OWL Grand Finals to be hosted in New York City

Mert

May 9, 2018

The Overwatch League Grand Finals will be hosted in Brooklyn, New York's Barclays Center. The arena is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and the New York Islanders and a popular venue for concerts and entertainment events. The Grand Finals will be the first Overwatch League play to be hosted outside of the Los Angeles Blizzard Arena.

The first-ever Overwatch League Grand Finals will be held at @barclayscenter in Brooklyn, New York!

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— Overwatch League (@overwatchleague) May 9, 2018

Playoffs kick off in Los Angeles on the 11th of July, running until the 21st. The top team from each division, alongside the next four teams in the standings, will qualify, with the two grand finalists jetting off to New York. The Grand Finals will be a best-of-three series, with matches played in a best-of-five maps format, hosted in the Barclays Center from the 27th to the 28th of July.

Tickets go on sale for the Los Angeles based playoffs matches on the 10th of May at AXS.com, while ticket sales for the Grand Finals will open on the 18th of May at https://www.ticketmaster.com and http://www.barclayscenter.com.

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I wonder how all the LA boys and girls who turn up every match week to watch the entire season will feel about the grand finals being held on the other side of the country

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Do you have an issue with all of the NY boys and girls who haven't been able to go to a single OWL match also?

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I like how you have such a hardon for me, do you actually want a dick pic?

The issue is, the LA boys and girls have turned up every match week and made it work yet the grand finals are then in NY which is around 40 hours away from LA, why not just let it all play out in LA and no I don't have an issue, I couldn't give a toss about anyone from NY, LA or Botswana yet you seem to find an issue in everything I post.

You are the definition of salt, grow the fuck up and keep on downvoting me kiddo. Also I'm slightly dissapointed you didn't reply to me shitting on you in the pick/ban thread, scared?

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Sorry I didn't take the time to reply to you because I'm literally a work and have better things to do, thanks! :)

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Dude, get over yourself. You're not a big deal, nobody cares about you. You act like everyone's out to get you, but in reality you're just out to get everyone else.

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What the FUCK is wrong with you lmaoooo

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Pretty sure if they care they can fly their ass across the country like everyone else has done to see the games in LA.

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I'm assuming you're from NY, if you turned up for every single match throughout the entire season only to find out the final was being played 2700 miles away, you wouldn't be in the least bit pissed off? bullshit.

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Haha no I wouldn't. Not once did anyone say the finals would be in this location. This league has always been advertised as global, and the bulk of games would be moving from LA in a future season anyways.

And no, I am not from NY, I was planning on going to the finals no matter the location and this changes nothing of my plans.

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Fun fact, I flew out to LA to see OWL

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This is a valid point, Bliz/OW wants to expand OWL in the future and probably thinks hosting the Grand Finals in a new venue is a way to do that, but if no one in the NYC area wants to go to OWL finals then it's gonna look pretty silly. Barclay's Center says it can hold 19,000, so it's not like they are filling up a football stadium. Also much bigger capacity than OWL arena.

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Last event I went to at Barclay's, ESL couldn't even sell out every seat for CSGO (and they only used half the arena).

Definitely going to be empty seats if they're using the whole venue, even though I 100% prefer the TI/PGL approach of having teams at the center and utilizing the entire arena space.

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LA = Shitty Heaven
NY = Fun Hell

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rigged for XL obviously
call the police

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I will be there!!!

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Same!

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Nyxl deserves a home game

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MaSc

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So, at least it is more likely for us europeans that we can watch the finals at a watchable time.

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This is actually brilliant. 3 hours closer, that allows people to watch from everywhere. Koreans may have difficulty watching, but still doable.

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Dig the change of venue... but did I read correctly that the finals are gonna be BO3?!?!

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gabeconte

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Yeah!!!! Besides this being like 25 minutes from my apartment, that's the most exciting prospect to me. It's going to be interesting to watch how that makes the team change their game plans an cook up weird, hidden strategies.

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I actually hate it... I can’t take time off work Friday, so I’ll only be able to go Saturday... which means in the possibility of a stomp, I’ll only be able to see 10 minutesor so of OWL.

It just doesn’t make sense to me.. let’s take the biggest tournament in OW history and give it the shortest grand final. It just seems super anti climactic almost. Even the stage playoffs have been bo5

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I didn't think about the Friday thing either, shit.

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You misinterpreted it.It is a best-of-three best-of-five. Meaning that they will play series that are best of five maps, but you have to win two series in order to take the title. So if you go on Saturday you're guaranteed to watch at least three maps, maybe as many as ten.

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Shouldn't it be at least 6 maps and at most 15 (not including potential draws) ?

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I was talking about going Saturday only. If you are able to attend both days, your number would be correct.

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You are right, forgot we were talking about Saturday only.

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Overwatch League coming to my city Kreygasm

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The first thought that come in my mind.
There is a good chance that NYXL will be the champs, so if they host it on the "winning team's city" ticket sales might be better than doing it again on LA.

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So those of us in the eastern time-zones of the world have always enjoyed watching the overwatch league starting in the morning and spanning all throughout the day, where even in Australia most of the OWL games start at 9 in the morning and end at 3. Having the games in NY does make it slightly annoying to watch the games live at the break of dawn, still going to watch them though...

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Yeh that's true and for the same reason thou is better for us EU guys...
Let's hope OWL keeps doing well and they finally manage to make it global as planned.

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pssssttt.....do any of the NY people here have any plans for a meet up for this? I'm sure there will be some sort of deadly venoms event or something.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhndedSjF6k&t=8s

Im very appreciate it if you like this video

THANKS!!!

#34

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Do not send videos if they are not relevant to the conversation. Thank you

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