Thanks for a positive post. I am looking forward to it as well.

Copenhagen Flames is done now :(

Thanks as always for the update!

What do you think people are going to do? Give up on the game? They have to keep playing to get into the next season of OWL. To keep the dream alive they have to keep playing.

These guys are great. Hope they form the French dream team with the remainder of Rogue.

Great comments on the necessity of these tourneys.Could not agree more. I love watching these teams play and become the huge teams that go on to win big.

Good luck to all the open division teams!

So I see a lot of people commenting on the current state of the OW pro scene and the lack of tournaments now that OWL is announced and I wanted to put my opinion out there.

So over the last month 12 OWL teams have been announced. Almost every player in the league came from a team that was formerly playing in the online and LAN tournaments we all love. We all know that there were some amazing players that also did not get signed to OWL teams. So the current state of teams outside of OWL is totally up in the air.

As fans, players, and organizations we ALL want this down time in order for the remaining orgs to evaluate rosters, sign remaining players, and re-build as necessary. As exciting as OWL and the rosters are, the rest of the OW scene has to recover from these players signings and re-build. So before we can jump right in to tournaments, we have to let these teams, players, and orgs have the proper time to do so.

For example the shakeup in contenders to me is the most obvious. A lot of these teams were picked apart, but have remaining players who could rebuild a team to take that spot. Looking at the four EU and NA finalists:

• Envyus - roster is gone, but can the team build a new contenders roster to participate? sort of like a farm league
• FNRGFE - Muma stated if there is anyone else left unsigned he would let them re-build or give it to Enigma
• Faze - org still exists, FCTFCTN unsigned
• Envision - stated they are re-building
• Misfits - roster is gone, but can the team build a new contenders roster to participate? sort of like a farm league
• C9 EU - some of the roster is gone, org still exists can they rebuild?
• Gigantti - 2 members left to re-build from
• 123 members left can re-build

You could look at a similar situation with the shakeup in APEX. Bottom line is, there is a huge talent pool available, but OWL was a huge shakeup and we need to give everyone some much needed time to do what is best for the players and orgs, even if it feels like it is not the best for us fans.

I think it is actually a necessary period to be in waiting. With OWL players being poached from tons of teams it has caused a ton of shake up. So having a month or so to re-build and sign the remaining Free Agents (of which there are a significant amount of) if a good thing for the teams out there.

Globally nothing is happening at the moment except the Overwatch Campeonato Brasileiro, Open Division, and OCE Overwartch Bi-Monthly Brawl that I know of.

We are in a waiting period until contenders, apex, OWPS, etc announce when they are coming back.

Adding the two remaining Gigantti players? LOL

Heck yea man, gotta have some Reinforce!

I was torn between adding Mowz as a tank good picks I totally forgot about Hqrdest, need him on mine!

Tanks

• Meza
• Knoxx
• Reinforce

DPS

• Kruise
• AKM
• Vallutaja
• Dalton (cant play for 2 years)
• Hqrdest

Support

• Dogman
• Morte
• Forsak3n

Me sentiments exactly. Dissapointed in that if its true.

Yea, sucks for LH since he was the backbone of what was left of the team.

where you getting this info?

Can't wait to buy some gear!!!

Hardest thing here is going to be gettig these two teams to mesh this quick, but they can do it.

Most if not all them will land somewhere I am sure.

I love you Rogue. Thank you for always making this game exciting and you will always have a special place in my heart as my first favorite OW team.

Well the good thing is Zappis and Davin are backed by Gigantti I would assume still, which means they can re-build and poach some other fins and re-build for next season.

That is a terrible comparison. You are saying every other NA/EU team for the last 16 months has been the worst team in the league except Selfless?

Isaac “Boombox” Charles – United Kingdom - eUnited
Jae “Carpe” Hyeok Lee – South Korea - Faze
Joona “fragi” Laine – Finland - Gigantti
Georgo “ShaDowBurn” Guscha – Russia - Faze
Hong Jun “Hotba” Choi – South Korea - LW Red
Giuseppe “Joemeister” Gaetano Gramano – Canada - Faze
Alberto “Neptuno” Gonzalez Molinillo – Spain - Movistar/c9
Jeonghwan “DayFly” Park – South Korea - Ardeont
Gael “Poko” Gouzarch – France - GamersOrigin
Josue “Eqo” Corona – Israel - ZenGaming
Simon “Snillo” Ekstrom – Sweden - 123
Sumin “SADO” Kim – South Korea - ????
coaches
Head Coach / GM: Yann “Kirby” Luu – France
Assistant Coach: Elliot “Hayes” Hayes – United Kingdom
Assistant Coach: Sehuy “NamedHwi” Go – South Korea
Analytics: Ethan “Beezy” Spector – United States

Yea they lost in Apex to Lunatic Hai and Kongdoo Panthera they must be just terrible.

All these yellow first places also mean they suck.

https://imgur.com/a/cTMTS

I think everyone kind of chalks season 1 up as a fluke since 90% of the players were more focused on OWL scrims and tryouts than playing in contenders.

I feel like they are probably holding the open spot for Dalton, since they need more DPS haha

They are all playing, the team is at GamExpo for this tournament the playoffs are LAN.

They couldn't add one more player to fill out all 12 spots? haha.

Nice roster with plenty of talent.

Team looks solid. Great tank and dps combos. Hopefully they sign one or two more backups.

good to have solid machines for the blizzard tourneys.

Great write up as always! Hopefully we can get more of these games streamed ASAP

Great write up. I like the logo and hope they add to the team but its fine either way.

Outlaws for life.

List of solid french free agents to form a team:

Tanks

• Knoxx
• Poko
• Benbest
• Kryw

DPS

• AKM
• Nico
• Hqrdest
• Leaf
• Tek36

Support

• Winz
• Pipou
• Hyp
• Hidan
• Kolsti

Avec Le 6 is just the name for French world cup team aka Rogue.

US vs UK - US will win just like we did last time September 3, 1783!!!!

U S A, U S A, U S A, U S A, U S A, U S A, U S A, U S A,

Very excited to see where my Rogue boys land outside of OWL. A GO/Rogue french superteam would be awesome.

Glad unkoe landed somewhere :)

Another great episode drunk gandolph bren was hilarious!

These changes look great!

Houston Outlaws
USA
Rogue, eUnited, FNRGFE, Bazooka Puppies

No candle here for BP!

This is all fine. Comcast is the worst so this is a team I could never root for.

Congrats to the Kings!

Kings dominating!

I mean misfits is adding depth to their roster I am sure?

Can't wait to buy merch with this logo on it!!!

LOL

My OWL team!! Yes!!!

I think they missed out on a great opportunity here to build an EU fanbase.

Going to be open division champs!!