Today, the Shanghai Dragons proved the rumors true and officially confirmed four new players to join their roster. In addition to the roster news, Dragons have also confirmed an updated "player selection policy" regarding future Chinese players during season 2,
What better way to celebrate that special Overwatch person in your life with a card that symbolizes what really matters in life? Happy Valentines Day!
I'm going to focus on what I know for certain. Here are the three Overwatch League truths I've learned from interviewing pro players, team captains, player managers and everyone in between during stage 1.
I mean, I was "good", but if I played that way now, I would be hard feeding. I would be really, really bad. It just shows how much everything has improved. If you look at other Tracers a year from now, you would think that everyone now is just so bad.
Multiple rumors have been floating around regarding Shanghai Dragon making a big roster move, but they had always been separate from the persistent rumor of Geguri joining the league. As of today, this is the first major report of Geguri's move to a pro-Overwatch League team.
Clockwork was a Team Fortress 2 god. Now, he plays for the Houston Outlaws as a DPS sub, his days of being an "I'm-better-than-everything-and-any-one type of player" behind him. Instead, Clockword exudes an uncommon level of empathy towards his teammates and their success.
But things never got better for the Dragons. Defeat, after defeat, the community narratives began to form and the Chinese team is unanimously viewed as the Leagues official underdogs. With a record of 0-8, I was most interested in speaking with Chao "UNDEAD" Fang.
I honestly can't imagine how Jeff Kaplan and this team plan on addressing the growing resentment competitive players are harboring against "one-trick" players.
I still haven't decided which team I want to publically endorse as my favorite, but it's hard to not like an organization when their events are such a blast to attend.
"This is my first experience getting paid to do something and it's playing video games. Not a lot of people do that. I came from Canada and my whole world changed as soon as I came here"
When I met up with Aaron "Bischu" Kim, he had just came from a 4-0 defeat vs. the Houston Outlaws. In my experience, the last thing a professional player wants to do after a hard loss is talk to a reporter.
I had a chance to talk to ShaDowBurn after Fusion's win vs. the Shanghai Dragons this week and was curious as to what he thought about his opponents poor reputation. After all, Fusion also defeated the NYXL powerhouse this week, so their close match against Shanghai Dragons was surprising. Were the Dragons really as weak as fans seem to think?
When I was growing up, esports were always niche, always small, and always required an explanation to those unvetted. Things have changed a lot since those days.
This skin is all that matters. With 11k retweets in just 33 minutes, the fan hype for D.va dressed as an anime style cat girl is about as rabid as you'd expect.
All around, they have such a good roster. I would tell them that they need to go back to their tried and true-- run chipshajen and HarryHook and have map specialist or meta specialist that come in.
We have to analyze our performance, practice level, and players conditions vigilantly. We can never know for sure if we are the best.
Toyota will be a North American Launch Partner for the Overwatch League, and is looking forward to future collaborations around bringing behind-the-scenes content to fans.
"If you watch how much our players work and practice, no one would say their skill is just natural talent."
"This hero's super solid and after a playtest we always hear the comment like yeah that's an Overwatch hero that's gonna feel really great."
After the Shangai Dragons second defeat on the Overwatch League mainstage, I knew I had to talk to the team. It's never an easy or fun conversation, but the Dragons were quickly gaining the reputation as the worst team in the league...
