'Overwatch' League Buy-Ins Include Comcast Spectacor, Oil Magnate, Others

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The company also revealed that the preseason will start on December 6, with the first legitimate season kicking off on January 10, 2018 and running until June, with championship playoffs and finals taking place in July.

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[0InVader0]

It's cool for Blizz that all these corps are buying in, but I don't really see OW League succeeding as a whole in it's current state, mainly because the whole format is stupidly American. Teams outside the US aren't really considering buying in.

And it shows. So far only 1 team bought a spot in Europe (Cloud9), even though Europe is arguably the strongest when it comes to fps games. Even in Cloud9's case, the teams' and players' origins lie the US.

In Korea, there's only 1 team for Soul, even though most of the e-sports in Korea are concentrated in that capital city, mostly because of the underlying infrastructure present for it. That city needs several teams.

 

[brandon.baecker]

Given there's only the one arena, it's probably not feasible for a lot of the teams to travel to LA constantly for matches. That being said, I don't see why it couldn't be successful, despite eSports still not being mainstream. There are many regional based sports leagues that do just fine in their respective countries, e.g. NBA, NFL, EPL, etc.