Best case scenario for their current timetable means that within the next several months there will be more regular balancing and an improved spectator HUD, plus more teams joining OWL soon.
Worst case scenario is that they let OWL begin with only 7 teams and a barely improved spectator experience in their effort in making sure they complete their promise of a 2017 start.

correct, our zest is a different zest

hidan take my energy

In all seriousness though, why aren't the teams these players play for the ones that get invited to international tournaments? Detonator has played in both APAC and the Pacific Championship, and their players are obviously not as good as the ones we see this team.

entire japanese world cup roster to be imported to a western team tomorrow

what kind of horrible reality do we live in that allows for kiler4fun to be relegated to defense matrix duties

we have stolen him it is too late to give him back

godly header image

guinea is in cahoots with poi98

It's really exciting to see the East importing westerners rather than vice versa for once, even if it's not to the eastern country we traditionally think of with Overwatch

We'd also like to take this opportunity to announce that EnVision eSports have now entered the over.gg World Rankings at #1, bumping ARC 6 out of this month’s list.

There is no team more deserving of going to Korea than EnVision.

we've already put envision in our next world rankings

the cruel irony of being fired for typos with a typo

i don't know what you're talking about looks fine to me no problem here

you're hired

i tried really hard to think of a pun with quake and the earth shaking but my pun game is terrible so i failed

why do you keep bringing up that misfits is swedish? you're overestimating how much people care about nationality, americans still cheer for rogue and envy, and barcelona fans still buy messi jerseys and go to the games even though he's from argentina

i will definitely be doing the same if charlotte gets one
i am praying one of our local sports franchises invests in envy to keep tge roster in the city

it's very possible they grab up big names and streamers rather than the best players and best teams, but keep in mind they come from the sports world where success is the best way to bring in money, otherwise tim tebow would still be in the NFL
also it should be noted that they will have more teams than 7 even before the first season, and who knows what rogue, envy, eunited, laser kittenz, and even the korean teams are working on behind the scenes to be able to get the money to afford an OWL spot
i don't think you're wrong to be worried, though, it is pretty frightening that an org whose team can't even keep a consistent roster has already secured a spot

top teams like envy will almost certainly be in the league, just because the org envyus doesn't have a spot doesn't mean a sports team owner won't buy the roster from them or even hire the org to manage the team for them
i don't know for sure about the top korean teams, i imagine seoul will be one of those teams, but others would depend on the willingness of the players to live and play overseas

neither hype nor hyped playing for immortals FeelsBadMan

https://www.over.gg/4754/overwatch-league-secures-investors
Yeah, I would say NRG isn't dropping out of the game anytime soon

it's true, we had to have someone explain it to us later
but now that i know what it means, i'm going to start using it

don't jinx our proud, pure americans

the best part about writing this article was figuring out how many bullets i needed to list the full roster

LG EVIL TAKE MY ENERGY

Thanks, fixed
(also I found the team if anyone is curious https://play.eslgaming.com/team/11433724/)

the new england patriots and miami dolphins

an unsigned team is guaranteed to be in the finals!

With every candle Meza and the Puppiez grew stronger

sorry mert, flash wolves were too powerful for my witchcraft

There are a lot who are still studying while playing. For example, LG Evil doesn't have a team house because they are all finishing their college education IIRC

I completely forgot to fix that over the weekend, whoops! Whenever I write about some kind of streak or long run in an article and wait to publish it, it always ends before the article goes live.
I'm a curse to teams

IT'S HAPPENING

it depends on if DLC is included with civ V, civ V is a better experience with DLC and civ VI is a better vanilla game
although i'd definitely wait until another sale for civ VI if it's still $35, price only worth it at this point if you really like civ games

if you want some games you can relax with and play at your own pace, i'd recommend planet coaster, europa univeralis IV, and civ V and/or VI
I know planet coaster is on sale right now, the rest should be but i haven't checked

shoutouts to the people in the match threads who i stole borrowed the title pun from

Zebbosai played Lucio for Misfits when they won the Overwatch Open last year and I believe is known to be a good shotcaller, so he will almost certainly be the Lucio for Sweden.

Since I made the thread, I should probably do some predictions of my own. I'll put a (1) after NA teams I think will make it to the Contenders Season One.

NA
Group A: FaZe (1) and CLG. CLG and Team Liquid are both potential dark horse teams, and if it wasn't for them, I would think Selfless could survive sans Dafran, but this group has no glaringly weak teams.
Group B: LG Evil (1) and EnVision. I don't have much to say here. LG Evil feels like a lock in the weakest group and I imagine EnVision to be the best of the other teams.
Group C: FNRGFE (1) and Immortals (1). Maybe their qualifier run was a flash in the pan, but I really liked how they looked and it's good to see those players succeed. I know Yikes! beat Immortals in qualifiers, but now that IMT has had more time to gel with their new additions, they should perform better. I think it will be a close group in which everyone has a chance, though.
Group D: C9 (1) and Hammers (1). This is certainly the group of death, and even C9 isn't a sure thing. Kungarna has just as good of a chance as the teams I picked, and it will be exciting to see how these matches play out.

EU
Group A: eUnited and BP. eU should have this group, and I think second place will be a battle between BP and Expert.
Group B: Misfits and LK. I really want NWA to find a way through, but it's hard to imagine they'll be able to play at the levels of Misfits and Laser Kittenz.
Group C: GamersOrigin and NiP. This group feels like a literal toss-up for me. Any of these teams can have a good day and win the group, and I only pick GamersOrigin to win it because of how strong they looked on Day 2. Hopefully NiP improves, but there is a good chance that they flounder and the other teams take their spot.
Group D: Movistar and Cyclowns. I don't see anyway the other two teams in the group beat these two. This was probably the easiest group to pick for me out of any in either region.

Group play for Season Zero of Overwatch Contenders is almost upon us! So what I'm wondering is, who does over.gg think will advance into the playoffs? (bonus points if you already have predictions for which 6 NA teams you think will qualify for Season One

If you don't remember who is in what group, you can check on this nicely written article: https://www.over.gg/4436/overwatch-contenders-season-zero-groups-announced

tempo would have won if you showed as much passion for them as you did for lg loyal

Guinea's list is the only drama that matters

it's horosho, not gorosho!

I believe since it's a Russian name, it's pronounced like Grrman rather than like the nationality. However, I think he often goes by Herman because of the confusion of being a German German.

their flag collection grows

will laser kittenz become the first team to earn the coveted UN flag?

It makes me a little sad knowing that either Rogue, LH, or KDP will be only playing 3 matches this season.

He meant in contrast to "leading many to speculate that the invite would soon be rescinded". But why should we believe him without any quotes? "In reality..." oh okay, thanks.

"leading many to speculate that the invite would soon be rescinded" doesn't need quotes because it is a broad statement that can be observed. With people on these forums, Twitch chat, and Twitter saying things like "OGN on suicide watch", jokingly saying "x team deserves to go to Korea" because they beat NRG, and other such things, people were at the very least implying it should be rescinded. It's safe to say that if you think something should be the case, you're going to speculate that the very same thing might be the case, much like you're currently doing. It shouldn't matter if he has a direct source for this, what matters is if he has a source for Envy deciding to go, and he does, albeit anonymous. While anonymous sources aren't preferred, you have to respect your source if they want to be anonymous or else they'll never share this information again. Obviously this source can be trusted, as within 24 hours Envy tweeted they were going to participate in season 3. The fact that he references the source and doesn't directly quote them doesn't make a difference because a quote can be fabricated as easily as a source. The only thing harsha claimed to be factually true was that Envy is going to Korea, the rest is background and presumptions, which should be clear to an informed and critically thinking reader.

You're saying that Envy can't just accept an invite they've already declined because it goes against your values and how you believe invites should work. OGN doesn't have to share those values and follow that line of thinking. By Korean standards, finishing top 8 in APEX makes a team qualified for the next one, which Envy has done twice and NRG failed to do their only time attending APEX. You're fighting the writing and article as a whole because you don't agree with the contents of it, and it's a losing battle.

not even casting will stop sideshow from writing articles

I, for one, look forward to potentially labelling this team as the "San Francisco Cloud Niners" in Joe Montana's honor.

someone needs to pitch this to c9 this is genius