Fielder and Rapel join Fuel, Aid joins coaching staff

The moves continue a migration from the Eternal to the Fuel and a reunion of Element Mystic on the Fuel's roster.

• October 29, 2020 • by tamagao

Shock add Agape to staff, promote Casores

The Shock have added championship Spitfire coach Agape as an assistant coach and moved Casores from analyst to assistant coach.

• October 29, 2020 • by tamagao

Three coaches gone from Reign

Mentatlist, Kodak, and Silence will no longer coach the Reign. Silence is retiring, citing burnout and health after an intense season.

• October 28, 2020 • by tamagao

Justice bring in Mag from Runaway to replace rOar

Mag is the Justice's new main tank after they mutually parted ways with rOar.

• October 25, 2020 • by tamagao

Shaz and Levi both retire from Overwatch

Shaz last played flex support for the Gladiators and Levi was last assistant coach for the Eternal.

• October 23, 2020 • by tamagao

Gamsu and aKm retire, Doha only remaining player on Fuel

The Fuel also confirmed the departures of the team's six free agents. The moves leave Doha

• October 18, 2020 • by tamagao

Spark let go of five

If the Spark keep all of their remaining players then they'll enter free agency with seven players on their roster.

• October 18, 2020 • by tamagao

Titans let three walk, re-sign three

The Titans re-signed half of their original six from their midseason rebuild and let the other half walk away.

• October 18, 2020 • by tamagao

Valiant part with three

The Valiant have revealed they're parting with Dennis Hawelka Award winner McGravy, as well as Apply and GIG.

• October 17, 2020 • by tamagao

Hunters players Baconjack and ATing retire

The retirements see the team lose a DPS player and a tank player.

• October 16, 2020 • by tamagao

Charge split with neptuNo and Chara

The move leaves the Charge without a main support player for the time being.

• October 16, 2020 • by tamagao

junkbuck joins Outlaws as Co-Head Coach

The team's other co-head coach, Harsha, coached alongside junkbuck when they were both assistant coaches on the Shock in 2018.

• October 16, 2020 • by tamagao

Boombox and Moth declare their open to offers from all teams

Boombox and Moth are among the first players this offseason to announce their search for Overwatch League teams although neither is a free agent yet.

• October 13, 2020 • by tamagao

uNKOE indicates he's retiring from Overwatch, shifting to Valorant

uNKOE has declared that he will explain why he has stopped playing Overwatch at a later time.

• October 7, 2020 • by tamagao

Boston Uprising add Lori as head coach, Mineral moved to management

Lori most recently coached WGS Phoenix to a third place finish in Contenders 2020 Korea Season 1.

• October 5, 2020 • by tamagao

Esports Observer reports Pete Vlastelica stepping down from role as OWL commissioner

Vlastelica stepped into the role following former commissioner Nate Nanzer's midseasond departure during the 2019 season.

• October 1, 2020 • by tamagao

Lilbow and Defiant split

The Defiant have split with their interim head coach, who was promoted to the position from assistant coach earlier in the season.

• September 9, 2020 • by tamagao

Hafficool and LullSiSH headline YaB roster changes

Young and Beautiful have changed half of their starting lineup.

• September 1, 2020 • by tamagao

Justice release LullSiSH

LullSiSH's time with the Justice was mired by visa issues that prevented him from joining the team in the United States.

• September 1, 2020 • by tamagao

Hafficool returns to Overwatch for one last push for OWL

The star Contenders off-tank player has returned from his short retirement in one final attempt to make it into the Overwatch League.

• August 26, 2020 • by tamagao

Overwatch League announces roster construction changes

Most notably, teams may sign a new player to their roster this season if one of their current players can't travel for any reason.

• August 12, 2020 • by tamagao

Dallas Fuel release Aero

The Fuel have continued to cut members of their roster and staff by releasing their head coach.

• August 3, 2020 • by tamagao

Lr1s joins the Atlanta Reign

Lr1s returns the Reign to the roster cap of 12.

• July 31, 2020 • by tamagao

Dokkaebi leaves Chengdu coaching staff, Chen joins staff

The Hunters are changing their co-head coach to lead the team alongside Ray.

• July 30, 2020 • by tamagao

San Francisco Shock add ta1yo

ta1yo is the Overwatch League's first Japanese player.

• July 21, 2020 • by tamagao

Third Impact roster splits with organization

The players and coaches on the team are now free agents without buyouts.

• July 19, 2020 • by tamagao

Babybay retires

The Reign have lost one of their four DPS players.

• July 18, 2020 • by tamagao

SPREE splits with Outlaws

SPREE will continue playing Overwatch and is now a free agent.

• July 15, 2020 • by tamagao

Krystal joins Charge as two-way player

Krystal will play for Ignition One.

• July 14, 2020 • by tamagao

Team Doge add ELLIVOTE

Team Doge once again have six players on their roster.

• July 2, 2020 • by tamagao

Hurricane split with Jofi

The change follows the Hurricane's undefeated season in Contenders 2020 Europe Season 1.

• July 2, 2020 • by tamagao

Uprising Academy add dridro and Wayfast

Uprising Academy have seven players on their roster with the addition of their main support and DPS players.

• July 2, 2020 • by tamagao

Onigod joins the Dallas Fuel

Onigod was previously a member of the Fuel's academy team before they released the roster earlier this year.

• June 19, 2020 • by tamagao

Spark add QOQ as Ria takes extended absent for wrist injury

The Spark have added the accomplished off-tank player as one of their current off-tanks takes an extended absence to recover from a wrist injury.

• June 19, 2020 • by tamagao

Sup7eme officially becomes head coach of Washington Justice

Sup7eme first joined the team this past offseason as an assistant coach.

• June 17, 2020 • by tamagao

Gladiators sign kevster

kevster is the first player from the North American Contenders champions to join an Overwatch League team.

• June 16, 2020 • by tamagao

Overwatch League announces more changes to Hero Pools, next tournament

Hero Pools will now last two weeks at a time followed by two weeks without Hero Pools at all.

• June 8, 2020 • by tamagao

Paintbrush traded to Fuel

The Fuel have traded for the Los Angeles Gladiators' backup main support.

• June 7, 2020 • by tamagao

JohnGalt retires

The Justice's head coach has announced his retirement. The team has yet to reveal a replacement.

• June 5, 2020 • by tamagao

Haksal joins the New York Excelsior

The New York Excelsior have added the 2019 Rookie of the Year as their fifth DPS player.

• June 5, 2020 • by tamagao

Defiant confirm numlocked's addition, joins team as player

numlocked is joining the team as a tank player, contrary to a team executive announcing he was joining as a coach in an interview.

• June 4, 2020 • by tamagao

Aspire joins Triumph on loan from Revival

DPS player Aspire will temporarily join Triumph.

• May 28, 2020 • by tamagao

Karasuno officially add nich

Karasuno have officially added a new main tank.

• May 28, 2020 • by tamagao

Justice sign JJANU long-term, promote PRE to GM

The Justice have picked out a new general manager after releasing bawlynn and made JJANU's acquisition permanent.

• May 22, 2020 • by tamagao

zYKK joins Defiant on 14-day contract

The Defiant have added a flex DPS to their roster for the May Melee.

• May 22, 2020 • by tamagao

Overwatch League announces return of token drops

Viewers will receive five tokens for every hour watched on the OWL website.

• May 20, 2020 • by tamagao

Justice drop GM bawlynn and assistant coach Bani

The Justice have not revealed who will be in charge of the team's roster decisions going forward.

• May 20, 2020 • by tamagao

Architect's move to the Spark made official

Architect is reuniting with old teammates and an old coach on the Hangzhou Spark.

• May 17, 2020 • by tamagao

brussen retires

brussen's retirement puts Punk in line to start for the Uprising this coming weekend.

• May 13, 2020 • by tamagao

Mangachu transitions into coaching

Mangachu remains on the Defiant roster but is now a player-coach.

• May 13, 2020 • by tamagao