Overwatch League Teams Will Play in Their Home City Beginning in 2020

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Does your city have an Overwatch League team? Are you an Esports fan? If so you will be able to watch home team games beginning in 2020.

Overwatch League commissioner Nate Nanzer has confirmed that beginning in 2020, “all Overwatch League teams will be playing in their home cities.”

Late last year when the 2019 schedule was announced it was also revealed that three Overwatch League teams would be hosting games in their home cities: Dallas Fuel, Atlanta Reign, and Los Angeles Valiant. Dallas hosts in the Allen Event Center with a 6,275 capacity and Los Angeles hosting at The Novo at L.A. Live which can hold 2,400.

This push will hopefully boost attachment to certain teams if they are playing within the city they are representing in order to more closely tie teams to locations instead of intangible team names like Evil Geniuses or Team Liquid. Whether players will begin to be referred to with their last names instead of usernames remains to be seen, so feel free to continue referring to Minseok Kwon of Boston Uprising as AimGod.

Shanghai Dragons were finally able to break their 42 game losing stream (yikes) in late February by defeating the Boston Uprising team 3-1. Despite the upset Boston Uprising fans were still cheering since the win was a much-needed morale boost for the Dragons who went the entire of the first season of Overwatch League without a single win. Cleveland Browns fans circa 2017 can relate.

We are currently in Stage 1, Week 5 of this season of the Overwatch League. For those who want to partake in viewing the current season of the Overwatch League you can do so on ESPN, Disney XD, and ABC channels and as always, their Twitch channel. Currently the New York Excelsior’s are the top team with 7 wins and no losses. Week 5 begins in the Blizzard Arena tomorrow with the Washington Justice facing Paris Eternal at 12:00 PM Pacific.



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RyanPosted:

this is crazy... imagine what esports will be like 5 years from now

HiPosted:

This is awesome. Esports is getting HUGE!

JasonPosted:

Xbox It's awesome to see how much eSports and just gaming as a whole is expanding.


I agree 100% never though esports would become this big tbh with you.

XboxPosted:

It's awesome to see how much eSports and just gaming as a whole is expanding.

MazePosted:

Wish there was a SF one damn. This all sounds so good for competitive gaming but I don't like the last name instead of username idea I'm glad that's not a thing yet

CTVPosted:

Just imagine sports like nowanddays with teams having their own home stadium! Esports is going to evolve quickly.

BadWoolfPosted:

I would love and hate this as a esports player. Now yours always traveling but at the same time you're traveling the world.

AnhurPosted:

Hell, i'm not even surprised that they have the funding to do this, i was shocked when i saw the overwatch league being shown on Disney Channel. They've really expanded.

AnimePosted:

Glad to see that they will play in their home City.


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