play,” harbleu added.

Fnatic tank Faraaz ‘Stoop’ Waris summed up the professional Overwatch scenes thoughts perhaps most succinctly: “Everyone hates it and it’s a bad idea.”

But despite the scorn for MLG Vegas’ Overwatch map plan, it seems unlikely that organizers would change the format so close to the event.

One OpTic Gaming fan took a big risk betting the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team would reign supreme during ELEAGUE Season 2.

Sports betting website Betway gave OpTic Gaming 500/1 odds of winning the tournament. As OpTic moved through the tournament, folks began to notice the potential large payout should they beat the odds. First, the North American Counter-Strike team had to qualify for the 16-team global tournament, then take on ELEAGUE Season 1 runner-up Fnatic in group play.

“Through all the years of having a dedicated esports trading team we thought we had seen it all, but this 500/1 shot has left us with egg on our faces,” Betway’s Alan Alger said in a press release. “We’re only too happy to pay out on what is our largest priced single esports winner in our history, although I can confidently say we won’t be underestimating OpTic Gaming at the next [Counter-Strike] event.

After an impressive run in the group stages — pushing Fnatic and Team EnVyUs out of the tournament — OpTic took decisive wins from mousesports and FaZe Clan. Facing Danish powerhouse team Astralis in the finals, OpTic Gaming went 2–1 to take the victory and $400,000 in winnings. And as a result, one lucky (or preternaturally prescient) fan took home just over £10,000, or about $12,500.

Though this esports better brought in only a fraction of OpTic’s total winnings from ELEAGUE Season 2, they’re certainly thanking OpTic for defying those odds.

Actor and comedian Will Ferrell is looking to bump up the average esports player age by a few decades in Legendary Entertainment’s upcoming esports comedy film.

The film, written by Spongebob Squarepants 3 writers Michael Kvamme and Jordan Dunn, will center on Ferrell’s character, described as an anomaly in the esports scene because of his age. Slowing hand-eye coordination is no match for Ferrell’s character, who will take a role similar to the one he played in Talladega Nights, according to the press release. Two prolific esports organizations, Evil Geniuses and Fnatic, are also in talks to appear in the film, though their role has not been detailed.

A release date for the unnamed film has not been announced. Gary Sanchez and Mosaic will produce the film, with Patrick Connelly and John Beach of Gravity Squad co-producing.

Esports’ global appeal is sure to have been the draw for Legendary, given the massive scale of top games like League of Legends and Dota 2. With millions of dollars on the line, esports competition is drawing the attention of major organizations like the NBA, TBS, and ESPN.

This will be Ferrell’s first official foray into esports—here’s hoping he’s been warming up those fingers.

Grab your hats and gloves — Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch winter holiday event is hitting the game next week. Officially confirmed today, the event will go live Dec. 13.

The Overwatch developer formally invited all players to the event in a Twitter post, writing, “It’s the most wonderful time of the time, and we hope you’ll join us for some holiday cheer.”

Overwatch on Twitter

You're invited! https://t.co/MQZPZOW4Y1

From the Twitter post, it looks like Overwatch map King’s Row will get a winter makeover. The rest of the update, however, is still a mystery. And we’re still asking: Who gets to be Santa? Players are not totally in the dark, though. Overwatch dataminers took to the game’s files last week and discovered potential clues on what will be included. One dataminer, Kjasi, predicted there would be at least one holiday event (like Junkenstein’s Revenge for Halloween) and at least one holiday map, but up to three.

Additionally, Kjasi’s findings suggest that all heroes will get a spray, voice line, and victory pose, just as they did with the Halloween event. Widowmaker, Reinhardt, Mercy, Symmetra, Reaper, Sombra, Roadhog, D.Va, Ana, Soldier: 76, and Lúcio are all getting either a costume, emote, or highlight intro, should Kjasi’s predictions be true. Based on the data found, Winston, McCree, Mei, Pharah, Zarya, Tracer, and Zenyatta are predicted to be getting two new updates of either a costume, emote, or highlight intro.

Torbjörn, on the other hand, is the only hero who’s getting an emote, costume, and highlight intro. Does this mean Torbjörn will be Santa? We’ll find out for sure when the Overwatch holiday event goes live on Dec. 13.

UPDATE (Dec. 5, 2016 1:04 pm ET): Seconds after posting this story, Blizzard confirmed the holiday event.

Leaked audio files found in late November suggest Blizzard Entertainment may be preparing for an Overwatch holiday event. A festive Overwatch theme song — part of the leaked files — inspires one major question with the community: Who gets to be Santa?

As always, Overwatch players have a lot of good ideas for holiday skins — and there are a few standouts when it comes to the jolly, bearded dude. The obvious choice, of course, is Reinhardt.

Dopey on Twitter

Santa Reinhardt

Though he’d certainly be a more fit Santa than we’re used to, Reinhardt’s got the size. And the beard. And the white hair. Swap his hammer for a hulking red bag full of presents, and you’re good to go.

Reinhardt’s got some competition when it comes to the white beard, though — Torbjörn.

Blizzard is behind the snowball launcher and reindeer turret, too; in 2014, the developer tweeted out an image of Torbjörn as Santa that’s never shown up in-game.

There’s always the unconventional approach. Say, Santa Reaper or Ol’ Saintyatta.

Regardless of who’s Santa, super speedy Tracer could be heading up the sleigh as a reindeer.

We’re confident enough to nearly guarantee one thing: Christmas lights and holiday sweaters. Overwatch fans are hoping that Soldier: 76, in particular, will get a really good sweater.

Genji, on the other hand, only really needs to don some flashing lights.

Blizzard has yet to confirm or deny the Overwatch holiday update (or whether or not there will be Christmas sweaters). We’ll update you with more information should it be officially announced. Given Blizzard’s history of winter events — Heroes of the Storm and World of Warcraft both get holiday celebrations — it’s likely the developer will show us more soon.

For us at Dot Esports, we really just want snowballs.