The Overwatch League’s inaugural season victors, the London Spitfire, might need performed all of their principal season matches at Blizzard’s area in Burbank, California, however they nonetheless courted a neighborhood following, together with adopting the quintessentially English ‘It’s coming dwelling’ messaging earlier than profitable the finals. Now, the unspecified ‘it’ will probably be ‘them,’ as they’ll be visiting London for 2 weeks this October.
The Houston Outlaws will probably be making an look too, as a part of the ‘Gilded Gala’ that may see the 2 groups face off in a present match. It appears as if it’ll be extra of a fun-focused, All-Star-esque occasion than a real rivalry, although, with the Spitfire website explaining: “The event will feature three to four star players of the Spitfire and Outlaws engaging in unique and fun game modes, such as 1v1s, mystery heroes, fans playing with the pros, and more.”
The Spitfire announced that they wanted to visit London as a celebration for his or her season one victory, and it’s prone to be the primary time that London-based Spitfire followers have had an opportunity to look at the group in motion anyplace aside from Twitch.
Though the League needs to maneuver to a travelling format that may see groups play in their very own cities by 2020, the small print stay hazy. For now, occasions like these are being organised by the groups themselves. In this case, the efforts are led by the Spitfire’s basic supervisor, Susie Kim, who’s additionally looking into options for bringing the membership elsewhere within the UK to fulfill extra followers.
Other groups have been organising related occasions in the course of the downtime of the low season, just like the California Cup. That’s between the San Francisco Shock and the Los Angeles Valiant, (and bizarrely not involving the opposite Los Angeles group, the Gladiators).
Tickets for the present match, which can happen on the Olympic Park, are available for sale now, although I believe they might be offered out very quickly. The Outlaw’s leg of the Gilded Gala will happen in January 2019.
