Justice signs Decay as travel-eligible player

The Washington Justice Washington Justice OWL Rank #17 Decay Jang Gui-un (장귀운) dps Happy Lee Jung-woo (이정우) dps Mag Kim Tae-sung (김태성) tank Krillin Jeong Young-hoon support Opener An Gi-beom support have signed former Dallas Fuel DPS player Decay to the team as a travel-eligible player, following new roster rules introduced by the Overwatch League yesterday.

The new roster rules for the upcoming playoffs allows teams to sign a free agent in-case of multiple circumstances and if the free agents either have citizenship or a visa for a country in Asia, where the final four teams will compete. Decay was released by the Fuel last week after the previous signing deadline closed on July 31.

Decay Decay joins the Justice after new roster rules were introduced in the Overwatch League. Image credit: Carlton Beener for Activision Blizzard Entertainment.

Decay was released by the Fuel per his request; Fuel owner Mike Rufail said that Decay did not want to work with the team, while former assistant coach Tikatee said there were philosophical differences between the two parties. Decay has not stated what happened between him and the organization from his point of view since then.

As a travel-eligible player, Decay takes the place of tank player LullSiSH, who has been inactive due to visa issues since February. He also reunites with tank player rOar, who were together on the Los Angeles Gladiators. The Justice now have seven active players on the roster.

The Justice’s next and final match in the regular season is against the San Francisco Shock on August 22.

Lee "TTuba" Ho-sung (이호성) (DPS)
Lee "Stitch" Chung-hee (이충희) (DPS)
Jang "Decay" Gui-un (장귀운) (DPS)
Lukas "LullSiSH" Wiklund (Tank)
Gye "rOar" Chang-hoon (Tank)
Choi "JJANU" Hyeon-woo (최현우) (Off-tank)
Min-seok "AimGod" Kwon (Flex support)
Hong "ArK" Yeon-joon (Support)

Their staff are:

Han "Sup7eme" Seung-jun (Head coach)
Joon "Wiz" Lee Hae (Coach)
Park "Chilhwa" Min-hyeung (Assistant coach)

I think I really comes back to the old "is marketable" meme from pre-season one.

And a lot of that marketability comes from the angle that the team takes in marketing. Nyxl and Justice do provide very good opposites in showing that though, the Nyxl marketing works so well because they marketed around 2 things, there city and there player personalities. Two things with really worked well for them due to strong NY pride (especially in a generally good team) and the amount their players put personalities forward. Where as Justices marketing appeals to American patriotism more than it does locally, as such a bunch of Korean players and a Swede being pushed as the American team, while that just aint marketable without the results to push past it.

Tldr, marketing has to match the roster and branding together to be successful which is really what matters