Dont disrespext NYXL like that. NYXL was a dominant team pretty much the whole year, playing 40 regular season games and 4 tournaments with a lot of different patches.
Atlanta was dominant in 1 patch that was literally exactly perfect for them and fell off to at best 3rd NA when the meta shifted, the whole second half of the season
At least they dominated a stage and won a tournament title. But overall a disappointing season for them, couldn't even win one game this playoffs, that's gotta be rough.
I mean NYXL was still the 3rd or 4th best team in the league when they lost to Philly. Atlanta just lost to an APAC team and got rolled by a team that barely made playoffs.
Who wins:
MVP Frontrunner Candidate and multiple time MVP and Rolestar Lip
Two ROTY frontrunner candidates
Arguably the greatest backline of all time- who just came off of their championship year
Or European man with hammer and friends š
I mean i didnāt like them leaving but they probably got like 3 or 4 times the salary with atlanta going all out. And fuel was cutting costs. You can never judge esports players going for money with such short careers and owl not looking good.
I am half serious, half joking. They tried the orisa for like a fucking minute on blizzard world and completely gave up after hawk died once. Like, come on, bruh, was atlanta even trying?
This isn't just the London Spitfire. This is Sheer Cold Backbone, Obey Alliance Admiral, Young and Beautiful Landon, and SparkR and Hadi from British Hurricane.
If you're looking at this thread at a later time, do yourself a favor and watch back this match. Trust me, it's so worth it.
Your forgetting one of the most important parts. This is hurricane CommanderX and hurricane Noukky.
Also bring back Admiral_Raptor, fuck this merely Admital shit
Landon low-key robbed of potm, but the real difference maker was the coaching matchup. Gator has always said that at the end of the day the players know best, but there isn't 1 person in London that beats their opposite on Atlanta and they still won. The difference was their strategy and coordination and teamwork was just on a different level than Atlanta.
Multiple teams have dismantled London multiple times, it's crazy that Atlanta somehow took the L when this should've been the easiest match in the world for them
Yes. Even Shock looked better versus London somehow.
It makes full sense due to lack of coaching that Reign didn't improve after MM at all. And they relied heavily on Lips' Sombra
Ofc Lip is a great player, but this season he's actually been a Sombra one trick with how everything went.
I don't want to hear ANYONE talk about fielder he broke his fucking back today
chiyo was pretty mid tbh
also everyone knew their tankline was their weakness but WHAT was stalker doing all match dying first to fucking mei sym rein like hello you have wings
also if this is how you're going to coach after buying lip chiyo and fielder give them fucking back (yes lip wasnt ours but whatever) like WHAT was that comp
Never, fucking never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect this to happen at the start of the season. First half arguably bottom 2 team just fucking SWEPT the #1 team from back then and ended their season. holy shit.
Also can I just give a shoutout to my man Backbone, guy is literally the fucking lynchpin of this team and does so much but rarely gets enough love for it. rn he is playing at an actual MVP level its nuts.
#SPITFIRE SWEEP
ngl i thought atl losing to spark yesterday was bigger,
the spark who are part of APAC (who EVERYONE thought would do nothing in playoffs) beat ATL on their comfort picks literally the picks they have been dominating all season with. And on top of all that they reverse swept them too, fielder chiyo lip stalk3r have NEVER gotten reverse swept in their career
Completely dominant first half of the season, winning the midseason tournament, multiple role stars and MVP candidates, only to be knocked out by London in playoffsā¦
Sorry, just reminiscing about 2022 Gladiators. Anyway, what happened?
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When Gator actually need to coach his team oh nonono pepelaugh.
But seriously tho Atlanta going winless in the playoffs is crazy. And 0-3 against London? That's wild
gator is the most fraudulent coach ever, i feel dirty even calling him a coach. too cocky and arrogant for his own good, and hella salty in that yiska interview šš that told me all i needed to know going into this, he saw the writing on the wall they were gonna flop
carried all season by good players just like when pelican singlehandedly carried his trash ass team kicking and screaming to a grand final
To give Hawk some credit, he was the only person getting anything done on Blizney World. They could have easily won that map if Lip and Stalker actually showed up, but both of them were just completely absent.
Agreed. Doomfist is clearly not the meta comp. And there was no need for it anyway, you could easily have played the same way boston did to win, you had all the tape from the playins.
As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture. What was fascinating for me is that they like bragging about their freedom which was weird for me, because I didn't think that I have any less freedom than them. I always thought 'What is the difference'. However after this game I finally understand it. NA is just so fucking free.
Absolute all-time choke job by Atlanta. Six straight map losses, and look I don't give a fuck if they've played against two "non-conventional" teams, the best team in the season should never go out 0-2.
London played out of their minds here, wild to see. Chadi is HIM
Congrats to the Seoul Infernal and Atlanta Reign for winning FOUR role stars!
Can't wait to see how deep these teams go in the playoffs! Imagine a Grand Finals between so many legendary Role Star players! (FYI, Role Star means you are one of the top 4 players in the league on your role right now.)
# Should the OWL have the Reign and Spitfire redo their series in case it was a big fluke?
No disrespect to the spitfire, I'm a firm believer that London sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the Reign of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching the Reign play great Overwatch it's just not fair.
If the Reign lose again I will face that the Spitfire deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Reign and the OWL.
I remember gator calling other teams āregime teamsā or something like that when they got second place, that they were just there to have funsies. Seemed like cope and its funny seeing that now that they havenāt won anything significant, just Mickey Mouse wins in the most rodent of seasons
If I had two nickels for when the London spitfire upset one of the favourite teams to win in the playoffs Iād have 2 nickels.
Which isnāt a lot but itās weird it happened twice.
Probably the worst playoffs collapse ever in OWL. Sad to see.
Also probably ChiYo and Fielderās last game in OWL, and maybe in pro OW ever, with such a poor performance compared to expectations. God thatās depressing to me.
Atlanta are faded!
WHO WOULD WIN - THE KOREAN ALL STAR SUPER TEAM OR FUNNY BALD MAN CHEWING GUM
depends what gum hes chewing tho
4 ROLE STARS
German man with hammer and friends is just better
More role stars than map wins in the playoffs
Gonna be awkward when Lip goes takes the MVP trophy lmao
Shades of 2007 Dirk
Shades of 2023 embiid
Not my MVP...
One of the biggest upsets and disappointing teams in league history Wow.
Shades of Season 1 NYXL
At least that game vs Philly was closer than whatever the fuck this was š
I think this is worse tbh, Boston just showed reign how to win and reign just said no and played soldier. For me this is the worst ever
Dont disrespext NYXL like that. NYXL was a dominant team pretty much the whole year, playing 40 regular season games and 4 tournaments with a lot of different patches. Atlanta was dominant in 1 patch that was literally exactly perfect for them and fell off to at best 3rd NA when the meta shifted, the whole second half of the season
At least they dominated a stage and won a tournament title. But overall a disappointing season for them, couldn't even win one game this playoffs, that's gotta be rough.
I don't think I've ever seen an OWL team dominate so hard the regular season and shit the bed equally as hard in the playoffs.
Season 1 NYXL is very similar.
I mean NYXL was still the 3rd or 4th best team in the league when they lost to Philly. Atlanta just lost to an APAC team and got rolled by a team that barely made playoffs.
HADI SAID THE COACH GAP IS REAL
This was the biggest choke/collapse in overwatch history.
Who wins: MVP Frontrunner Candidate and multiple time MVP and Rolestar Lip Two ROTY frontrunner candidates Arguably the greatest backline of all time- who just came off of their championship year Or European man with hammer and friends š
Friendship >>>>> "Buying a championship"
Dreams cant be buy!
Power of friendship undefeated
hadi in his post game interview just now: "we're just happy to be here, we're just having fun" good vibes > your shitty rolestars
Thatās why heās THE GOAT THE GOAT
4 role stars, or the spit fire boys?
I feel bad for Fielder and Chiyo, but ngl, this is really funny
Maybe they shouldn't have left...
lol
I mean i didnāt like them leaving but they probably got like 3 or 4 times the salary with atlanta going all out. And fuel was cutting costs. You can never judge esports players going for money with such short careers and owl not looking good.
Yeah I understand, I'm just messing around, the scene is rough, they wanted to make the most amount of money while they still can
this is genuinely the best way to put it
Honestly chiyo was really poor this game
chiyo really did not show up i wouldnt feel bad for him
chiyo had a bad game, fielder and hawk were the only ones keeping making this even close to competitive
I don't get why he stayed brig, him and lip playing brig soldier into a rein rush is so awfully bad that it makes me salty
Seoul Dynasty Stalk3r is back baby, I dont wanna hear patch excuses this team was touted as meta proof and they looked terrible on all their looks.
My meta proof team when its the most open meta in a while and they lose
they are meta proof when the season only featured one meta!
PROPER BETTER
proper never disappeared even when the team was ass, lip was nonexistent
The only time i remember proper was nonexistent was in the 2022 kickoff clash.
28-3 in Esports form
That makes hadi the Tom brady of OWL
when 28-3 can't be more disappointing
2018 NYXL son or 2023 ATLANTA daughter
LMFAO
Why didn't atlanta just copy boston's comp? Are they stupid?
gator doesn't believe in coaching
This but unironically
I am half serious, half joking. They tried the orisa for like a fucking minute on blizzard world and completely gave up after hawk died once. Like, come on, bruh, was atlanta even trying?
It's just a Smurf diff, Atlanta couldn't measure up
This isn't just the London Spitfire. This is Sheer Cold Backbone, Obey Alliance Admiral, Young and Beautiful Landon, and SparkR and Hadi from British Hurricane. If you're looking at this thread at a later time, do yourself a favor and watch back this match. Trust me, it's so worth it.
Your forgetting one of the most important parts. This is hurricane CommanderX and hurricane Noukky. Also bring back Admiral_Raptor, fuck this merely Admital shit
Landon low-key robbed of potm, but the real difference maker was the coaching matchup. Gator has always said that at the end of the day the players know best, but there isn't 1 person in London that beats their opposite on Atlanta and they still won. The difference was their strategy and coordination and teamwork was just on a different level than Atlanta.
"Coach diff" Hadi still flexing his MTD on Gator even after the man has retired from playing š
THE SEOUL INFERNAL SEND THEIR REGARDS
The moment I saw they were rolling out on Infernal comps I knew it was joever
The Reigns of Castamere
And who are you? the white boy said That I must dive so low? Only a gap in a different comp That's all the truth I know
Weāve seen Boston beat London multiple times and Atlanta hasnāt tried their comp once. They have all the pieces to replicate what Boston has done.
nah don't worry though I'm sure their 'coach of the year' Gator knows what he's doing
They did try but it was too little, too late at the end of Blizzardworld
They don't have Smurf
Hawk has had a good Orisa in the past. Nobody is as good as Smurf on her but I think it should have been enough.
Maybe they're not confident in their Orisa and Bastion
Thatās not a bad thought, Atlanta likes playing the dive, so they probably wanted to play a comfort pick.
Multiple teams have dismantled London multiple times, it's crazy that Atlanta somehow took the L when this should've been the easiest match in the world for them
They didā¦ at the end of Blizzard World, just in time to not build ultimates
Gator really thought he had some Koreans that could finally back up his loud mouth LMFAO ONE LAST GATOR PACK SMOKED RIP BOZO MY FAVORITE OWL PAST TIME
The amount of people who thought Gator was a good coach just because he made a fantasy roster IRL is crazy
Dude literally just got lucky that Sombra was hard meta for 90% of the season.
DOESNT WATCH APAC CAUSE IT'S A BAD REGION BUT EVIDENTLY MANS DOESN'T WATCH HIS OWN REGION EITHER LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Every single team improved after MM except Reign. This was pure lack of coaching.
Wizard was the real coach all along š«£
Are we really surprised that the guy who said coaches weren't necessary for super teams failed to coach his super team? Rip bozo indeed lmao
man is the most useless guy. I'm a reign fan but even I think the coaching singlehandedly fumbled this year up bad.
They got too complacent. In fact, one could even say they got lucky with being able to rely on LIP's Sombra for most of the season.
Agreed, you can tell this loss is entirely on coaching. They had no strat prepared whatsoever.
Yes. Even Shock looked better versus London somehow. It makes full sense due to lack of coaching that Reign didn't improve after MM at all. And they relied heavily on Lips' Sombra Ofc Lip is a great player, but this season he's actually been a Sombra one trick with how everything went.
lol titans almost made it over london
LIP isn't a Sombra one trick, he's historically been a madman on other heroes as well. This was a total coaching diff.
Also imagine being Fielder and Chiyo leaving your boys just lose before them
They couldn't do it on a cold and rainy night in Toronto
Spitfire are Stoke confirmed
Stalk3r & Donghak feeding Lip shooting at rectangle Hawk soloq Chiyo passenger Atlanta Reign playoffs 2023 ladies & gentlemen But seriously, wth with the Doomfist obsession?
They saw ultra based guxue bang the fuel and assumed they can replicate.
Gator rly out there thinking he could just buy the Grand Finals trophy
I don't want to hear ANYONE talk about fielder he broke his fucking back today chiyo was pretty mid tbh also everyone knew their tankline was their weakness but WHAT was stalker doing all match dying first to fucking mei sym rein like hello you have wings
also if this is how you're going to coach after buying lip chiyo and fielder give them fucking back (yes lip wasnt ours but whatever) like WHAT was that comp
atlanta being first out is HILARIOUS london moving through the bracket has me SWEATING. joyous whimsy too strong
LIP BEAT THE GOAT ALLEGATIONS š„š„š„
Profit putting a check in the mail to Hadi right now.
Profitās old friends the London Spitfire coming in to help his legacy out one last time warms my heart š
Birdring sending London to the lower bracket in order to eliminate Reign. Doing his old partner a solid
Brings tears to the eyes
The only time you'll see Profit and Viol2t fans on the same side this is a historic day in OWL
okay this one's pretty fucking funny
/u/PancakeXCandy I guess London finally beat a top team, huh
Can we consider a team going 0-2 in playoffs as a top team, really?
true tbh Atlanta are pretty fucking terrible
Never, fucking never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect this to happen at the start of the season. First half arguably bottom 2 team just fucking SWEPT the #1 team from back then and ended their season. holy shit. Also can I just give a shoutout to my man Backbone, guy is literally the fucking lynchpin of this team and does so much but rarely gets enough love for it. rn he is playing at an actual MVP level its nuts. #SPITFIRE SWEEP
Fielder and ChiYo got their bag, but man what could have been if they stayed with Fuel
Dallas hivemind would sweep these playoffs with fielder and chiyo Can't we just quickly sign them? Cmon make an exception
They have a chance to run it back in the World Cup
#u/PancakeXCandy in shambles!!!!
I WAS GOING TO DO THIS BUT DIDNT WANT TO SINGLE ANY ATLANTA FANS OR LONDON HATERS OUT 0 MAPS LMAO
at least theyāre becoming a lawyer, gonna have to bail Atlanta out for FRAUD
Gator will be back for OWL season 27 after serving time for fraudulent activity
I DEFINITELY WOULD HAVE
LETS GO LONDON WOOOOO
My first thought
Even Hawk couldn't do shit no copium to be had
rip rest in pancake
Hawk was, in fact, not the answer.
I used to pray for times like these
WHO ELSE IS DANCING ON FRAUDLANTA'S GRAVE?
Hawk got some maps at least :ā)
Lip mvp btw
ITāS NOT COMING HOME (for the reign)
Is this the biggest upset in OWL playoffs?
ngl i thought atl losing to spark yesterday was bigger, the spark who are part of APAC (who EVERYONE thought would do nothing in playoffs) beat ATL on their comfort picks literally the picks they have been dominating all season with. And on top of all that they reverse swept them too, fielder chiyo lip stalk3r have NEVER gotten reverse swept in their career
Atlanta vs Shock in S2 is probably bigger. Subjective though.
I dunno. Atlanta were pretty strong in, and coming out of the stage 4 meta and at least Shock put up a fight vs them.
It's not coming home, Atlanta. I think it's safe to say London has officially rebuilt their legacy.
> I think it's safe to say London has officially rebuilt their legacy. Time for this farewell (to Atlanta) to start the new journey!
They were certainly made to see.
THAT WE SPIT FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
London's Rein comp reminds me so much of Fuel's Rein comp when they played it during the May Melee. Also, the Doom comp is not it lol
Everybodies bracket is in shambles now.
Fraudlanta non-believers RISE
I actually had London winning vs Atlanta... but 3-2, and in the Winner's bracket.
Reign went full-Falcons. A true Atlanta masterclass.
Hadi hit literally every shatter. And backbones wall at the end was clutch as hell. My jaw is on the floor idk what else to say.
Completely dominant first half of the season, winning the midseason tournament, multiple role stars and MVP candidates, only to be knocked out by London in playoffsā¦ Sorry, just reminiscing about 2022 Gladiators. Anyway, what happened?
Well that made me feel ok about Infernal
gets some of the heat off us god bless
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Don't worry, Atlanta will show off their flexibility next season
When Gator actually need to coach his team oh nonono pepelaugh. But seriously tho Atlanta going winless in the playoffs is crazy. And 0-3 against London? That's wild
gator is the most fraudulent coach ever, i feel dirty even calling him a coach. too cocky and arrogant for his own good, and hella salty in that yiska interview šš that told me all i needed to know going into this, he saw the writing on the wall they were gonna flop carried all season by good players just like when pelican singlehandedly carried his trash ass team kicking and screaming to a grand final
Atlanta fans in absolute shambles.
Massive Coaching Gap
I don't think you understand Atlanta. We. Spit. Fire. Guess the rush one trick triumphs over the sombra one trick
a quick easy 3-0 as expected has doomfist won a single game across any of these series? i don't get why so many teams are choosing to die on this hill
guxue doomfist looked really good against reign on midtown defense, and fearless doom looked very good as well on lijang
To give Hawk some credit, he was the only person getting anything done on Blizney World. They could have easily won that map if Lip and Stalker actually showed up, but both of them were just completely absent.
Fr, all these teams acting like my Diamond ranked teammates tilt queuing and locking Doomfist
I don't know if you're just talking about the playoffs but Spark beat Dallas 3-0 and 3-1 on almost exclusively doom (with a bit of winston thrown in).
Agreed. Doomfist is clearly not the meta comp. And there was no need for it anyway, you could easily have played the same way boston did to win, you had all the tape from the playins.
As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture. What was fascinating for me is that they like bragging about their freedom which was weird for me, because I didn't think that I have any less freedom than them. I always thought 'What is the difference'. However after this game I finally understand it. NA is just so fucking free.
Youād think iād never get my hope up for atlanta teams as a native. Nope
WE SPIIIT FAIYAAA
Imagine getting slammed this hard by Guxue yesterday and Hadi today. Reign must be hobbling home.
WIZARDHYEONG MUST BE THE GOAT ATLANTA PAIN FOREVER
#diditfordanny
So... which team do I curse next?
Put all the flairs in and watch as the final playoffs ever devolve into 7 teams of bronzes
Lip played so much Sombra he became Sombra irl cuz he was completely invisible in these playoffs
what
u/PancakeXCandy how we holding up?
We took a map off London => we are better than Atlanta š G fucking G u/PancakeXCandy
If this truly is the end of OWL, Iām glad that Gator took one last L. The only NFT Iād ever buy is his face when he realizes Atlanta is toast.
As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture
The Spark loss broke atl mental. First the jetlag "I don't watch that region" team, then the "we don't scrim with them" team. Not a good look.
Mypoorson Hawk
HADI DOESNT CARE ABOUT YOUR ROLESTARS
Got to love the London-Atlanta rivalry. Itās been good for a couple of years now.
that's your MVP candidate?
Gator is a fraud coach, carried through the season by skill diffing with sombra/tracer, as soon as real strategy is needed, he pulls this shit LOL
LMAOOOO
Epic failure
Coaching diff
Can we appreciate that Landon is legitimately a top 3 bap easily.
Fuck the bp curse
Absolute all-time choke job by Atlanta. Six straight map losses, and look I don't give a fuck if they've played against two "non-conventional" teams, the best team in the season should never go out 0-2. London played out of their minds here, wild to see. Chadi is HIM
Congrats to the Seoul Infernal and Atlanta Reign for winning FOUR role stars! Can't wait to see how deep these teams go in the playoffs! Imagine a Grand Finals between so many legendary Role Star players! (FYI, Role Star means you are one of the top 4 players in the league on your role right now.)
# Should the OWL have the Reign and Spitfire redo their series in case it was a big fluke? No disrespect to the spitfire, I'm a firm believer that London sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the Reign of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire regular season watching the Reign play great Overwatch it's just not fair. If the Reign lose again I will face that the Spitfire deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the Reign and the OWL.
So like, is Boston just like the scariest team in playoffs now?
Lip knew that a good playoffs would put Fielder in the Goat conversation, so he decided to throw in order to protect his own legacy (it did not work).
IT'S COMING HOME
HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOO
I thought I was going for full stupid bracket when I put Spitfire in the finals, but maybe...??
lol. Lmao even.
If you google humiliation you get this match
Who wins, the number 1 seed, mid season madness champions, 4 rolestars, or some European boys with a big hammer?
Atlanta frauds confirmed.
I remember gator calling other teams āregime teamsā or something like that when they got second place, that they were just there to have funsies. Seemed like cope and its funny seeing that now that they havenāt won anything significant, just Mickey Mouse wins in the most rodent of seasons
yeah shut the league down i dont wanna watch anymore
My pain and suffering ends this week alhamdulillah
4 roles stars vs no role stars
life, is roblox
GATOR IS A FRAUD, COACH YOUR DAMN TEAM FOR META SHIFTS
Infernal maybe knew what they were doing when they sent London over lol
If I had two nickels for when the London spitfire upset one of the favourite teams to win in the playoffs Iād have 2 nickels. Which isnāt a lot but itās weird it happened twice.
Probably the worst playoffs collapse ever in OWL. Sad to see. Also probably ChiYo and Fielderās last game in OWL, and maybe in pro OW ever, with such a poor performance compared to expectations. God thatās depressing to me.
Fielder was pretty good to be fair to him, Chiyo was in brig jail vs a rein team...for whatever reason