I'm not so happy about this. I'm a New Yorker and I don't want to be supporting LWB. I've always liked Flow3r (but he can't play right away), but I've never been a fan of the rest of the team. Even if they will do well in the league, this is a bad move marketing-wise. Having a full Korean roster in one of the biggest American cities is simply not the best way to start.

Jake PogChamp

Not LWB BlessRNG

Overwatch shorts are always A+ level. I hope they release them quicker though.

Why is this thread here NotLikeThis

someone get it away, I choose YOU...

Eissfeldt, Jona, and Afoxx are all on the team. Not bad, I wonder if eissfeldt will step up his game if he remains in the DPS position. He used to be a top tier Tracer.

I pretty much agree with winter. I'd maybe take coolmatt over Smex (if fnrgfe was to be poached) but otherwise, smex is a good choice

Seb Kreygasm

Hell yes! Onefact and Yaki are an awesome duo.

Best possible team:

Seagull
Hitscan
Calvin
Pegasus
SkrrSkrr
Mercymercy69

Remiska with the threads SeemsGood

KuroiRyuu is desperate for that power.

Guys, seriously, what will we do when he reaches 4 stars? Will admirable need to stop him in his tracks? Will he grow more powerful than the mods themselves? Will his rivals Remiska and Pixelfish band together and form a coup like Mendokusaii to dethrone him? (kappa) Find out next time on over.gg!

Flags tho

NotLikeThis

Plz not Danteh. I used to play Minecraft back in the day and I encountered him all the time in game. He's incredibly toxic and always thinks of himself as a god (even though he's very good), and has an overall conceited and negative personality.
I can see Dhak being on the roster though.

Fat cats Kreygasm

Nah. The tweet said "first signed" not roster ready. They probably found a player to build around. My guess is Birdring, or maybe even someone like Seagull and Surefour.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/6vay2b/taimous_hints_the_new_nrg_roster/

What do you guys think?

This is... unexpected. Harkens back to the whole discussion of how there will guaranteed be some disapproval if several of the western teams just sign full Korean rosters.

Iddqd is definitely monkaS rn

Bet you Iddqd will step down soon, and they'll completely rebuild.

Envyus rolled Immortals but immortals will beat everyone else. I don't expect Kungarna to cause any upsets.

BlessRNG plz meta change BlessRNG

I think that maybe they will reveal additional players that would be added to the roster as well, offering more flexibility.

New Dva changes are being tested internally. They include shortening her defnese matrix uptime, being able to fire fusion cannons while using boosters, and best of all, a brand new ability (a type of missile).

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20758746118?page=2#post-30

The short made me genuinely laugh as well. Cant wait for the actual cinematic!

I think the map looks amazing. So excited to play on it!

So 10 PM EST tonight? Sounds good to me

I'm thinking that Birdring could maybe be in talks with a western OWL team, which is why he's on bench rn.

Carpe is an absolute monster. All I can see for Faze down the path is them simply getting better and better. Their roster is also mostly meta proof as well.

#BringBackJ3

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Remiska grinding it out!
Thanks so much for these, its interesting to see all the numbers in one place, and what factors could've contributed to said numbers.

Overtalk ResidentSleeper

Observing is very good here. But there are production issues that I hope they fix.

Damn overwatch is becoming more unpredictable every day

Why did you feel the need to start this thread

Think this is a very accurate ranking. Looking forward, teams that may be able to contest the top 10 could be Misfits, FaZe, MVP Space, and RunAway.

LUL

Um... what's happening

I blame leetaejun

C9 3-1.

You're working towards that first star! I see you Remiska I see you

Regarding NRG, if Iddqd leaves, I would love to see the DPS duo of Jake and Sinatraa. For support, Dhaka and Dante would be perfect. Not sure about tanks.

Hope seagull finds another team (please come to New York, Seagies)

KuroiRyuu is tryharding the crap out of over.gg right now. He just got his second star a week ago and he's already at a 1/3 of his next one.
I'm here doing my best but haven't gotten my 2/3 of a star yet :(

Admirable stop him he's growing too powerful and tyrannical! I also think he's a salty Iddqd fan Kappa

The only person I can see staying on any of these teams permanently is Kolsti on Rogue.

Scrubasaurus makes some really good points here.
I think this would be a good editorial to write about, and if anyone should write it, it should be you. It's an interesting topic to discuss more in detail because it's very important for the future of the league in general and how it's gonna grow. As long as you give me a shoutout for giving you the idea, of course. Kappa

If anyone can handle 5 people at once, it is coolmatt69 Kreygasm

They now actually look much more formidable. Excited to see them play!

You make good points, and I hope it ends up being the case that we see more players being signed that are much more congruent with whatever location their team resides.

However, just in my personal preference, I'd rather not have APEX relegated to a more contenders-like tournament. I'd rather the OWL of course take a few players here and there, but I like that APEX is an extremely high echelon of competition in Korea, a place that has already formed a massive overwatch ecosystem. To disrupt that pre-existing ecosystem just to move some players to the west because they're "better" I feel would be a bad move. Like I was saying earlier, despite being advertised as international, the Overwatch League is NA. Of course there will be teams in various cities outside of North America, but it's a NA company making an esport out of an NA game, catered towards an NA audience. While I of course love amazing overwatch competition, I think people would much rather see their favorite, more marketable players, even if the competition dials just slightly down, which in time, it may not even.

From a competition standpoint, we'd obviously see extremely high levels of play and that's great and all. But the OWL is aiming towards being more recognized by mainstream audiences. If more than 50% of players in the league are Korean, the sad truth is that a lot of potential viewers will be turned off. People aren't going to fill seats in Boston to watch Kongdoo Panthera unfortunately, but they will fill seats in San Francisco to watch NRG and other Americans (just a theoretical example).
I want the league to have elite competition, but I don't think the right way to solve that is to just create a massive inflow of Koreans, and it won't work well from a marketing standpoint.

I'm not saying fans won't necessarily support it- I just think it's smarter for the league to incorporate much more locality if they expect to grow their fanbases in certain locations. I don't think importing full Korean rosters for multiple teams in the league is a very smart move. Yes, the league is international, but it's also very NA-oriented. The first season is being run in NA for a reason, the majority of the viewers are going to be NA, and NA is the region that they want people to be attracted to.