Shanghai Dragons: Overwatch League’s sole Chinese crew

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Shanghai Dragons crew data

• Owners: NetEase
• NetEase have been Blizzard’s publishing companion in China for a very long time, and are considered one of few Chinese gaming corporations that maintain a candle to the world-dominating Tencent. They distribute Blizzard’s video games within the nation, together with Overwatch, and certain have been first name for any Chinese Overwatch crew.
• Division: Pacific
• Social hyperlinks: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Weibo

Shanghai Dragons roster

The Dragons roster is a mixture of members from varied Chinese groups, the biggest group being from LGD Gaming. They’ve all had some success in Chinese and APAC regional tournaments, however it’s principally unknown how they are going to compete on the principle stage. Several members have been part of the Chinese nationwide squad that competed within the 2017 World Cup, falling to France within the spherical of eight.

• Lu ‘Diya’ Weida, DPS, China
• Fang ‘Undead’ Chao, DPS, China
• Liu ‘Xushu’ Junjie, Tank / Flex, China
• Jing ‘Roshan’ Wenhao, Tank, China
• Wu ‘MG’ Dongjian, Tank, China
• Cheng ‘Altering’ Yage, Support, China
• Chen ‘Fiveking’ Zhaoyu, Support, China
• Xu ‘Freefeel’ Peixuan, Support, China

There are but to be any bulletins concerning teaching workers for the Shanghai Dragons. LGD did have a number of teaching and analyst workers, however are additionally a bigger organisation which will have repurposed them quite than letting them transfer on to the Dragons.

Shanghai Dragons skins

The Dragons crew skins and jersey use a pink, black, and gold pallette. Here’s their jersey and t-shirt:

Like all crew jerseys and t-shirts, these are purchasable on the Blizzard gear store.

Shanghai Dragons schedule

Preseason

Heading into preseason it was mainly unknown how good the Chinese gamers have been versus counterparts from different areas. Their Zero-2 efficiency would recommend not nice – although a type of losses have been to super-favourites Seoul Dynasty. Their loss to Boston is much less excusable, and one they little question will need to rectify going into the principle occasion.

Season One – Stage One

Stage one title matches would be the following days on Sunday, February 9 at 09:00 or 11:00 CST – doubtless the later slot as that’s the objective of the Pacific Division. The Dynasty are very prone to be a part of these proceedings.