When Stanislav "Mistakes" Danilov announced his professional Overwatch retirement, I wasn't surprised to hear him cite a lack of enjoyment and health issues as reasons to stop playing.
Dallas Mavericks’ owner and billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is no stranger to voicing his opinions or working with athletes to achieve a common goal, winning. When he caught wind of a story by Quartz referencing the early retirement ages for professional esports players, he took to Twitter to share the story and give his two cents on why Cuban hasn’t jumped in feet first with the purchase of a League of Legends team yet. While Cuban is no stranger to working extreme hours to get the job done, that doesn't mean that he wants that for all of his players, employees or business partners. With weekly balance changes common in the esports industry, players are required to put in overtime just to keep up with the ever-evolving metas in their respective games. Nate Nanzer, the commissioner of the Overwatch League, chimed in on Cuban's thoughts regarding how overworked esports players are.
The technological advancement following the Industrial Revolution had a huge impact and led to a massive decline in manual labor. Many average craftsmen resided in their village or town for almost the
Players in Overwatch League who have account boosting, sharing, match throwing, and toxicity infractions have been given suspensions and fines.
If you were to ask someone what the biggest change is between the 2019 Overwatch Season and last year's season, the most likely response would be all the new teams joining the league. With 8 new teams
Immortals, and its Overwatch League® franchise team, the Los Angeles Valiant, have committed to raising a total of $500,000 over two years to support the St. Jude mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®
DALLAS (December 12, 2018) – The Overwatch League is coming to North Texas. The Overwatch League, the first global professional esports league with city-based teams, today revealed the 2019 seas
The Overwatch franchise team for Vancouver made their official announcement on December 1st and will be joining the Overwatch League in 2019. The team's name is ‘Vancouver Titans', and as many fans in the Overwatch community anticipated, the players are from RunAway, the team that swept the Overwatch Contenders KR. It is quite significant how every member of RunAway, the team that dominated the KR Contenders, got to join the 2019 Overwatch League. As the Overwatch League and regional Contenders were systemized in 2018, it was also the first year the players from the Contenders got to officially join the League. During this period, they had to test how smoothly the process of the Contenders players joining the League would go and how the Overwatch esports ecosystem would function around both the League and Contenders. During that process, every single member of RunAway made it to a League team, living up to their name as ‘the best regional Contenders team in KR'.
2018 was a rather unsatisfying year for the New York Excelsior. They seemed exceptional after having won the OWL Season 1 Stage 2 and 3, but they could not maintain their dominance to the end of the
Overwatch League team Seoul Dynasty announced a fanmeet/friendly match with new OWL team Guanzhou charge, and the response from its fanbase has been largely negative. Seoul Dynasty fan and translator
Yep, it's back again -- Overwatch's annual Winter Wonderland event is officially live! The event will run from today, December 11, through January 2, 2019. This year, the event includes Yeti Hunter an
Canton, NY (12/06/2018) — SUNY Canton has scheduled its first all-female collegiate esports match against Stephens College, a women's college in Columbia, Missouri. The two colleges will face of
DALLAS (December 3, 2018) – The Dallas Fuel announced they have signed 17-year-old Zachary “ZachaREEE” Lombardo to play flex DPS in the team's second season competing in the Overwatc
The second of Canada's two 2019 Overwatch League expansion teams, the Vancouver Titans, has revealed its logo and colors for the upcoming season. The Titans' logo is a sasquatch and its colors are blu
SF Shock and AHGL raise $11,800 for charity tournament. $4,000 was donated. The remaining funds will be used for event costs.
In a Twitlonger released late Friday night, Ted "silkthread" Wang announced his retirement from professional Overwatch, citing burnout among other things. The former Los Angeles Valiant and Los Angele
CANTON, NY (11/28/2018) -- SUNY Canton's FIFA and Overwatch esports teams have advanced to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) finals, with matches scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 29. Both tea
Jae-hyuk “Carpe” Lee is one of the most notable players in the Overwatch League Season 1. He led the team to victory even when the team was breaking, and with Carpe's help, the team was ab
Lilbow from Team Gigantti discusses his big boops vs. Samsung MorningStars, why Zarya is too strong, how he fits into Team Gigantti's introvert-friendly team, the latest PTR changes, and whether there's room for Symmetra and Torbjorn.
“We designed Overwatch from the ground up to excel as a competitive game,” said Mike Morhaime, then-president of Blizzard Entertainment, at BlizzCon 2016 before revealing the year's main a
