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Florida men win Overwatch League Grand Finals
03.10.2023 - 17:25 / theverge.com
The Florida Mayhem have been crowned the 2023 Overwatch League grand champions. Their 4–0 victory over the Houston Outlaws disappointingly closed out what is likely the league’s last season as it currently exists.
But while the grand finals were a bit of a dud, the playoffs overall reminded me of how much I love this esport, its community, and its capacity to tell amazing stories.
Season six of the Overwatch League just could not hold me. Maybe it’s the fact that this season was the second to be played on Overwatch 2, a game that has itself failed to capture my attention because of some of the decisions made by its developers like canceling the highly anticipated “hero mode” and putting the equally anticipated story content behind a paywall. It could have been the season’s somewhat confusing structure. Or it could have been because of years of diminishing emotional returns exacerbated by reporting that overwhelmingly hinted that the league was not long for this world. For season six, it seemed like my heart just accepted what my mind would not acknowledge — the league is dying, it hasn’t been as exciting since its days as a weekly live event, and it’s best to just let it go.
But I have been present for every grand finals and, ho-hum season or not, I was going to be present for this one. My team, the Shanghai Dragons, did not make the playoffs, but I’m a fan of good Overwatch no matter who is playing, so I tuned in in hopes of getting just that.
And oh boy, for a moment, I got some good-ass Overwatch from two unlikely teams: the London Spitfire and the Hangzhou Spark.
Though the Spitfire won the OWL’s very first grand championship in 2018, they never quite returned to that level of quality. For a couple of seasons, including this one finishing at 7–9, they were in the lower tier of teams. But an explosive late-season performance earned them a spot in the play-in games, where they tore through the losers bracket to just make the playoffs. The Spitfire were a bit of a meme team. They played with unconventional hero compositions that could catch teams off guard but likely wouldn’t hold up when facing stronger teams.
The Hangzhou Spark had a better season, coming into the playoffs as the top team in the Eastern region. But being best in the East didn’t mean much. The Overwatch League has been split into East and West regions since the covid-19 pandemic. The last two years, and this year in particular, the Eastern region, composed of the OWL’s Asia-based teams, has been regarded as somewhat of a joke. The region is smaller, with half the number of teams as the Western region. When the two regions united for the Midseason Madness tournament, the two Eastern teams that qualified (which included the Spark)
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