Interview with seul spot owner - Kevin Chou

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remiska

http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20590946/lunatic-hai-ksv-owner-kevin-chou-question-answer
interesting interview

he talks a little about 12 man rosters and thats a very intersting (do you for examle make 2 full rosters for different maps?)

not really realated but i hope that thanks to american aproach of making everything into bussiness at last korean esport organization might follow Kevin Chous lead and start making some money instead of losing it all the time

full list of teams and rosters for owl - https://www.over.gg/5409/overwatch-league-teams/?page=2#65
my look into overwatch scene after owl starts - https://www.over.gg/5564/overwatch-esport-scene-after-overwatch-league#5

and closing words i agree with interviewer, ive been quietly watching viewership of apex contenders and some "smaller" tournaments and the scene is in really bad shape and if owl doesnt come relativly soon (before the end of this year or VERY early next year) it might be hard to make owl successfull

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OWL is almost certainly coming in December. I will be shocked if it doesn;t

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Yes i know owl is announced to start this year (hell we even know what format and where itll take place, which is in my 2nd thread) but blizzard still needs officialy 3 teams (envyus is not officiall) and after blizzcon there is realy not much time left before the end of a year
Also wasnt initial annoucnment talking about 3rd quoter of this year?

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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember seeing "by the end of this year", but I'm not sure if they mentioned Q3, Q4 or otherwise.

I'm still holding out hope that they manage to grab the KDP DPS duo to match with their Tanks and Supports, but they seems to be a smart bunch of people so I'm not that worried.

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i think the initial annoucment talked about q3 but dont quote me on that
but in all the latest news about owl its said "this year" so by this point only q4 is left

edit i found dot esport article and it confirmes that initialy owl was planned for q3 https://dotesports.com/overwatch/overwatch-league-reportedly-set-to-start-in-the-third-quarter-of-2017-9146
and one more article https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/overwatch-league-start-date?amp
so i was right :P memory serves well

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Planned for Q3, I guess that particular plan got scrapped. That's probably why they stopped specifying which quarter and just started mentioning that it would launch before the end of the year.

Sometime soon(TM) after Blizzcon maybe?

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i never thought q3 was realistic, they announced owl at 2016 bizzcon! but "this year" is still actual so i think they belive that theyll be able to start first season before the end of this year

blizzcon or more specificly owc finalls might actually be testing ground for owl maybe new spectating tools? (but i dont have high hopes for this)

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November launch would be hype. Sometime after world cup for maximum hype