Anyone else watch any of the OWL?

@StrixVaria I've watched some of the VODs, nothing live.

Played a QP game last night where we used the Mei wall strat on Point A of Anubis, the other team obviously didn't know how to counter, and it was glorious (although we did eventually give up the first point)

We weren't as organized as a pro team getting up there, and I left the Ana behind on the first wall.

(We didn't go with a typical comp, and I stayed as Mei throughout the match.)

I'm having a lot more fun watching OWL than I remember having watching LCS (the LoL league).

I didn't expect that either, since FPS is notoriously hard to get the perspective right on.

I think the spectator changes they've made first for the world cup has improved the viewing experience immensely. Always knowing which team is the "away" team, and therefore in white, helps a lot with distinguishing who's who.

Not having to worry about red/blue confusion when spectating a red team member is the biggest thing, since red is always the enemy when actually playing.

Yeah that's a huge improvement for sure.

It was unwatchable with red/blue.

I think there's more...constant action maybe?...in Overwatch.

Like the second the doors open it's full force battling.

There isn't a 10-15 minute ramp up period that sometimes is interesting but usually is just standard.

Laning phase has some interesting strategies but yeah it's kinda bog-standard boring.

I'm not sure if my interest is because I'm closer to the game over Overwatch as a player though.

I haven't played LoL in years but I kept up with NALCS.

I have played Overwatch recently and watching OWL actually made me play a few rounds this weekend.

:(

I can literally play any other game.

PUBG, Warframe, even a bit of Starcraft 2.

You should try to log in somewhere just to get the 100 league tokens before february whateverth.

@StrixVaria Can I do that on the mobile app?

No I think you have to log into Overwatch proper.

Although I know that thing is just a glorified authenticator.

You can get another 100 free tokens by signing up for OWL notifications from some site.

Ugh, that means I have to move my computer to the house.

Which means I might as well move back in.

But if you have a laptop just go to a coffee shop for 5 minutes or something.

Which is problematic because we're in winter storm mode and the house's heater is borked.

Is your house ready to be moved back into?

:(

@StrixVaria If it wasn't January, it'd be fine.

@Yuuki Well that's something at least.

Do you get snow there or is it just the cold?

@StrixVaria Normally it's just cold but we just got an arctic front today.

Rain, sleet, etc.

Which means that the roads will be iced over by nighttime.

Ew.

I expect a lot of crashes today and tomorrow.

Freezing rain is the worst, it just instantly puts a sheet of ice on everything.

Houston drivers are about as experienced with driving on ice as our Overwatch team is with KotH.

I mean Pine is a little much, but the first match was pretty bad.

I'm hoping Houston does better next week, I bought 2 Houston Outlaws skins with my free 200 OWL tokens.

Zenyatta and Moira.

@StrixVaria Pine?

@Yuuki Pine is the player on NYXL that solo-carries KotH maps but doesn't even play on other map types.

Ah, I was talking about the match against Philly.

Lost 3 rounds of KotH 100-0.

Yeah that was terrible.

At least they put up a fight on the last round but ugh.

I haven't really been paying attention to OWL but each team has 10 players?

No it varies.

The Mayhem have exactly 6.

Most other teams have subs.

Ah.

Houston needs to pick up some KotH subs then...

The Gladiators 4-0ed the Shock and then got 4-0ed by the Dynasty.

And both of those were the "predicted" outcomes.

@Yuuki They did a little better against NYXL when they subbed out Jake for Clockwork IIRC.

Yes, they did do that, and they still lost 2-0 but I don't think it was 100-0 either round.

I'd like to see them bring substitutions to the world cup, 10 to 12 player teams, of which you can "dress" 8 or 9 of them for each match.