Who among us has not insisted that we were "zoning" after spending an ultimate attack in Overwatch that didn't hit anyone on the other team? Of course it was your intention all along to scatter the other team away from the area - actually killing them is for meatheads.
The New York Excelsior is the best Overwatch team in the world. Despite an always-shifting metagame and one of its best players sitting out nearly a third of the season so far, they have won two Overwatch League stages and made the playoffs for the third. They rarely drop games and have swept every team in the league at least once.
Overwatch League matches move fast, and one key aspect of clutch plays often stays off-screen and unacknowledged: the support players who heal up the pros pulling off those killstreaks. Most of those successful takedowns happen while the damage-dealing player is in the pocket - that is to say, getting healed continuously by a support player.
After dancing around each other as the two top teams of stage 3, the New York Excelsior and Boston Uprising finally settled the score in the grand finals of the stage's playoffs. New York emerged victorious in a 3-0 win, securing back-to-back stage titles in the Overwatch League.
Kim "Pine" Do-hyeon missed most of the Overwatch League's second stage, but over the last few weeks, he's been making up for lost time. Pine has been cutting Widowmaker highlight reels almost every night of stage 3.
Overwatch's Mercy is a "support" hero, which in layman's terms means she's mopping up trails of blood left behind after Overwatch battles. Mercy's job is to heal her weak teammates, assisting them as they lay waste to enemies. It's an apparently subservient job often painted as easy, and therefore, undervalued - that is, unless you're Hong "Ark" Yeon-joon, arguably the best Mercy player in the world. And if you ask him, the best Mercy players are no one's helpers.
At Overwatch League team New York Excelsior's first-ever New York fan meet-and-greet, a preteen girl in braces broke out sobbing after coming face-to-face with player Joong-hwa "Janus" Song, a sub. Janus doesn't play much. When he's called in, he almost exclusively plays the ape hero Winston, and only on specific maps. In front of Janus, the fan and her mother held up a sign smeared with a glittery, red heart reading, "JANUS IS #1 IN MY."
The New York Excelsior's Kim "Pine" Do-hyeon was the star of the Overwatch League season's first quarter, but has been conspicuously absent since. After the Excelsior won the second-stage title, Pine said that his absence from the team was because depression, stress and a panic disorder stopped him from practising.
After five weeks of games, the New York Excelsior found itself in the stage title match again, this time against the Philadelphia Fusion. This time though, it was New York who would pull off the reverse sweep, taking the stage 2 title and prize in an exciting 3-2 finish.
Muma may have lost, but he won the hearts of many a Reinhardt in last night's game against the New York Excelsior with one incredible charge.
After a long, almost 12-hour day of competition, the London Spitfire emerged victorious last night in the first stage playoffs of the Overwatch League. After dropping two maps to the New York Excelsior, the Spitfire surged back and took three straight to reverse-sweep the finals and win the playoff bonus.
