ESPN reports Houston's roster

tamagao

October 27, 2017

According to a report from ESPN'S Jacob Wolf, the roster of the Houston Overwatch League team has been built. The core of the roster is composed of former members of FNRGFE with a few other additions.

Five players come from FNRGFE: clockwork, coolmatt69, Muma, Boink, and Bani. The last member of FNRGFE, buds, is not a part of the reported roster.

Three additional players, all of which are most known for their DPS play, were also included on the team in the report. These players include Mendokusaii, who has played for a number of teams as an unsigned free agent since his departure from Cloud9, JAKE, formerly a member of LG Evil and current captain of the USA World Cup team, and LiNkzr, who recently won Overwatch Contenders Season One Europe with Team Gigantti.

flame, who the report said was expected to become the general manager of the team, said in response to the ESPN article, “What the heck your sources are trash,” in a subsequently deleted tweet. After Wolf held his ground, flame went on to say, "Enjoy the real announcement."

Houston is one of six Overwatch League franchises not to publicly reveal its branding and one of many yet to make an official announcement on any members of its roster. It is believed that every franchise will reveal both its branding and full roster before the Overwatch World Cup in Blizzcon starts on November 3.

The reported roster of the Houston Overwatch League team is:

Jacob "JAKE" Lyon (DPS)
Matt "clockwork" Dias (DPS)
Jiri "LiNkzr" Masalin (DPS)
Lucas "Mendokusaii" Håkansson (DPS)
Matt "coolmatt69" Iorio (Flex)
Austin "Muma" Wilmot (Tank)
Chris "Bani" Benell (Support)
Daniel "Boink" Pence (Support)

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I really like this roster. Alas, I feel for Buds.

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rip team giganti (

Linkzr saviour of finnish esports :-D

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I wonder if Houston is keeping the any of the FNRGFE coaching staff, the players all speak highly of them.

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stacked roster, tbh

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meh?

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i think jake and linzkr make a good duo
bani and boink arent the worst supports in the world either; both had some good plays in contenders

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I would argue that bani, boink and muma (+coolmatt) are one of the best cores in OWL so far perhaps only behind nV. The Korean teams rely a lot more on their DPS so possibly them as well.

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Muma and Coolmatt are solid. Boink is also solid. My issue lies with bani and clockwork. I was really hoping for carpe + shadowburn + rawkus to be a thing. Clockwork is very inconsistent from what I've seen in contenders, and bani sometimes chokes hard, eg. not using trans in the last fight against envy on lijang. (maybe his button jammed)

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Houston corndogs to win OWL S1

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It'll be interesting to see how they use all their DPS players. I hope my boy Clockwork gets some real playing time.

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Clockwork is good but let's be honest in terms of tracking/aiming he's subpar

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i would argue that his tracking and aiming are what hes best at. have you seen him try and tac visor? its hard to watch

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Boink and Bani are the best sounding support pair of any team, their names are top tier

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If this is correct, interesting move taking clockwork instead of linkzr/davin combo :thinking:

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clock owns

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I disagree, he appears to be really inconsistent, and was not definitely not the best pick out of what could have been a really tight roster.

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idk why the negs, Clock can look top tier one day and vanish without trace the next.

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I agree but he does have a lot of potential, if he does iron out his kinks he'll be nuts

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I thought I heard something about Clockwork moving to Philly.
That would leave Jake, Mendo and Linkzr for DPS, Matt and Muma for tanking, and Bani and Boink for supports. I imagine they might wanna find one more support and one more tank, but otherwise, very strong roster.

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I mean Flame seems pretty adamant about this not being the roster (or at least the exact one).
Having 3 projectile players also seems weird to me, but a good tank duo and a few popular names in there.

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I think Flame is probably a little more adamant that he wanted it to be a surprise.

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Of course he does, everyone in his position would want that. But there's no reason for him to publicly go out and say what he said without it being true. So I'm pretty sure this isn't the exact roster, unless he's giving us the 1,2 step and this is the exact roster. Fuck...

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Muma said clocwork is going on Boston(this maybe is a troll but confirm what flame said)

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Involv3r

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It might be true yeah. But it would leave the current leaked roster with 3 projectile players and 0 hitscans. And even one hitscanner seems insufficient seeing the rest of the OWL rosters.
I'm just gonna wait for the announcement, not gonna get Jebaited Kappa

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Imho i prefer id clocwork go on houston so my projectile/flex support dream for Boston will be true. Imho Mendo and Jake can both Hitscan but no tracer...so they need a tracer specialist (jake and mendo plays a lot of hero)

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I know Jake and Mendo can play hitscans, but from what they showed before, not nearly as good as they are on projectile.
And I personally can't fathom how Mendo is in OWL, he has a good network and a pretty big fanbase, but he has been benched time and time again since the OG FaZe and even before. It's a given that he's more mature and that's in the past but still, don't understand this whole situation.

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Agree with you( OWL is killing me i hate to do another sure downfrag post) but for now i am not liking this team(except for linkrz and jake) but before talk i want to see the real/full roster

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I was secretly wishing for a LiNkzr Surefour duo. Can you imagine!! Hopefully it's still doable.

Also I got you with the upfrags whenever I see the downfrags.

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My man yoy are a really good person :)! Anyway 90% surefour is on La 2....but what about if train is also join Houston? That would make me reconsidered my position...hope the canadian boy can have a spot in OWL

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Loving this squad if true!

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Really nice roster, will be interesting to see how they will do. I dont like the 3 projectile DPS tho because i feel like on everything except Phara maybe Linkzr is better than Mendo and Jake. If Clockwork really goes to another Team or at least doesnt Play in this roster and they have Linkzr + JAKE as DPS Duo with Mendo as a "phara otp" for some Maps this roster would look really good in my eyes and might even become "my" Team ^^

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Man congratulation for reach the finals my man! Gonna root for you guys!

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<3

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poi98

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Can i ask you just a question? I search for like 1 hour where to find the results but i only reach how italian team did and your tweet...there is some sort of brackets where i can follow your results live?

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sorry i didnt see it :<
https://www.faceit.com/en/overwatch_EU/tournament/60d1b6da-6125-4f26-a879-696bc9ec9e88/brackets wouldve been the bracket but i dont know if you could find it without being on the Faceit Discord^^

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Interesting roster, though I'm assuming this isn't their final form, since even though I think it's good I don't think it's quite at the level of Dallas or Seoul and there's still ample available talent out there.

Cough AKM Cough

Given the need for overlap in this league I think he would have slotted in just fine here, but hey, a man can dream.

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Wow, that lineup is stacked

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I imagine this is fairly accurate even if not 100%

JAKE and LiNkzr are as good as any other DPS duo you could get and the rest of the roster is pretty stacked too.

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clockwork is actually in OWL? LuL

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i feel like Buds would be a better pick than mendo, but other than that roster seems solid

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I like this roster, I hope clockwork plays a lot. I feel the inconsistency factor, but when he shows up, he is a god. I do like the Muma + Coolmatt Core along with the supports on this team, I think they probably should have a support / tank sub similar to dallas but w/e. Lets go corndogs, rooting for you!

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9000 IQ roster if it's confirmed to be true. Jake, Coolmatt and Muma are very smart players.

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