#kongdoo panthera

[txttletale]

tying an esports team to a region is a great idea for more reasons than just the blind aping of trad sports that i can only assume was the reasoning behind the OWL's decision. like, look at what happens at international esports events: korean, chinese, european, and north american fans will all rally behind whatever teams from their regions end up making it through the brackets, to say nothing of how fervently vietnamese, latam, etc. fans will cheer when their regions so much as win a match.

having a team represent a place makes for fantastic marketing and provides pre-packaged narratives: new york and philadelphia, liverpool and manchester, city-based rivalries are as old as sports is. the reason the overwatch league fucked this easy win up is because they, very foolishly, declined to do what every other esport ever has done and institute a system of regional leagues, instead wanting to boast a "global league". but apart from the obvious logistical issues that the morons who came up with should thank their lucky stars COVID obviated immediately, this undercuts all the aforementioned benefits of tying your teams to cities!

a san francisco-LA match has immediate meaning to anyone, whether they're familiar with the esports histories and players of the teams or not. a shanghai-atlanta match, or a london-seoul match, or a vancouver-florida(?! not a city lads) match all mean basically nothing. plus, the way the OWL did it, making orgs set up teams with no branding connection to themselves, also made it hard to get invested in preexisting esports narratives: the lunatic-hai kongdoo panthera rivalry faded into memory when those teams became the 'seoul dynasty' and 'london spitfire', CoD fans eager for the envy/optic rivlary had to overcome the barrier to investment that was those teams being the 'houston outlaws' and 'dallas fuel'. actiblizz's own call of duty league would later rectify this awful decision by letting teams go by names like 'atlanta faze' and 'optic texas', but by then the OWL's fate was already sealed.

so what i'm saying is that a franchised, city-based model could have worked for an esports league, if it hadn't been for the boneheaded, institutionbally embedded blizzard mantra that they're the specialest boys alive and need to reinvent the wheel every time they do anything at all

overwatch leaguye was doomed from the start but NOT because of the idea of city baesd teams as many people claim that idea could have been great it was just the execution of it within the owl framework that was unworkable

[nennechus]

birdring for anon

[shaztracer]

[meme-dreams]

london spitfire bring rascal back i am begging you

[pdomjnake]

New episode of GTFO just dropped, check it out!

Today’s episode is a sort of response to some of the comments made by fans as well as community members such as Mykl and Jayne about the addition of more Korean players and full Korean teams. (Spoiler alert, I don’t share their views on the subject.)

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[scllysdana]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

[rccat]

contenders s2 finals anyone

[mrknightow]

Rumors confirmed. Rascal leaves London Spitfire and joins Dallas Fuel. Rascal will be eligible for play starting today vs Shanghai. https://twitter.com/DallasFuel/status/966394744409505793?s=20

[bisschu]

Can someone who was a fan of KDP/C9K in 2017 please tell me what Fissure’s role was when he was on that team?

Based on these pictures, it seems that he’s transitioning to the position of main shotcaller for the GLAD. I don’t remember what his original role was in KDP but people have told me that he was the shotcaller back then (which I thought the supports, mainly wakawaka, of KDP were the shotcallers?).

[littlecafe]

meet birdring; kongdoo panthera dps; twitter, twitch    +bonus:

[teamkongdoo-blog]

ㅋㅋ

[nennechus]

throwback ↬ lunatic hai v. kongdoo panthera (april 28, 2017)

[owldesk]

it’s been so long since apex my nostalgia is slowly leaking into owl s1.... i just long for the past....... the last vestige of apex is officially dead as of today and i’m in mourning

[smoky-denim]

Birdring is cute and Jehong is cursed end of discussion

[daebakowl]

I MISS THOSE TWO TOGETHER

nemesis

[losangelesvalorant]

old/historic matches to watch while owl is cancelled

here’s a list (with links to the vods!) of a bunch of important/my favorite matches i made for lucy and i to watch while everything is shut down, check a few of em out if ur also bored and pining for owl. not a comprehensive list, just the ones i remember being cool and also a few random ones thrown in for context and nostalgia. bolded are must watch matches, bolded and italicized are REALLY must watch matches. ive also spoiler marked concurrent matches. feel free to add on as well!

2016

[EnVyUs vs. Rogue semifinal at atlantic showdown]

[FaZe clan vs. Cloud9 final during august monthly melee]

Apex Season 1

[reunited vs. runaway]

[rogue vs envyus]

[kongdoo panthera vs. LW Blue]

[Kongdoo uncia vs. NRG]

[Conbox vs. lunatic-hai] 

world cup 2016

[Australia vs. South Korea]

[russia vs france]

[US vs South Korea]

[misfits vs fanatics grand final at dreamhack]

Intel Extreme Masters

Afreeca Freecs Blue vs. Lunatic Hai - semifinal

[Set 1] 

[Set 2 ]

[Set 3] 

[Set 4] 

LW red vs [SPOILER] - final

[set 1]

[set 2]

[set 3]

[set 4]

[immortals vs c9 during monthly melee december]

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2017

Apex season 2

[BK Stars vs envyus]

[LW Blue vs. misfits]

[lunatic hai vs runaway]

[and bonus clip which isnt in the vod]

[Afreeca freecs blue vs. c9]

[Kongdoo Panthera vs LW Blue - quarterfinal]

[Runaway vs. [SPOILER] - semifinal]

[meta athena vs lunatic hai - semifinal]

[[SPOILER] vs [SPOILER] - GRAND FINAL] please watch this match its so good

[immortals vs LG Evil - carbon series grand final]

Rivalcade

[Selfless vs. BK Stars]

[Splyce vs. envision eSports]

apex season 3

[Lunatic hai vs. mighty AOD]

[runaway vs Afreeca freecs blue]

[Conbox spirit vs. flash lux]

[meta athena vs. bk stars]

[lunatic hai vs lw blue]

[[SPOILER] vs [SPOILER] - GRAND FINAL] imo the best match of pro ovw ever played

contenders season 0 EU

Laser kittenz vs eunited

[set 1]

[set 2]

[set 3]

[set 4]

contenders season 0 NA

couldnt find vods of any of their matches but if u can find any watch fnrgfe, kungarna, and lg evil’s matches

Contenders season 1 EU

Misfits vs. c9 - semifinal

[part 1]

[part 2]

contenders season 1 NA

faze vs envision - semifinal

[part 1]

[part 2]

world cup 2017

[UK vs taiwan - couldnt find the full match, only highlights]

[south korea vs austria] the only real must watch map of this is volskaya but please watch it its SO fucking funny

[south korea vs canada - final]

apex season 4

im gonna be real i only watched the final of this season so i cant rec specific matches but ive heard it was pretty good

[[SPOILER] vs. [SPOILER] - GRAND FINAL] the second best match of ovw ever played

[Lunatic Hai vs. Miraculous Youngster - OGN SuperCup] couldnt find an english vod but this match was SO good

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2018

i was super tapped out for like all of 2018 so im probably forgetting a ton of good matches, pls add the ones i missed!

OWL stage 1

[sf shock vs valiant]

[dynasty vs fuel]

[nyxl vs outlaws]

[mayhem vs spitfire]

[dragons vs fusion]

[nyxl vs dynasty]

[outlaws vs spitfire - semifinal]

[nyxl vs [SPOILER] - final]

OWL stage 2

[valiant vs mayhem]

[outlaws vs gladiators]

[shock vs outlaws]

[fusion vs valiant]

[nyxl vs fuel]

[dynasty vs dragons]

[fusion vs spitfire - semifinal]

[nyxl vs [SPOILER] - final]

contenders korea 2018 - season 2

Runaway vs. Kongdoo Panthera - final

[part 1]

[part 2]

OWL stage 3

[shock vs gladiators]

[uprising vs nyxl]

[dragons vs fusion]

[fuel vs mayhem]

[spitfire vs dynasty]

[uprising vs spitfire]

[uprising vs nyxl - final]

OWL stage 4

[nyxl vs valiant]

[uprising vs fusion]

[fuel vs spitfire]

[nyxl vs shock]

[valiant vs gladiators - semifinal]

[fuel vs nyxl - semifinal]

[[SPOILER] vs [SPOILER] - final]

OWL Playoffs

the playoffs format in s1 was super fucking confusing i dont understand how it worked honestly. [heres where u can find all the vods] just watch all of the matches tbh

[OWL All-Stars Weekend - link to all the vods]

world cup 2018

[UK vs. USA - quarterfinal]

[South Korea vs China - final]

[[SPOILER] vs. canada - bronze medal match]

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2019

OWL stage 1

[fusion vs spitfire]

[spitfire vs justice]

[defiant vs reign]

[spark vs gladiators]

[dragons vs uprising]

[valiant vs outlaws]

[hunters vs titans]

[mayhem vs justice]

[dynasty vs nyxl - quarterfinals]

[shock vs titans - final]

contenders NA 2019 - season 1

[FUni vs mayhem academy]

OWL stage 2

[reign vs nyxl I]

[reign vs nyxl II]

[hunters vs spitfire]

[outlaws vs fuel]

[dragons vs shock]

[valiant vs dynasty]

[justice vs uprising]

[dragons vs shock - quarterfinal(?)]

[titans vs [SPOILER] - final]

[OWL all-stars weekend vods]

OWL stage 3

[outlaws vs nyxl]

[outlaws vs shock]

[hunters vs shock]

[valiant vs titans]

[fusion vs dragons]

[dragons vs nyxl - quarterfinal]

[titans vs [SPOILER] - semifinal]

[shock vs [SPOILER] - final]

OWL stage 4

[mayhem vs spitfire]

[justice vs titans]

[nyxl vs hunters]

[nyxl vs titans]

[charge vs fuel but like only for the unkoe pause]

overwatch contenders EU 2019 - season 2

Clockwork vendetta vs HSL - semifinal

[part 1]

[part 2]

OWL playoffs

[fusion vs dragons]

[spitfire vs [SPOILER]]

[charge vs dynasty]

[shock vs reign]

[spark vs [SPOILER] - loser’s bracket]

[winners’ bracket final]

[losers’ bracket final]

[GRAND FINAL]

the gauntlet

[talon vs element mystic]

[runaway vs element mystic] the match is somewhere in the middle of the vod

[ATL academy vs. [SPOILER]] again somewhere in the middle of the vod

world cup 2019

[france vs south korea group stages] the vod is dead but theres at least highlights

[france vs china - semifinal]

[usa vs south korea - semifinal]