Atlanta and Guangzhou officially confirmed as expansion franchises

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Surprised the reported Paris team wasn't in this announcement. Hopefully it didn't fall though. I really want to see another European team in the League

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So another NA city, could't have at least picked a Canadian one?

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I hope the Paris deal would go through.We need more EU teams later to balance it out.

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I doubt these are the only teams being added. Just the first ones they announced,

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wasn't it reported a while ago that Chicago would be in

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Yes at the end of the announcements before s1, they were reported to be in but it fell through since it would have been odd # of teams or something.

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damn it i'm from Chicago

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Yeah I'm sure at least 4 more teams will be confirmed for season two, possibly more.

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Another one

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Can't wait for a new EU team full of Koreans.

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I am actually more interested to see what happens to player pool in OWL since currently it's 45% is koreans, 25% europeans and 20% NA. Remaining 5% is like chinese + Custa and Mickie.

I don't really care what players there will be for each team, but if percentage of korean players won't drop from 45% to >40% for Season 2 it's just going to be "Global Korean Championship of Overwatch". League just needs more diversity in players nationalities.

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Eh is gonna get "worse", like Pacific Contenders, teams don't give a cent about the nationality of the players, not even with their academy teams.

Since they invested a bunch of money, they want to have something back, immediately, so they go for the easy picks, Koreans.

Again can't really blame a rich dude who invested bunch of money in esports to wish to make some profit out of it, they don't really care about the scene or anything, it's just about money, and at the moment if you wanna have a chance win you gotta have Koreans.

A pity imo 'cause even if matches MIGHT look better, this leads to the end of local scenes, and the moment Koreans will start "jumping" to a different esport, OW will be in deep waters.

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if Coca-Cola does not sponsor the atlanta team I will boycot OWL

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I'll boycott Coca-Cola

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I just want a decent full Chinese team for Guangzhou

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If they combine all the best chinese players then they could be a very good team

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theres a lot of promising talent in china, especially since none of the all chinese rosters in Contenders CN are head and shoulders above the rest, however it wouldnt surprise me if the "core" roster was made up of LFZ players :(

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I think the thing that what many people are forgetting is that they don't just have to pick up Chinese players. They can pick up players from Hong Kong if they see anyone they like. Working with players from Hong Kong would be easier then mixing Chinese and Koreans imo

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Sadly it will probably be lfz unless Shanghai picks up lfz and drops their Chinese players.