August 27 update
On the official Overwatch forum, Scott Mercer — senior designer at Blizzard Entertainment — gave some details about the Role Queue Beta. In the first release,, there was every reason to believe that the results of this Beta would not be used later in the calculation of your MMR. If they will not appear in your profile and career, they will be used by matchmaking systems for Season 18.
What the blog post was trying to explain is that the Role Queue Beta season’s stats in your player profile will only be available for a limited time, and they will not be added to your career competitive totals that you can see when you choose “ALL COMPETITIVE SEASONS” in your career stats.
As announced a few days ago, Season 17 Overwatch stopped "suddenly" — 18 days before the theoretical end to be precise, seasons lasting about 45 days. If this decision had not been explained immediately, the reasons were explained by Blizzard. In concrete terms, Season 18 will only start on September 1 and the two weeks before this date are used as the "beta phase" of the Role Queue (or 2-2-2).
This official post also specifies some important data concerning the performances achieved by the players during these two weeks:
Role Queue will be fully available for Quick Play and Competitive Play beginning on September 1 for the start of Competitive Season 18.
Overwatch soon on Switch? The rumor has been spreading a few months ago, but it is only a protective case in the colors of Blizzard's FPS that the console will have — for the moment... This one is on pre-order and will be available around September 15.
