London are gonna pull their pants up and make this a comfortable 3-1

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

#VALLA

WHAT a game, that was incredible! Full kudos to Gladiators because they made some fantastic plays and were so good throughout. I must admit when Hydration came slamming onto point at the end I shat bricks. Who were those people saying OWL would be a poor spectacle? MADNESS!

Holy smokes

Yeah actually I can agree with that, it has been fun watching Profit and Birdring demolish SF

Nice list remiska. One small error I noticed, HarryHook didn't get 3rd at the OW World Cup. When can we expect 10th-1st?

It's not even worth watching tbh

Kuroi you've got to believe! I'm with Pixelfish here

VALLA

bad bait 🎣

I'm looking forward to seeing PoPiFresH back in action

Kruise + Morte vs uNFixed and sharyk 😮 can't wait for this one

GG Spitfire that was a stonker

Just on a side note Uber and Mr X were on fire, super well casted

My heart can't handle the drama here, what an insane match

LETS GO

Lets go VALLA

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Spitfire playing like champions, clutching victory whilst staring defeat right in the face

Agilities has been getting plenty of play time, although Silkthread has been playing more. It appears like they're picking which one will play based on which flex pick they want (e.g. soldier, pharah, hog) if Genji isn't required

Soon is so nutty

Birding and Profit are both insane too though 🙆

I'll tell you what, I quite like him as the host on the analysis desk. Pucket's still #1 but I wouldn't mind Semmler taking the seat once a week

This is fire! Can't wait to watch these EU guys in action

Look at the schedule too, daily games for the next week!

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I have both of these teams in a sweepstake me and some buddies are running. Boy am I glad to have London at the moment, they look fantastic.

Try not to worry too much about what others think of your opinions my man, stand strong by what you say.

If you get downfragged it's not the end of the world, Overwatch fans are a fickle bunch

Roshan has a cracking pair of eyebrows, if only his gameplay was as good

Yeah you make some excellent points.

I was pushing against some of the over the top reactions that we've seen in this thread. For the most part though the response has been proportionate and the punishment handed out to him by Blizzard goes along that line too. My worry is that we end up in a witch hunt situation over something that should and probably will be forgotten about in a few weeks.

It would definitely be very interesting to see how it turns out if a draft was put in place. Would the teams be evenish or would a few teams end up dominating like we have now? Cool idea to be fair

So if I'm understanding this correctly there's a French and an English Kyb? How does something like that happen haha

Cool findings CamRa, thanks for all your hard work running the survey and looking into the results

This game at its core is built around teamwork. If you draft a new team every season (which I assume is what you want), then you are stifling the ability of teams to gel and reach the dizzy heights that we're seeing now. I'd much rather have a few good teams playing insanely high quality matches than many equally okay teams that play some great matches.

It's a neat idea but not for me

This thread is funny, look at all the pussies who can't handle a little trash talk (I bet even me calling you a pussy makes you mad).

xQc isn't homophobic, he isn't insane and he definitely isn't somehow bringing the entirety of a video game competition crashing to the ground cos he told someone to go suck a fat cock.

Yeah the guy can be a grade A dickhead and he is 100% an idiot, but please for the love of god stop looking at him through a microscope and being shocked and angry when he says something stupid. So many of you are acting as if he has come out and said something genuinely homophobic and disgusting. Please save your outrage for when xQc or another OWL player says something that is actually horrible and unacceptable, otherwise you're just watering down the response for when something bad happens for real.

P.S. you guys aren't pussies most of the time, just in this instance. Love you all <3

2-2 and we spend eternity in overtime on Lijang

Now that we've had a few games to get settled in, what do you guys think of Semmler?

Personally I feel like his style isn't suited to Overwatch. For me his casting is slow, sometimes monotonous and not representative of the sometimes chaotic gameplay that we're watching. Countless hype moments have come and gone where Semmler has barely stirred from his slumber, where other casters would have added that special cherry on top of a fantastic play.

His partner Hex is doing a good job, but its almost like Semmler is holding him back too. I know it's cliche at this point but ZP anyone?

Let me know what you think, I'm curious to see what you guys have made of his performances so far. Don't get me wrong, Semmler is nowhere near as bad as Goldenboy, but I'd much rather have a different caster for the premier Overwatch competition.

Poko is insane! It seems like Boombox is racking up those final blows at a fantastic rate too.

13. Unkoe and Soon

There were a lot of questions that I didn't answer, sorry.

I also drew a diagnol line for the power ranking of teams, it meant Boston was my #1 lmfao

CIS HOPE lose their Round 3 game 😮 could be huge come the end of the season

Also sick write up as always Poi, I'm not sure how I've only just seen this for the first time

Yeah I can see that now. I suppose I'm guilty of looking at everything through an Overwatch lense, I think we all are to some degree. It's easy to read too much into something

(cs go lol and dta tournaments have a lot higher records)

For me this felt like you were comparing OWL to CSGO, LoL and DOTA by saying that these other games are still more successful in terms of viewship than Overwatch.

That was my interpretation anyway, and also in my opinion not toxic because it is an objective fact that is relevant when discussing viewership statistics.

Viewing figures for me were a sure fire PogChamp. OWL out performed AGDQ which I was impressed with and wasnt so sure would happen. Nice job Blizzard!

I'm very interested to see what viewing figures look like by week 6/7. I watched every game this week but I'll be cutting way down on the matches that I watch from here on out.

Sorry to be a negative Nancy but we shouldn't blindly support OWL no matter what, we should be free to say good and bad

Don't get me wrong remiska has said many, many toxic things (I still love you tho rem!) but this definitely isn't one of them lol

Swing and a miss my dude

respek wamen

Wowee these were all great games, can't wait for week 2

My ignorance is showing here but what's the hard R?

This has been a great patch for me personally. The Zen buff is something I've been wanting since I picked him up recently and they've added some great quality of life improvements for console players too

Glad to see Blizzard managed to not monumentally screw something up

Lets go

Just watched a best of Semmler compilation and he seems like a big downgrade on ZP. I'll give him his fair chance though cos OW is a completely different game to CS so he might change his style a bit

I hope Bren has poured one out of his drinking boot in honour of ZP

It gave me a notification saying that Mayhem were playing Dallas Fuel which was a bit weird

Neat app apart from that

This team is stacked, can't wait for the later rounds of OD to see how they match up against the other big hitters. Hopefully there'll be a casted EU OD stream by then