Game Republic Inc. (株式会社ゲームリパブリック "Kabushiki-gaisha Gēmu-Ripaburikku" ) was an independent video game developer based in Tokyo, Japan.
 The company, which employed just under 300 individuals before its closure, was founded on July 1, 2003 by Yoshiki Okamoto after he departed from Japanese game developer and publisher Capcom.
 He began working at rival game developer and publisher Konami in the 1980s, and was responsible for such arcade games as "Gyruss" and "Time Pilot".
 He then moved to Capcom, where he worked on many franchises, such as "1942", "Resident Evil" and especially "Street Fighter II".
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is a subsidiary of the American company Activision Blizzard.
 The company was founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles: Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce, and Allen Adham.
 The company originally concentrated on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with games like "Rock n' Roll Racing" and "The Lost Vikings".
 In 1994 the company became Chaos Studios, then Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. after being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates.
Tetris Online, Inc. is a video game developer and publisher based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
 The company is the exclusive online licensee of Tetris in North America and Europe.
 Founded in January 2006 by Nintendo of America founder and former president Minoru Arakawa, video game designer and publisher Henk Rogers and Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris Online, Inc. is the developer of social games Tetris Battle and Tetris Friends.
 In March 2013, it was revealed in a Newspaper article that Tetris Online had laid off 40% of its staff.
A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.
 A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual disciplines, such as programming, design, art, testing, etc.
 Most game development companies have video game publisher financial and usually marketing support.
 Self-funded developers are known as independent or indie developers and usually make indie games.
The Overwatch World Cup 2017 is an "Overwatch" eSports tournament, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer.
 It features 32 represented nations from around the world, with the final tournament taking place at the Anaheim Convention Center from November 3-4, 2017.
Square Enix is a Japanese video game developer and publisher formed from the merger on April 1, 2003 of video game developer Square and publisher Enix.
 The company is best known for its role-playing video game franchises, which include the "Final Fantasy" series, the "Dragon Quest" series, and the action-RPG "Kingdom Hearts" series.
 For many of its games, Square Enix has produced albums of music containing songs from those games or arrangements of those songs.
 In addition to those albums, it has produced several compilation albums containing music from multiple games or series made by the company.
 These albums include music directly from the games, as well as arrangements covering a variety of styles, such as orchestral, piano, vocal, and techno.
 This list includes albums produced by Square, Enix, or Square Enix which contain music from multiple games in the companies' catalog which are not a part of a single series.
 The first of these was "Personal Computer Music" by Enix in 1987.
 Dozens of albums have been published since, primarily through Square Enix's own record label.
Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville, Maryland.
 The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in 1986 as a division of Media Technology Limited, and in 1999 became a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media.
 In its first fifteen years, it was a video game developer and self-published its titles.
 In 2001, Bethesda spun off its own in-house development team into Bethesda Game Studios, and Bethesda Softworks became a publisher only.
 It currently also publishes games by ZeniMax Online Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks and BattleCry Studios.
Red Entertainment (株式会社レッド・エンタテインメント , Kabushiki-gaisha Reddo Entateinmento ) is a video game developer and publisher based in Japan.
 Formerly known as the Red Company (レッドカンパニー , Reddo Kanpanī ) since its founding in 1976 (though it did not begin doing business until 1985), it was reorganized under its current moniker on December 4, 2000.
 While Red Company as a public corporation dates back to the mid-1980s, the first title released under the Red Entertainment brand was "Gungrave" on July 17, 2002.
 The name "RED" comes from "Royal Emperor Dragon".
 In 2011, the company was acquired by Chinese game developer UltiZen Games Limited.
 In 2014, Red Entertainment was sold to Oizumi Corporation.
704Games (formerly known as Dusenberry Martin Racing) is an American video game developer and publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 The company acquired the license to be the exclusive developer of NASCAR video games in January 2015.
The Overwatch World Cup 2016 was an "Overwatch" eSports tournament, organized by Blizzard Entertainment, the game's developer.
 It was the first of the series, and took place at BlizzCon at the Anaheim Convention Center from November 4–5, 2016.

Question: The Overwatch World Cup 2017 was organized by a video game developer and publisher based in what city?
Answer: Irvine