47 - Crushing Your Dreams

We're talking about a BUNCH of new Academy teams on the horizon, the NEXT Cup and Open Division Finals as well as a rather interesting Main Discussion Topic.

Scene news/HNP Community News

News 1 - KW All three of the Chinese expansion teams have acquired Academy Teams for the upcoming Contenders Seasons https://twitter.com/OWBeacon/status/1089374721513185280 News 2 - TR Paris Eternal GM Mex announced the organization is working on building an academy team for the 2019 Contenders seasons https://www.over.gg/10390/paris-eternal-to-create-academy-team News 3 - KW Jayne donated $1800 to the winners of the NA open Division

Roster Moves

News 1 - KW XL2 Strikes Again!! Only Jer is left on the team after TiZi and Woohyal announces they are LFT https://www.over.gg/10354/tizi-no-longer-with-xl2-academy News 2 - TR Changdu Hunters have announced it has teamed up with LinGan Esports as its academy team and will operate under the new name LGE.Huya https://twitter.com/sgbros1_OW/status/1089357685042999297 News 3 - KW HongKong Attitude has announced all of it players have been transferred to an Overwatch League organization, with all teams filled this could only mean they will be 1 of the 2 remaining Chinese Academy Teams https://www.over.gg/10353/hong-kong-attitude-picked-up-by-academy-team News 4 - TR To keep the team together HongKong Attitude transferred the team with no transfer fees https://twitter.com/haloofthoughts/status/1089245309652348928 News 5 - KW Both Main tank players Tonic and Networkz for Young and Beautiful have left the team https://www.over.gg/10348/tonic-and-networkz-leave-young-and-beautiful News 6 - TR Ttuba, the last remaining member of the season 3 roster for MVP Space has left the team leaving the team at 5 players Yang "HengGi" Chan-hee (양찬희) (DPS) Kim "Jesp3r" Hyun-wook (김현욱) (Off Tank) Seo "DokDo" Jun-won (서준원) (Tank) Oh "Finn" Se-jin (오세진) (Flex Support) Ko "FRoPPy" Geon-Ju (고건주) (Support) https://www.over.gg/10351/ttuba-leaves-mvp-space News 7 - KW Blossom have announced its new roster going into the 2019 seasons Park "ILLICIT" Jae-min (DPS) Lee "LIP" Jae-won (DPS) Yoon "Swan" Ye-sang (윤예상) (DPS)(NEW) Myeong "Yaho" Hyun-ho (맹현호)(NEW) Shin "SeeYA" Dong-hoon (Flex) Shin "Dotori" Hyun-jong (Support) Jang "Swoon" Sung-won (Support) Park "Spawn" Shi-han (Head coach) Lee "Syeong" Si-young (Coach) Son "Kong" Jun-young (손준영) (Coach)(NEW) https://www.over.gg/10387/blossom-reveals-new-roster News 8 - TR Team Griffin announce its new roster heading into 2019 Choi "choisehwan" Se-hwan (DPS) Choi "Mer1t" Tae-min (DPS) An "Selly" Jeong-hwan (DPS) Cho "Clelstyn" Gun-hee (Off-tank) Shin "Kalios" Woo-yeol (신우열) (Off-tank) Lee "eVo" Yu-seok (이유석) (Tank) Choi "True" Yun-soo (Tank) Lee "Agatha" Jung-soo (Flex Support) Han "ChiYo" Hyeon-syuk (한현석) (Support) Lim "Costos" Min-taek (Support) Kim "Shine" Min-hyuk (Support) https://www.over.gg/10388/griffin-adds-three News 9 - KW Kolero has officialy announced his retirement from competitive Overwatch and departure from Based tryhards https://www.over.gg/10389/kolero-retires