Overwatch League’s commissioner on Grand Finals and the big changes coming to Season 3 OWL2019
After this weekend’s big Grand Finals event in Philadelphia, the league will look to Season 3, which will fully adopt a home-and-away format, the first esports league to do so. Each of the 20 teams will host at least two homestands throughout the season, although three teams — Dallas, Washington and Guangzhou — will host as many as five.
“Even in year one, when all of our matches were played in Los Angeles, all of our regular season matches, we saw fanbases popping up all over the world rooting for their local team through watch parties, buying merch, buying skins and starting to represent a team on social media and in the game,” he said. “And that was really exciting because frankly, it happened sooner than we expected.”
The new model will also mean players will need to get used to being on the road. As players already face rigorous practice schedules, and several high-profile players have retired citing stress and mental health concerns, coaches will inevitably have to prepare for the strain that traveling will place on their teams that have been based around Burbank for the past two seasons.
“We think we’re very well covered in North America. It doesn’t mean we won’t have any more North American teams. There are a couple notable cities that are still lacking a team – Chicago, for example. But we think we’re pretty well covered in North America for the moment,” he said. “In Europe, we’d like to grow. We’ve got a team in Paris and a team in London, but we think there’s room for more.”
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