Overwatch League Archives

In a rather interesting move today from the Boston Uprising, the team announced a new signee to the Overwatch League with Zion "Persia" Yang Yang is a South Korean player who broke into the League through the Pacific division of the Contenders League, where he was a member of the Talon Esports team that finished[...]

That's how you make a statement as an expansion team as the Vancouver Titans take the Stage One title in Overwatch League's 2019 season The Shock started off strong taking the Nepal map 2-1 in what felt like a steamrolled victory over the Titans, but they rallied back on Numbani holding off the Shock to[...]

The longest losing streak in esports history has finally been broken, as the Shanghai Dragons finally won a match in the Overwatch League For those of you not aware, the Dragons ended the inaugural season of the league setting a world record in esports with the worst win-loss record in history, finishing at 0-40[...]

Blizzard and Twitch have come together again to offer another All-Acess Pass for the Overwatch League's 2019 season, with a couple of changes The first being that the pass is now just a one-time $15 purchase which will run until December 31st. You'll get 200 League tokens to use on your Battle.net account to buy a[...]

The Overwatch League has slowly been rolling out all the new hotness from their eight expansion teams for the 2019 season, and now we get to see uniforms Technically, the uniforms have slowly been coming out over the past couple weeks as the organizers have been introducing the teams through previews Which has kind of been weird[...]

StarCraft has Scarlett, Dead or Alive 4 had Mystik, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has several all-female teams, and the Overwatch League has Gegori But for every Scarlett, Gegori, or Mystik, there are hundreds of male pros While women slowly made inroads into esports, things still looked pretty grim Gegori was initially kept out of the Overwatch[...]

The owner of Ellie's account is a player with no current or prior involvement with any Overwatch Contenders or Overwatch League team "Ellie" was never formally submitted to the active roster of Second Wind and never played in a Contenders match.  As part of the process to officially add a player to a Contenders or Overwatch[...]

credit//Blizzard Blizzard has announced the Overwatch League's 2019 schedule which brings in eight new expansion teams, some away games, and a $5 million USD prize pool The away games will be hosted by Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign, and Los Angeles Valiant in their home cities, which allows the OWL to shake things up a bit The[...]

A little bit out of the blue for the weekend, the latest team to officially reveal their look and logo for the Overwatch League is the Vancouver Titans The team is owned by the Aquilini Group and partnered with Luminosity Gaming, and aside from the fact that they appear to have taken on Winston's yeti look,[...]

We got another logo and uniform reveal today from the Overwatch League, this time we're getting a look at the Hangzhou Spark We're not gonna lie to you, this one is a little hard to look at The entire theme of the logo is a finger gun surrounded in pink lightning The same finger can be[...]

Blizzard has announced the latest Overwatch League team joining the competition in the form of the Chengdu Hunters. The Overwatch League is flying of late The game won esport of the year last night at the Esports Awards alongside several big team additions The league's season 2 is looking promising with big hope that the competition[...]

The Overwatch League released two new images this week, showing off the team names and colors for Paris and Guangzhou The first one we'll look at here is the Paris Eternal, which has taken on a more modern design of the Gallic rooster, which is a symbol of the country dating back to the French Revolution[...]

The Overwatch League revealed the logos for two new teams joining Season 2 of the esports competition. The Overwatch League is taking big steps in its second season The inaugural season of the league was, by all accounts, a rousing success, and that's convinced eight investors to buy into it, drastically expanding the number of teams[...]

It took a minute after being announced, but the Atlanta team for the Overwatch League have finally picked a name with the Atlanta Reign The team let the name be known this week on Twitter with an official video hyping the name, along with colors and a proper logo. All roads lead home Your Reign[...]

Some cool news out of the Overwatch League this morning as the Washington D.C team has hired the first woman coach to the league The team hired two new people this week with Molly "AVALLA" Kim (formerly the coach of Meta Bellum) and Mikael "mkL" Skjønhaug (analyst from Last Night's Leftovers) Kim posted her news[...]

Yesterday, much like they do with all winning sports teams, WWE's Triple H reached out to Overwatch League's London Spitfire for a special treat In recognition for winning the league's first championship, the team will be receiving their own WWE Championship Belt, which he was happy to show off on Twitter. After an exceptional resurgence, history[...]

Blizzard has announced the 8 new Overwatch teams coming to next year's Overwatch League, with three new Chinese, two new US, two Canadian and a mainland Europe team. The Overwatch League's first season was a rousing success for the most part Despite it having its fair share of drama along the way, seemingly surpass all expectations[...]

In case you were looking forward to seeing what the Overwatch League has in store for their all-star game this week, we now have the complete roster The Pacific and Atlantic divisions will face off against each other in a two-day event, being broadcast across multiple platforms starting at 4 p.m PDT on August 25th[...]

When the word came down that the two new expansions in the Overwatch League were going to be another China team and Atlanta, we kind of assumed Canada was out for another year However, word came down from ESPN this week that this is no longer the case, and that a third expansion team has gone[...]

Ever popular pro-player and streamer Brandon "Seagull" Larned has announced that he is retiring from Dallas Fuel and professional Overwatch in general. credit//Blizzard We really did get to learn a lot of the great Overwatch players during the Overwatch League's first season Some came out of nowhere to become fan favourites, while others came into the league, already[...]

Blizzard has announced that Atlanta and Guangzhou will be joining the ranks next year for the Overwatch League Season 2. The Overwatch League came to a close recently, with London Spitfire taking the crown as the first ever champions of the esports competition All in all, it was a rousing success, with the league's absurd ambition[...]

The first season of the Overwatch League may be over, but we already know next season will have at least one new team added to the mix ESPN is reporting this morning that an expansion team has been confirmed with the ownership being Cox Enterprises, who finalized a deal to bring a team to Atlanta[...]

The seven-player team will take home a $1,000,000 prize pot and the trophy, while the Fusion will receive $400,000 and the reassurance they'll probably be back for a second season after their performance. The other big stories coming out of the Overwatch League was the abundance of jock mentality on social media who took umbrage to[...]

It appears a new esports initiative has garnered a lot more attention than people expected, and some big names from the Overwatch League are getting involved A couple of weeks ago we reported that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Global Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF) were going to be holding a summit to[...]

The London Spitfire have dashed the hopes of Los Angeles hopeful who were looking for a crosstown matchup in the Overwatch League There was a great hope that the Los Angeles Gladiators would have a shot at making the semifinals and end up going up against their rivals in the Los Angeles Valiant, but that was[...]

It's been a long road for the Philadelphia Fusion in the Overwatch League as they've had to scratch and claw their way to the top over the first four stages This weekend the team cemented themselves as a group that belongs in the league — they have made their way into the semifinals of the playoffs[...]

While we've all had the ability to watch the Overwatch League on Twitch throughout their inaugural season, Blizzard just made a new deal for TV Today it was announced on ESPN that Blizzard signed a new multiyear deal that will bring the league's games to ABC and ESPN network stations This deal starts tonight with[...]

It may not be their finest moment, but the Overwatch League just set a new esports record with the Shanghai Dragons this week Usually, when a new league or tournament or round-robin starts up, you expect some teams to do better than others, and some to do worse than others After losing their match on June[...]

Yes, it's true, the Overwatch League are holding an all-star game Technically, since all of these players were drafted from teams that were made before the league, you could argue every match is an all-star match, but it looks like they want to make two teams made up of the best of both divisions to[...]

credit//Blizzard According to the latest reports, Blizzard plans to add six more teams to their successful Overwatch esports League, with Germany being the target country for the next Overwatch League team Reports also indicate that South Asia and the Americas are also targets, but the priority for Blizzard's new venture seems to be Berlin. This is in[...]