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The Overwatch League will wrap up its 2021 season with a return to live events this September. The post-season will start on 4th September with online regional play-in matches leading to a double elimination playoff bracket on 16 September. The Grand Finals will be on 25 September. Both the playoffs and Grand Finals will be played in front of a ...
Good news, team-based shooter and esports fans. The Overwatch League is back again in 2021 this 16th April. https://twitter.com/overwatchleague/status/1363232040032813071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1363232040032813071%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdotesports.com%2Foverwatch%2Fnews%2Foverwatch-league-...
The San Francisco Shock became the first team in Overwatch League history to win back-to-back championships, as the team defeated the Seoul Dynasty 4-2 to win the 2020 Overwatch League Grand Finals. Last year, they also won the 2019 Grand Finals when they took down the Vancouver Titans. Nam-joo “Striker†Kwon helped lead San Fra...
The final round of the 2020 Overwatch League playoffs concluded today with the 2020 MVP announced and the four teams advancing to 2020 Grand Finals set. Byung-sun “Fleta†Kim, the damage player for the Shanghai Dragons, was named 2020 T-Mobile Overwatch League MVP for his star performance on a variety of damage heroes over the cours...
The final regular season tournament of the Overwatch League 2020 season is complete, with the San Francisco Shock winning the North America tournament and the Shanghai Dragons recapturing the Asian title. Shanghai Dragon's win has earned the team the top overall seed in the Asia bracket for the 2020 postseason. Meanwhile, San Francisco Shock wo...
While the world is waiting for Overwatch 2, we'll have to settle for esports misdemeanour instead. Blizzard has fined Los Angeles Valiant's Jung-won "Lastro" Mun and San Francisco Shock's Dong-jun "Rascal" Kim US$1,000 for some colourful banter. Said chat was unintentionally broadcasted on Twitch for the whole world to see during an Overwatch Leagu...
San Francisco Shock's Jay “Sinatraa†Won has been crowned the MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the 2019 Overwatch League season. He first debuted with the Shock during Stage 3 of the inaugural Overwatch League season. He helped lead the Shock into this year's playoffs, accumulating over 20.91 Eliminations and a league-leading 11,849 damag...
The Overwatch League Stage 3 Finals are over, and the Shanghai Dragons have taken the crown with a SHOCKING win over their opponents, the San Francisco Shock (get it?). With a close 4-3 win, the Dragons won their first stage championship to bring home a whopping $200,000 in prize money. It didn't start that way for the Shanghai Dragons. The Chin...
It took seven maps and everything they could muster for newcomers to the Overwatch League, the Vancouver Titans to fend off the San Francisco Shock en route to winning the Stage 1 Playoff Finals early this morning. Consisting mostly of players formerly of Korean Contenders Season 2 Champions, RunAway, the Titans who went unbeaten throughout Stage 1...
The Overwatch League player musical chairs continues as two DPS mains switched teams earlier today. First up is Nam-joo "Striker" Kwon who left Boston Uprising to beef up the Korean contingent at San Francisco Shock. Joining his Korean compatriots in Architect, ChoiHyoBin, smurf, Viol2t and Rascal in San Francisco, Striker's departure was an ...
As we have anticipated in the Overwatch pro level scene, there will be some significant changes taking place for the second season of the Overwatch League. This is moreso now with the addition of eight new teams, alongside the fact that all teams will be based out of their home cities. The league recently released a plethora of information which w...
The Overwatch League personnel merry go round continues as more team announcements and player movements were made. A few days back, to the *cough* shock of many, the San Francisco Shock announced the departure of their DPS main, Dante "Danteh" Cruz to the Houston Outlaws via trade for GG Esports Academy main tank player Yoo ‘Smurfâ€...
There are tons of Overwatch news this week and since us folks at Kakuchopurei.com are also swamped - being in Jakarta for the Asian Games, we decided to compile everything under one roof for a quickfire, bite-sized (but still informative) Overwatch roundup. New Cinematic! Yes we reported this earlier in the week; Blizzard just released their ...
The San Francisco Shock earlier today announced that they have parted ways with three players; Hitscan specialist André 'iddqd' Dahlström, Rein main David 'nomy' Ramirez and Lucio specialist, Daniel 'dhaK' MartÃnez. Today we say goodbye to three amazing players and friends, @Nomy @daitchaK @iddqd, who made history with us this year ...
The Boston Uprising has announced the departure of their coach, Dae-hee "Crusty" Park who joined San Francisco Shock as Head Coach. After guiding the team to a perfect 10-0 record in Stage 3 which was also part of their record-setting 15-match unbeaten streak stretching all the way to Stage 2, Crusty was "was granted permission to explore new op...
What. A. Week. No thanks to these unprecedented results, Power Rankings are harder than ever to produce. With upsets all around, the definition of 'The Strongest Team' is getting flimsier by the day as teams start to figure each other out better. So without further ado, here are this week's Power Rankings, ahead of Week 3 matches. 1. New York Exc...
As the third stage of the Overwatch League inaugural season gets underway this week, we revisit the power rankings for all the teams, taking into account their stage 2 finish as well as recent roster additions. With twenty games played, there are twenty left in the season and tons of room for slow starters to not only reignite their season, but als...
It was a debut week to forget for Jay 'Sinatraa' Won as the San Francisco Shock lost five-set thrillers twice over a span of two days as they fell to Florida Mayhem on Thursday and Boston Uprising the following day. Starting the series over Andrej "babybay" Francisty against the Mayhem, Sinatraa jumped straight into the fray like a duck to water...
The San Francisco Shock squad is finally fully stocked following the addition of three players to the team, taking the total of players in their roster to twelve. They've officially announced the signing of ex-Toronto Esports support, Grant "moth" Espe and former X-6 Gaming tank, Min-ho "Architect" Park earlier today; The San Francisco ...
When the inaugural Overwatch League season kicked off last year, we predicted that this competition is set to grow and be one of, if not the largest esports tournament in the world. So what better competition to compare them with than the most-watched professional sports league in the world, the English Premier League? Today in a much more relaxed ...
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