OWL full list of teams for season 1

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remiska

Following earlier report by espn of optic obtaining Houston comes the news (also from espn) of the one more spot for the first owl season beeing Philadelphia now owned by Comcast Spectacor, the owner of the Philadelphia Flyers and sports branch of cable giant Comcast. According to sources blizzard is also pursuing Wesley Edens as an owner of chicago spot this would make 13 spots, one more then the minimum blizzard set for season 1 of overwatch league.

If these and earlier reportabout envyus byuing Austin-dallas spot become official we will know most of the teams for the first season of the overwatch league. It is set to start this year and take place in the newly open Blizzard Arena Los Angeles every Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

We now know every city for the first season only few of them have a roster and there is only one with, although rumoured only, name "Shanghai Dragons", also some time ago cloud 9 asked on twitter for help in naming its spot. According to blizzards rules every Overwatch League team is required to create new geolocated brand/name.

here you can finde full list of spots and rosters: https://www.over.gg/5409/overwatch-league-teams
and here collected info about overwatch scene after owl starts: https://www.over.gg/5564/overwatch-esport-scene-after-overwatch-league#5

EDIT FUCK i forgot to post source :/ sorry http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20673359/blizzard-entertainment-locks-two-more-20-million-overwatch-league-spots

edit i read it and should fix it coz its written terribly but hey thats a forum and who cares

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Lol you beat me of a minute..gg
but the teams will beacame 14 for the first season...Milwalkee bucks owner is dealing with Blizzard for the Chicago spot.
http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20673359/blizzard-entertainment-locks-two-more-20-million-overwatch-league-spots

so another one to be announced maybe?( to reach 14)

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well, they aimed for 12-16 teams for season 1 (and they even set a final number of spots in owl for 28 read the thread i posted) and i didnt expect more then minimum for season 1 so i set it at that but maybe i was too pesimistic, well see
edit: ok i got what you mean and edited my post accordingly

also did i beat you to posting

2 more teams in owl "link"

or the little article like what i tried to write? ;) and because i tried to write it fast it came out very mediocre

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victococoblazin

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Theorycrafting thread for optic and houston teams?

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remiska

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and now off to the other thread, keeping this thread with list of spots in owl turned out to be more work then i expected :/

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poi98

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Also seems like the owner of Luminosity talked about a Toronto OWL spot ( not from him but from another investors)

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Pixelfish

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So these are the final 12? I would like to see 4 more but I'm happy to start with these. Why Houston I wonder, if Dallas is already there? You would think another European spot would be better.

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KuroiRyuu9625

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That would make 13, according to the article their goal was 14, but yeah, I'd like to see 16.

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remiska

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nedit nvm they count chicago, ignore this comment

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remiska

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for now, we might see more depending prodably on how fast they can close a deal with blizzard but again blizzard is aiming to have 28 teams in owl so we have nearly half of all th teams that we will ever have in it (AGAIN more on it in my 2nd thread listed below article

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I think it's probably because it would be much harder to travel around for home and away matches if they are located outside the U.S. Although the first season is set to take place in LA, it is likely to change. I don't think anyone knows exactly how it will be changed, but it seems like Blizzard is aiming to do home and away matches around the cities, which I think is crazy with the cities located all around the world. Perhaps, that is why not many groups outside U.S. are showing interest in securing a spot in the OWL.

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remiska

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envy owns, reportadly, austin-dallas spot

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Pixelfish

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:confused:

Has there been a statement from overwatchleague.com yet?

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remiska

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edit actualy about london and los angeles (9 teams) so no, but we heard about envyu taking austin-dallas long ago and still no confirmation
https://overwatchleague.com/en-gb/news/20948588

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I may fine with these cities right now, I'm just saying I hope for some more European and pacific exposure.

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poi98

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I totaly agree with you.....maybe they has to made a less prices for european spot....or the fanbase in america will be totaly fragment instead of the only block in Korea China and Europe( and leave alone pacific fanbase is a horrible choice)