The Overwatch League will add eight new groups in season two

The Overwatch League has been experiencing a fairly dramatic shake-up of late, with beloved gamers like Brandon “Seagull” Larned and Heo “Gambler” Jin-woo retiring to focus extra on streaming, and a few groups axing just about their whole rosters (pour one out for the Shanghai Dragons and the Florida Mayhem). But it’s not all loss – at present the League introduced six new groups that can be a part of the beforehand unveiled Atlanta and Guangzhou as new debuts in its second season.

Teams named for Chengdu, Hangzhou, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC, and Paris shall be added to the present lineup, bringing the overall variety of groups to 20. Personally, I discover it not possible that any of those new groups will unseat the Shanghai Dragons as my favorite, however I’ll reserve judgement till I see their participant acquisitions, logos, and most significantly, color schemes. The first crew to deck themselves out in pink like high Korean crew Runaway shall be a robust contender for my timeless assist.

The new groups will go some strategy to serving to the League develop into the “global” initiative that it’s at all times needed to be, which they confirmed off utilizing this barely weird map that doesn’t embrace the UK (residence to considered one of their current groups, the London Spitfire), New Zealand, Japan, Madagascar, or a bunch of different nations.

On the opposite hand, 11 of the 20 groups will nonetheless be US-based, with two extra in Canada. France’s addition would be the second in Europe, and China’s 4 groups will convey Asia to 5 in complete. South America remains to be unrepresented within the League, although Brazil is at present competing within the World Cup playoffs, and Africa remains to be but to have an Overwatch server in any respect, holding potential gamers again by growing their ping dramatically.

The excellent news is that it’s doubtless that near-doubling the variety of groups participating within the League will imply that every one has to play fewer games, going a way in the direction of tackling the burnout that many gamers suffered throughout season one.

These new groups will be capable to exhibit their abilities for the primary time when the Overwatch League returns in 2019.