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OWL rosters rumors

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Explodey

This post is a collection of official and unofficial rumors about the OWL rosters, so it could be completely wrong. But I find it interesting to think about potential rosters for the OWL teams, so I figured I would start this thread here as well.
To look at confirmed rosters only, check remiska's thread (https://www.over.gg/5409/overwatch-league-teams).

Boston - Not official

  • NotE
    Gamsu
    DreamKazper
    Mistakes
    Snow
    Striker
    Fischer
    Architect and Kalios are rumored to be in negotiation

New York Excelsior - Not official - Signed LW Blue's whole roster

  • Mek0
    janus
    Mano
    Fl0w3r
    Saebyeolbe
    Pine
    JJoNak
    ArK
    Libero

London Spitfires - Signed KongDoo Panthera's whole roster. Cloud9's franchise.

  • Void
    Fissure
    birdring
    Rascal
    wakawaka
    Bdosin
    Quatermain
    Nus

Los Angeles - Immortal's franchise- Not all confirmed

  • Fate
    numlocked
    GrimReality
    Agilities
    SoOn
    Verbo
    Kariv
    uNKOE
    envy

Los Angeles Gladiators - Not Official

  • Bischu
    iRemix
    Surefour

Miami Mayhem - Not official - Misfits Roster

  • CWoosH
    TviQ
    Logix
    Zebbosai
    Zuppeh
    Manneten

San Francisco Shock - NRG's franchise

  • super
    nomy
    iddqd
    sinatraa
    sleepy
    dhaK
    babybay
    Danteh

Dallas Fuel - EnVyUs' franchise

  • cocco
    Taimou
    EFFECT
    Seagull
    chipshajen
    HarryHook
    Mickie

Houston - Not official - OpTic's franchise

  • coolmatt69
    Muma
    Clockwork
    Mendokusaii
    Boink
    Bani

Philadelphia - Unknown

  • Carpe is rumored to be in negotiation

Shanghai Dragons - Unknown

Seoul Dynasty - Signed Lunatic Hai's whole roster - Unconfirmed

  • Miro
    xepheR
    EscA
    Munchkin
    ryujehong
    tobi
    zunba
    Gido
    Fleta
    Wekeed is under trial

Other

  • One Korean team is rumored to be in negotiation with an OWL team
  • Boombox is in OWL, but it is not clear for which team yet

Sources:
http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20954529/sources-immortals-sign-unkoe-soon-numlocked-la-overwatch-franchise
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/763cnx/overwatch_league_and_confirmed_teams_so_far/
http://www.inven.co.kr/mobile/board/powerbbs.php?come_idx=4538&my=chu&p=1&l=3353113
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/76zwjp/all_owl_team_names_official_and_rumored/

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remiska
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envy is going to announce 8th member soon, nd he is going to have "new flag" we speculated who it could be on discord but no idea but what do you think?

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penda
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Maybe a tank, xqc??

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remiska
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what for? cocco is as good if not better on winston and by far better rein

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trashplayer
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mickie said their new player attended apex and knoxx is rumoured already by dogman,
dunno if they gonna use him for support or tank.

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blakku
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I'd say KnOxXx is way better lucio than tank tbh.

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Sideshow
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Knoxxx's Winston is excellent, his Lucio is very good too.

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bweesh
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Knoxxx also has a really good understanding of dive/triple dps comps so he'd be valuable for that POV. NV also love running that Rein/Winston comp so him and Cocco would be pretty scary in that regard - not to mention the benefit of possibly putting him on Lucio and letting Harry run wild on Soldier

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PHRESH
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North Korean is coming.

#4
majkel1893
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on paper i say 2ez4Seoul&London&NYC

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remiska
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and dallas

#8
darkcvc
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Curious to see if Shanghai puts together an all star Chinese team and to see how they compete with the rest.

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Explodey
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Miraculous Youngster + a few Chinese stars would be really nice. Maybe guxue for stronger main tank and Jason for better Genji?

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paolodicanio
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1 more korean team = either gc busan or runaway.
and for shanghai i hope for MY i really enjoyed watching them sofar.

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Explodey
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I would say GC Busan probably since RunAway without Haksal (due to age restriction) just would not be the same. But it might be easier to negotiate with RunAway since I know Runner has been actively looking for an OWL sponsor, whereas GC Busan already has good financial support. GC Busan might just wait for the next season and try to get in with another Korean city spot (like Busan).

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Agos
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What happened to LW Blue Gambler? ArK was LW Red's Lucio not LW Blue's.

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Explodey
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He left the team after season 3 due to health issues. I heard he was offered a coaching position, but I don't think he is coaching any team currently.

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ThisOldDog
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Odd, where is Shadowburn in all of this? He has phenomenal projectile play, by that i mean his Pharah and Genji, his Doomfist is good, Zarya is solid, and he has one of the biggest brand's in OW, if im not mistaken, SDB got more votes for the Condenders Showmatch then Taimou Seagull and EFFECT, it's just hard for me to believe he hasn't been rumored in anything so far. Also, if we think all these leaks are true as well as that the LA 2 roster consists of players they are following on twitter. Heres the post: https://www.over.gg/6204/owl-rosters-rumors

So, basically, if all of these rumors are true, along with the LA 2 one, and if Shanghai picks up a chinese team and Philly get GC Busan + Carpe, which i can see happening because of the hero pools of GC Busan not really having a genji (that i've seen) and Carpe being great on it when he was on his older team with bunny (can't remember name, they disbanded tho, and vsed Envy a few times) then the only team that has announced they have a member yet to be announced is SF, now, what are they lacking? A Genji and Pharah player, a stand out doomfist, and a popular and well known player? Well it just so happens that there's a person who fits that description, and doesn't have an OWL team, and hasn't announced he's looking for one. Hmm... Its someone who is also from Russia who may have visa problems like Tonic, which may be a reason for a delay in announcement... Just food for thought...

Next day: SF "everyone welcome San Fran Dafran"

Me: b...b...b...but but but...

No, in all seriousness SDB and Sinnatra combo would be sick to watch.

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Blue
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Brad has confirmed they were close to adding a 9th play to SF

#17
Explodey
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Obviously A LOT of very talented players are missing from this list, and it doesn't seem like there are that many spots left.

If these rumors are true,
Where is

  • LiNkzr?
    Snillo?
    Davin?
    ChrisTFer?
    Tonic?
    fragi?
    FCTFCTN?
    SPACE?
    Smex?
    Zappis?
    neptuNo?
    BigGOOse?
    Boombox?
    Greyy?
    Shaz?

It seems like a lot of talented players from EU region are missing. Maybe OWL teams focused on players from NA region first since they wanted players with larger fan base in NA?
Seriously, I don't see anyone from Gigantti, 123, C9 EU, Singularity, or Gamers Origin. I can see Gigantii sticking with the current team and trying to enter next season as they already have a main sponsor, but I don't know what is happening with the other teams. Also, for the NA side, I don't think I see anyone from FaZe (except for the speculation about Carpe), which is odd.
I feel like a team made from these missing players would be stronger than most of the OWL teams.

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Winter
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Think it's becoming more and more apparent that OWL season 1 will be heavily biased towards NA and KR players, with a scattering of EU in some teams. It's a massive shame as you could easily name a better EU player for every NA one on a team, but most franchises outside of the KR teams are focusing on building NA rosters. I'm expecting that a lot of the EU Contenders season 2 teams will be a lot better than some of the teams we're likely to see in OWL, and hopefully for season 2 of OWL there will be a lot more EU spots.

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victococoblazin
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you just list all of the F/As i want in owl and a few more missing from that list

#22
Winter
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https://twitter.com/BoomboxOW/status/920368267499393024

Turns out Boombox is in.

#24
skweerty
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crazy how many big names are not gonna be in OWL
pretty sure just from this list u can put together 6 players that are probably better than all current OWL teams from NA beside nV.

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astr
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It was confirmed that Curious will no longer play Overwatch. He will find a new carrier as a professional PUBG player. So you can erase his name in the London roster.

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remiska
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also if this is leak thread (although i wrote about it in mine so which is confirmed now? :P )seoul is going to be called seoul dynasty

https://www.over.gg/6202/ksv-services-file-trademark-for-seoul-dynasty
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also imho bad name, lets hope at least logo is good

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hamsolo
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Bump.

Have we rumours for 2019 season?

#28
Rooky
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Reviving this dead thread

Paris (according to MYKL, real leak boy etc)

Soon
NicoGDH
Benbest
Danye
Kruise
Hyp
LhCloudy

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Phnx
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didn't he say something about lhcloudy also being in the team?

#30
Rooky
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Added

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Hi
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If we are to believe Mykl which I don't have a problem with because he hasn't been wrong so far this offseason.
Paris:

  • Everyone you named plus,
  • Shadowburn
  • Finnsi
    DC:
  • Janus
  • SanSam
  • Corey
  • Stratus
  • Ado
  • Gido
  • Fahzix
  • Hyeonu
    Atlanta:
  • Pokpo
  • Gator
  • Daco
  • Dafran
  • Nlaaer
  • Erster
  • Kodak
  • Masaa
    Vancouver:
  • Possibly Runaway?
    Toronto:
  • Envy
  • Stellar
  • Ivy
  • Neko
    Guangzhou:
  • Rio
  • Hotba
  • Happy
  • Chara
  • Shu
  • WonJaeLee
    Hangzhou:
  • Guxue
  • NoSmite
  • Bazzi
  • Adora
  • Bebe
  • Revenge
  • iDK
    Chengdu:
  • Silkthread
  • LateYoung
  • Garry
    Shanghai:
    • Fearless
  • Geguri
  • Guardian
  • YOUNGJIN
  • DDing
  • Diem
  • Diya
  • Luffy
  • Coma
    Boston:
  • Gamsu
  • Fusions
  • Axxiom
  • Note
  • Striker
  • Colourhex
  • Blase
  • Aimgod
  • Kellex
  • FunnyAstro
    Dallas:
  • OGE
  • Mickie
  • AKM
  • Taimou
  • Effect
  • Unkoe
  • Harryhook
  • Closer
    Florida:
  • aWesomeGuy
  • Swon
  • Xepher
  • Tviq
  • Sayaplayer
  • Apply
  • bqb
  • HaGoPeun
  • Kris
    Houston:
    • Muma
  • Coolmatt
  • Spree
  • Linkzr
  • Jake
  • Arhan
  • Danteh
  • Rawkus
  • Bani
  • Boink
    Gladiators:
  • Roar
  • Bischu
  • Void
  • Decay
  • Surefour
  • Hydration
  • Shaz
  • Bigoose
    Valiant:
  • Fate
  • Kuki
  • Space
  • Bunny
  • Agilities
  • Ksf
  • Kariv
  • Izayaki
  • Custa
    New York:
  • Mano
  • Meko
  • Pine
  • Libero
  • Saebyeolbe
  • Nanohana
  • Jjonak
  • Ark
  • Anamo
    Philadelphia:
  • Sado
  • Fragi
  • Poko
  • Carpe
  • Eqo
  • Snillo
  • Boombox
  • Neptuno
  • Elk
    San Francisco:
  • Super
  • Smurf
  • ChoiHyoBin
  • Nevix
  • Babybay
  • Sinatraa
  • Architect
  • Rascal
  • Sleepy
  • Viol2t
  • Moth
    London:
  • Gesture
  • Fury
  • Birdring
  • Profit
  • Guard
  • Bdosin
  • Krillin
  • Nus
  • Closer
    Seoul:
  • Fissure
  • Marve1
  • Zunba
  • Michelle
  • Fleta
  • Munchkin
  • Ryujehong
  • Tobi
  • Jecse

These are all the teams rosters officially with leaks added. I can edit this whenever more stuff pops up. And I'm sure a lot of this mykl real leak boy etc could be wrong about or could change before the season starts.

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