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Now that Overwatch League Week 14 is over, there is time to account for what happened across the league. More specifically, it is time to look at the perceptions of players, teams and how the league has changed through the 2020 OWL Season. A lot changes with every new hero pool, so this is very…
Now that Overwatch League Week 9 is over, there is time to account for what happened across the league. More specifically, it is time to look at the perceptions of players, teams and how the league has changed through the first 9 weeks. A lot has changed with new hero pools, so this is very…
Coming off of a much-needed win, the Toronto Defiant seek another victory as they head into a new week of games. For them, a potential win comes in the form of an opponent that fans can’t quite make heads or tails of. The Washington Justice had very high pre-season expectations when they made an incredible…
The Overwatch League has it all: international talent, record-breaking overtimes, and most recently…cats. On the Sunday evening edition of Watchpoint, desk host Salome “Soe” Gschwind Penski had her cat “Nori” pick the hero bans for the upcoming week’s matches. Nori even got an assist from his sibling, “Miso” who plucked Wrecking Ball from the tank…
With the world on lockdown, it came to a point where the Overwatch League wasn’t able to hold Homestands anymore. There have been two Overwatch League-less weeks, now in Week 8 things are about to be picked up again. Will the Mayhem go for some Justice while they go and get the Reign over the…
Five weeks into the 2020 season of the Overwatch League and fans have been gifted with some iconic matchups that will be remember for the foreseeable future. Alongside those great games comes some beautiful ultimate combinations that are unique to a full professional six-stack working together in unison. This season has seen some great single…
A month has gone by in the 2020 Overwatch League season and yet many are still debating which teams are truly the best at the current moment. Compile the fact that five of the 20 teams have yet to play with the newly added weekly hero bans and it can become quickly overwhelming for fans…
What an exciting time to be a fantasy OWL player as hero pools finally makes its way into the Overwatch League. The league will no longer be stale with one meta taking over each and every game, and teams will have to think outside the box to come out on top. For fantasy, this means…
After chaos rocked the Overwatch League’s Saturday matches, Sunday was supposed to be a return to sanity. Three predictable games were on the docket, and despite a convincing effort from Toronto, everything was going according to plan. That is, until the Washington Justice became the victims of a grisly crime. Home invasion, assault, highway robbery?…
Ethan “Stratus” Yankel is one of the quirkiest and most positive players in the OWL. The Justice’s projectile DPS player is constantly doing hilarious things, like videoing himself sinking in a cardboard box, just to promote a previous match against the Fuel. But, what many don’t know is that Stratus was almost never Stratus at…
The Washington Justice have their first-ever homestead this weekend at the D.C. Anthem. It will be the first of five Homestand events hosted by the D.C.-based team. We already got a preview of the Justice’s play when they performed last week, at the Philly homestead. But this week, they’ll have the fans on their side.…
Week 3 unfortunately is a little more of the same with the Chinese homestands being rescheduled. Standard leagues are sitting in an odd limbo, as most rosters have several Pacific division players that won’t see the stage until March. Fantasy Overwatch has been a bit of a strange game so far, but stick it out…
The Overwatch League officially has two weeks’ worth of homestands under their belt. With twelve matches complete and countless power rankings unquestionably shaken up, the Overwatch League has had some great successes – and demonstrated some of its biggest growing pains. The new homestand format has accomplished much of what it set out to do,…
This season, the Overwatch League has revealed that it will be presenting a public database of statistics. This update will also provide viewers previous statistics since the beginning of the league. The properly named “Stats Lab” is home to several categories where it has things such as player compositions, teamfight win rates, map stats and…
The Overwatch League heads to Washington D.C. this week for the first of the Justice’s five Homestands in 2020. As eight teams converge on the nation’s capital, the top teams want to maintain momentum after strong debuts while some simply look to notch their first win. As more matches are played, narratives start to take…
Now just under a week into the 2020 OWL season, some have already begun to look ahead to see which players are anticipated to make the biggest splash this year. With some stellar opening performances, it’s not out of the question to imagine that even the players themselves have started thinking about the OWL’s coveted…
The Washington Justice will visit Philadelphia this weekend to face local host Fusion as well as the out of town Houston Outlaws. They could either surpass expectations or fall below them. The team recently announced that they will have to play without their complete tank duo. As Lukas “LullSiSH” Wiklundhas been stranded in visa hell.…
Hype for the start of the 2020 OWL season is in full swing, with the start of the season just one day away. Several teams will be flying out to Dallas and New York with the hopes of starting their season off on the right foot. For players, the pressure is the same, only they’ll also…
The introduction of Hero pools to the Overwatch League in March of this year will prove challenging to all teams. Washington Justice more than most perhaps. DC is tied for the smallest starting roster in the league. Eight players. Two supports, Three tanks and Three DPS. These are the main challenges Washington faces once hero…
Power rankings season is in full swing in the weeks leading up to the heavily anticipated start of the 2020 Overwatch League season. But, with all of the many different rankings floating around from fans, it’s sometimes hard to tell what those closest to the league truly think about the teams heading into the season.…
