I wonder if there will be a Dev blog later today or not? It’s usually Tuesday when we get updates/information right?
Or will it come tomorrow with the release of the S9 trailer? 
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I do not recall precisely when Aaron Keller posted that the developers blog was delayed until next week, but I am pretty sure today is the day. We should also be getting our Digimon Digital Champions season trailer.
Hi my name is Aaron Keller I am the game director for OW2. You will not be getting a blog post today so start coping. Wait until the patch comes out and deal with it. Signed, Aaron Keller
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typically the dev blog for the season releases on the same day as the trailer, and the director’s take dev blog releases on every other friday. So I wouldn’t expect a blog today but you never know. It’s very likely that they tease something from the new season today though, like they might upload screenshots of the new map or a new skin or something on twitter
Plot twist. It actually is Aaron Keller pretending to be a troll
I don’t know if Keller will release a video or a blog post (probably the second)… but I think it will arrive today to preview what you will see on the screen of the season 9 trailer. It is necessary to understand first of all how the qualification of this new tournament system which “should” not be as pompous as the Overwatch League but more similar to a hybrid between OWleague and Contenders (but maybe I’m wrong) which will start from March onwards. Or at least, I think it will better explain the new passives and the logistical system of the competitive, to show us on the screen (tomorrow) the theme of the season and the whole wheelbarrow of events and contents (skins, Valentine’s day, etc.)
Honestly, I hope to see something not only about the new rebalancing of passives… but also info on substantial features like allies’ life bars, info on the Hanaoka map (presented at BlizzCon), etc.
Oh, and let’s not forget one thing in particular: we’re now in the final week of the season, and the developers were saying we’d have another Hacking test like Quicker Play before Season 9 started. I just want to hope that it’s something that you better analyze some specific gameplay problems, and not something extremely general as happened in the first hacked mode. 
especially for Flashpoints pace. I absolutely think we will have a developer comment on the next hacked mode.
Suspect the second QP hacked for season 8 got derailed when half the dev team got let go. Even if they weren’t directly working on it, such an involuntary mass exodus will negatively impact the team as a whole and cause delays.
My guess is that we’ll see the mythic teaser today, the mythic reveal on thursday and the season trailer on friday.
in reality I know that in the case of Overwatch the departments that have had a reduction in staff are almost half of the entire artistic team (designers, skin designers, environmental artists, sound designers) and part of the narrative team (the head writer and the producer ). their impact I suspect will be on the quality of the skins (or the organization of the events), the maps, and above all zero plans for PVE for another year (if there is still a plan, by now I think Keller will announce something unpleasant on the way of giving narrative soon 
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I don’t think at all that it concerns the technological team as you think, because in that case they couldn’t afford to support what they announce for season 9 which cannot have yet another technical failure as happened at the debut of ow2. they are not things that can be canceled at any moment, unless there are some terrible bugs. and not after a year of ow2, it would be ridiculous even for Microsoft itself which started a publication with geforce now with overwatch and diablo. and they even recently employed the tech team to tease the release of the promised New Lunar Year skins for the following week.
I think that for now the technical plan is the one that will get the most attention, also with regards to this buff to the experiments that suspiciously started in January.