Boston Uprising name roster

tamagao

October 26, 2017

Just a day after the announcement of their branding, the Boston Uprising have named their roster and coaching staff for the Overwatch League.

Meet the Uprising. pic.twitter.com/ii1YGtM77D
— Boston Uprising (@BostonUprising) October 26, 2017

The roster features a mix of Korean, European, and North American players and staff. Striker, formerly of ROX Orcas, is currently 17 and will be unable to compete for the team until his 18th birthday. The rest of the players on the team can participate in OWL competition right out of the gates.

The team has two more players coming from Korea. They will have Gamsu at main tank, formerly of CONBOX, and Kalios, who has played for wNv.KR and Afreeca Freecs.

The rest of the team's lineup comes from a mix of western players. Two players, NotE and Snow, come from Toronto Esports, the team Boston President of Gaming HuK was previously co-owner and GM of. DreamKazper will round out the North Americans on the team. He last played for Tempo Storm.

The Europeans on the roster include former team captain of 123 Mistakes and Team Singularity support Kellex.

The team's staff comes from an equally broad pool of countries as the players do. The head coach of the team will be Crusty, former coach of APEX semifinalists RX Foxes. His assistant coaches will be former flex support player Shake and former LG Evil coach Mini. The team's analyst will be MrBleeple.

The full roster of the Boston Uprising will be:

Kwon "Striker" Nam-joo (권남주) (DPS)
Stanislav "Mistakes" Danilov (DPS)
Jonathan "DreamKazper" Sanchez (DPS)
Shin "Kalios" Woo-yeol (신우열) (Flex)
Lucas "NotE" Meissner (Flex)
Noh "Gamsu" Yeong-jin (노영진) (Tank)
Mikias "Snow" Yohannes (Support)
Kristian "Kellex" Keller (Support)
Park "Crusty" Dae-Hee (박대희) (Head Coach)
Jack "Shake" Kaplan (Assistant Coach)
Rollon "Mini" Hamelin (Assistant Coach)
Mohid "MrBleeple" Asjid (Analyst)

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Not gonna lie, bit sad that Shake has moved to the coaching position, he was such a good flex support. Hope he finds success with Boston, but the roster isn't looking like a league-winning one. Good luck either way.

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Hyped for dreamkazper, always been a great DPS

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Will be interesting to see how NotE and Snow perform in this roster, they didn't seem as impactful as they could have been in Contenders S1 with Onigod, Jaru and Luddee to name a few.

As with most people I'm very skeptical but would gladly be proven wrong here, It's just an interesting set of choices considering the pool of available talent that won't be in OWL S1.

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I have a lot of doubts about NoTE but Snow maybe can reveal himself as a mercygod (probably not but who knows) at least if they didnt nerf mercy before pre season

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No offense to the roster, but how in the fuck do some of them make it into OWL when players like aKm and Knoxxx aren't??? What is going on?

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Not confirmed rosters

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Kruise and ChrisTFer FeelsBadMan

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it gives the impression that the recruiters are doing their business and bringing back their loved ones / former teammates to try to make it their ultimate team.

We have no proof that these teams will one day be at the level of the pre-owl top teams. And the few games or practices that have leaked prove the opposite.

But hopefully this is not the case, because otherwise, this competition will be a failure and competitive teams can be counted on the fingers of one hand

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Seeing Snow reminds me on the envision vs toronto e-sports match, fire vs snow match the casters called it.

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Seoul, Dallas, London and maybe Sanghai will crush hard this kind of teams ...

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They have no starpower...

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They don't have big names for sure, but I'm interested as to how you define starpower.

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I guess he means a big name to draw some interest, like the over.gg mascot Seagull or even a Taimou/Linkzr etc, someone on that team you could say that no matter how bang average the roster is at least this guy is a star.

Is there any need for 2 assistant coaches to the head coach? 1 at most but 2 is overkill, 8 man roster with 4 staff members is a bit too much.

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Please dont say over.gg mascotte to Seagull.

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Good luck I will give them the benefit of the doubt. Some solid players and some yet to be seen.

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when your best player is coach
and they cant even get his name right

20 milion $ for spot what a joke

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they can easily participate in any football tournament with 12 people

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They could've done so much better. Who chose the North American players for this team, and Kellex!? Cmon

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Kellex is a underrated player, he is a top tier support and played very good in both World Cup for Denmark and for Team Singularity in Contenders S0 and S1. If people doubt then they should see the match between France(Rouge) and Denmark.

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