Official Overwatch League team names:
>Los Angeles Gladiators
>Florida Mayhem
>Philadelphia Fusion
>London Spitfire
>Houston Outlaws
>New York Excelsior
>Seoul Dynasty
>Boston Uprising
>Los Angeles Valiant
>San Francisco Shock
>Dallas Fuel
>Shanghai Dragons
dragons is the best, outlaws #2, gladiators could be worse? the rest are so bad
cringed
go back to rebbit
whats so good about dragons? nothing special about it really, i mean Fuel and valiant or even spitfire are better than dragons.
>LA has two teams despite being the worst sports city in the country
Holy shit, just like the pros.
WHERE THE FUCK IS AUSTRALIA
This is fucking retarded
>got less viewers than fucking halo finals on twitch
>yfw OWL blows up in Kotick's face
>yfw Kotick will NEVER EVER have an esport
Just give one of the LA teams to Orange County. That's where Blizzard is HQd and LA and Orange County hate each other so it's perfect.
Florida's the closest thing to Australia America has so it's cool
>Overwatch
>E-sport
Lmao, even OW pro players admit that the game is a mess, and only play because Blizz pumps money into it.
>e-sports
>100% funded by the publisher
does anyone actually want to sponsor this garbage?
Blizzard makes money off retards who buy into league for 20 million dollars.
>philadelphia is represented by a literal ape
Based first poster
FUCK YOU TEXAS
Florida has maniacs and huge cunt spiders so I guess it checks oyr
>London isn't Ana
>San Francisco isn't taking a knee
>Los Angeles isn't Reaper
San Diego could use a team.
holy shit do they actually think this will become something like the NFL or NBA?
>they picked the most generic shit possible
Does anyone take this game seriously?
London has the only respectable name and crest, so i guess they're my team. if i cared about esports
the 20 people who play ranked do, I guess
Even the most shallow real life sport is rocket science compared to Overwatch. Esports is doomed to never be respected by normies, lmao.
Blizzard should've tried Starcraft 3 or anything other than Overwatch, the most shallow FPS in ages.
That's the goal.
Fun fact: LoL, which has literally 5-10 times as many players and viewers, threw around the same idea internally and decided they didn't have enough players and viewers for it to be viable.
So...
Blizzard really over estimate how popular OW is
It's more that Blizzard is fucking retarded because they keep putting the cart before the horse. They're so desperate to make an "esport" and rake in the cash that they forget to make a goddamn game.
>Esports trying to mimic actual sports by having "team location" - "team name" format
god some of those are just awful, do people really watch overwatch esports? i thought the only well paying esport was like DOta and league
Actually playing the game? LOL
Fanart and fanfiction competition? People would flood it.
Yeah, the game's biggest events struggle to hit 50k viewers. Overwatch fans are too normie to stay home on a weekend night and watch esports. That's why there's this paradox where shit like Dota and Street Fighter pull hundreds of thousands of viewers, many of them not even occasional players of the game.
probably dropping their connection once every 20 minutes with their shitty satellite internet and dial up modems in 2017. doesn't help that all those twenty foot tall spiders keep digging up the lines
I don't give a single fuck about Overwatch E-Sports, but please tell me how we get these skins? Specifically D.Va's. I need it
Not wrong.
It's honestly just hubris and ego. They are really, really butthurt that someone took WC3 and modded it drastically to become the world's highest-paid esport, and that Valve is now in control of it.
Think about it. You basically monopoly'd RTS esports with Brood War and you make by far the biggest MMORPG of all time. Everyone alive in 2000 who owned a PC bought Diablo. Tickets to your yearly convention sell out in a fucking nanosecond. But some company in a suburb somewhere with like 100 employees one-up's you and becomes the new name synonymous with PC gaming.
They're fucking butthurt and throwing money at the problem.
I like the sport team names where they have to do with the location's history or some other reference.
Do any of those team names have anything to do with anything?
only ones i can think of off the top of my head would be china having dragons as part of their mythology and spitfire being one of the airplanes the brits used during ww2.
>he watch people playing video games
>He watches people more skilled than himself partake in various activities for entertainment or education
Valve isn't in control of LOL you fucking Pcbro
The color scheme on that McCree is actually pretty cool
>he observes as people who operate interactive media at a higher tier than himself perform in a controlled setting, casual or competitive, for the amusement of their followers
Highest-PAID, nigger.
This is real?
>Florida is represented by my least favorite hero in the game
Meh
>that forced as fuck CoD
since when does that even have a fucking competitive scene
No one here cares.
Stop playing Overwatch.
little kids and dudebros love it, same as halo
houston outlaws should be pretty obvious
The silent majority of video game consumers do.
Careful, Sup Forums has a breakdown when you tell them they aren't representative of the wider gaming public.
God Tier names:
>Outlaws
>Dragons
Top Tier:
>Spitfire
>Dynasty
Mid Tier:
>Uprising
>Valiant
>Mayhem
>Gladiators
>Fuel
Low tier:
>Shock
>Fusion
Absolute shit tier:
>Excelsior
Sup Forums really under estimate how popular OW is
Imagine if gay furry cloned himself and entered OW as a full team
>edgiest most generic names are god tier
OW fanbase everyone
>Two awful games
>He surveys people who---I can't do this shit nigga I'm too low IQ for this
>No Cleveland or Cinci teams
Eat my ass blizzard
It sold a lot but struggles for views on twitch even during big events. Can't have an esport with view numbers this low. Fucking Lirik outperforms the entire game singlehandedly.
>Can't properly balance game
>"and now here are the esports teams"
Fucking Blizzard.
Junkrat is the perfect Florida Man
So, who the hell is on these teams, anyway? At least when you heard weird-ass internet names like Fnatic or Liquid or whatever you at least knew who might be in there.
They're really trying to make this a fucking sport.
Implying people live there other than Browns fans and Lebron.
I haven't played Dota since WC3 days and I don't even like the game, but I still watch the TI Finals every year.
Thats why I said Cinci too. Plus OSU is still one of the better college teams and all their fans are gonna be right in blizzards target age bracket
this is now a paladins thread; rip Damage class edition
you folks like the new skins? it sure does make up for the casual console shitters being so bad that they had to nerf heroes specifically for them, right?
I really liked OW in the beta and early release but it went downhill so fast, for whatever reason people just never watched pro games either. I could sit here and say the spectators they had for tournaments were not good and the schedule was all over the place so viewership was never solid but even still the viewer totals were always abysmal.
This is something that should have been happening a year ago, it's too late now.
Right, and the problem with Overwatch is that it doesn't manage to do that for some reason.
I actually haven't played Paladins in about a month now and have been focusing on other games. I have not forgotten my goal to become best Talus NA though.
>Overwatch
>esports
The funniest time line
Is Paladins worth checking out even though I own Overwatch?
Super excited to see the same 7 characters be played over and over again at the next tournament!!!!!
...
>high TTK and slow pacing means it's not as visually interesting or impactful as Counter-Strike plays
>too much of a visual clusterfuck to have the same appeal as a MOBA
Honestly they're at least trying to rectify half of it with the teams getting unique team color skins and the new spectator mode thing.
It's because it's just not fun to watch "pros", the skill ceiling is pathetically low so pro games are just pubs with slightly better communication.
I fucking despise talus with every fiber in my being, but I support your endeavors
well it's free, you're not really losing anything except a couple hours of time if you don't like it. I've been having fun with it a lot the past couple weeks
>Overwatch League is making this big debut in the middle of a meta involving Mercys slowing down game momentum even more from frequent revives
Yes.
I actually started out with Paladins but played ow in the process and can say both are good, but different. Ow is the slower, more "tactical" game whereas Paladins is sometimes all over the place in terms of speed and basically the only champions you need actual tactics with to be good are damage champions and maybe supporters.
All in all, both are good games in my opinion
I'm not sure who plays now but there were a lot of mid tier pros from other FPS games that were into OW early on and there is a clear skill gap between them and pubs. OW just didn't have a chance to build a pro scene early on and draw in/build up higher skill players.
>1 Chinese team
>1 Korean team
>1 European team
>9 American teams
Also two LA teams yet they skipped cities like Toronto and Chicago
>forgetting Australia won the M+ invitational, finals were two Aussie guilds
Bad internet meme is so fucking old.
Nobody from those cities bought teams
They should all just be called people who need to removed from the gene pool
You're missing the point, there is 200+ latency between US and AUS servers.
In that wow shit everyone just played on their own countries blizz hosted servers, they didn't interact with each other, because it was just some shitty instanced dungeon competition.
Toronto I'd get just for the sake of Canada but does Chicago have any eSports organizations of note?
A lot of the money behind the teams are people that are friends with Kotick or other ActiBlizz higherups.
Only forced esports like overwatch do this shit
>L O N D O N
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so why the fuck do the teams have to be associated with a city? is it just the whole esports is like real sports meme or is there an actual, justifiable reason?
>even OW pro players admit that the game is a mess
literally everyone that plays e-sports games has that same mentality though.
dota, LoL, counter strike, fighting games (if you want to count that). all their competitive playerbase knows their games are shit but they still play it anyways.
Listen here you little shit, dota is perfect
>shangai gets gook mascot
>england gets chirpy brit mascot
>boston gets old white american mascot
>SAN FRANCISCO GETS AFRICAN NIGGER AS THEIR MASCOT
Literally cannot make this shit up.
this is so forced and cringy, stop fucking painting my casual tf2 clone as a competitive game, it's not even fucking close
the game mode doesn't even feel like a finished product, it feels like a placeholder from the beta while we wait for the REAL game mode to come
Dallas gets a cyborg ninja and LA gets a german giant.
The LA one clearly makes sense. Not 100% on fuel's mascot but I suppose cyborgs need some sort of additional fueling other than calories.
>Dallas Fuel
people still play overwatch?
Yes. Why wouldn't they?