I’m sorry Eric but scapegoating the issue with the current meta being thanks only to the Stopwatch makes it seem like you don’t really watch the game or know much about it, sure Stopwatch is an issue and it denies early game plays, but it only comes online at the 6 minute mark (most first bloods in previous metas even…

The death of more and more T2 teams is controversial, where is the talent coming from in 2-3 years if Blizzard neglects the amateur and semi-pro scenes in regions outside of NA?

This is what happens when towers are made of paper and there’s no buy backs, a single death or a lost fight can instantly lose you the game.

Like I said in another comment, drafts are illegal unless the players are all represented by a union

“Drafts are usually permitted under anti-trust or restraint of trade laws because they are included in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players.” (from wiki) 

A draft in the overwatch league would be considered illegal in the USA because the players need to belong to an union for a draft to happen, and that ain’t happening any time soon because these kids are not going to get together and finance a union, most don’t even give their contract to a lawyer to read before…

Let’s think from an outsiders prespective, for most people that already enjoy esports you wanna see the best of the best competiting, if the best players are Korean you watch the Koreans...but think about the public that Blizzard is trying to get, people that never watched any other esport and the only connection to…

Fact: Opening day saw at least 3.1 million unique viewers and they have added at least 1 million additional unique viewers per day.

Most games also have several in-game merch that people can buy to support their favorite teams or players. A very popular team or player can get a pretty good paycheck based on merch sale in esports, for example, in League of Legends, some popular skins can generate a revenue of $15-20 million, 1 single skin, the…

There’s 3 full korean teams, excluding Seoul, both London and NY are full korean squads, and there’s several koreans on other teams, including koreans that speak english, I know there’s at least 2 pros in the OWL that used to play League of Legends in the american LCS.

Most is based on rumous since people don’t have access to the OWL contracts, but any source of revenue [sponsorship deals, broadcasting deals, merch sales, tickets sales, in-game sales (i.e. in game skins)] are put into a pot that get divided between Blizzard and all the teams 50/50...this is in theory, since some…

It doesn’t matter for Blizzard though, none of the money being spent on the OWL is theirs, in the end if Overwatch Esports dies the ones that get burned are the Orgs that invested 20 million each and Twitch. Blizzard will always come out of this clean.

It’s 100% inflated, just look at the usual numbers that WoW Arena or Starcraft 2 get and then compare it to the views they get during Blizzcon, the reality is that many people that usually don’t watch streams or esports, watch during those days because they are also waiting for announcements and other stuff from…

Top twitch esports streams are between 100-200k in viewership.

Is incredibly interesting seeing the owners of these OWL teams saying that having 20k-40k regular viewers in the first couple of years is seen as something good, while Twitch invests 90 million on it for those same 2 years. For context, 20-40k regular viewers is what a top daily twitch streamer gets on average, kinda…

Very simple answer: Because Blizzard is pushing the OWL as the “true first Esport that is going to revolutionize the world by being the closest to traditional sports”, but they forget that all sports clubs start as grassroots local teams...meanwhile OWL London team (and only european team) is owned by an American org…

Apparently only in the Season 3, i.e. 2020, according to what Immortals/LA team is saying.

People here talking like the guy does nothing but scream and be a dumbass on stream, the dude literally a month ago organized an amateur League of Legends tournament that reach a viewership that most Tier 2 esports could only dream of, Blizzard is praying right now to reach 200k viewers with the OWL, and this random…

Yes he can and he did several times, but he couldn’t stream the game because once a new account was associated to him it would get immediately banned. And he’s also a pretty good player, like top 0,02% of the playerbase (high diamond - Masters), so even if he played casually out of stream he would still show up on…

He got a mini-rework that pretty much fixed his biggest issues, he had very little CC besides his rupture so they gave vorpal spikes a pretty heavy slow, and his tankiness was correlated to his ult stacks, so they increased the amount of stacks you can get and you don’t lose them when he dies. This pretty much makes…

Faker is extremely humble for someone with his accomplishments, I honestly think he felt kinda bad that he was being recognized as “The best esports player in the world” just 1 month after losing Worlds. To be fair he shouldn’t even have been nominated, even though he was almost the single reason SKT reached the…