UPDATE: The story has been updated to say Mineral and yeah have left the Mayhem. Originally, the article says they were released. Assistant coach yeah has disputed that he was released and instead states that he left of his own accord.
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UPDATE: The story has been updated to say Mineral and yeah have left the Mayhem. Originally, the article says they were released. Assistant coach yeah has disputed that he was released and instead states that he left of his own accord.
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It probably has less to do with talking to Harsha and more to do with the fact that they're currently living in the United States and it would be helpful.
Them learning English would make it easier for him for sure, but that's likely not the main reason when he's actively learning Korean.
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I'm going to cheat and ask a second question.
What do you think you and your teammates need to do better in Stage 2?
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What was your reaction when the team told you they wanted to promote you from academy to OWL?
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The largest chain of arenas I know is literally "Esports Arena" https://www.esportsarena.com/.
If I remember correctly, the Valiant are the only other team that have a guaranteed set venue at this point in time (the Microsoft Theater as you pointed out). However, I am pretty sure the Gladiators will play in a facility that is part of the complex the new Los Angeles Rams stadium will be on.
The Fuel are hosting matches this year but I don't know if that site will be their permanent home. The Reign are scheduled to play matches this year but have not announced where it will be.
The Montreal Rebellion will play Contenders in an arena, although they don't own the arena itself.
I don't think any sites have been announced for teams outside of North America either.
Thanks! I was looking for that information and couldn't find it. I've updated the story to reflect that.
NYXL will likely still be 2 unless Shock make a run and win the stage playoff.
Dynasty will be higher, how much higher tbd
I think that's fair and you're probably right. I've been placing the Defiant too low for the whole season and while I was attempting to correct it this week I'm still selling them too short.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly listed MirroR as part of the team's roster.
Some of the teams move more as a result of the movement of other teams than their own performance. For example, there was no way I wasn't dropping the Spark and Valiant below the Reign and Dynasty this week, so both teams start with a minimum of a two spot increase as a result. You could argue that Reign may only move up one spot if you let the Dynasty jump over them after that, however, the Dynasty played an opponent that is likely weaker than the one the Reign beat, and therefore it's tough to argue against moving the Reign up higher than one spot with the strength of schedule argument. I think keeping the Gladiators above the two teams is a fair call to make.
I probably would have given the Uprising more of a break for roster issues if I had known their issues were temporary when I finalized the rankings earlier this week. I want to be consistent and lock my rankings in at the same time every week regardless of when I have time to finish the article, so the rankings get completed before the article is published. At the time I dropped the Uprising down six spots, it was known Fusions was ineligible to play and it was assumed he would continue to be. They would probably remain above the Outlaws and Mayhem if I had ranked under the assumption that Fusions would return this week.
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You are correct. All teams scheduled to play CIS Hope from this point on will be awarded 4-0 wins.
While Bogur has a chance to be the first Bulgarian to play in Contenders, he is not the first to play in Trials. Linepro, who played in Season 2 with Samsung Morning Stars Blue, is listed on Liquipedia as both Spanish and Bulgarian.
UPDATE: The team has since added Gustav after FDGoD left the team for new opportunities.
Chinese streams tend to have massive viewer numbers. Part of it could be population (remember China has over 1 billion people all on the same timezone), while part of it could be inflated numbers. Viewership stats for Chinese streams are generally considered unreliable because they have a reputation for being inflated (this wouldn't be Leave's doing, but the streaming service itself).
However, I'd say Overwatch looks fairly popular in China from an outsider's perspective. They are the only region that regularly has tournaments outside of Contenders and most of them end in LANs. Someone more familiar with the Chinese scene can probably speak with a more informed perspective, though.
To be fair, Blizzard probably wanted Path to Poverty to rebrand and Bermuda was forced to rebrand by virtue of no longer being with their org.
It's worth noting that Samsung's Italian division is behind this organization rather than Samsung as a whole (otherwise they probably wouldn't be in Contenders Europe because Samsung is a Korean company!). So if Samsung were to make a push for the Overwatch League, it probably wouldn't be with this roster and in fact would probably be based in Korea (this is assuming Samsung would frown upon one of their divisions independently investing between 20 and 60 million USD in projects outside of selling Samsung devices).
This applies to the roster as a whole. As a result, there wouldn't be anymore than three international players fielded by a team within a match.
I hope this means Kami will be on an academy team since he was snubbed from OWL 👀
I'll go first:
I kinda cheated with 8 but 28 simply isn't enough spots!
It has previously been stated that OWL would like to end up with 28 teams. Since there are currently 20 teams, that means there may be only eight more teams who will join the Overwatch League. Where do you think they should be?
I was just copying the way we had the name listed in our database and wasn't paying attention, haha. I swapped it for consistencies sake.
Sorry for the delay on getting this out!
Since the league is being reduced to eight, not all of the playoff teams qualified for next Contenders and were demoted to Trials. Most of them must have accepted their invites rather than disbanded, leaving little space for Open Division teams.
Yeah, I wasn't quite sure if they would have to play 10 or 11 games when I looked at the schedule. Figured if they ended the season on a win they would be in either way.
I missed that tweet however, do you have a link to it?
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I heard there is a really good Chinese flex DPS named KaMi if Chengdu is on the hunt for one 👀
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where the heck is dep
I completely forgot that they did this. I've corrected the story.
Very disappointed we won't be seeing silkthread playing again but it's good on him that he was able to work with the team to pursue a future he thought was best for him without any conflict.
On another note, sucks to see that the team signed this entirely Chinese-speaking roster without including Kami. I think he's the country's best DPS player eligible for OWL not on any of the other three Chinese teams.
Pretty sure Shy and Leave are both too young
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