The Overwatch League casters, hosts and gamers alike are all holed up at house in the interim, with matches taking place online whereas the world waits for the Covid-19 pandemic to run its course. It looks as if cabin fever is beginning to set in although, as this week they’ve adopted a cat into the analyst’s panel to determine on the hero swimming pools.
It went about in addition to you may think about.
Guest cat Nori “The Wizard” was introduced onto host Soe Gschwind’s video throughout the newest Watchpoint episode, to assist them determine who to ban. Soe laid out a bunch of tickets with characters on for Nori to select from, and the primary one he touched can be unplayable this week.
This was carried out in three (effectively, 4, as you’ll see in a bit) phases, with tickets individually laid out for tank, help and injury heroes. Nori had to decide on one tank, one help, and a pair of injury to eliminate this week, with fashionable heroes getting extra tickets if they’d a excessive pick-rate, to make it extra possible they’d get banned.
Nori determined the tank ban by merely strolling over Zarya’s card. He confirmed his butt to the digicam and every part, clearly telling us what he considered her.
Next was the helps. There was a bit extra consideration right here, Nori had a radical search for and down earlier than giving certainly one of Brigitte’s tickets a great sniff. She was clearly proper out.
McCree was the cat’s subsequent homicide, a lot to the disapointment of the panel. But after a quick second doubting Nori’s capabilities, he selected Mei to banned subsequent, utterly redeeming himself. The eruption of cheers despatched the animal sprinting off, for his work there was carried out.
Since hero pools were first put in place earlier this year, Mei hasn’t been banned as soon as. Not as soon as! Yet right here we’ve got our hero and saviour, Nori, giving followers and analysts alike what they need.
Unfortunately on the finish of all that, as a consequence of some “technical difficulties” (learn: they by chance forgot to print off tickets for Sigma), the tank bans needed to be redrawn. Nori was nonetheless nowhere to be seen nonetheless, however backup cat, Miso, confirmed up simply in time to pick Hammond because the true tank ban for this week.
So there you’ve gotten it – because of Nori and Miso, OWL’s week 9 hero bans are Hammond, Brigitte, McCree and Mei.
The hero swimming pools are normally chosen at random, however by people, that are rather more boring than cats. Introducing some lovable kitties into the method was a enjoyable method to shake it up a little bit bit whereas the analysts are all caught at house. I positive loved it anyway, I’d most likely watch Overwatch League extra typically if extra cute animals had been concerned.
If you wish to catch any of OWL’s on-line matches within the coming weeks, they’re streamed on the weekends over on the OWL YouTube channel.
