When Rooky posted the future OWL cities thread, i asked if anyone wanted me to do the thread where i ask pro players what they think the next 5 owl cities will be. I got a resounding yes and here it is. If their were any ties, i would decided who is more likely to join myself. So, here are the results
1.Paris (13)
2.Chicago (9)
3.Toronto (9)
4.Busan (6)
5.Las Vegas (6)
6.Sydney (5)
7.Stockholm (5)
8.Beijing (4)
9.Tokyo (3)
10.Berlin (3)
one of the pro players and i had a very interesting conversation about some of the cities that could be in OWL. The 3 cities we talked about were Berlin, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.
Berlin: I was the one who started with Berlin because it was the players home country. He said that Berlin could be a sleeper for the OWL, but said that if they were going to be in OWL when Europe's expansion phase comes around, he hopes a German football team will buy the spot. That's right when I said FC Shaulke, a new EU LCS teams that is one of the best Bundelsiga Teams in Germany. The FC Shaulke Organization has been around for all long time in football and would have more then enough funding to join OWL. Plus, with a very large fan base, they could have fans across Europe, especially in Germany. When they signed their LOL team, they actually introduced the team to their fans in the beginning of one of their football team's home games
Copenhagen: Copenhagen is the capitol of Denmark, and is becoming a center for Danish esports. Denmark is one of most up and coming esport nations, producing some marvelous esports players such as Bjergson, one of the greatest League of Legends players in the world and Dafran, one of the best Overwatch players. He mentioned how an esport org such as North can potentially buy a spot. North is a great up and coming esport org how are a lot like Optic, an esport org who is having great success in their earliest days. I could defiantly see Copenhagen in the OWL with all the great pros coming out
Stockholm: Last but not least, we have Stockholm, Sweden. Sweden is one of the top 5 best Overwatch nations, with 2 straight bronze finishes in the Overwatch World Cup and a total of 10 players in the inaugural season of OWL, the third most of any nation in OWL, only trailing South Korea (45) and the USA (17). For an esport org to pick up a Stockholm, I believe Fnatic will pick up the spot. In their time in Overwatch, Fnatic was a dominant team, having several top four finishes in tournaments such as the Atlantic Showdown, Overwatch Open, Dreamhack, and MLG Vegas. The org is very big and is considered one of the top 10 best esports orgs in the world. They own a spot in the EU LCS, and have one of the best teams in Europe. Like FC Shaulke, Fnatic has more them enough funding and fans to buy into OWL and keep their spot.
Now in the comments below, i want you guys to take the 10 cities i listed and give each city a team name. I will edit the thread in a week or so with a name picked out for each team that i thought was the best name for the city and the name of the person who suggested the name.
Thanks guys and have a great New Year