So i know i am a bit late but here a thread about the Best Open Division teams for me in this Season in E. As always Europe is full of talent and if i missed someone or if i made mistakes please let me know so no one will be left behind :D. ( Teams are not listed in some sort of order but just as i find them).
Eminence Esports:
The two most recognizable players are Qvist:a swedish dps player who is in the T3 scene from a long ago (for sure more than a year). He never really found succes but he is a
veteran. The other important name is Vortex: a german dps player who played most notably in the first Angry Titans roster. He is a veteran too.
Samsung Morning Stars Blue:
Nisa: italian flex support, the only with Carnifex in all the 3 main roster of Team Italy, He played since beta at italians top level and the he tried go Europe with UB team ( almost qualified for Takeover2), then he pass to Mkers and Samsung Morning Stars Black ( he is the only one Samsung decided to keep).He is probably the best italian player right now.
DragonEddy: italian offtank. Selected for Samsung Morning Stars since the start of the project. He was select with a sort of Talent show/tournaments Samsung made to choose the team. He is the rising italian star ( he is on the World cup team). Tae, Drido , Chubz: 3 french players who come in the team for this open division. Tae already played some tournaments as dps and now he is rank 1 on ladder Eu ( if i am not wrong).Mechanically hypergifted but he probably need some more experiences. Drido is like 15/16 yo, he played in Conteders S1 alongside with Chubz for Copenhagen Flames. Probably the best Mercy in EU. Chubz is on the scene from like the start of Overwatch Esports : he played for a lot of french top teams ( like Bonjour, Sydioda, Team Vitality etc..) really aggressive main tank and really good with both Rein and Wiston, OWL level. LUFT: From Switzerland with happiness LUFT is a main tank coming from top Italian scene. He is on the Italian World cup team and has a more passive style compared to Chubz. thebigone: italian dps coming from italian scene. Not outstanding but always consistent with hitscans and hanzo. Linepro, Najiny: both are still on team but are not listed on OD page, i can tell for sure Najiny is still scrimming with them( 8 players cap probably the problem). He is a flex dps young but really skilled. Linepro is Linepro, Laser Kittenz, TSM , etc... One of the best Brigitte in Europe and a really good and smart Lucio. He probably got benched for Drido. No announcements yet from the team tho. This team made the last Trials nbut they ended 7th, the team dropped the other team ( Black who
was supposed to be the best team) and stick with only Blue team. DNCE left and Nisa join as flex support.They already beated Huge Players in this OD.
Könige:
No outstanding names but the focus is on teamplay. They went 8-2 last OD losing last 2 games 'thanks' to a mental breackdown probably. Consistent team who has all the quality to end top 16th.
#RAKIDUSHAT,NYYRIKKI Esports,orKs Grand Poitiers White:
I put all these teams here cause i think they are a sort of mid/high-tier teams( so low top 16 at their best). Nyyrikki from Finalnd,Rakidushat from Russia and Orks from France. For Nyyrikki Baito is the dps Super Star, really good players coming from the Ence roster. Nyyrikki recently finish 3rd in the Assembly behind TrailBlazers and Gigganti. #Rakidushat is a really good team but they never really archieve something. orKs organization is on Overwatch from a lot. They won some lan but only with star roster only for these tournaments. Their OD roster is pretty interesting but no outstanding players, they already losed to Globus Gaming and now they cant fail once again.
TrailBlazers:
Formed mostly by ex-Nemesis players ( a full finnish team). We find most notably Cali, the offtank wonderkid. Higly considered by all the finnish scene. He played also with Ence. This team ended up 2nd in Assembly Defenitely. Open Division playoffs worthy. They already beated Check esports.
Sørby Esport:
Full Danish roster with ex-Contenders players of Team Singularity like Lind(support) and FahL(dps/flex). They also have in team Sindustries(coach) and Watio. The latter had played some times as support with Bazooka Puppiez but he is mostly recognizable for his time in Copenhagen Flames ( he did not played Contenders tho).Lind played with team Singularity since Fragsters. He come along with Fahl from Kaser Littenz ( who were signed by TS).
Globus Gaming:
Half italian team( both supports Adnar,Tia and main tank Legol are italians). Munsai is portuguese and Tomkas is Czech. Tomkas played for eSuba esports (best Czech team). Legol come from top Italians team alongside with Tia. They then tried the European way first with a spanish team and then with a mixed ( mostly italian team) who ended top 16 last season ( Sparrow Shock). Munsai also played in top-16 last season for Rentless(ex-Manticore).Adnar played for Könige last OD (he is one of the backups for the italian national team). He also was one of the choosen by Samsung Morning Stars in the tournaments/talent shows i was writing up there.
Huge players:
Another upcoming team, most recognizable player is probably nesty. They proved themselves in the last months with GO4Overwatch ( even if with some roster changes). Nesty is a dutch player who have a lot of experiences in the T3 tournaments. They already losed to SMS Blue but the run is not already end for them.
HSL esports, HSL Academy:
This org picked up the old Koord Narwhals rosterw who made it in the last OD playoffs and some reconizable players. Starting with the Academy team we find most notably A10 ( offtank for Golden Sausage last open division and member of the Dutch team as reserve), Corn ( ex-main tank of Kord Narwhals and main tank for the Netherland National team), we have also R0IV ( from most notably Last Rites) a spanish vet. Along with them we have some other interesting prospect like B8R. HSL esports has some big names : Hidan first of all (coming from NA Contenders with Skyfoxes). No word for him since his results speaks for himself (Misfits, Luminosity Blue, Iceblockgg, Skyfoxes etc). With him we find the main tank Milkyman ( recently played in Na Contenders for Mayhem Academy), an amazing main tank who played in a lot of T3 team like Augmented Autorithy and others. We Also have Sardis and Ascoft togheter from a long time, most notably on Wind and Rain gg togheter. Experienced and skilled players. Last but not least we have zYKK and Tek36 as part of the team. I dont think Tek need some introduction but he is here since closed beta playing for some high tier teams like G2 Esports, Penta esports etc. zYKK is a dps player who played most notably for Gamers Origins.
Rise and Shine:
Would not be an Open Division without Kyb ( the french one ) and his teams who always go far even if not expected. Besides him ( who is an huge player) we find Shuh the offtank that Daemon praised during Team France try outs.
Qlash:
Mixed italian/european team last OD they ended 16 and they make it into the playoffs. Probably theywill aim for the same this year. A good team.
Nanashi Overwatch:
kr4tosdigga is back!! For who dont remeber him he played for Ninjas with Attitude
and other old top teams. With him NiwOr as main tank ( CE Sabadell eSports).
VTILTE:
Another long time team from Eastern Europe. Dont undervalue them.
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