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The man shouldn't play anything else
exactky
when houston had hackfist + winston dva
they fucked
too bad thtas never gonna happen
when ur flex dps outperforms you on mt
omegalul
actually to be fair
houston is 3-7 with muma
3-8 with hydration
hydration feeds less but the pieces in houston just dont fit
if we go off of tjat
Houston has had 1 good support playee
huh
It's jecse
I think Rapel has been underwhelming
better for the team than Muma will be
Houston have been underwhelming
Yeah but compared to my expectations, houston are better and Rapel is worse
i wouldnt even change anything besides getting a damn MT
at least boston doesn't send themselves broke getting players
Danteh is consistently nutty
Linkzr is interesting but he'll do cause when he pops hes the best
and Blase will work well as their doom genji specialist
linkzr is very inconsistent
Houston could drop everyone but Meko, Danteh, and Jecse and pick up Fusions and Myungbong from Boston
he is either a top 5 hitscan or a bottom 5 hitscan
lmao
no inbetween
Top 8
bruh
best of houston and uprising would actually be a solid team
uprising honestlyisnt that bad player-wise
theyre just a)mad boomed b) idk wtf coaches r doing
Fusions, Meko, Danteh, Hydration, Diya (on the fence with that), Jecse, Myungbong
also i fully believe that next year chengdu will go unbeaten for 40 games
yes
just watch
ameng ball
Ameng will just become a head coach
Will it be because they grabbed Diya?
fusions deserves a far better team
And make them better
actually most of boston does
I'm tellin ya dude Houston with Fusions would slap
except maybe halo and hex
no Halo is good
And maybe Mikeyy but his sample size is tiny
trying to make hex learn a hero is a guaranteed loss
Chex just gets uh forced onto DPS heroes he cant play
Halo has been mediocre at best and depressing at worst
remember when a hex torb hammer put boston out of the summer showdown
Lol
I guess it's time for me to join Boston
Tbh
Can't be worse off tank than
but no hex gotta whip out the hammer
Punk Jerry and myungbong
Also sorry Zalty I didn't mean lol at what you said, I meant the hammer thing
Could all do decently on mid table teams
punk is dope af
Other than them
@silk frost nah ik dw
They mostly suck ass
:) yo, if hex and Co can stay, I'll become like ChipSa
Ngl
Myungbong could start on Shock bruh

chippers
Chex could be a sub
Boston gotta pump up money
The best of houston + the best of Boston = a top 10 team
across all regions?
If they just sign "streamers"
maybe
Fusions too
depends how the glue together
Imagine Danteh playing with Fusions and Myungbong, and then Jerry with Meko
they*
It's almost a perfect blend of newer and older talent
..
jerry is a pretty avg hitscan tho
who is houstons other dps?
I'd probably rather have linkzr over jerry
ah
Linkzr
idk jerry seems more consistent than linkzr
but when linkzr is good he's a machine
widow specialist?
Yeah
idk what jerry's widow/ashe is like
These players are fine for not reading reddit or comments
true
they've done pretty well
yh but tbf everyone feels bad for them
You'll be boomed
boston is a different story
Titans were whipped together halfway through the season and forced to play in the big leagues against teams which have been scrimming and gelling together
Boston is just disliked tbh
i hold out hope that this time next year titans will be mid tier
God tier
Sometimes hated
Boston org is disliked probs
not the players
Fusions is a fuckin champ
3 seasons of boston
2?
Fusions is absolutely boomed at times though
titans story is literally the fall of the titan 
Its sad to see
so is all of boston
Like
I don't know how the players must feel
Houston could pick him up
they've gotta put up with constant defeat
And worst case scenario
theyll probably release Muma Boink and Hydration mayb
and pick up an actual MT
for some reason boink still exists

idk what niche Hydration would fill if hes not gonna be tanking
They do better than with hydration
If Boston pulls a ChipSa and signs Flats /s
ngl
Houston needs an overall
Flats would be dope
Over haul *
now Houston sign kabaji
Doesn’t want to tho
houston with kaiser
Unranked
I wish dafran stayed in Atlanta to play this meta
No no
Necros did bronze
Id like to see what ml7 would do in OWL
It would of been so fun
He was in low rank
ml7 trash
I remember me saying something about it
tf
ml7 trash
@digital cloud weirdchamp
On general discussion
just like chipsa, ml7 would be destroyed in OWL
if he can fit and work with a team
Ez clap
Eh
ml7 is nutty, with enough coaching he’d be good
@digital cloud don't think so. ML7 would have more playtime than ChipSa
You’d be saying the same about ANS
ANS was taken straight from ladder
And guess how he turned out
ANS was taken from ladder because he could cut it
Well not quite
so was jjonak
Ans played pro
ANS was one of the best widows in ladder, Ml7 is one of the best anas on ladder
Barely @karmic grotto
EU ladder
It was a short stint
ans was very well known on the korean ladder
u can’t really the say the streamer will be bad until they actually play in OWL
obv they’ve never played pro
But if they’re coachable, they’ll get it
See
Some pro player said something about it
it’s not just they are streamer not in OWL so they must be bad
usually the people they scout will play in a few scrims prior to being signed
wot
Uhm
Y would he be inconsistent
And just be flashy as hell
idk
We don't know
But not as consistent as other top Ana's
that depends
Obv that's speculation
Yeah
Not your average ranked shit show
we're not sure how he performs in a serious team environment
harbleu tried out t2
harb has a fatal weakness
he performed very inconsistently
Not being able to play dva
harb couldn't cut it, he isn't a team player
and dva has been meta for an extremely long time
You could definetly still make a good team out of steamers
Streamers*
Just streaming is way more money
@feral zodiac makes no sense what you say
and from what i've been told harb doesn't work well with teams
ye you’d just have to coach them right
harb would get omega clapped in owl
tbf the life of a tank is getting clapped until you have ult
?
chicken contendies
Clapped when you don't scrim, yes
people that scrim can still get clapped
THEY PLAYED IN CONTENDERS
Streaming makes too much money that’s why he sticks to streaming
Pepega team
that doesn't mean scrimming isn't an advantage
No shit
Streaming > scrimming

Generally more fun
better working enivornment
Since I’m guessing the Boston roster isn’t having a lot of fun currently
not at all
I bet, if the salaries were in the million, you would see more players training hard
And you don’t guarantee your on a team like the shock or dragons
ik fusions hates it
And even then, Shock and Dragons probably have a shit ton of work
you would see more, but then better people would get the job
fuck yeah they do
Between scrims vod reviews etc
If owl players could make 2 millions a year, oh man 
all we need to do is get more viewers
Boston probs pays low
shouldn't be too hard
and we know the highest earners
Teams like Dallas pay bank
Players like Carpe, Jjonak could be getting so much
Don’t we only know Sinatraa
And Decay before he left
150k
minimum salary is $50,000 a year per player
only need the whole population of China viewing
We only knew Season 1 Sinatraa
they released a list of the 20 highest earners a year ago
After getting MVP for OWWC And OWL it would of went up so high
pretty much all koreans
nice dream
I am not sure about the vision of Activision Blizzard, but when money speaks, this vision is a short term thing to get money
Overwatch stays strong as long as Jeffrey Kaplan is the director
I would even say that if they decided to cut Overwatch, that it wouldn't even hurt them
That's how low the impact is
2016? Game has evolved, but at what cost?
All those big streamers leaving Overwatch because it's not fun for them anymore. It could have had 100k thousands viewers each day realistically
But too slow
Bad decisions in between
And when the trouble is finances? They have to create OW 2 to make more money
But at what cost?
Outside China
Blizzard has never favoured a Western Audience
Sometimes
Games like Starcraft etc
only game that really favours a western audience is WoW
idk what that's like in asia though
but yeah starcraft, hots, overwatch all make their money in the east
If they didn't kill pro pugs, didn't kill the sponsors teams can have, didn't kill the ability to work together with faceit to create a stable and health semi pro ranked games for competitive matches without bullshit of throwers, leavers, win traders...
hearthstone as well
and if they actually made the changes they say they are going to quicker
Create games for short term profit
they have lol
In the end Blizzard is a for profit company
That's their style
and didn't walk back buffs almost immediately
???
playable? yes. but god is comp cancerous sometimes
It is short term
Sometimes
Kinda
Go play csgo and it’s way worse
that's thanks to faceit
I’ve started to play Valorant and what I’ve found is Overwatch is way more fun to win, but valorant is more fun to lose than to lose in Overwatch
is it even worth it to even buy the game that has no stable competitive environment as advertised?
csgo?
Imagine you hearing that owl teams have academy teams, and then hearing about them not being in contenders
What does that say?
uh
The teams shit
idk, what does it say
Most of owl had Academy teams, but right now they're non existent
How will players see the pro side of Overwatch, as a real pro thing like LoL if they don't even see T2 academy teams playing?
And then start to gather information
And read that T2 system is actually trash
We, the players know what we want to see on the pro scene, but the heads don't...
They rather see money
i don't get it
That's what she said
what
🥁
I think that is what he is saying?
Hes saying
Taiyo was never chosen to be a genji specialist
If he was basing off just genji, he wouldn't have went for taiyo
crusty values roster depth a lot
same reason why he got twilight
by virtue of having more players, you more options on how you want to shuffle the roster
But players wouldn't want to be benched
So they might ask for transfer
Like architect
I’m pretty sure they got Twilight Bc he’s a monster on Ana in the same way Viol2t is a monster on Zen
Im pretty sure they got twilight just so the other teams cant get twilight
isnt it funny that seoul and london are probably like worst apac team but if it was in na they are probably at least atlanta tier
Twilight was playing Ana like ranked against philly in the finals
lol
Go watch Oasis it was the funniest thing
Rascal didn’t even have scrim time on genji
That's how scary shock is
They literally started running genji dive with rascal in that match and it outclassed Fusion
fusion looked mentally boomed
in avasts stream mcgravy alluded to how rascal wasnt playing in scrims at all
it was super on genji in scrims
Yeah
then they pulled out rascal genjis in playoffs and what do you know they pound on it
Super said something along the lines that Rascal's tweet was 'basically true'
Shock are just so scarily good
carpe 
player wise philly had the better sombra and zarya, but the team play overall favor shock
cold
Or maybe Shock just adapted to his genji
hes neutral was fine, but his blades got no value
Yeah, shame they look so good but nothing to show for it
rascal had the game saving ults
Ivy genji is very good
Shock won Anubis only because Rascal made a play
paris couldn't mirror the dive and they couldn't force philly off it so they lost
You could tell Rascal was watching Paris v Philly
Rascal never dived Alarm in blade
Never first at least
You think paris could've beat shock if they were in the same bracket instead of philly?
As soon as Shock figure out Rascal dive is the play, no team in NA would have beat them
I don't think Paris would. They didn't look as good as they have in the past weeks
mayhem almost took shock to map 5, but shock clutch up on eich
and the momentum shifted towards shock
As much as Alarm dicked on sparkle I fear Teilight would’ve done it more
Shock has a bad time on Busan
Shock throw control to play KR
But koth means nothing
busan is the weirdest control map
each stage favors a different comp
dont be a bitch
Every team that won the first control map lost the series
make dragons play on 200 ping

Busan kinda sucks

One KoTH is super easy to snowball on
but yea busan does suck pretty hard honestly
And two busan is the easiest one to do this one
Yes
its more than 50% on average
If you win the first fight you will win the round unless you beef
u have a decent chance to get it last fight territory pretty easily
if u get it 1st
then u bank ults and flip it again to win
Ye
And Busan has really good chokes for defense on two of the points
but yea poor paris
its like 60%
they actually got 2nd seed because they dropped a map to justice
Wait
just give me shock vs dragons
@next mesa yes pls, I need to see this SO much
Paris would’ve been able to make finals and they not beefed
Actually
Florida could’ve beaten them tbh
Yeah
but considering paris couldnt do dive ig it didnt matter
beef meaning?
If they didn't drop a map to Justice they would have had a better record than shock
By one map
When you beef you fuck up
Paris dropped a map to justice
^
They lost #1
They had to face Philly instead of Florida
because paris and shock had the same map record
They weren’t gonna beat Philly but Florida is a mayb
paris lost a map and shock swept so shock was #1 seed
Shock also lost a map
Anubis to Mayhem
Shock won the head to head because they 3-0'd Paris earlier in the year
Mayhem winning Anubis to shock of all teams was a statement
before the showdown they had the same map record for the qualifer
They could’ve flipped the momentum
Beating shock on 2cp
alright i just checked
paris and shock had the same MD
but paris lost a map on the last qualifier day when shock swept
so shock went up
?
Head to head
Not a regular rip
LLLLLLLLLL
Thx for banning the two heroes which made the game interesting to watch
I really don't understand owl
They nerf or buff characters
But then instantly ban them
Hero pools?
yeah
Void has very shaky hands. How much does this player play?
Wdym
We've got the FCSM supporting Cr0ng and Eileen
At this point I'm waiting for their basketball team GZ Long Lions 🏀 to come out with their support
Fleta is 7k away from taking back 1st in votes. Dang
Yeah it'll continue to fluctuate like that
Yoooo special gang
We do be colourful doe
hold up is xzi still in the lead
owl players have such different positioning
Wow, carpe dropped down to 4th
Bruh
Good to see alarm climbing though
he dropped because he didn't play
At least alarm is getting up there
suprised but also not suprised at the shock players positions
People’s vote counts only for 25%? Honestly I don’t think any of the current top3 will be MVP after pro’s votes.
Maybe alarm. But there will be a surprise.
I love Paris but Xzi would be an hold-up. He isn’t as good as before his injury.
power rankings
wtf Houston should be #1

I know someone is gonna ask why Justice is above Fuel
Well@you see
That group of 5 could go anyway
But I still think Justice wins most of the matchups in that 5
You think so?
Yea
I could see outluls doing it tbf
3 hours, right?
live on twitch only
sweet
I can run this in the background while I'm up all day
working from home difference
having to set up last minute is kinda ass - my internet can only upload/download from home
as all those watch parties have taught me
just higher bitrate voice, alongside the usual perms with regular role
Ah, cool
i forgot how anticlimatic goats was
i just watch a fight:
4 gravs
2 bombs
3 shatters
1 beat
2 rallies
4 transcendence
1 kill
Lol yeah
Fights would go on forever
Was cool imo, went on for too long
What are teams gonna run now with the current bans?
double shield
bap zen
then id presume
ashe/widow , mei/echo
which means
LONDONNNN THRIVEEEEEE
and seoul will be poo
SOOOO
EZZZZZ
Profit will be on mei / echo

but the quiffs that came with goats from the casters would be awesome, if you look for them
summer games in the overwatch league countdown cup
https://clips.twitch.tv/BitterCooperativeStarBCWarrior
Umm excuse me where the hell do the 100k votes on alarm come from ??
That finals really did him well
I don’t trust the voting process
People are able to vote multiple times
really?
that is flawed as hell
Philly using their good money
no cause carpe had more votes
Have you seen sado play?
would have been easier to pull off
Fan vote is only 25%
still is worth something
?????
thank god it's only 25%
no offense but xzi doesn't deserve mvp after being absent for 11 weeks
really?
@raw ermine I've literally said this multiple times ...
Doing it in incognito allows u to do it infinitely
Must have not seen
This is mega fucked ngl
Xzi is very good but I agree
11 weeks absent
Alarm should get it but he won’t so I think Carpe
maybe
i voted for choi
┃Need 2 People To Help Start A Professional eSports Org With. Must Be Willing To Invest Time And Money! 16+ ┃
need 2 people to scam. Must have money
true
There’s absolutely no way someone didn’t bot Alarms votes
yeah
everyone will have bot votes
OWL usually gets like 60k viewers iirc?
So thats either lots of people voting who dont watch owl
or bot votes
yup
dont forget that asia audience is at least triple of our audience
dont forget that asia audience is at least triple of our audience
@next mesa ok
so add them together, around 250k, the top 3 alone are about 70k higher
also asia audiance will probably vote for apac players
The audience in Asia is a lot more than triple
yeah I said at least
LONDONNNN THRIVEEEEEE
@edgy tinsel hell yeahhh
London simply just don’t got team play
thats a lie
they tried to force divve
instead of running counter dive
they didnt even get clapped either
it was a p close 3-0
LIE LIE LIEEEE
I was asleep during the match
I said it before, London looks a lot stronger with babel and glister
You know who else is strong
Your mother
Anyway
I was watching dragons vs spark and nyxl
and as I see Dragons playing, I don't see Shock winning
In this current meta Dragons would probably beat shock
but if we went to a rein rush meta
shock wins
Rascal mei aswell
and then I don't think anyone on shd can consistently contest ans on widow
Diem..?
Yes they can
All 3 of them are good widows
ans never played vs dragon tanks pressure yet
I don't think he would get much sight line
maybe he will
depends on shock
idk
Dragons probs know by now ANS is a threat and will try to play around it
But shock will answer back
imo I think it takes a meta that favors one team more than the other to see a clear winner
Because if there was a meta they were both really good at, idk who would win
if it’s still winston dive
Shanghai will probs be unbeatable
idk
unless chengdu does some dumb shit
inb4 chengdu ooga boogas and goes to grand finals
shock vs outlaws finals, it will be 3-3 and outlaws will almost complete their reverse sweep
Then they c9 and lose
I'm curious to see where the meta goes if the experimental changes go through
Because the obvious choice would be winston zarya sombra tracer
Then maybe like ana zen
ZEN
But maybe the rein rush comps could come back
But also I wonder if winston zarya stays meta
If shock can improve at the comp to compete head to head vs dragons
But choi would have to majorly improve on the zarya
Don't know
Void doesn't do much things
He's simple and clean
Despite having shaky crosshair
But Choi looks like he has no idea what to do
Wasting a lot of bubbles
Imagine if they had sinatraa still for the zarya
inb4 chengdu ooga boogas and goes to grand finals
@earnest leaf Never doubt Chengdu 🙏
Our lord and savior Ameng will come to win 🙏
I would lmfao if hunters managed to get in the play offs
Bro LeeJaeGon on Lucio beats ans
true
@true hound I have shared this amazing petition to OWL team servers
@tropic herald moth vs ljg lucio duels
Slime 
Former @NYXL starlet and Overwatch League player Flow3r is now playing in South Korea's VALORANT scene
Another name to add to the list of Overwatch pros switching games https://t.co/IgIEoQ7BUM
Washed owl player moves to val
Valorant ain’t gonna cure his wrist
Alarm overtook Fleta????
HE IS ABOUT TO BEAT XZI
OWL MVP Vote live stats, updating in realtime
Alarm meta
less than 100
Wtf he’s climbing
10 away
ALARM
HE IS FIRST
#1
I understand Fleta Carpe and Xzi getting so many votes
But ducking Alarm going from under 10k to 1st
I see no logical reason that happens
Btw
if anyone is watching platchat
they basically explained how xzi is there
the casters , desk etc etc voted on a top 10
a long time ago
but this is the community vote no?
the top 10 were chosen by the desk etc
oh the top 10 yeah
idk
its really weird
If it was philly
bot Carpe
cause he is higher up then alarm
it would be easier and less sus
maybe a superfan of alarm?
Hm
Maybe
Or just a philly fan that doesnt really care about carpe
That probably doesnt exist
But
Idk man
Alarm superfan probably
OWL have to be looking in to this
well i mean alarm has been more instrumental than carpe
like platchat said
carpe HASNT shown up in big matches
Not his meta
no reason to play carpe rn
but if sigma orisa nerfs go through and its double hitscan or smth
not playing carpe would be throwing
I don’t know, Heesu looked clean
XZI is making his way back up
Alarm in first Nani
@karmic grotto @true hound i mean the whole year.
he DOESN'T show up in big matches
Its actually
Baguette Bots vs Bots
hmm
Is Xzi Gets it and he chooses Ashe we can get BenBob
carpe fish skin tho
No.
no
The Council has decided
We Unanimously Stand against an MVP brig skin.
Oppose us and face punishment.
no
I'd love an ana skin
I dont play ana but it would be cool yeah
I just really want a tank skin now
We've gotten support and dps
But
Void needs to get a majority vote to even be close to being mvp
First, there is no longer any limit to the number of players who may be designated as two-way players at any given time. Additionally, two-way players on teams with no academy team affiliate are now eligible to participate in Contenders competitions.
this one is pretty interesting too
if the league still exists next year
30-day contracts: If a team has at least seven players signed to season-long contracts, a team may sign additional players to 30-day contracts. Upon expiration of a 30-day contract, a player becomes a free agent who may negotiate with other teams. Teams do not have the option to extend 30-day contracts unilaterally.
hmmm
OGE memes
Always good
wait
does this mean that teams have a max of 7 players?
and then the rest on 30 day contracts?
or is it just another contract they can give to players
The 30 days is to avoid something like what happened with Vanc
...
they hay 14 days contracts
They all had?
The free agent must have citizenship for a country in Asia
The free agent must have an existing visa to travel to countries in Asia ```
wew
@sleepy#4671 No, teams needs to have a minimun of 7 players, max 12. All teams are required to have at least seven players signed to season-long contracts at all times from Nov. 23, 2020, through the end of the 2021 season. Teams may have a maximum of 12 players signed to any type of contract at any time during the 2021 season.
but that will just make more of them Korean
Ironically is VISA to asia, nothing to USA
🤔
More safe to travel to asia than USA i guess.
yeah
why would you say that?
Its obvious that travel to asia is safer
Ok so idk of anyone will know but are there any non open division/ contenders PC leagues?
as if ur stupid ok
Covid is bad in us
Covid not bad in asia
Covid = dangerous
Meaning going to asia is safer
sorry thats past my level of knowledge
ah, yes
What does hello mean
Ye
also, US being bad now does not mean Asia won't be worse in the future
India is projected to surpass all current cases soon
Yeah wouldnt expect them to be safe in a year
but "Asia" in owl is China + Korea
Or less
isn't in funny how in the may melee (i think) , summer showdown and the countdown cup that the team dallas fuel lost to was the one that ended up winning the whole thing
Yep
I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess
i just completed a mission valorant that was "kill with guns"
Guys lets take roar as an example here
If he feeds constantly
And we take consistency into account for mvp
Shouldn't roar get it?
For clearly being the most consistent?
Most consistent feeder? Muma
technically
MVP
most valuable
so if we have 2 teams in the league
as an example
team A has 6 excellent players
and team B has 5 poor players and 1 excellent player
then the 1 excellent on team B should win
for being the most consistently best
but if we're talking about being the most valuable the mvp's team should also produce top tier results
Master supports ggs
?
That’s what someone said in this game
If you do not know, this is Viol2t and FunnyAstro
ah
support diff
They added a captcha to the mvp votes
What a messed-up roster we have this week: so not only do London play Seoul twice, both London and Seoul also both have to play three matches (each) in three days. And, London additionally play Shanghai while Seoul play New York.
Then, they don't get a break next week either: Seoul and London play both of the only APAC matches - one of which is again against London, and London against NYXL again

So basically to bring everyone up to having 21 games played, London and Seoul both have to play 5 games in two weekends, NYXL play 2, and HZS/SHD play one.


