Houston Outlaws vs. San Francisco Shock - FINAL

General Discussion
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Week 2 • Day 1


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Houston Outlaws
  
San Francisco Shock
0-1 -1
  
1-0 +1
3-12 -24
  
12-3 +34


Map Schedule
Control • Nepal
Hybrid • Horizon Lunar Colony
Assault • Eichenwalde
Escort • Havana
TB/Control • ???

Final Stage

 
 
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Summary of Changes in Stage 2
  • Stage 2 will play on patch 1.36.0.1 Anniversary/Workshop Release which is the current live version of the game.
  • The map pool has replaced two of the three maps from Stage 2 of each map type. Here’s the map pool for Stage 3:

Click here for overall 2019 Overwatch League Changes
  • The Atlanta Reign, Paris Eternal, Toronto Defiant, and Washington Justice will join the Atlantic Division.
  • The Chengdu Hunters, Guangzhou Charge, Hangzhou Spark, and Vancouver Titans will join the Pacific Division.
  • All teams will play a 28-match schedule this season, down from 40 from the 2018 season.
  • The All-Star Game and other skills competitions will be held between Stages 2 and 3.
  • Stage Finals will be held after Stages 1, 2, and 3. Eight teams will qualify, including the two division leaders in that stage, along with the next six teams in the stage standings regardless of division.
  • For the postseason, the two division winners along with the next best four teams by record, regardless of division, will automatically qualify. Two additional teams will qualify through a play-in tournament between the seventh- through 12th-place teams. Those final eight teams will compete for the league championship in a double-elimination bracket.
  • The prize pool for the 2019 season is $5 million, up from $3.5 million in 2018.
  • Stage Playoffs Prize Pool (for each of Stage 1, 2, and 3):
    •Winner gets $200K
    •Runner-up gets $100K
    •3rd and 4th place teams get $50K each
    •5th through 8th place teams get $25K each
  • Season Playoffs Prize Pool:
    •Champion gets $1.1M
    •Runner-up gets $600K
    •3rd place team gets $450K
    •4th place team gets $350K
    •5th and 6th place teams get $300K each
    •7th and 8th place teams get $200K each
  • The map pool for each stage has been expanded to 12 maps.

    • For more details see the official 2019 Competition Rules here.


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So the Valiant parent org finalized their buyout of the Houston parent org and is managing both teams separately pending sale to a third party and their GM is like

I wonder if we’ll see any hint of it from the players

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i dont know what any of those words mean

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What words? “thousand god awful suns”? Imagine playing that one level in Super Mario Bros 3 but with thousands of these guys…

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Outlaws played better than expected versus the NYXL so this could be a closer match but I still think this will be an easy win for Shock. Outlaws will probably be slightly distracted with the whole buyout situation.

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The shock is a better team than NY, so It would be impressive if Houston is competitive.

The Good news for Houston is that the rest of the stage is… well, easier, going against Boston tomorrow, Paris, Florida, and Washington with the last being a Toronto Rematch.

It’s a rough start, but they can recover.

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I’ll probably miss all of this first match because the new Bastille album is out in 15 minutes and I want to listen to it. This will be an interesting test for Houston to see if last week’s solid performance v NYXL was a one-off or not.

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GOATS mirrors. Yay…

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hey, hws it goin? :smiley:
heart say Outlaws… brain Shock :frowning:

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Oh poor Choihyobin…

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Your heart may be in the right place here. Outlaws shut down Shock map 1, and were ultimately dominant map 3

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It’s too early to tell who will win this, but I can say Houston has a plan, and they are making it work.

After Map 1

 
 
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OK, that was…unexpected. :astonished:
First, they had my curiosity, now they have my attention.

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Alright, Houston, you’re going to mess with my emotions agains. Good round.

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And the best part was is that last map was a case of making a non-3/3 comp work very well against 3/3. Though I will note, that style of play was extremely map situational.

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Apparently Jake has been one tricking Doom on ladder recently

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my internet DCs so hard today, i gtg

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dps btw

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And that is why goats is so dominant. DPS are literally useless against it.

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So much healing. It seem Houston still cannot crack the Lunar Colony code.