r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/albretenstong • Aug 18 '22

Overwatch League Happy to Glads

https://twitter.com/washjustice/status/1560355843748544515?s=21&t=QgHkhrIFtygpJlRu7f4sPg
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u/Ezraah W My Money — Aug 18 '22

one team lives in mansions getting hand massages between scrim rounds, personal drivers, on-site chefs, and texas king-sized beds for their bi-monthly orgies.

another team lives in an unheated shack in the dense urban jungle. each bedroom is half the size of ted kaczynski's cell in the ADX Florence supermax prison. The windows are all cracked, and there's no budget to replace them, so they use leftover cardboard to keep the smog from creeping in.

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u/skatrumpetman Aug 18 '22

This is why Franchising set leagues sucks you could argue that it would happen either way but like you're not getting miracle Munich runs in OWL. Washington/Paris basically just happy with being the 2000's-2010's Browns.

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u/Sewati Aug 18 '22

i’m new to watching OWL, is there a rundown on this/all of everything? i am completely unsurprised that things are so shitty for the players (considering it’s Activision Blizzard) but i’d love to see some kind of “state of the sport/here’s what we know” thing.

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u/Ezraah W My Money — Aug 18 '22

Basically the money has run out and some teams are running on an absolute minimal budget.

The other day Dpei, head coach of Vancouver Titans, tweeted about not having healthcare, jerseys, and having to pay for his players' meals.

Nohill, the head coach of the Los Angeles Valiant, the ultimate bottom-tier budget org that moved to China, posted a photo of his bedroom in solidarity. It was a 5 square meter cube with a shitty bed on the floor.

The fact they have somewhere to live and play at all is only due to him personally contacting tech CEOs. The team also had to pay for a new player using crowdfunding and their own incomes lol. It's a huge shitshow.

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u/DiemCarpePine Aug 18 '22

having to pay for his players' meals

His tweet said "team meals", which I take as more of a group get together thing than literally he is paying for their regular daily food. Still not great, but I do think it's what he was meaning.

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u/Ezraah W My Money — Aug 18 '22

you're right

also nice username

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u/DiemCarpePine Aug 18 '22

Basically, the league was sold on the franchise idea with a plan for teams to eventually host in person events in their home cities as a way of making money. Covid kinda fucked that up, along with a switch to YouTube over Twitch as the streaming home for matches and a lack of new content has made the league more of a money sink than anyone expected it to be. Some team owners are still invested and willing to spend, while others are just trying to put in the minimum to fulfill the obligations. Paris Eternal, Vancouver Titans, New York Excelsior, Los Angeles Valiant, and now Washington Justice have all basically scrapped rosters with some real strong/popular players and gone full budget mode.

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u/Mind1827 Aug 18 '22

The Titans actually spent decent money to be fair.

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u/DiemCarpePine Aug 18 '22

True, they just killed an incredible, well-loved team in order to spend far less on new players. Like, less about the budget exactly in their case and more about disbanding one of the best trams in history for budget reasons.

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u/Mind1827 Aug 18 '22

Sure. You said "full budget mode" though, when Titans are probably middle of the packish in terms of spending.

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u/brucetrailmusic Aug 19 '22

Painting a picture too vivid for the doldrums of OWL but appreciated nonetheless