That's the point. China screwed up their OWL team so royally the group of players that was obviously best suited to represent them quit for PUBG.

I pray nobody I know ever has to deal with the hell that must be working in a Chinese factory.

Why can't China ever do anything right?

Florida's consistency on the first three maps was insane. First map: 82 meters after the first point. Second map: 82.8% cap of the second point. Third map: 78% on the first point and 86% on the second point averages out to 82%! That's not a relevant statistic whatsoever, just thought it was cool.

Hou 3-1. The Outlaws are better than the Dragons, but they really can't play control maps. SHD will take Oasis but lose the other maps pretty easily.
Edit: One interesting thing to note is that in SHD's two times playing Lunar colony they full-held their opponents both times. Small sample size, but they might be pretty good at that map.

Oh noey

Clock's tracer on Ilios was fine. He landed pulse bombs, harassed janus and Meko, and died to pine less than you might expect considering how insane he played. Jake's Junkrat was the reason Houston won junkertown.

On the bright side for Houston, Clockwork looked a lot better today.

When will NYXL just start playing pine on every map?

Even if a women's league only averaged 2-3k viewers per match that would still be a success. The average Lynx game has an attendance of 9k.

If OWL is going to model itself off of traditional sports I see no reason why there can't or shouldn't be a WOWL. There are enough good female players for it to still have high-quality games and bring in a decent enough audience to make a women's league worth Blizzard's effort.

Based on the way these matches have gone so far, 3-1 London. They have the Koreans.

Houston can't play control maps, so if it comes down to a tiebreaker, NYXL should win. That being said, it probably won't. NYXL 3-1.

Repeat of the Nexus Cup incoming where the Korean teams sweep the Chinese teams.

Spree and Rawkus were the problem, not Jake. Spree was consistently outplayed by Poko and SBD, and Rawkus died with ult way too often. In this meta, D.Va and Zen are the most important damage dealers on a team, and the Outlaws didn't have a good player at either of those roles.

Also, I'd like to remind everyone that at the end of the day, a close loss is still a loss, and none of the players on Houston except for Linkzr have ever won anything.

The players make a pretty good living tbh, especially the ones who stream regularly. Buy the skins if you want to buy them.

Clockwork should go back to tf2. I don't think he's gotten a single kill with his ult during his entire time in the league, including the preseason.

Jake's dragonblade was actually plat level

If they're going to run Junkrat and Roadhog, why not use the Seagull-Taimou combination that already won them a map?

I will admit it, Taimou is carrying really hard right now

Junkertown is a map where you can get away with anything

Holy shit Shanghai is a joke of an OWL team. They belong in the league the way kephrii's meme team belonged in a pro tournament.

Sleepy got the first kill in OWL history.

Cheer for the team that doesn't have a thrower and a Taimou.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPy9RghjwUY
The last clip in this
I really love Junkrat

Rumor has it Shadowburn is still trapped in an underground tunnel in Siberia and the Fusion will be using a hologram to represent him on stage while he plays from Russia with 200 ping.

I have acquired the Outlaws D.Va skin to honor the one and only #69 Matthew "Coolmatt69" Sixty-Nine

Sejong because their players still play Overwatch, Busan because I can't ignore the point about the lack of a Pharah player, although insulting one of your own players in a poem is a strange tactic.

Those Guys seems like a pretty mid-tier team

Chicago White Mousepads/Boston Red Mousepads

Although the GC Busan roster fell flat during the preseason, the KDP top 5 in the world pre-OWL lineup London put forward played well enough for me to still have confidence in them. NYXL will be better now that they don't have to put Pine on support. Dallas looked completely unstoppable at times but shaky at others. If they figure out how to play like they did in the last round of Lijiang against Houston they could very easily take home the trophy, but if they don't the Koreans will have the edge. I think we'll see a lot of close matches from every team in the league. Philadelphia won't really be hurt at all by not playing the preseason. With all of the scrims and training teams do missing 2 matches won't hurt them.

The biggest surprise of all to me is how well the 3 former Kungarna members played. Babybay in particular looked like one of the best DPS in the league. I guess that team was better than we thought. Calling it now, ya boy KING Mykl will find himself on an OWL team eventually.

Makes sense. The Fiesta Bowl is sponsored by Playstation, so they already have ties to gaming.

The other huge problem is that a worldwide league just isn't feasible if you want to play a high amount of games. Next season, if there aren't more Asian and European teams, it will be extremely unfair to London, Seoul, and Shanghai to have to fly back and forth across the ocean for every away match (assuming the plan to have arenas in every city actually happens).

It was a thing, but the showmatch was 4v4 dm so...

All the Korean teams + Surf

Mechanical skill in Overwatch? Let's go!

Mangachu wins these

Reminder that Sado was suspended for 30 matches.

They let them cap the point? Come on Machi, you should do better than that.

This is the world cup all over again. The two best teams are playing in round 1.

Remember when people were getting upset over xqc's 3 day ban?

Calling it the meme team without Team Australia Captain Moose Tits smh

flame is a former tf2 player and as a result loves clockwork. He didn't think he needed another tracer.

That was a really ugly choke

Boston right now

Seagull played very well. As did Jake. Clockwork held his own against Effect, which is a really good sign. Outlaws need work Zarya into more of their comps, but otherwise both of these teams looked strong.

That's a c9 if I've ever seen one

Muma has been activated

Seoul's away jerseys look really cool

Over.gg viewing party in the discord?