Kinda hard to pick one with two seperate regions.

I'd pick Viol2t for NA region and Void for Asia region.

Easy way to get rid of a contract, I guess.

That NYXL reply is brutal.

I don't want to be mean but this looks like an article written by someone who launched the game for the first time and played it for 3h.
The entire article doesn't make any sense at all.

Reverse sweep incoming.

Houston 3-0.

If Rawkus is playing Mayhem 3-1

I hope the desk just spins a wheel on broadcast to see what heroes are getting banned the week after.

Brits slowly conquering OWL.

One wonders how you rate Orisa players as a spectator.

Yeah, forgot about that now you mention it. Curious if they add a third or if it's gonna be Custa & Soe.

Not sure how I feel about this. I always loved the desk parts more than the actual games mainly because both of them. Especially Sideshow has a perfect balance between joking around and being serious about his analyses, which he does excellent. Compared to Bren who is in my opinion mostly just memeing around mostly of the time and will actually a better caster than analyst. Even though I liked his casting style in TF2 back in the days more.

i don't think Custa and Jake can recreate the same vibe Sideshow and Bren creatin aswell. It'll probably be more serious and I'm not sure if I like that.

Personally not a big fan of him but objectively seen probably the caster with the best insight during the games.

12/10 photoshop. Who's body is that? Eqo's?

Ugh, biggest disappointment S2 imo.

I am curious. How can you tell if he has bad mechanical skills?

Glad to see Burgers are happy when USA wins against a SK team that refuses to play the meta.
I hope SK plays the meta in the semi-finals.

Colourhex to Gladiators.

RIP Poko & Boombox

You can't really tell that the LA Valiant let him go so easy? For all you know, they cashed a fuckton for him. Or for all three even, since they were all three still under contract.

Because Pine is still under contract and Flower wasn't. So another team has to buy Pine to release him from his contract.

I reckon he's going to Dynasty.

Yeah he's a good widow, but saying he's even a top 5 widow is very exaggerated imo.

He's too aggresive, based on OWL S1. People often only remember his flanks where he get 3-4 picks. But the times he died because he's overextending, nobody remembers. And the amount of support they gave him on certain maps was ridiculous.

Widowmaker wasn't that much of a pick last stage cause it was 90% Doomfist/Reaper. I guess his reaper was worse than SBB's. You can't really say someone is the best hitscan player in the game if you can only play 2 heroes at top OWL level?

From all the heroes we've seen him play, only his Mccree is a real upgrade compared to SBB imo. And Mccree has been in a weird/unexisting place in the meta for the two last years.

I don't think at any point I've ever thought Pine was somewhere close to being the best hitscan player in the game. Most flashy =/= best hitscan.

Pine and Nenne are still both under contract, Fl0w3R wasn't.

If TiZi & Jjanu can match Smurf & Choi this should be a close game.
Mano & Meko got pretty much outplayed in the Shock vs NYXL game and they managed to put up a good fight for 3 maps.

Good thing it's double elimination.

I think any team but SF Shock taking the win is an upset.

Yes, because slaves got paid $50k/year.

Get your head out of your ass, DixR.

• OWL is -viewership wise- a disappointment considering the playerbase. Just a matter of time before investors drop out.
• The World Cup is joke, like in every other E-sports. There's no glory in winning a tournament where you cut basicially 75% of the best players.
• Contenders is a tragedy.

OGE is pounding.

"Mentally destroyed"

I have no idea who you are refering to as being "burned out". I assume you are talking about Effect who has been mental issues since he was 13, as he said himself. This has nothing to do with being burned out. Who else had a burn-out. Logix took a break back in S1. Was that a burn-out? Who the fuck knows. I don't see the "burn-out problem" you've been talking about and retiring the game doesn't mean you have a burn-out.

41% Crit accuracy, pretty impressive widow from Colourhex.

What an abomination of a game from Dogman and what are horrible throw of Atlanta on Route 66.
Probably the biggest missplay since the start of OWL.

When using the spoiler-free mode, it happend a couple of times that I just spot the upcoming match in the corner of my eye, knowing which teams won their previous. Maybe if you turn on the spoiler-free mode, the upcoming matches could minimize or something?

There was desperately a tracer counter needed and it's impossible to say what happens to the meta when they release a new hero. It's always easy to talk afterwards, but no one could have predicted a meta like goats when they release Brig.

Why do you think NYXL is a top tier team? Jjonak has the biggest ears and hears everything the casters say.

I feel like Blizzard has not thought about this thoroughly.

Dark theme.

Reddit, source of all mankind, yield me your knowledge.

And yes, you are butthurt.
And yes, you are pathetic.

Stop acting like a pathetic butthurt fanboi. Literally nobody called Atlanta a top 3 team.

You baited me into watching the vod. Soldier 76 against a goatesk line-up and 3 kills on widow...

Why is Rawkus still in OWL?????

EU team vs real EU team

How does one impress on Brigette?

I really like how Atlanta used their gravitons. Basicially just solo graving people that are out of position and focusing them down.

WutFace?

And I'm even more suprised people actually have an opinion about how good a coaching staff is.
Beside previous records, there is literally nothing you know about them or how they work.

Yes, nuke the poor countries.

Works better than bedtimestories.

:DDDDDD