I'm Top 500 in Overwatch 2 and I wanted to know if that is a good or bad thing to put on my resume in my interest section.

This is the advice I would give to myself if I had to go back in time for recruiting - ACTUALLY figure out why you like it or why you think you'd be good at the industry that you're looking into. My best friend is in the HF industry now and if you ever think to yourself at any point that it's not possible, his journey is the reason why I think anything is genuinely possible even if all odds are stacked against you. For the sake of anonymity, I'll say that his path was the most unconventional that you can probably think of: music major from a school which was nonexistent for sending kids into finance let alone HFs. Tried recruiting into banking alongside me since we were both super close together but quickly bombed out of so many interviews / wasn't given a chance at all at any BBs/boutiques that this site often has the misconception of saying is "easy to get as long as you're socially aware and network well". Somewhere along the lines we deviated from doing the same path and he started looking into HF which at first glance you might think he has no actual chance at all since most HFs you'd think about (P72, Citadel, etc.) were already closed at this point. But he made it work - he grinded it out, he worked extremely hard (read a different 10-k every single day, made a bunch of his own thesis on stocks and cold emailed a ton of PMs asking to coffee chat and run through his thesis and improve) and he actually had a genuine passion for why investing / L/S and he ended up landing an offer most people on this site would kill to have post-stint at a top background (Goldman -> Megafund PE). For context, this all happened towards the end of sophomore year and beginning of junior year. Now he gets praised non-stop from all the C-suite executives of his fund and is on track to make partner before 28. Like you said, you could stay the course with IB just because you've been focused on it the past year or you can actually figure out the reason for why you want IB other than just out of straight convenience and because it's a conventional path to "exiting" into other high-paying jobs.

My point behind all of this besides just propping up my friend is that it doesn't matter what the "typical path" is. This website is so skewed because everyone has been brainwashed into thinking that you can only make it into top HFs or become a partner or become a great banker based off paths that the typical applicant takes. No doubts that because someone has done it before that you can also follow suit and potentially get the same results but there's frankly better methods than investing all your time and resources into replicating someone else's path. Actually be interested and find a reason for why you can wake up everyday looking forward to breaking into the industry and actually staying (whatever it may be). Look into becoming the best you can be at the industry and have a goal that isn't just so college kids on WSO can freak out about your path and ask for coffee. Frankly most of the burnouts my friend and I've observed in the industry are all people that followed your typical "golden" path (2 yrs top IB => 2 yrs MF PE -> 2 yrs HF / B-School) and they will never be more than just a cookie cutter archetype with no real tangible passion other than the fact they have a resume people on this site would kill for.

On the preparation part - can't speak much to HF / investing since I'm not in the industry but can speak to banking. For banking, figure out first why you find it interesting - the premise of this industry is that you're a trusted advisor to clients and because of the nature of the business cycle, M&A / raising money will always be a constant. You'll be able to see through so many different transaction types with different types of companies and whether it be in the MM space (helping entrepreneurs see through their vision of building a company from the ground up to the point of being sold) or in the Megacap space (seeing companies that you recognize on the daily merge / acquire for strategic initiatives and operational improvement). At the junior level, sure it might not be as intellectually stimulating since you're just building out shells of slides where the verbiage can easily be done by ChatGPT, but being in the room with an experienced rainmaker and being able to observe how they manage the client, how they pressure and convince buyers to bid higher, all aspects of the sale process, is an experience that you will not get elsewhere as a 22 year old in corporate America. All that being said, these are reasons highlighted above that can answer the "why banking" question. As for technicals, run through the BIWS guides and just grind it out - not much to say there lol besides understand why certain parts of the valuation process require certain metrics / analysis.