esports-discussion

[ruby pendant]

just checked, they release Miro, Gido, and Wekeed. Wonder who Dynasty will replace them with?

[gaunt acorn]

certainly not poised to win owl season 2 rn

[queen drift]

Fissure Ado and dust

[gaunt acorn]

fissure has already replaced miro, yeah

ado could work, but i feel like they'll get some other dps players as well

[ruby pendant]

really a shame, don't know what happened to Miro.

[gaunt acorn]

kuki is likely being traded

to valiant

[ruby pendant]

Ado is pretty good too, might be the best genji in the league.

[queen drift]

I hope they get another hitscan.. fleta is so inconsistent

[sullen berry]

Don't need to if I'm going to be honest

[gaunt acorn]

fleta was inconsistent in the same way zunba was inconsistent

i dont think fleta himself was the problem

it was stress/burnout/coaching

fleta carried hard in stage 1

[sullen berry]

Micro has some individual plays

[queen drift]

Idk for a tank I can see that, a dps not really

[gaunt acorn]

i would've liked to see fleta + effect

but effect plans to stay with dallas

[queen drift]

Fleta hands down best player in Seoul in s1, past that tho he’s just meh

[ruby pendant]

@queen drift Maybe Fissure will help open some room for Fleta

[queen drift]

Maybe

[gaunt acorn]

seoul's tank line looks really good now

rn they just need another consistent dps

and to maybe figure out what they want to do about support

do they want to keep running rjh + tobi as starters?

[sullen berry]

Fleta blade

[queen drift]

Can they clone Jehong yet

[gaunt acorn]

they tried alleviating that problem by signing gambler

but we saw how that went

[ruby pendant]

lol

[gaunt acorn]

i think the starters will just be
fissure/zunba
???/fleta
ryujehong/tobi

inb4 valiant trades them bunny back

in return for kuki

[queen drift]

Bunny is p trash on regular hitscan tho, he only really plays tracer

[gaunt acorn]

was joke

[queen drift]

Any dps they sign will be awkward

Ik

Was leading on to

Because of fletas hero pool

You don’t want to go for a big money flex bc.. that’s fleta

But

You don’t want to go for a hitscab

Because

That’s fleta

[sullen berry]

Return of bunny

[gaunt acorn]

i think they will sign someone new from contenders

[queen drift]

Wait what if flower

He’d be great with fleta

[gaunt acorn]

im not sure about that

[queen drift]

How come

[gaunt acorn]

their hero pools are too similar

[queen drift]

Flower is much more flexible

[gaunt acorn]

nanohana (fl0w3r) plays widowmaker, genji, pharah, and other hitscan

just like fleta

[queen drift]

Fletas soldier tracer Zarya aren’t amazing

[gaunt acorn]

i dont think fleta needs to have a good zarya

when you have zunba

[queen drift]

Nor is his junk or pharah

[gaunt acorn]

his pharah is fine

imo

[queen drift]

Fine yeh but compared to flower?

[gaunt acorn]

if they sign flower

you'll basically get a shadowburn 2.0 dilemma

[queen drift]

Elaborate?

[gaunt acorn]

shadowburn and eqo had similar hero pools

while sdb may have been the better pharah

overall it was hard to run him, most of the time

[queen drift]

Right but neither of them can hitscan

[gaunt acorn]

so he was benched a lot

[queen drift]

And they had Faroe

Carpet

Carpe

[gaunt acorn]

its not a perfect analogy

im just saying

i think they overlap too much

to be a dps combo

you can have one or the other, but running them both at the same time seems less than ideal

i think a smart contenders pick up would be best

[queen drift]

I think you see it as sdb eqo and I see it as effect tailor

Rainout

[gaunt acorn]

i dont know of any owl free agents or potential trades that would fit, off the top of my head

[queen drift]

Rainout

Taimou

[gaunt acorn]

snillo to seoul lul

[queen drift]

What about meme

Meme

[gaunt acorn]

meme

[queen drift]

Ducking hate my phone

Nenne

[sullen berry]

Nae Nae Nae

[gaunt acorn]

nenne would be pretty good, although his hero pool is kind of limited (imo), maybe too limited

and he's on nyxl's academy team

so nyxl gets first dibs on him

[sullen berry]

I hate speech to text just as much

[queen drift]

Didn’t their contracts run out?

Like they had a 1 year contract on flower and that was it

[gaunt acorn]

i think nenne is still signed to xl2

[queen drift]

Everyone else on XL2 is just another contenders player iirc

[gaunt acorn]

but the fact that xl2 is the academy team for nyxl means that nyxl gets first dibs on them

thats the reason for academy teams

[queen drift]

Didn’t know it worked like that

[gaunt acorn]

ye

[queen drift]

Why was flower signed to nyxl then

[gaunt acorn]

too young

oh

well, yeah

he was signed because they knew they wanted him, i guess

but he was just too young to play

[queen drift]

But the contract ran out before he was of age iirc

[gaunt acorn]

idk perhaps he was important enough they felt he was worth it despite not being able to play

i cant comment on the reasoning behind their decision

thats just my understanding of it

[queen drift]

Just seems like a waste of money

Maybe they offered the contract before academy teams were fully explained

[gaunt acorn]

look what happened with mendo

[sullen berry]

iirc cutoff date was before flow3r turned 18

To make sure teams didn't exploit the system by running new players just before end of regular season or during postseason, the cutoff date was April 5th

His birthday was May 14

[lyric pivot]

Im still salty about fissure leaving glads to play for an all Korean team. He's an awesome tank, but his attitude.. . He's like the Korean xqc.

[red anvil]

Fissure was put in a cab with two hour notice and shipped to a forgein team

Even his glads player number was a refrence to his old korean team, kongdoo

[hidden vault]

Fissure had a tough time too

[visual glen]

Still doesn't excuse him throwing his team under the bus during season playoffs

[sullen berry]

fissure is anakin and seoul dynasty is the senate

[gaunt acorn]

"Good, Fissure, good... throw the playoffs... throw the playoffs now."
"I shouldn't..."
"Do it."

[tawny sigil]

so we were talking about esport in olympics the other day.... apparently they decide to exclude any game that countains killing

so rocket league only

[gaunt acorn]

good

i dont think being in the olympics would really be a positive thing

not least because the IOC is corrupt as hell

[warped axle]

Replace all guns with paintball guns

There you go, Overwatch in the Olympics

[tawny sigil]

fighting games aer allowed... well exept those like mortal kombat

[twin kernel]

My favorite video games are killing games

[tawny sigil]

as long as its only KO

[twin kernel]

I don't understand the issue to be honest, Overwatch is one of the least graphic video games I've seen

[glass gyro]

What about poor bastion when he dies

[tawny sigil]

bastion doesn't die

he gets recycled

[hidden vault]

That's gorey

[long belfry]

The problems that Seoul had in this season:
Miro was washed up
Fleta was inconsistent
Tobi had a wrist injury
Munchkin was underwhelming
Zunba and Jehong were basically the only 2 consistent players on the team
WTF WAS GIDO DOING IN JEHONG'S SPOT

Wekeed was not OWL ready
Gambler was a 6/10

And when Zunba got an injury, Xepher showed us why he was warming up the bench

[limber pine]

they were an average team

hindsight is certainly 20/20

[gaunt acorn]

uh they also had 4 head coaches contradicting each other

[limber pine]

true true

[gaunt acorn]

coaching was the biggest issue, imo

miro wasn't "washed up" so much as he wasn't getting the help he needed

this impacted all the players

plus the stress, demoralizing atmosphere, and uncertainty did a lot of harm, too

especially to zunba and fleta

on top of that you have a meta that doesn't favour their support duo at all

then, finally, but (imo) least importantly; some poor roster pickups

like kuki, etc

[torpid charm]

Tobi just wanted to play Lucio

[gaunt acorn]

and jehong wanted to play ana

[torpid charm]

sad

[long belfry]

They were forced into heroes that were not their best

Munchkin needs to go too imo

[deft valley]

it's almost like hero pool is an important aspect for pro players

[long belfry]

And they should try to get either Stitch or Nenne

@deft valley they have those heroes in their hero pool

But they are not AS good

Jegong is an ana main and Tobi is a lucio main

[deft valley]

being as good or not as good is part of it

[long belfry]

They play WAY better on those heroes

[deft valley]

they were clearly lacking compared to others who adapted

[long belfry]

They are better than most of us anyway

[deft valley]

...

[long belfry]

They got shit Metas

Mercy meta was zzzzzzzzzzzz

[deft valley]

everyone gets the same one lol

[long belfry]

Then they didnt have a good Tracer

And finally they lacked a good Brig

[deft valley]

if you think mercy meta was boring, do not look back on ana threetank lol

[long belfry]

3 tank was also zzzzzzzzzzz

[deft valley]

it wasn't diverse (in healers anyway) but there was plenty of action

[long belfry]

But Im talking about OWL metas

The comp you saw in Stage 1 included 80% of the time Mercy, Zen and Spamrat

[deft valley]

that was on junkrat
Mercy meta overall had the most diverse dps combos

for a while anyway

[long belfry]

And in Stages 2 and 3 not having a God tier Tracer was an insta loss

And Munchkin was BAD

Playing Mercy at that high of a level is not easy

Imagine having Mano, SBB, Meko and Libero ON YOUR FACE

Or having Carpe and SDB

Its not easy

[deft valley]

playing anything on that level ain't gonna be easy

that said there were still clear differences on mercy

Neptuno 🙏

[long belfry]

If you are not a Mercy 1 trick or dont get good enough peels, you insta die

Neptuno for instance is an almost Mercy 1 trick

Nus is a Mercy bot

[deft valley]

lolwhat

[long belfry]

And Ark has a team that doesnt let him die

[deft valley]

Neptuno played Mercy in most of OWL because she was the best pick for the entire regular season

[long belfry]

It also depends on the teammates

[deft valley]

he used to be best known for his Lucio

and he's pulled him out in slambulance and later goats comps

[long belfry]

Tobi is really good, but he had a wrist injury

Same with Jehong

Zunba had a wrist injury too

He couldnt play like he used to because of that

AND CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE FUCK THEY HAD 4 HEAD COACHES THAT COMTRADICTED EACH OTHER AND PUT GIDO IN JEHONG'S PLACE?

Seoul's coaches were WAY worse than MemeMeme

Seoul's org was a JOKE

They should have tried to convince Esca to stay

He was the soul of LH

[torpid charm]

Ark???? A Mercy one trick???? Wow

I thought Esca left because he had military service to do

[long belfry]

I never said that

I said that he is not, but he has a yeam that doesnt let him die

NYXL (before they choked) worked like a well oiled machine

[mint turtle]

Less they choked, more that good mechanical skills weren't rewarded as much once brig was in

Couldn't play tracer/ genji/mccree

[long belfry]

Brig = anti skill

[karmic grotto]

Today we will have Worldcup right?

[limber pine]

tomorrow

[long belfry]

Canada vs USA

PogFuckingChamp

[karmic grotto]

But tomorrow as in US time or Korean time?

Not sure what time that is in EU +1

[long belfry]

Idk

[hidden vault]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/400396200966094848/487228296636137473/image0.png

[crude jewel]

LOL

[torpid charm]

LMAO they’re not wrong

[hidden vault]

https://medium.com/@jinghao.liang03/the-end-of-an-overwatch-era-5e1d699b7b35

[pulsar yoke]

This is deep

It gives me more confidence to try out for my high school team, but I don’t believe I could do it.

[torpid charm]

That article just put me in my feels

[pulsar yoke]

Same

[sullen berry]

I wanted to write an article about my experience with the OWL on medium

I'm not that fluid in my writing style, but would be a good read from a city trying to grow into esports as a part of our local identity

[gusty cipher]

rip eu owl

[sullen berry]

AU gets more attention by ratio of its population than EU

I still don't get what decision had to be made from Blizz AJ to allow NZ to be able to collect OWL Tokens watching games while Australia didn't

[swift sand]

NeptuNo just killed people as mercy and went for nutty rez’s

[mild ginkgo]

just met jona in widow hs

he was raping everyone

[pearl stratus]

Token collection was always done based on local laws in some situations. NZ probably had less strict regulations than Australia.

Like for Canada to collect tokens they have to do math questions and shit

[hidden osprey]

and Neptuno paid the price for it in the finals

[balmy wolf]

put that into #overwatch

this is the esport channel

[verbal roost]

@sullen berry did you try writing before?

[plush trout]

WC America starts tomorrow right?

[long belfry]

Yes

[plush trout]

🇺🇸 sweeet

[gaunt acorn]

[plush trout]

I wish Canada all the best. They gave me hockey so i have nothing but love for the brothers of the north xD

Except Toronto because they stole Tavares. But anyway

Who else seems like a legit contender besides Canada/US?

[gaunt acorn]

brazil

[queen drift]

France

SK obviously

[plush trout]

Is Agilities a starter for Canada? Or sub

[gaunt acorn]

@queen drift he means in the group

@plush trout starter

[plush trout]

Nice

I love watching him play Pharah

[gaunt acorn]

mangachu plays a great pharah, too

mangachu's pharah is credited for defeating russia last year

[plush trout]

Nice. This is my first year watching it. Purrrty excited

[polar pasture]

if you ask me, i thought norway's roster looked kind of intimidating
onigod is pretty good

[warped axle]

🇨🇦

[rain pond]

[lyric pivot]

So have 2 days to sign a tank. Who do they go with?

[hidden vault]

Miro

[plush trout]

Fissure leaves Seoul to resign with LAG

Lul

"I wAs jK u GuYZ toothy grin"

[ember jewel]

Janus, Smurf, Panker, Beasthalo and Cloneman are all very good options

[lyric pivot]

Pfft, they're going to pick up xqc.

[gaunt acorn]

@lyric pivot panker

he's on their academy team so it's a no-brainer, imo

[hidden vault]

Why did they pick Iremix in the 1st place though

I think LA valiant is the only team that hadn't revealed any roster

Seems like they would be keeping all of them

[gaunt acorn]

@hidden vault because him (iremiix) and bischu were a pair

they were the tank duo for kungarna, prior to being signed to the gladiators

and valiant are definitely releasing a few players, i would think

[vestal mortar]

Yeah going into OWL last year all everyone was talking about was having a strong tank duo so tanks we often getting picked up in pairs

I hope VAL will give us the news soon!

[gaunt acorn]

the only news i want to hear is that kyky becoming the vancouver gm was a prank

[vestal mortar]

ooooh my gut tells me it might really be true

[gaunt acorn]

please, kyle souder, stay away from my city

you've done enough damage elsewhere

just retire or something, dude

dm me your paypal

i'll pay you to retire

[hidden vault]

Who do you think they would release then?

None of the new players had much play time

And there was a few discussions that kyky was actually helping dallas but Hastr0 was the one harming dallas

[gaunt acorn]

i think it's been established kyky was ultimately responsible

hastr0 may have done some dumb shit, too

but the brunt of blame belongs to kyky

and @hidden vault off the top of my head.. numlocked? bunny?

finnsi?

i don't know what they plan to do with izayaki since we didn't even see him

but numlocked is almost certainly getting released, imo

and i don't see much reason for them to keep bunny

[hidden vault]

Yeah numlocked probably he didn't even play for the British

I see teams like LAG releasing their tracer specialists so bunny maybe

We hadn't really seen finnisi too have we

Verbo? KSF?

And I'm not even sure why LAG released Asher

Ok that's not the point

Oh London also hadn't announced their released players too

Oh wait london already did ahead of everyone

[gaunt acorn]

yup

[queen drift]

Verbo for sure

[red anvil]

Expect whole Val B team minus Izayaki to go

[warped axle]

PankChamp

[drowsy fulcrum]

3 chinese teams

4 american teams

x fuckin d

the two european teams are literally a 2 hour train ride away from eachother

and I'm sure other EU cities were bidding

[gaunt acorn]

the only european team that was leaked as potentially interested was berlin

[deft valley]

there was a stockholm rumor too

[warped axle]

EU

NA and China ResidentSleeper

[trim wadi]

LETS GO DC

[waxen hornet]

Still no AUS team

[trim wadi]

Riot infront of Austrailan Multi-Millionaire's houses for a OWL team

[limber pine]

Toronto Vipers

[jagged crater]

that's a lot of chinese teams

is OW popular in china?

[limber pine]

i mean, china has it's own contenders region

so, maybe?

[jagged crater]

maybe by percentage when compared to other games it isnt, but due to china's sheer size, i guess it is relative to other countries

[limber pine]

what they do have is lots of 💸

[jagged crater]

eyyy chinese money

4 chinese teams, all koreans

[limber pine]

nah i bet a majority of their players will be chinese

at least on the 3 new teams

Shanghai tho

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jagged crater]

LOL shanghai

[queen drift]

china has its own contenders because they have their own servers though

[pearl stratus]

China also has enough players, and some of them are actually pretty good. We just didn't see any of them in Season 1.

I'm sure one of the teams will try and pick up the entire MY roster, since they're almost all of legal age now, etc.

[jagged crater]

legal Poggers

are MY players still playin OW?

[limber pine]

yes

[jagged crater]

hope whoever managed shanghai's roster got what's comin to him

[limber pine]

well kinda

sky moved to Shanghia and creed to a shanghai coach

a couple are on their academy team

two retired

[tawny sigil]

its in 2 hours?

!schedule

[limber pine]

yes

but the bot doesn't do OWWC

[tawny sigil]

pleb bot

[jagged crater]

leave was insane, hope he comes back

[limber pine]

maybe he will now that there's 4 Chinese teams in OWL now

[dusk hinge]

Sky, lateyoung, and leave are in the Chinese World Cup team

[limber pine]

Bangkok qualifier should be a lot of fun

Everybody's got a pretty good team

[vagrant niche]

hey guys,

what twitch channel is the stream going to be on?

not the league i'm assuming

[long belfry]

PlayOverwatch

[vagrant niche]

thanks

[karmic grotto]

So today we what time EU +0?

Nvm

It's in one huur

Hour

[vagrant niche]

yes, is very soon

[karmic grotto]

Guess I'll stay up for it

[hidden osprey]

https://www.twitch.tv/playoverwatch

Pre-show in 6 minutes

[vagrant niche]

is it me or is the chat disabled?

nvm

[hidden osprey]

I thought you meant disabled as in

[vagrant niche]

xQc invaders oh boi

[hidden osprey]

♿

Uber and X

[vagrant niche]

UBER YES

i love it

[hidden osprey]

wow, hydration's name is so long

Joao Pedo Veloso De Goes Telles

[torpid charm]

I love his name

[hidden osprey]

I love how twitch chat is just spamming xqc's huge fucking schnoze

[tawny sigil]

thats what happen when everyone give both mom and dad's last name to their kid and then next generation does it aswell

end up with 10 words names

[hidden osprey]

Let's go Canada

(even though I'm not canadian )

[vagrant niche]

this poll is stupid

we know xQc is going to win it

[hidden osprey]

Is this in the same blizz arena as the OWL?

[rigid laurel]

Fking lol at the xqc nose spam

[hidden osprey]

[vagrant niche]

feels good

[hidden osprey]

the best casters, fuck yeah

[vagrant niche]

seeing xQc back

[rigid laurel]

theres some tall bois on team canada

[vagrant niche]

on stage

[stone grove]

Just turn off the chat Lol

[hidden osprey]

aye adrian

[rigid laurel]

watching twitch without chat, why even watch

[hidden osprey]

Canada has some absolute units

[stone grove]

then watch on the overwatch website :CAT:

[hidden osprey]

Surefour is the shortest and even he's still pretty tall

5'9 iirc

[rigid laurel]

mangachu must be fucking 7ft tall

lmao

[hidden osprey]

Reinforce is taller than Mangachu...

[rigid laurel]

no asian manlets feels good man

kappa

[hidden osprey]

wooooooow

;-;

[rigid laurel]

im actually so excited to see xqc

I hope he pops off

[hidden osprey]

me too

[vagrant niche]

Mangachu POGGERS

[hidden osprey]

hope this is the start of a redemption arc

[vagrant niche]

please play Pharah

[rigid laurel]

s4 and xqc kind of look like they could be brothers

[hidden osprey]

XQC on WB

[rigid laurel]

yooo

[vagrant niche]

xQc on hammond???

POGGERS

[rigid laurel]

aw

orisa

lol

[hidden osprey]

He hasn't been playing him much on stream

I wonder if it's to hide strats

aww, he's on orisa

[rigid laurel]

GO CANADA

[hidden osprey]

need more S4 POV

he popped off and we saw nothing but the kill feed

[rigid laurel]

They should add a XQC schnoze cam

[hidden osprey]

lmao

[rigid laurel]

I feel like USA is really under estimatin surefour and mangachu

[hidden osprey]

I want USA to get absolutely dicked on

[rigid laurel]

^

[magic zinc]

I didnt know they would be live at EU friendly times

Mangachu Wrecking Ball wew

Oh shit

MANGACHU DOOMFIST

[rigid laurel]

DF now

both fun

[hidden osprey]

ugh, I hate that hero so much

[rigid laurel]

man these colors fking suck lmao. I look at the kill feed and get confused

[hidden osprey]

yeah, I was just about to say, hard to tell which team is which on the point

[magic zinc]

hugeee

Although that is quite the ult investment

BOOSTIO

oh no lol

[rigid laurel]

its less important on KOTH imo if your team is good at stagger contesting

[hidden osprey]

oh dear, wrong nano boost target

[rigid laurel]

you could delay to 99pct without ults

[vagrant niche]

BOOOSTIO

[magic zinc]

Its even more important imo because they went 2 ults for 2 picks but Austria still stalled 15% on top

because its KOTH

Austria is doing better than I expected tbh

[hidden osprey]

what a fucking play from xqc

that nano boost was amazing

[rigid laurel]

man i wanna hear the comms, xqc fking yelling and shit lmao

[hidden osprey]

I GET STUNNED AND BOOPED AND PINNED, LET ME PLAY THE FUCKING GAME

probably

[rigid laurel]

keyboard BIG SLAM

[hidden osprey]

[magic zinc]

Commiting ults wew lad

4 ults damn

But hey they won

pog

[rigid laurel]

its the last fight

why wouldnt you

[karmic grotto]

i thought

assault wasnt prihibited??

[magic zinc]

I mean it didnt look like they were winning until the 3rd ult

[hidden osprey]

Twitch chat is never gonna stop spamming whenever he's on camera

[rigid laurel]

loool

It's hilarious that he made that an emote

[hidden osprey]

time for the best map in the game

King's Row

[rigid laurel]

I hate defending kings row tbh

[forest wharf]

[visual glen]

goats again

[rigid laurel]

😴

[hidden osprey]

[rigid laurel]

LMAO MANGACHU

just spinning on the point

[visual glen]

Instead of widow every map now Austria gonna goats every map

[magic zinc]

Can't really blame them tbh

I feel like Canada overcommits in terms of ults sometimes

They just get away with it because Austria isn't good enough to punish

[hidden osprey]

maybe, but you have to remember, ults are cheap in this game

[rigid laurel]

xqc rein feels good man

[magic zinc]

Oh no dude the stagger D:

[rigid laurel]

man playing against sombra in pro play must be frustrating as fuck

[wooden root]

lmaooooo

[magic zinc]

Surefour is being such a pain in the ass lmao

[wooden root]

huge stagger

[magic zinc]

She just farms EMP off chip damage looool

[rigid laurel]

fking emp every fight lmao

[vagrant niche]

LMAO

spin to win

[forest wharf]

Oof

[hidden osprey]

Is this first to three?

or all 4 maps played?

[magic zinc]

I'm not sure actually, I assume its all 4

Cus map score can count into tie-breaks

[forest wharf]

Its all 4 played

[hidden osprey]

o

Canada just walking up to the point

[magic zinc]

okay that was some spicey hammond

jesus christ they're getting absolutely rolled

[forest wharf]

Literally rolled

[magic zinc]

Loving the Space Animals dive

[hidden osprey]

Austria are so staggered holy shit

[magic zinc]

Final fight ol

They're afraid to press W as soon as they lose 1 person

Which is understandable but damn thats rough

[forest wharf]

Yea...pretty rekt

[vagrant niche]

this is looking pretty free

[wooden root]

ez

[hidden osprey]

looks like Austria are making use of their sub?

[forest wharf]

Team canada is fucking stacked though, idk how good austria's players are since ive never heard of them but yea

[magic zinc]

He's 15 wtf lol

[hidden osprey]

wow, this kid is 15

[forest wharf]

Wait wait

[magic zinc]

Doesnt he have school

[wooden root]

damnnnnnnnnnnn

[stone grove]

not when hes in the overwatch world cup Lmaoo

[vagrant niche]

USA prety cool!!

[dusky tinsel]

15 pogchamp

[forest wharf]

Pretty deep voice for a 15 year old lol

[magic zinc]

"You gotta be at least this tall" oh noooooo

Mr. X's only weakness

[swift sand]

Lool

[forest wharf]

Do they have an analyst desk in this world cup yet

[hidden osprey]

doesn't look like it

the pre-show was recorded

[magic zinc]

These stats are pretty meaningless imo

[forest wharf]

Damn, you can definitely tell blizzard cut alot of production budget this year, guess theyre pushing it all in owl

[magic zinc]

Yeah they also had barely any advertising for World Cup

[forest wharf]

Yea, like pretty much no advertising

[plush trout]

AGILITIES

[forest wharf]

Agilities lucio???

[plush trout]

O_o

[hidden osprey]

that's an odd choice

[magic zinc]

Uhhh lol

I thought they'd keep him close to spawn to switch if needed but he's staying it seems

[forest wharf]

Quad tank

[magic zinc]

Slambulance xd

[surreal dragon]

random but what patch is worlds on?

[magic zinc]

Crimzo cant be contested so rip

Uh

The one with the Hammond bug

[plush trout]

He gets the first kill lmao

[magic zinc]

But with Support Changes I think?

I'm liking this Canada comp

[surreal dragon]

damn that wrecking ball on austria didnt last long

[magic zinc]

Wacky dive ft. Grandma lol

XQC WITH THE SPRAY!

what a champ

[surreal dragon]

canada is kicking their ass damn

[swift sand]

Wait the Hammond D.Va Sombra Doomfist Ana Lúcio Dive Comp thing

[plush trout]

Yeah this is looking like a warm up

[forest wharf]

According to google its on patch 1.27

[magic zinc]

This whole thing is just "Can GOATs get on point"

If yeah, they win

But the odds of that arent very high

[swift sand]

Oof

[magic zinc]

Especially with EMps lol

holy shit

[rigid laurel]

THAT BOMB

[stone grove]

^

[vagrant niche]

JESUS

[plush trout]

HOLY CRAP

[surreal dragon]

oh

HOLY FUCK

[stone grove]

austria just got fucked

[surreal dragon]

I NEED LIKE

A REPLY OF THAT

[rigid laurel]

that point is hard as fuck to get a good bomb too

[worn hornet]

holy fucking shit Note

[surreal dragon]

What was that like

5?

[worn hornet]

5 + a mech

[rigid laurel]

he got the dva mech too

[swift sand]

Gees

[rigid laurel]

so essentially a team wipe

[swift sand]

I wish I was watching this rn

[surreal dragon]

tbh i hope that canada makes finals again

and secure themselves as a solid worlsd team

like, canada has a solid team tbh

[swift sand]

That and Jayne as their head coach

[magic zinc]

Agilities

[worn hornet]

I wonder if anyone's going to try to pick up Mangachu for OWL next year

[magic zinc]

10 bucks says he's had offers already lol

But NYXL holds the right of first offer I think

[rigid laurel]

man surefours sombra would make me want to uninstall OW lmao

[magic zinc]

And they obvs wont sign him but

I dont think anyone else can offer until the academy signing period is over

[forest wharf]

Nah, expansion teams have first rightz

[swift sand]

I think Philly could pick up Mangachu.

[magic zinc]

MANGACHU

[ruby pendant]

wow

[magic zinc]

Oh

[swift sand]

If they give up ShaDowBurn

[magic zinc]

Does expansion get dibs before parent team?

[swift sand]

Idk

[worn hornet]

Does Boston have anyone backing up Mistakes & Striker right now?

[surreal dragon]

honestly id be happy with a non-asian team being known as one of the best at worlds aha

[swift sand]

Your right they really don’t. Not after the whole DreamKazper situation

About Boston

[magic zinc]

Boston's only DPS is Striker atm?

Mistakes was let go

[forest wharf]

Also as of tomorrow all players not under contract are free agents

[swift sand]

Poor Miro dude

[magic zinc]

Its understandable they let Miro go but damn its the end of an era

[swift sand]

Rip Lunatic-hai

Literally all of Shanghai was let go too

Only Diya, Fearless, and Geguri remain

[worn hornet]

from what I'm reading it sounds more like Mistakes wanted out for whatever reason

[swift sand]

The dropped Ado

[forest wharf]

Same with mayhem

[swift sand]

Oof

[forest wharf]

Saya, tviq, and awesomeguy only survivors

[worn hornet]

I wonder what the overall count for released non-korean players is

[swift sand]

They dropped Logix too?

[forest wharf]

Yep

[magic zinc]

Logix I can see going to the Paris team if they build a French roaster

Although it depends which part of Belgium he's from

Not 100% sure he speaks French

[karmic grotto]

nice canada

will they beat south korea?

[swift sand]

They can

[forest wharf]

Pretty sure every expansion team are gonna be 90% korean anyways

[swift sand]

Unfortunately

You can’t deny their skill tho

Take Whoru for example

[forest wharf]

Korean contenders is gonna be stripped out

[plush trout]

Agilities lmao

[karmic grotto]

yeah

[swift sand]

Who won the Korean Finals, Runaway or Kongdoo Panthera I only saw half of the match and Panthera was up 3-1

[karmic grotto]

that lucio kill\

lmao

so satisfying

[forest wharf]

Runaway won

[worn hornet]

BOOP

[swift sand]

Ohhh nice

Reverse sweep

[forest wharf]

Was a pretty epic game

[swift sand]

I need to finish it

They posted the game on YouTube and I only saw part 1

[karmic grotto]

jeez

that xqc really likes winston

[plush trout]

Thats the second time Austrias Rein charged a corner

[karmic grotto]

mistakes are made

and punished

at high level

[plush trout]

I imagine theyre nervous af

[karmic grotto]

yeah

[forest wharf]

Agilities is just trolling at this point lol

[plush trout]

Especially having to play this team first

[karmic grotto]

agilities is trolling?

[plush trout]

Hes just rolling around trying to boop everyone off the map lol

[karmic grotto]

xqc lmao

on tha boat

[worn hornet]

sounds like how I play lucio

[swift sand]

How I play Brig

[worn hornet]

I like to suicide charge rien in MH

and hope nobody hits me so I don't get switched

[forest wharf]

Rip

[balmy wolf]

GO CANADA

and GO USA

[forest wharf]

Yea canada is super stacked this year

[karmic grotto]

so after this match., we have another one

[balmy wolf]

who's next?

[karmic grotto]

canada vs brasil

might be a good one

[balmy wolf]

good

[karmic grotto]

after the next one

[balmy wolf]

rek them

since we can't compete at soccer

[ruby pendant]

LOL

[karmic grotto]

4 tanks

jesus christ

[brave hollow]

is this the finland strat

[balmy wolf]

aahahahah GET REKT

[plush trout]

Yeah they keep running that

[balmy wolf]

rickroll

austria is just plain stupid

[tawny sigil]

how did some gold get into OWWC

[balmy wolf]

this is desperation

[karmic grotto]

is austra

experienced?

[worn hornet]

he didn't

[karmic grotto]

it seems not

4 tanks to hold back canda

what

[tawny sigil]

like they should have fell back after the 2 kills

[surreal dragon]

rip

[forest wharf]

Think theyre just fucking around since they know they obviously lost

[balmy wolf]

BOOP

[karmic grotto]

hjahahaha

[magic zinc]

WHAT

[brave hollow]

JEBAITED

[balmy wolf]

#rekt

[magic zinc]

WHATTTT

[plush trout]

AGILITIES

[karmic grotto]

agilities keeps trolling them

[plush trout]

MY DUDE

[magic zinc]

LMAOOOO

[plush trout]

Lmfao

[rugged cedar]

ahahahah

[magic zinc]

LMAO THE SOLO SOUND BARRIER

[karmic grotto]

jesus

5 kills?

[worn hornet]

BOOP

[karmic grotto]

holy fuck

[magic zinc]

4

[forest wharf]

4 and mech

[feral wing]

[magic zinc]

i think?

[balmy wolf]

those skins tho

[brave hollow]

heard someone asked why agilities is on lucio

[karmic grotto]

4 and mech yes

[magic zinc]

Custa Genji

[karmic grotto]

that guy is

[balmy wolf]

agilities with potg

[karmic grotto]

trolling so hard

[feral wing]

4 BOOP KILLS, MECH AND SOLO SOUND BARRIER

[surreal dragon]

oh god god

[rigid laurel]

TORB

LMAO

TORB

TORB

[ruby pendant]

not bad, took some time

[karmic grotto]

torb

canada

[rugged cedar]

is it first time

[plush trout]

Canada is just messing around loll

[karmic grotto]

is trolling

as fuck

[forest wharf]

9 boop kills lul

[surreal dragon]

torb omfg

[brave hollow]

we need a new hammer killfeed pic

[ruby pendant]

lol

[vestal mortar]

The signature Mangachu Torb

[rigid laurel]

molten core, nano POTG

PLEASE

WITH HAMMER ONLY

noooo

[plush trout]

My god

[karmic grotto]

canada was fun this match lol

[forest wharf]

ANOTHER BOOP

[worn hornet]

did you see the OWL all star game?

[vagrant niche]

dam son

[brave hollow]

4-0verwatch

[tawny sigil]

potg was the 4 env kills

[feral wing]

molten core, nano boost, graviton surge torb hammer potg

like I got

that one time

[tawny sigil]

why do people still say 4-0verwatch

its OH FOUR WATCH

[feral wing]

triple torb hammer kill. I would love to see that in OWL or OWWC lmao

[karmic grotto]

so what you do when you win the match>

[brave hollow]

good meme

[karmic grotto]

play torb

[plush trout]

Im so happy he stayed on Lucio

[surreal dragon]

austria just got their ass kicked

[plush trout]

That was amazing lol

[karmic grotto]

i hope brasil better give some resistance

[forest wharf]

Agilities with the 10 boop kills

[karmic grotto]

this was just a circus

i watched a circus and comedy today

[sharp wing]

they're BMíng so hard

:((

[torpid charm]

xQc still repping Dallas

[hidden osprey]

how were the last two maps?

[magic zinc]

"I love playing interactive heroes" LMAO

[hidden osprey]

I missed them

[plush trout]

That interview was basically: "we knew we were gonna win and trolled"

[forest wharf]

SANGBAGGING CONFIRMED

[karmic grotto]

but seriously

canada made me laugh at rialto

[forest wharf]

Fucking agilities lucio

[karmic grotto]

i bet we will see lucios alot now

[forest wharf]

[worn hornet]

oh this is just not a good day for Austria is it

[feral wing]

Lets go Norway!

[worn hornet]

Is Switzerland obligated to run Mercy full time?

[feral wing]

ONIGOD!

Sorry, had to show my norweigan pride

[ruby pendant]

Does anyone know if Brazil have a good team?

[feral wing]

meh

doesnt really matter

Canada and US are probably gonna move on

Norway is probably 3rd though. (this is not biased, they're actually pretty decent)

[balmy wolf]

is it top 3 or 4 from each group?

[feral wing]

top 2 from each group

move on to blizzcon

[worn hornet]

wait norway doesn't have a dedicated support?

[long belfry]

@ruby pendant they probably just instalock 6 dps and refuse to support the team in any way, shape or form

[feral wing]

they do

[long belfry]

And dont join vc

[feral wing]

Lets go Norway!

[balmy wolf]

lol hong kong

0-20

rip

[long belfry]

New SHD roster confirmed

[ruby pendant]

Canada looked great so far, U.S should probably do good too. I'll only ask about Brazil since, recently they tried to push contenders in South America. Thought maybe they had a decent team.

@long belfry lol

[long belfry]

Brazillians are even more toxic than Russians

[ruby pendant]

@feral wing then I'm looking forward to watching them in the upcoming match, they better not disappoint!

[feral wing]

Norway is probably the only team that has any chance at taking US or Canada to map 5, based on their performace in earlier world cups

[long belfry]

They will lock dps and think that its more important to play torb than actually winning

[feral wing]

WHAT

EARTHSHATTER?

[long belfry]

Im talking about Brazil

[balmy wolf]

norway needs a comp change

they have no real counter in the way they run their comp

[feral wing]

norway got it

[balmy wolf]

lol wow

[feral wing]

this might actually be closer than I thought

[balmy wolf]

I discounted the dumb from Switzerland

[worn hornet]

oh yeah gimme dat mei on mei

[balmy wolf]

that was so stupid, 2 missed ults

[feral wing]

Norway's tankline is playing really well

[balmy wolf]

like 1v6 missing an ult?

[feral wing]

Decod and Tricky

[balmy wolf]

🤔

rekt

[feral wing]

[balmy wolf]

norway got dis

ladies and gentlemen and dogs

[feral wing]

OMEGALUL

[balmy wolf]

see how in comp they move as a unit?

[feral wing]

Yeah, nope this wont be close.

[worn hornet]

I thought you were supposed to trickle in one at a time

[balmy wolf]

norway gonna steamroll

[feral wing]

btw the caster just said ''herregud'' which means ''oh my god''

pog

[ruby pendant]

Kiba pretty good

Zen too

[balmy wolf]

dat rein charge into the wall tho

[feral wing]

Tricky is outplaying him so far though

hes getting grav's so fast

[long belfry]

I watched a comp game that one of the Brazillians played

[feral wing]

decod with his shatters

[long belfry]

He threw harder than NYXL

[balmy wolf]

charge!

CHARGE!

1 for 1

nice trades

[feral wing]

onigod is amazing

[balmy wolf]

if switzerland tightens up they are going through

norway made a flanking mistake with rein

[feral wing]

yeah

still think that Norway have got this though

[balmy wolf]

they are the better skilled team

[feral wing]

they were pretty dominant tbh

[tawny sigil]

1 map goal achieved... go back home OWWC is over

[feral wing]

LMAO

SPEEDBOOSTING EVERYONE BACK JUST TO SWAP ZEN

I got pranked so hard

I thought they were swapping their entire comp

[ruby pendant]

lol sweep

[feral wing]

Onigod on zarya

[ruby pendant]

he's pretty good.

[balmy wolf]

that zarya bubble won them the fight

[feral wing]

did anyone else see onigod in ow eu contenders

[balmy wolf]

ahahahah rekt

[feral wing]

semi final, angry titans vs (i dont remember)

[ruby pendant]

can't remember, was it season 1?

[feral wing]

https://clips.twitch.tv/BadShortPoxShazBotstix

look at that clip

the pulse bomb

everything

I feel like a lot of norway's players could be OWL level

[magic zinc]

#NoMercy lol

[feral wing]

interesting tactic from switzerland

it worked tho

so

this is going well for switzerland

whats that mei wall

wut

[stone plinth]

slightly off rip

[balmy wolf]

le boop

[feral wing]

that mei wall from luux was very questionable

he didnt wall anyone off from their team

OOF DECOD

[balmy wolf]

CONK

reversal coming'

[feral wing]

switzerland have nepal

[balmy wolf]

nothing to follow it up

weak

[feral wing]

OMEGALUL

[balmy wolf]

solo cap

staggered

[feral wing]

thats a really clutch backcap

[balmy wolf]

boop

that ult failure actually worked 🤔

[copper stratus]

That red is something else

[balmy wolf]

it's solid but Canada's is prettier 😉

[copper stratus]

Also how exciting is it that Vancouver is getting a OWL team

I agree completely

[feral wing]

meh

[balmy wolf]

NICE

[copper stratus]

REP THE CANADA

[feral wing]

wouldve prefered an EU team

[balmy wolf]

Vancouver Canucks?

[copper stratus]

Well y’all have London

Let’s hope

[balmy wolf]

cause they switching from Hockey to OWL?

[feral wing]

..

yeah, its not like every other region has 4+ teams

and EU has 2

[plush trout]

the Russian Rocket is first player signed to Vancouver

Im actually enjoying not seeing Mercy

Making it more interesting

[balmy wolf]

Seoul, Shanghai are the only two from asia

[copper stratus]

I agree actually

[balmy wolf]

@plush trout yup!!1

[feral wing]

ONIGOD

[worn hornet]

meanwhile LA has two teams by themselves

[balmy wolf]

terrible pharah ult

overwatch is most popular in NA

[feral wing]

Luux NA AIM

[balmy wolf]

afterall they are a California invention

[copper stratus]

But Canada didn’t have any before this

[balmy wolf]

yea

[feral wing]

they shouldve gotten 1

toronto

[balmy wolf]

XQC

[feral wing]

or vancouver

[balmy wolf]

no

[feral wing]

one of them

[copper stratus]

No

[balmy wolf]

not t.o.

[copper stratus]

Not Toronto

Vancouver is a better choice

[feral wing]

why not

[balmy wolf]

REGINA

[feral wing]

ehm

[balmy wolf]

anyone?

[fleet walrus]

new teams yeet

[feral wing]

no matter what

[copper stratus]

There’s more of a esports presence In van

[fleet walrus]

are the team names out yet

[copper stratus]

MOOSE JAW

No

[feral wing]

one of the canadian teams shouldve been an EU team instead tbh

Canada deserved a team

but

[fleet walrus]

Cri

[feral wing]

EU needs more teams

[worn hornet]

Buffalo/Rochester would probably get decent attendance once the home arena opened

[balmy wolf]

One of the Canadian teams?

[copper stratus]

We deserve 2 teams

[balmy wolf]

there is more than 1?

[feral wing]

Vancouver and Toronto

[balmy wolf]

Surefour and xQc have to go back

😮

[plush trout]

When they start traveling throughout the season youll probably see more EU teams

[copper stratus]

They better play for Vancouver

[balmy wolf]

Surefour is from my hometown

[copper stratus]

That’s sick dude

[plush trout]

Kinda rough when no one can watch in that timezone

[balmy wolf]

I feel like I've met him somewhere

[feral wing]

Canada deserves 2 teams, but when EU only has 2 teams then EU should have a higher priority

[balmy wolf]

how old is he?

I used to go to LANs back home

[copper stratus]

They’ll get them don’t worry

[stone plinth]

what makes mcree a better pick than soldier?

[balmy wolf]

it's not about "who deserves what"

[feral wing]

so far, predictions for the result of this match?

[balmy wolf]

it's about who FUNDS what

[feral wing]

I know that

but EU still deserves more teams

[balmy wolf]

and that means there needs to be capital investment

obviously the wanker rich in Euroland isn't willing to pony up money for it

[feral wing]

I think this will be a 3-1 to Norway

[balmy wolf]

k

[ruby pendant]

@balmy wolf "Seoul, Shanghai are the only two from asia" Unfortunately, neither made it to league playoffs.

[copper stratus]

I think Switzerland is gonna take this map but then Norway is gonna win overall

[ruby pendant]

real disappointment!!

[feral wing]

this map?

seriously?