Blackwatch Report

We’re breaking down the quarters and semis for the KR Contenders Playoffs!!! Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW Contenders Viewer rewards adds skins and sprays ingame https://twitter.com/owpathtopro/status/1316773142707093504?s=20 News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Noukky moving up from Hurricane manager to General Manager of the London Spitfire https://twitter.com/Spitfire/status/1317156480802410496?s=20 News 2 - TR Naga moves over to Obey Alliance from Team Doge https://twitter.com/Raspberry_OW/status/1317102999999631361?s=20 News 3 - KW

We’re covering a few more Contenders KR matches and taking a look forward at the roster building and TwoWay player rules for 2021 Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Kraandrop(Tank) leaves Uprising Academy, Pizzademon joins for Flex Support spot https://www.over.gg/14559/uprising-academy-adds-pizzademon-parts-ways-with-kraandop News 2 - TR Malthel steps away from Odyssey and competing to work on himself https://twitter.com/MalthelOW/status/1314775979051675648?s=20 News 3 - KW

Team Doge disappears off the face of the earth, British Hurricane may get a big promotion and much more! Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW MonkeyBubble Banana Brawl announced with 2 Trials Spots up for grabs https://twitter.com/MonkeybubbleO/status/1311701515099406336?s=19 News 2 - TR EBC EMEA Major announced https://twitter.com/EBC_gg/status/1312724452250091520?s=20 News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW London Spitfire rumored to be calling up some or all of the British Hurricane in replacement for the current roster, lets go of all Korean coaching staff Sparkr the only player too young to play in OWL (18 in June 2021) https://esportsobserver.com/spitfire-releasing-roster-staff/ https://twitter.com/Spitfire/status/1311748980968169472?s=20 News 2 - TR Tier 2 Drama Alert Nation forced to change name after copyright issues https://twitter.com/T2Alert/status/1312433049301397506?s=20 News 3 - KW Imp announces his departure from Team Doge, and the team forfeits th...

We've got some big team news, roster moves, Trials results, we break down an interesting Twitlonger and preview our Contenders September picks. Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW Malibu departs from contenders https://twitter.com/Malibu_OW/status/1302793293470642176?s=20 cmTGTzCaCwbDujKP1mInKB-b6eTf-FJswVOWYAu8 News 2 - TR Triumph pulling OW Team, waiting to see how OW2 changes Tier 2 support https://twitter.com/TriumphGamingGG/status/1303000826718433280?s=19 mKacca7-FPNLpyzR4lMOqtyVYoDZA_-5SfpWQFcD News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW S9mm has been removed from Karasuno and is LFT https://twitter.com/sammmsux/status/1304472585812541446?s=20 News 2 - TR Lullsish and Haficool join Young and Beautiful https://twitter.com/YaB_OW/status/1300820979250335744?s=20 News 3 - KW Erki has joined SMC https://twitter.com/SMC_EU/status/1304117451655962624 News 4 - TR GetAmazed joines Drifters as player development coach https://twitter.com/DriftersQQ/status/...

We've got some awesome matches from August's Contenders Tournament. How right/wrong were our predictions? Find out now! Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW https://liquipedia.net/overwatch/EBC/2020/EMEA/Regionals/Atlantic News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Haficool returning to Overwatch currently LFT https://www.over.gg/14400/hafficool-returns-to-overwatch-for-one-last-push-for-owl News 2 - TR ImSpecial joins Avoided after being Tier 3 for 4 years this is his first move into Contenders https://www.over.gg/14401/imspecial-joins-avoided News 3 - KW Lep and Vigilante leave Triumph, Lep is taking a break for school while Vigilante is currently LFT https://www.over.gg/14417/lep-and-vigilante-part-ways-with-triumph News 4 - TR Revival add Kabe, Squid and Frostedd, Specs leaves the team https://twitter.com/TheRevivalGG/status/1300107150358839297?s=20 News 5 - KW News 4 - TR News 4 - TR News 5 - KW

We're joined again by Dan McHugh from the Path to Pro team We're discussing all of the new changes to the Path to Pro ecosystem, and looking ahead at what's to come in the future.

There's some spice in the scene this week, the ban hammer has been slammed and Trials results are in giving us a look at Contenders August. Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - TR Open Division signups are live and we have news that Monkey Bubble is looking for teams to Broadcast in Open Division this season. Will take place Aug 15/16 and 22/23 Seeding is based on average team SR from comp ( weird ) 4 teams will be promoted from open to trials this time around News 2 - KW LA Valiant announce the Feed Fest, OWL Token and Spray giveaways, community and design showcase https://twitter.com/LAValiant/status/1292483273382273024?s=19 News 3 - TR Mayhem Summer classic has been announced, 16 teams. $5,000 https://twitter.com/FLMayhem/status/1291804473212301312?s=20 Roster Moves News 1 - KW Uprising Academy add head coach LeRenegat https://twitter.com/UprisingAcad/status/1290309932273762306?s=20 News 2 - TR Seoul Dynasty add off-tank Toyou on a TwoWay Contract https:/...

We’re RIGHT in the middle of the action this week, covering the first day of Contenders July, previewing the rest and dropping our already boomed brackets Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW Schedule change - Moving recording to sunday evenings same time 6 eastern / 3 pacific News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Triumph Roster announced News 2 - TR Raspberry Racers become the Obey Alliance https://twitter.com/ObeyAlliance/status/1287779790662098950?s=20   News 3 - KW Kellex has joined the British Hurricane after retiring from Toronto Defiant https://twitter.com/Hurricane/status/1287779891732152330?s=20   News 4 - TR Saucy has joined the Atlanta Reign… from Atlanta Academy  https://twitter.com/ATLReign/status/1286723578268917761?s=20  

We're covering Third Impact's success in Contenders, the new reported format changes and much more!

We're talking Open Division Playoff Results, looking forward to Trials, Talking the Envy release, and probably covering Sinatraa moving to Valorant......because it literally just happened and we have so many feelings.

Topics   esports In perfect Blackwatch Report tradition, our predictions get rekt and we have some interesting Contenders changes to discuss. Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW Contenders Rule Changes https://www.over.gg/13331/sources-contenders-rules-adjust-trials-seeding-and-clarifies-hero-pools News 2 - TR Afreeca TV will be the new broadcast partner for Contenders Korea https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/fs7llz/afreeca_tv_signs_multiyear_deal_with/ News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Skyfoxes add Panker(T), Daans(T), Supreme(FS) and Haruhi(FS) https://www.over.gg/13398/skyfoxes-add-four News 2 - TR News 3 - KW News 4 - TR News 5 - KW News 6 - TR

RIP Atlanta Academy, Triumph plays Revival every week and MTL learns that former OWL pros are pretty good Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW Starting this week Contenders will be cast remotely due to the global Covid-19 pandemic https://twitter.com/owpathtopro/status/1242247071140212736?s=20   News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW MTL Rebellion pickups of Shockwave from SquareOne and Numlocked from Rikkitikkitavi Esports News 2 - TR ATL Academy announces their departure from the remainder of the Contenders season https://twitter.com/ATLAcademyOW/status/1241805562247106565?s=19 News 3 - KW Skyfoxes trade away Mikey to Noble in return from Panker (Noble then go on to win Trials, unlucky for Skyfoxes) https://twitter.com/NobleGG/status/1241771624153649157 News 4 - TR Chayne joins the Saints after being let go from MTL Rebellion https://twitter.com/Saints_OW/status/1241799735561850880?s=19 News 5 - KW Lucky Future picks up ...

We're reviewing the WILD week of Contenders matches we had, taking a look at some interesting news, and previewing the second week of Trials/The start of KR Contenders

We're reviewing the status of the Contenders seeding tournament in NA, EU and KR and presenting our official 2020 Season 1 Power Rankings for NA. 

We're reviewing the Mayhem Winter Classic, discussing all of the month's team and player moves and previewing the Contenders seeding tournament this next weekend!

We're digging into what made a ramen company become the biggest Tier 3 Tournament Organizer and Team Sponsor in the Overwatch scene with Tim the Founder and CEO of Vite Ramen. 

We're spending basically this whole episode talking about the Chipsa thing because it's recent and relevant Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Decod has been released from Triumph and will be joining Third Impact https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sr2t6m News 2 - TR iCy has announced his departure from Triumph, citing differences in philosophies. Will join Decod on Third Impact  https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sr2t60 News 3 - KW Heesu has been signed by the Philadelphia Fusion  https://twitter.com/Fusion/status/1199009855618473990?s=20   News 4 - TR Uprising Academy add Noxious to coaching staff https://www.over.gg/12674/uprising-academy-sign-noxious-as-assistant-coach News 5 - KW NYXL sign Mandu from O2Blast to round out the support line https://www.over.gg/12669/excelsior-sign-mandu News 6 - TR

We're checking in on all of the big Contenders call-ups to OWL and seeing how many players from our "Most Wanted" list got picked. Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - TR The Game Haus obtained a copy of the player hand book giving us seeding and scheduling for the 2020 lead in tournament  https://thegamehaus.com/overwatch/more-details-revealed-concerning-the-2020-overwatch-contenders-seeding-tournament/2019/11/10/

We are LIVE! Tonight is a special Blackwatch Profile with @djSchmultz Product Manager for Overwatch Esports. We're talking about his esports journey and the new @owpathtopro format.

We're looking into the best of Tier 2 and recommending our picks for OWL 2020 Scene news/HNP Community News News 1 - KW News 2 - TR News 3 - KW Roster Moves News 1 - KW Lowkey Esports drop entire OW roster https://www.over.gg/12196/lowkey-esports-drop-overwatch-roster News 2 - TR Wub has retired citing no longer liking the game and lack of tier 2 support https://www.over.gg/12192/wub-retires News 3 - KW Revival announce new roster  https://www.over.gg/12182/revival-announce-2020-roster   News 4 - TR F4ze(OT Skyfoxes) joins runaway https://www.over.gg/12178/runaway-add-f4ze