Yeah, but it's still fun to speculate :)

What about making a league for the pre-season? It seems like the one Pixelfish created is for the regular season, so I created another one for the pre-season.

https://highnoonpickem.com/#/ViewLeague/gbUI0soUI3a8TTk53baY

I tried joining as Explodey just so you know. When I was making an account for over.gg, I thought username was more like an id to log in, which is why I am stuck with cjh0822 here. But I prefer using Explodey. Allow me to join if there is space! :D

Is it for the regular season or the preseason?

I'm not sure. Element Mystic looked really strong in Challengers second group stage and in the show match against South Korea. I think it would be either one of the two taking the trophy.

The limitation of not being able to recruit anyone from RunAway makes this much harder. If it wasn't for that, I would've probably chosen the core members from RunAway and filled the team with remaining stars in KR scene.

Since this is to make a realistic team taking into account of team synergy, I would probably pick key members from Miraculous Youngster and LGD as starters.

DPS:
YangX1aoLg
Leave

Tank:
guxue
LateYoung

Support:
Creed
Shy

Subs:
aKm
ArHaN
FCTFCTN
Void
Fuze
Undine

Explaining the starters first. I think the main weakness of MY is the main tank, so replacing Jiquiren with guxue would strengthen the team quite a bit. Also, I think Shy is the best flex support in Chinese scene (zhufanjun is almost as good, but I think Shy is slightly better at Zenyatta and Sombra).

As explained above, I chose the starters not based on pure individual talents, but chose them considering the team synergy. So clearly, there are better individual talents available. So I think picking this top individuals filling in some of the weaknesses of the starters would be a great way to wrap up the roster.

aKm is one of the best, if not the best, hit-scan available. As long as he can play well with the team, he would be a great addition to any team. Also, he has shown his skills on Pharah as well, which neither of the two DPS in the starting line-up clearly displayed.

Another weakness of the starter is that although leave plays Genji from time to time, his Genji is not comparable to the top Genjis in OWL. So including ArHaN would complement this team quite well.

FCTFCTN is probably the best option left for main tank. KnoxXx is also a viable option, but I think FCTFCTN's Rein is better.

I think Void is the best D.Va outside the OWL. Void's D.Va and LateYoung's Zarya is probably as good as, if not better than, top flex tanks in OWL.

Fuze is amazing on Lucio and is also decent on Mercy. Wakawaka is another option, but I think I would choose Fuze over him because I think Fuze would have better synergy with Undine as they have played together.

Undine is very good on Zenyatta and Ana, and he is one of the best on Mercy. Greyy and Roolf are also viable options, but I would choose Undine over them due to better synergy with Fuze.

http://bbs.ngacn.cc/read.php?tid=12918042

Rosters for all of the participating teams.
It seems like ArHan joined Meta Athena? Am I the only one who missed this news? He should be a great addition for Meta Athena to fill in for Libero. Excited to see how these new teams will look!

To answer my own question, it seems like it will start on 11/30! And it will end on 12/17.

Sources:
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/overwatch/Nexus_Cup/2017/Annual_Finals
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/7f6sqp/china_nexus_cup_2017_annual_finals_participants/

Let's see whether new Lunatic Hai can continue to live up to their reputation of surviving through the groups of death! I think it will be really hard this time as I think EM and MY are two of the top three teams in this tourney.

just based on known factor Group A looks much stronger

You meant group D, right? If so, I agree with you.
I would say rebuilt Kongdoo and Lunatic Hai seems to be about at similar level based on the name values.
Element Mystic is as strong as RunAway imo based on their recent performances.
LGD lost half of its starters. Moreover, their recent form has been poor even before the players' departure. Lost twice in a row against MT1 in recent matches.
MY is undoubtedly the strongest Chinese team atm.

So
Group A vs. Group D
RunAway ~= Element Mystic
Kongdoo ~= Lunatic Hai
LGD ~< MT1
LGE <<< MY

Any info on when this tourney is going to happen? That seems like decent list of teams!

This is why I think Blizzard should implement a clan system. It would help to find reliable people to play with. Also, you would need to play cooperatively to remain in a clan with good reputation.

Possibly. But it would be really nice if they ran tournaments with tier-2 tournament teams in their region, like Seoul Dynasty with top APEX teams, Shanghai Dragons with top OWPS teams, etc.

Now, we all know how OWL is outlined, but it seems like there is no clear info on how the overall OW scene (including tier 2 and 3) will be structured. Solid tier 2 scene is essential to provide constant influx of new star players. I am sure Blizzard is aware of this and is working hard to develop outstanding league structure for tier 2 scene as well (as they said news on contenders is coming very soon), so this post might not really mean anything.
But I feel like one role communities like this can serve is to provide ideas for the developers. So below are some of my thoughts on how the overall OW scene should look like. Whether this post will have any meaning or not, I am just trying whatever I can to help OW to be successful as eSports since it is the first eSport I began following.

Premiere Events:
Overwatch League and Overwatch World Cup

Major Events:
APEX, Contenders (NA and EU), OWPS, OPC, Event Tournament (with teams from OWL, APEX, Contenders, OWPS, OPC)

Minor Events:
APEX Challenger and Open Division

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IVFfsF3Hw_QvZFxIPkkjY-htmU9IB_Kh
The image link above contains how I think these events should be scheduled. I only included events for KR, NA, and EU since those are the ones I am most familiar with.

Overwatch League:
Only thing I changed from the official schedule is additional 2 weeks between stage two and three for mid-season signing. I think this break in the middle would allow the teams to analyze their performance in the first half of the season, and also help the new members to adapt.

Overwatch World Cup:
I think OWWC is a great tournament to attract casual fans, and I think Blizzard should continue to run it. Qualifier during late-September to mid-October, followed by playoff during Blizzcon.

Event Tournament:
As we are experiencing now, mid-November to December seems to be void of events. So this period seems appropriate to run an event tournament featuring teams from OWL and various tier-2 scenes. I think tournaments like this will promote interest to tier-2 scenes as well by showing how competitive the teams from those tournaments are.

Tier-2 Scene:
I really hope Contenders, APEX, and APEX Challengers (and OPC & OWPS) can remain to be strong because I strongly believe those are essential. To make the schedule, I had to come up with some kind of tournament structures, and detailed info on those rules are in this link(https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SV4lmiF5Dm26KExgZ6oZTl7B5e_IKad2). But it will probably be difficult to understand, so I will briefly explain key things below.

APEX:
For both APEX and APEX challengers to remain to be functional, I think reduction in size is necessary, possibly to 10 teams. With that size, league format is certainly doable. Matches can be held from Sunday to Tuesday to avoid conflict with the OWL. Starting slightly after OWL would avoid APEX stealing the hype of the new season from OWL. Also, having semi-final and grand final during OWL off-seasons between different stages would allow fans who normally only watched OWL to turn their eyes to APEX during that off-season. I think each team having one match per week would allow enough time to analyze the opponents and come up with good counter strategy.

Contenders:
For Contenders NA/EU, since it is the only tier-2 tournament in the West, I think number of teams can be increased to 10. Overall structure similar to APEX as explained above.

APEX Challengers:
APEX challengers has been the league that helped amateur teams to develop into top-level pro teams (Meta Athena in Season 2, X6 in Season 3, GC Busan in Season 4, possibly Element Mystic in next season). This was possible as the league has relatively tight schedule. For the league at this level, primary purpose should be to develop pro-level players rather than to display top level performance. So I think having two matches per week would be better for Challengers.

Open Division:
This should serve as the initial stage for Contenders (and APEX Challengers) qualifier. When there are so many teams competing, it is difficult to do anything other than single elimination. However, single elimination always has a possibility of one of top level teams being eliminated early by facing top team in early stage. To help with this issue, it would be better to run this single elimination tournament multiple times throughout a year.

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Yes, that was one LONG post, and I doubt many people read it all the way.
One purpose I hope this can serve is to share everyone's thought on how tier-2 scene like contenders should be structured and what kinds of tournaments should exist (like the event tournament I mentioned in the post, or how OWWC should be modified). Blizzard once mentioned each OWL teams would be allowed to run 5 tournaments. How should those be used? Post your thoughts please.

According to the website, all star weekend is 3 days long (Aug 10-12, Fri-Sun), and this makes me believe that it will be more than just one match.

I can imagine all kinds of goofy things they can do like Lucio sprint, Winston jumping contest to moving targets, Soldier Frogger (successfully crossing roads with obstacles like the cars in the Oasis map), Junkrat cornhole, etc. They can also utilize some of the arcade modes (death match, mystery duel, lockout elimination, mystery heroes, total mayhem, etc.) and the event modes (Lucio ball, Junkenstein's revenge, Mei's snowball offensive, Capture the rooster, Overwatch uprising). But I think most people will only care about the ones that has meaningful relevance to real in-game skills. After all, the hype of the all star weekend should be about who really are the best players (on each hero or role) in the league.

I think they should utilize some of the arcade modes, so this event can promote more people to enjoy the arcade modes, but utilize it in a way that has meaningful relevance to real in-game skills. And maybe have one real game with all star teams each day as a main event.

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For example,
Friday, August 10th: Challenge the Champion

• Capture the Flag between OWL Champion vs. All-Star team - Just for fun mainly. Also, I think this is one mode where you need to think about both defense and attack. So it will be interesting to see how pros strategize it.
• 6V6 Lockout Elimination - Let's see how well they can build up diverse comps!
• 6V6 Mystery Heroes - To see how flexible the star players in the Champion team and the All-Star team are
• Bo5 Match between the OWL Season 1 Champion vs. All-Stars from the rest of the teams (max 2 players from one team)

Saturady, August 11th: Battle to rise as the top individual

• Death match of 8 most voted DPS players
• Widow Headshot only match (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMiU-3DOw0I)
• McCree Headshot only match (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpe2qmIG3WI)
• 1V1 Mystery Duel with only DPS heroes (or some modification of it, like Tracer tourney, Genji tourney, hit-scan tourney, etc.)
• 1V1 Mystery Duel with only Tank heroes
• 1V1 Mystery Duel with only Support heroes
• 3V3 Elimination match (one player only with DPS heroes, one player only with Tank heroes, one player only with support heroes)

Sunday, August 12th: Battle of the Division All Stars

• Team death match of Atlantic All-Stars vs. Pacific All-Stars
• 6V6 Mystery Heroes
• Bo5 Match between Atlantic Division All-Star vs. Pacific Division All-Star (max 2 players from one team)

I don't know how good sowhat, DoHyeon, and YARG are, but rest of the roster looks solid! I hope APEX can continue to be as great as they have been.

Well, now they have Neko if you are worried about Snow. Neko was one of the best Anas in Korea in APEX season 4.

Excluded due to age: Flow3r, Haksal, Whoru
Excluded due to retirement: dafran

These are some of best available talents imo
DPS:

• aKm
  Stitch
  YanX1aoLg
  GodsB
  Arhan

Tank:

• FCTFCTN
  Tonic
  KnOxXx

Flex-Tank:

• Void
  Donghyun
  LateYoung

Suppot:

• Fuze
  Creed
  Wakawaka

Flex-Heal:

• Greyy
  Undine
  KoX
  Roolf
  Shy
  Zhufanjun

For better team synergy, I would try to make three separate teams based on region:
EU/NA
DPS:

• aKm
  Davin
  Hqrdest
  Kruise

Tank:

• FCTFCTN
  KnOxXx

Flex Tank:

• NiCOgdh
  Smex

Support:

• Winz
  Adam

Flex Support:

• Greyy
  Roolf

Korea
DPS:

• Stitch
  GodsB
  Sayaplayer
  Arhan

Tank:

• TiZi
  Kaiser

Flex Tank:

• Void
  Donghyun

Support:

• Fuze
  Wakawaka

Flex Support:

• Undine
  KoX

China
DPS:

• YanX1aoLg
  Leave
  Jason

Tank:

• guxue

Flex Tank:

• Lateyoung

Support:

• Creed
  BBcat

Flex Support:

• Shy
  zhufanjun

I have posted my prediction on other thread before, but I made adjustments based on added players and OWWC performance.

1. Seoul Dynasty
   Addition of Munchkin, Fleta, and Wekeed should supplement the weakness of the team. Also, the Mercy nerf and the Ana buff should help ryujehong to come back to his prime form.

2. London Spitfire
   I am not sure how they are going to combine two very strong squads. I think the main strength of GC Busan came from the team synergy, and I am worried that the mix of squads will affect the team harmony. In the end, I think this team will only be slightly stronger than GC Busan (as I think Birdring and Rascal are stronger than Hooreg for most heroes). But who knows, maybe great coaching staffs will help the players to bring greater synergies together, in which case, I think they will take the top place.

3. Dallas Fuel
   They have great players and great team synergy, but I think their tanks are a little behind the top two. Unless Taimou enters one of those periods that he gets tired of the game again, I think Dallas should be strong enough to take the third place.

4. New York Excelsior
   They have stellar DPS and tank line, but I am a little worried about their support. I was never impressed with Ark, and although I know JJoNak is a great Ana, but he has never played at pro level AFAIK. Also, JJoNak seems to play quite aggressively, which tends to work well in competitive, but at a pro level, aggressive supports often suffer from the opponents. If these issues can be dealt with, they might take the third place from Dallas Fuel and may even challenge Seoul and London.

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5. Florida Mayhem
   Many people seem to underestimate this team based on Contenders season 1 Grand Final. I still believe that this team has great talents all around, which was shown in the World Cup as well.

-Top 6~8 closely contested between Houston, Philadelphia, and LA Valiant

6. Houston Outlaws
   I think they have solid players all around. Although I think Muma is decent, I was never impressed with him to the degree that many people seem to be praising him at. Maybe he will prove me wrong and take the team to the higher spot.

7. Philadelphia Fusion
   Very decent roster from the name value, but I am concerned about the flexibility of the DPS. ShaDowBurn only showed his supremacy on Genji and Snillo only on Tracer. Yes, Carpe can play multiple heroes to somewhat compensate, but his form seems somewhat inconsistent. Also, tanks are decent, but could be better.

8. Los Angeles Valiant
   Current roster is a great improvement from the one in contenders, and I think they can easily top Philadelphia and Houston as long as the team performs well together to adapt to different metas.

-Top 9~12 closely contested between Boston, SF, Shanghai, and LA Gladiators

9. Boston Uprising
   I don’t really agree with Harsha’s comment about the Boston team being very weak. Their DPS may be a bit lacking, but their tanks and supports are pretty good. Maybe he was talking about the team before Kalios was added? (as it seems like his addition was later than other players). Addition of Neko should also help the team greatly as his Ana is outstanding.

10. San Francisco Shock
    This is the team I am least sure about. I don’t really know how good iddqd, nomy, Super, sleepy, and Danteh are. So this is just my rough guess of where I think they would end up. I think LA Valiant could easily take their spot unless they truly live up to the hype.

11. Shanghai Dragons
    This squad has decent talents all around, but I don’t think they are stronger than MY. If the whole MY roster was joining OWL, I would’ve predicted them to be around fifth~sixth strongest in the league, but this roster will still be competitive enough to challenge other teams in the league.

12. Los Angeles Gladiators
    I could be wrong as I did not watch much of Kungarna’s games, but I was not impressed with iReMix and Bischu when I did. I think the supports are good, but I am not sure about the DPS. I am not sure how good Hydration is, and Asher isn’t that impressive. I think Surefour is good but probably not good enough to carry the team by himself. I think this team is still pretty good and should be able to easily outperform Shanghai, San Francisco, and Boston if they work well together as a team.

And the world is much bigger than America, since OWL is a global league (although most of the teams are based in US). I guess having the division system now at least tells us which direction they are headed. I guess trying to implement this system in later seasons might have stronger resistance from the fans, so they are building the ground for what they want to implement in the seasons to come.

Playing twice against the teams of their own division and once against the others kinda makes sense for me actually. That way, travel distance would be decreased while still maintaining a sense of all teams being in one league. We will see how they build up on this system.

I feel like four stage system actually suits Overwatch pretty well. As metas rise and fall, we have seen different teams rise and fall as well. Since the length of one season of the league is pretty long, we will most likely see this happen within one season of OWL. This four stage system will make sure the team that was reigning king during a certain meta will get at least some reward, while the one who managed to stay on top throughout the season will be rewarded with a playoff spot since that is determined based on overall map score of all stages.

I am not saying having divisions is bad. I just don't see why.
For the second point though, I don't like how it could give unfair advantage to some teams.

I certainly do like 4 stage system too! Overall, I really like what they are doing. I just found these two things a bit odd.

1. No apparent reason for divisions
Why are they dividing teams into two divisions? Did they mention the reason anywhere? Because I really don't see the point of this. I did talk about the possibility of Blizzard having two or more divisions for the league about two months ago in one thread (https://www.over.gg/5409/overwatch-league-teams/?page=2#60), but my reasoning was to decrease the distance to travel for each team by not having to play against the teams of different regional division until playoffs. But they are not even doing that, so I don't really see what purpose this is serving. Are they planning to do that for later seasons when teams will actually have to travel around?

2. One less match against random(?) four teams
Also, five matches against the teams in same division and five matches against the teams of the other division for each stage "seems" fair, but if you think about it, this is really weird too. You have six teams in each division, so teams will have five teams to compete against in the division they are part of, but they have six teams to compete against in the division they are not part of. In the end, each team will compete with everyone except one team in different division in each stage. This might not seem like much, but this could end up giving slight advantage in the overall map score to the teams that played less games against the top teams.

For example, if you check the schedule, you can see Seoul Dynasty will not play against Philadelphia for stage 1, Boston for stage 2, Florida for stage 3, and Houston for stage 4. This means Seoul will play against these teams three times during regular season, and four times against all other teams.
So if there is a team that is playing one less match against top 4 teams, they will have advantage over a team who is playing one less match against bottom 4 teams. I don't know if this will make a huge difference, but I don't see why they can't just add one more match in each stage, so every team will compete against each other same number of matches.

I don't know why they're using white color for player names for both teams. I know it has outline with the team color, but when the team color is light, it is so hard to distinguish them. Using solid team color with white outline (and white with team color outline for the away team) for the player names would greatly improve the clarity.

I think UK vs. SWE and SK vs. USA are the two big matches that will most likely determine who gets to go to the grand final.
I hope SK can pick up their slacks and show great performance again!

Really?? That's really unfortunate. I am pretty sure they are as good as one of the better players in OWL teams.

I think Fischer and Architect are in for Boston, and maybe Mirage in for LA Gladiators? Mirage said that he has been picked up by an OWL team awhile ago, but I don't see him on any of the rosters yet. Also, maybe Recry and Donghyun on one of the teams? Because I don't see why they would've left Afreeca Freecs unless they had offers from better teams.
For Florida, I am not sure, but I hope to see players like Greyy, ChrisTFer, aKm, Davin, and Tonic.

I really hope Greyy gets picked up too! He is one of the best flex heals imo.

My guess is Fischer and Architect for Boston (I saw a thread about OWL rumors in OW Inven awhile ago, and it has been 100% correct so far). If this is true, Architect is a pretty good projectile, so I guess that should make you halfway happy?

I have included my reasoning on other thread:
https://www.over.gg/6415/owl-preseason-predictions

1. Seoul
2. London
3. Dallas
4. NY
5. Florida
6. Houston
7. Philadelphia
8. SF Shock
9. LA Valiant
10. Boston
11. Shanghai
12. LA Gladiators

These are some of the info I am missing obviously. But is ShaDowBurn really god on Pharah? I have seen his Pharah, but I wasn't really impressed at all. Hopefully I will have better idea on how things will go after the pre-season!

Very well could be overrating them since I have been watching those games more closely. We will find out soon! :)

Yeah, but I feel like Doomfist is falling out of meta, and Mei is only useful in certain situations. Snillo's soldier, as far as I have seen, was only decent. But still, this is just one prediction, I would be happy to find out that the players are much better than what I have expected.

I only started actively watching Overwatch around April, 2017 (towards the end of APEX season 2, TaKeOver 2, and so on), so I lack information about most of the players who have not played at pro level after April. Because of this, my assessment of the teams with many of these recently inactive players (like SF Shock and Boston) might be inaccurate. Hopefully, I will be able to make more sound assessment after the preseason.

-Top 2 closely contested between Seoul and London

1. Seoul Dynasty
   Addition of Muchkin, Fleta, and Wekeed should supplement the weakness of the team. Also, the Mercy nerf and the Ana buff should help ryujehong to come back to his prime form.

2. London Spitfire
   I am not sure how they are going to combine two very strong squads. I think the main strength of GC Busan came from the team synergy, and I am worried that the mix of squads will affect the team harmony. In the end, I think this team will only be slightly stronger than GC Busan (as I think Birdring and Rascal are stronger than Hooreg for most heroes). But who knows, maybe great coaching staffs will help the players to bring greater synergies together, in which case, I think they will take the top place.

-Top 3~4 closely contested between Dallas and New York

3. Dallas Fuel
   My concern with EFFECT was that he seemed to only play Tracer, but it seems like he is getting better with other heroes as well. Unless Taimou enters one of those periods that he gets tired of the game again, I think this team should be strong enough to take the third place.

4. New York Excelsior
   They have stellar DPS and tank line, but I am a little worried about their support. I was never impressed with Ark, and although I know JJoNak is a great Ana, but he has never played at pro level AFAIK. Also, JJoNak seems to play quite aggressively, which tends to work well in competitive, but at a pro level, aggressive supports often suffer from the opponents. If these issues can be dealt with, they might take the third place from Dallas Fuel and may even challenge Seoul and London.

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5. Florida Mayhem
   Their weakness has been shown in the grand final of contenders season 1, but I still believe they are one of the stronger teams in the league.

-Top 6~7 closely contested between Houston and Philadelphia

6. Houston Outlaws
   I think they have solid players all around. Although I think Muma is decent, I was never impressed with him to the degree that many people seem to be praising him at. Maybe he will prove me wrong and take the team to the higher spot.

7. Philadelphia Fusion
   Very decent roster from the name value, but I am concerned about the flexibility of the DPS. ShaDowBurn only showed his supremacy on Genji and Snillo only on Tracer. Yes, Carpe can play multiple heroes to somewhat compensate, but his form seems somewhat inconsistent. Also, tanks are decent, but could be better.

-Top 8~9 closely contested between SF Shock and LA Valiant

8. San Francisco Shock
   This is the team I am least sure about. I don’t really know how good iddqd, nomy, Super, sleepy, and Danteh are. So this is just my rough guess of where I think they would end up. I think LA Valiant could easily take their spot unless they truly live up to the hype.

9. Los Angeles Valant
   I think the current roster is a great improvement from the one in contenders. Few concerns still remain though. SoOn never looked great on anything but Tracer, and I haven’t seen Agilities being impressive on hit-scan. Also, the tanks and supports are good, but not as great as the top teams.

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10. Boston Uprising
    I don’t really agree with Harsha’s comment about the Boston team being very weak. I think they will be almost as good as SF Shock and LA Valiant. This is assuming Snow is on par with supports of the other OWL teams since I do not know how good he is. Maybe he was talking about the team before Kalios was added? (as it seems like his addition was later than other players)

11. Shanghai Dragons
    This squad has decent talents all around, but I don’t think they are stronger than MY. If the whole MY roster was joining OWL, I would’ve predicted them to be around fifth~sixth strongest in the league, but this roster will still be competitive enough to challenge other teams in the league.

12. Los Angeles Gladiators
    I could be wrong as I did not watch much of Kungarna’s games, but I was not impressed with iReMix and Bischu when I did. I think the supports are good, but DPS seems to be lacking as well. I know people speak highly of Surefour, but I don’t think he is as good as the top talents. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they are bad. Tbh, I feel like Seoul, London, Dallas, and NY are going to form top 4 and rest of the teams are going to be at similar level, going up and down the chart based on their condition on the match day.

OWL Preseason Predictions

Now that the rosters for the OWL teams are mostly confirmed, I think it’s about appropriate time to make predictions on team standings for the preseason.
To help the ones who haven’t been following the roster announcements, I have included the rosters for the OWL teams.

Seoul Dynasty

• Munchkin
  Fleta
  Miro
  Zunba
  Tobi
  Ryujehong
  Wekeed
  Esca
  Gido
  Xepher

London Spitfire

• Profit
  Hooreg
  Gesture
  WOOHYAL
  Closer
  HaGoPeun
  Birdring
  Rascal
  Fissure
  Bdosin
  NUS
  Fury

Dallas Fuel

• Taimou
  EFFECT
  cocco
  Mickie
  HarryHook
  Chipshajen
  Seagull
  xQc
  Custa

New York Excelsior

• Saebyeolbe
  Libero
  Mano
  MekO
  Ark
  JJoNak
  janus
  Pine

Florida Mayhem

• TviQ
  Logix
  CWoosH
  Manneten
  Zebbosai
  Zuppeh

Houston Outlaws

• LiNKzr
  Jake
  Muma
  Coolmatt69
  Boink
  Bani
  Clockwork
  Mendokusaii
  SPREE
  Rawkus

Philadelphia Fusion

• Carpe
  ShaDowBurn
  Snillo
  Fragi
  Poko
  Neptuno
  Boombox
  Joemeister
  Hotba
  DayFly
  Eqo
  SADO

San Francisco Shock

• iddqd
  Nevix
  nomy
  Super
  dhak
  Sleepy
  sinatraa
  Danteh
  Babybay

Los Angeles Valiant

• SoOn
  Agilities
  Fate
  SPACE
  Verbo
  uNKOE
  GrimReality
  Numlocked
  Envy
  KariV
  silkthread

Boston Uprising

• Striker
  Mistakes
  Gamsu
  Kalios
  Kellex
  Snow
  DreamKazper
  NotE

Shanghai Dragons

• uNDeAD
  Diya
  Roshan
  Mg
  5King
  Freefeel (previously known as b612)
  Xushu (previously known as Luca)
  Alterning (previously known as 130)

Los Angeles Gladiators

• Surefour
  Hydration
  Asher
  iReMix
  Bischu
  BigG00se
  Shaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnqFw2ovmM&feature=youtu.be

Roster is revealed!

Maybe he'll serve a coaching role as it says Esca still is and will be part of KSV?

Wow, Blizzard is actually putting in a lot of effort into esport aspect of the game! This is great to know. I am excited to see how these features will look live.

I agree with HipiMan444 in that it's the difference in the top teams that makes the difference between KR and NA/EU.

As it is becoming more and more apparent, team coordination/focusing is so important in this game, and I think that's where the main difference comes from. For example, GC Busan is not successful because they have stellar individuals. I think there are plenty of NA and EU players as good as the players in GC Busan (although Profit is truly something else). GC Busan has really good team coordination. They know whom to focus right away, and all of the players dive altogether so well. This is probably why KR domination strengthened during the dive meta.
If this is the case, we might see the gap closing down overtime as teams will learn to focus well once they have good supporting staff to train them, and get to practice well with the teammates for a long time.

However, it might just be a cultural thing. Western culture tends to focus on individual performance, whereas Eastern culture tends to focus on cohesion within a team. That might be why Asian teams are thriving in games requiring good team coordination, like LoL and Overwatch, and Western teams are thriving in games where stellar individuals can make a huge difference, like most FPS games. If that is the case, Asian teams, especially KR teams, might continue to dominate as seen in LoL.

If he can play as well as he did in the spring season that is. Towards the end of the summer season, his performance dropped off noticeably. I hope he can come back to his prime form and make this team competitive.

Is Xushu good? I don't remember seeing him much on 1246. What does he normally play?

No LateYoung? No YangX1aoLg? No Creed? This roaster really does not look any stronger than the previous roster. I guess leave would be better than uNdeAD as he has been underwhelming, but that's about it.

Anyways, Afreeca looking strong again! Jin seems to be much better tank than Brek, which I think was the main problem of the team.

Yeah, this match just solidified my thought that the groups are so not balanced. All four teams on group A are better than everyone on group B except Afreeca.

Was Zonda this good before?? He seems to have improved a lot. If these two games are not just FW playing above their normal level, they might be able to challenge Ardeont in the next season!

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.

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.

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

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).

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/