The Overwatch League Grand Finals were a great spectacle wrapped around a less-than-exciting sweep. Read our report from the event.
was an “instant decision” during the post-game press conference made the audience erupt as he fought off the last of the Titans and secured the map.
But the match as a whole felt disappointing in its decisiveness. The Titans showed competitive glimpses, securing a small collection of victories, but they couldn’t translate them into the momentum swings needed to win games. It was hard to watch at times as the Shock completely out-strategized and outplayed their division rival. It was even harder to see the Titans visibly angry at their performance and unable to come up with answers for the shellacking after the match.
The initial, uncomfortable silence of the brooding squad when asked if there were any moments they were proud of during the match spoke more than any statement could. And, in some way, it spoke to how the “ultimate rivalry” storyline surrounding the match fell so flat. There were plenty of moments from the Titans that deserved recognition, but none of that matters when looking at the whole.Underwhelming championship matches obviously aren’t foreign to sports.
It’s not the league’s fault. Everything fell right for them this year. The PR nightmares diminished heavily. Its homestead weekends proved that fan support for live events exists far beyond just the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles. Records were set, superstars were created and the league got the kind of worst-to-first story that sports fans devour—its first, in fact.
Fans will still be willing to come. The pomp will still be overblown and pleasing to the senses. The cosplayers will still be an impressive spark of joy. But the league needs a championship match that lives up to that level of celebration. It needs its own Super Bowl III, when Joe Namath drove the Jets to victory over the heavily favored Colts. Until then, congratulations to the San Francisco Shock or, as team owner Andy Miller dubbed them, the “baby-faced killers.”, games, comics and TV.
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