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We are delighted to announce we have entered a three-year partnership with the
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, bringing our esteemed awards ceremony to the Esports World Cup, the world's largest gaming festival.
The Esports Awards will come to you live from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on August 24th.
Esports hot take
Casters are the least important part of a broadcast and should be paid like it.
Admins, observers and production are more essential to a broadcast.
In Geguris early career she was constantly accused of cheating. They said her aim was “not human” and they would quit if she somehow wasn’t botting. They just couldnt believe a woman could be that good.
Geguri streamed in a monitored studio setting to clear her name.
To Semmler & anyone who agrees with the screenshot: WHY do you think men have dominated esports for 20 years? Is it really biological?
Or is it because esports has been a boys club since its inception and women trying to break in have to work twice as hard for half the respect?
I’m starting to realize that giving a bunch of socially awkward and/or egotistical 18 year olds access to a massive adoring fan base generally hasn’t been one of mankind’s greatest ideas
All this talk about pay-per-view esports just reminds me of that OWL all access twitch pass.
You could pay for live stats and the ability to watch from any players perspective…
I would literally pay for that every time if they brought it back somehow.
an update on today's match:
MaltheL had an internet outage this morning and could not fix the issue in time. We asked the league to delay our match time but our request was denied. Therefore, we will be playing with Avalla as support and Lukemino as DPS.
1/2
Listen I’m not gonna blame anyone for hating OW or Blizzard but PLEASE I’m begging you to just read the dev posts explaining their decisions before you go on here raging over a buzz feed headline.
In season 1 of the OWL, the bottom four teams were the SF Shock, the Dallas Fuel, the Florida Mayhem, and the Shanghai Dragons.
The Dragons just won the May Melee for APAC, the Shock and Mayhem are currently battling it out for NA, and the Fuel...at least you have Decay now?
It’s the premiere of the Perfect Night music video. Thousands of K-Pop and Overwatch fans have gathered for this moment, the excitement palpable as they all count down the seconds.
The timer reads 0. The screen fades to black. Then you hear it:
“WE THE BEST MUSIC”
He’s back.
Dennis Hawelka award winners and what this did after winning:
Mickie - Retired
Custa - Retired
McGravy - Retired
Sp9rk1e - Won grand finals
The streak is broken. Maybe a new one begins?
You know whats more disappointing tho?
@Outlaws
making their players announce their FA themselves and giving no public support. Not even a "thank you for your time!" to Muma who has been on this team since the beginning.
There better be something today or I'll be actually upset.
Despite all of the trials and tribulations that OW2 has faced for the past year, yesterdays grand finals still attracted about 120k viewers on YouTube.
The finals vod has 1 million views.
The demand is still there and that’s why I’m confident this isn’t the end.
The responses to Ewoks coming out post are so sad. Like why are so many people so pressed about a 15 year old trying to find himself.
Also the amount of “attack helicopter” “jokes” is ridiculous. It’s 2020 we should have come up with at least one other transphobic joke by now.
Big orgs just got a massive warning against investing in the new Overwatch ecosystem.
I would not be shocked if people who were considering jumping in are now thinking twice.
So disappointing.
Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border,
right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that
thief over there.
We were born too late to explore the world.
We were born too early to explore the cosmos.
But we were born just in time to watch the Boston Uprising vs the Houston Outlaws today at 5 pm EST/2 PST.
How lucky are we???
Danteh has been playing in OWL since the very beginning. He’s the only western player who has that distinction IIRC.
If this is the end of his time in the OW pro scene I’d be super interested to hear in depth about his experiences with various teams and the league as a whole.
“You made it!” Winston exclaims, “its so good to see you again!”
Minecraft Steve stares blankly back, with TNT in his hand and Rio burning around him.
Overwatch is back.
"It's just a game."
- Weak
- Suggests that you don't care.
- You won't improve.
"These failures are merely virtual."
- Mysterious
- You do care, but youve had worse.
- Implies a tragic past?
@CardsVoidz
Geguri walked into the dumpster fire of Dragons S1, didn’t win a game, and was all but permabenched for the next 2 seasons until being released.
You have to wonder if she would have had a better career if it had started in a better place.
Diya got another shot with LAV at least
Hands down the best captain and the legend DPS.
It's our honor to announce that
@carpe_ow
will be staying with Fusion for 2022!
Welcome back, Carpe!
#PhillyPower
#FusionCarry
Oh btw let's just get it all out of the way
- I quit YT
- Ive been signed to an OWL team
- I've actually been mykl this whole time
- The Uprising has traded Fusions to the Dragons for Fearless.
- Fragi actually died last off-season and Sado is a failed attempt to clone him.
GN
Is it unfair that every single team got a shot at playoffs, even the bottom three teams in the entire league? Yes.
Is it questionable that the Justice took advantage of a rule change to aquire a superstar level player at the 11th hour? Yes.
Is it fun to watch Decay fuck? Yes.
My OW role stereotypes
MT: The loudest, most hyper person on the team. Alpha shotcaller.
OT: The biggest memer, doesn't pop off a ton but keeps the team from getting tilted.
HS: Quits the game at least once a month only to come back three days later. Pretty chill otherwise.
Other Fusion thoughts:
The Alarm callup is 100% deserved
Funnyastro will be a good OWL main support
Carpe/Eqo/Ivy DPS rotation is scary as hell.
Sado still there and still the only main tank. He's by far the weakest looking piece on Fusion right now.
A solid reminder that if/when this team does terribly, don’t blame the players who saw an opportunity to get paid and took it. Blame the awful management that put them in this situation.
Except Krystal. I would understand if you blamed Krystal.
@imnowsad
No one is saying every caster is amazing and perfect. A bad caster can make a broadcast significantly worse. But the OG tweet making it seem like casters are getting paid *too much* is wild.
According to sources, the Los Angeles Valiant are supposedly considering signing former Hangzhou Spark and Guangzhou Charge DPS Cai "Krystal" Shilong, and former Guangzhou Charge Support Qi "Wya" Haomiao.
Both of course previously played for Team One Winner.
Gator, Ameng, Elsa, Jinmu, Eileen, Rio, Guxue, GodsB, iDk, Boink, Jjonak, Carpe, Poko, Eq0, Super, Tobi
The list of “OG” players who have been with a team since its creation doesn't even fill up half a tweet, and the offseason has barely begun.
So are we balancing based on GM stats or plat stats? Because I feel like we're seen statements from Devs that suggest both.
I think, as usual, the devs are trying their best to satisfy all the different sectors of the Overwatch community, which ends up satisfying none of them.
...so the Reign are the first team ever to lose to the Valiant turn around and go Super Saiyan to defeat the NYXL, and right after that lose to the Charge who were on a 7 game losing streak.
...so if you were to compare the Reign to an anime character, who is it?
There are only so many "Dallas ran out of Fuel" or "Dallas gas fire" jokes you can make.
Its just sad now, watching this huge organization disappoint so throughly over and over and over again.
It's almost "legacy of failure" territory now. Don't make me make that video, please.
YouTube has ruined me. You know why?
I rewatched the hunger games tonight and while they were talking about sponsers all I could think of is Katniss Everdeen turning to a camera in the arena and going, "Raid Shadow Legends is one of the most ambitious mobile games with the
#1
-"
“I didn’t mean to upset anyone, I know that I did. I’m not apologizing about the tweet because I don’t feel like it’s wrong”
NICKMERCS responded to the backlash over his tweet
Bro if 2-2-2 is the "huge" announcement tomorrow I kinda want someone to compile every time it's been leaked. It really has been the worst kept secret in eSports.
...yeah, that's a PTR patch directly aimed at breaking this meta.
And instead of buffing counters, they decided to nerf the problem. (By that I mean shields, not necessarily the characters)
A step in the right direction imo
Dude, what's happening right now?
Ever since workshop came out, people have been...optimistic about Overwatch's future?
Idk how im supposed to feel right now.
Sado: Dies first in a team fight
Fusion Fan: Goddamnit, why is Sado still playing, free Fragi!
Fusion: Whiffs a grav or layers support ults
FF: Wouldn't have happened if Fragi was playing
Cashier: Sorry, but your card has been declined
FF: STUPID SADO!!!!
Also I'm genuinely surprised at how many people I've seen who actually hate Bumper and were happy to see the Titans lose just to see Bumper sad.
I mean sure, he trash talks, but is that really enough to hate someone as a person? I don't think so.
Reportedly, Bumper was recently found shivering and rocking back and forth in the fetal position in the Titans team house. He refuses to talk to anyone but Pokpo, saying that only he will understand.
The Titans have told me that Bumper is questionable for tomorrow's match.
I don't really know whats going on but I just wanna say that not only are Lemon & Legday incredible casters, but they're so kind and welcoming to the community.
While I don't know what happened, it would be such a shame if something bad happened to them, OWL would be losing out.