In tonight’s matches, the San Francisco Shock play the Florida Mayhem.
In other news, according to Shock social media team, Florida Man struck again. He truly is the worst superhero.
MVP ALERT!
We can begin voting for our 2019 Overwatch League MVP presented by T-Mobile beginning about a month from now.
Details here:
Well that’s got to be Super or Bumper, hasn’t it?
i feel like it pretty much has to go to one of those teams…but id go with Sinatraa actually…and Choihyobin/SeoMinSoo have been pretty good as well
Update - 6/28/2019 - Fissure Retires from Overwatch
Source: https://twitter.com/SeoulDynasty/status/1144078036502867968
Fissure originally served with the London Spitfire in the Inaugural season of the league often competing for the top spot with Gesture, in Stage 2, he was traded to the L.A. Gladiators and had a dominating performance beating the Spitfire in every match since. During the playoffs, he was benched due to communication and other issues with teammates and was eventually traded off to the Dynasty during the off season. He has since competed with this team until now.
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Fissure’s retirement is not the only OWL news from last night:
Main Tank NoSmite and DPS Bazzi have both joined Hangzhou’s academy team, Bilibili Gaming, on a 2-way contract. This comes just a few days before Chinese Contenders S2 kicks off, and will hopefully allow both players to see more game time.
Oooof that’s a big blow to Seoul (well any team really)…who takes over? Or is that not something they have on the roster atm?
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Seoul is probably the team least affected by one player leaving tbf. They’ve been playing their full roster on a map-by-map basis, this just means Marve1 will be playing every map now, not some.
the jjonak mvp zenyatta skin is now available!
It’s taken 3 stages, but my boy is back where he belongs!
Logix is here! The ex-Florida DPS is promoted from Montreal Rebellion, rejoining OWL with the Toronto Defiant.
thank mr logix
EDIT: No sooner do I post that, than do Toronto announce another signing, also formerly of the Mayhem organisation:
Mangachu FINALLY makes it into OWL, joining Toronto from Revival, and becomes the first Canadian to play on a Canadian team.
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It’s Atlanta Homestand time…and DOT Esports is celebrating by posting the official “Atlanta Homestand Drinking Game”.
Link is below. PLEASE NOTE: Underage drinking and/or irresponsible drinking is not cool whatsoever. Please be advised soda and/or water is always available at your local grocery store and is a viable (and safer, to be frank) alternative to alcohol.
https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/overwatch-league-atlanta-homestand-drinking-game
See you all in the official discussion threads tomorrow! If you’ll excuse me, I’m needed at work again…
There have been a couple of quiet updates to the Titans and the Spark
- Tizi who played for North American Contenders team GRUNTo, is alledgedly joining the Vancouver Titans as a secondary main tank.
- Krystal (Hangzhou Spark) is on a leave of absence for family matters and is expected to return in Stage 4. (He has not played since Stage 2 Playoffs.)
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LA Valiant Main Tank turned makeshift Support, Kuki, has now retired.
Forgive me for being unprofessional here, but YESSSSSSSSSSS
A double signing for Washington, as they pick up 2 players who have played games together for over a decade. Main Tank LullSiSH and Off Tank Ellivote both join the Justice from Team EnVy, the Dallas Fuel academy team
Oooo this could get spicy
Having only retired earlier this season Stellar has unretired, but NOT gone back to Toronto. Instead, he has returned to the league with Boston. This is not the first Boston-Toronto transfer, with Neko previously going the other way when the Defiant roster was being built.
NEWS FOR NEXT SEASON
Today, the plans for the 2020 Overwatch League season were announced, first broken by ESPN here:
For those that can’t view the link, here’s the main headlines:
- No expansion in 2020
- The season is no longer split into Stages, meaning the Shanghai Dragons are the last ever Stage Champions. There is however still a mid-season break, during which All Stars takes place
- Every team will host at least 2 Homestands in the season, up to a maximum of 5
- 2 Homestands will run concurrently in different cities each week
- The 2 Divisions have now been split into 4 sub Divisions
The sub-divisions are:
Pacific East
- Seoul Dynasty
- Shanghai Dragons
- Chengdu Hunters
- Hangzhou Spark
- Guangzhou Charge
Pacific West
- Los Angeles Valiant
- Los Angeles Gladiators
- San Francisco Shock
- Dallas Fuel
- Vancouver Titans
Atlantic South
- Houston Outlaws
- Florida Mayhem
- Philadelphia Fusion
- Atlanta Reign
- Washington Justice
Atlantic North
- New York Excelsior
- Boston Uprising
- London Spitfire
- Paris Eternal
- Toronto Defiant
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That pacific west division though…
Dallas cursing their luck
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So what happens to patch and roster changes that used to happen between stages? Does it all just have to wait till the mid season break or the next season? (sorry, can’t read the link rn)
Roster changes can occur before a certain deadline. It was just easier to do it during stage breaks of course.
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