Blackwatch Report

In our longest episode ever, Thornrayne and Kyle breakdown the semis and finals for EU and NA as well as the EU vs NA Atlantic Showmatch.  News 1Fusion University’s “FU” Jerseys banned for being “too spicy” (Blizz says was instead about FU not submitting they jerseys in time)https://twitter.com/FusionUni/status/995265778097311744News 2Bigbox and Hyeonu have left Meta Gaminghttps://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/8jbhwk/bigbox_and_hyeonu_released_from_metha_athena_and/News 3Fusion University teams up with JULIAN KRINSKY ESPORTS CAMP for a summer camp program letting camp goers train and play alongside the Fusion University membershttps://gaminglyfe.com/jkcp-esports-becomes-official-training-camp-for-philadelphia-fusion-university/News 4Aero joins Dallas Fuel after leaving Fusion Uni last weekhttps://twitter.com/DallasFuel/status/996523654602285056News 5Australian finals will be played May 19th with the semi finals being played earlier the same day. You will be abl to watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/overwatchcontenders starting at 11pm est friday the 18th.Darksided vs Sydney Dropbears - Master Minds GC vs Blank Bluehttps://liquipedia.net/overwatch/Overwatch_Contenders/2018/Season_1/Australia

News 1Fusion University vs x-6 Gaming and O2 Ardeont vs Lucky Future Zenith was announced and we will cover it later in our main disscusionhttps://twitter.com/tisrobin311/status/992682250096406528News 2A new system to seperate teams in the open division has been added to season 2, Opponents Match Win %Opponents’ Match Win Percentage (OMW%)A team’s OMW% is the average match win percentage of each of their opponents at the end of the season.- Byes do not count towards OMW%.- Opponents with an OMW% of below 33% count as 33%.- Teams that have an OMW% difference of 2.0% or less are considered to be tied.Example: “Team Murlocs” plays a five-round Swiss tournament and goes 4-1 in their five matches. Their five opponents ended with records of 0-5, 2-3, 3-2, 3-2, and 4-1. Their OMW% is thus (.33[raised from 0] + .4 + .6 + .6 + .8 ) / 5 = 54.6%. If “Team Charsi” also went 4-1 but had an OMW% of 48%, they would be ranked lower than “Team Murlocs.” If “Team Kerrigan” went 4-1 and had an OMW% of 53%, they would be considered tied to “Team Charsi” since 53% and 54.6% are within 2% of each other, thus team ranking would continue below.News 3Envy formerly of the LA Valiant has joined Meta Bellumhttps://mobile.twitter.com/TheMetaGaming/status/993491100160606209News 4Moopey has been released by the Mayhem Academy and is currently looking for a contenders teamhttps://twitter.com/moop3y/status/993329381316677632?s=19 News 5Aero the head coach for Fusion University has been offered a position that has pulled him away from the organization.https://twitter.com/FusionUni/status/993631739384811521News 7NineK former head coach of NRG Esports get the call to Overwatch League as an assistant coach for San Francisco Shockhttps://shock.overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/crusty-joins-sf-shock-head-coach

In the 3rd installment of our interview series, Thornrayne and Kyle chat with the Assistant Coach from one of the top 4 Contenders NA teams, EnVision. We talk to Chu about his history as a coach, his history with EnVision and where he thinks the team will go in the future.

In the second week of NA contenders break, Thornrayne and Kyle break down the Korean Semi and Quarterfinals games which almost all went the distance and also pose the Community Intel Question: Will Contenders players in the major countries have a chance for Overwatch World Cup, if so, who? News 1 Mirage roster announcement includes some familiar names. Players : @Jer_OW @HaKuOW @j3sus_tv @redstart_OW @Chocochoco0225 @OfficialProGi Staff : @Quinze_OW @BriexoxTv https://twitter.com/MirageSportE/status/991069872011571201?s=19 News 2 Popifresh was given the go ahead to search for a new team by the Copenhagen Flames https://twitter.com/PoPiFresHOW/status/991038408838598656?s=19 News 3 'OneFact' and 'QOQ' were released from from MVP Space. https://t.co/f7RpxnyTgc News 4 yeHHH formerly of NRG Esports was signed to Florida Mayhem as an assistant coach/analyst https://www.over.gg/8152/florida-mayhem-bolster-coaching-staff-with-yehhh News 5 World Cup Groups have been announced and Voting for the Team Committees are live for each region. Blevins from Highnoon Podcast is running for a committee spot. Aero from FusionUni gets BWR bump as well. https://worldcup.playoverwatch.com/en-us/endorse/ef616a3ebe0f0a86a71a7ccf

We finally have some time to check out non-NA contenders games. We bring you details on the Element Mystic upset, the EU quarterfinals and share the latest Fractal drama. News 1 Aether formerly of Bye Week has found a new team in Flow (currently 2-0), Full team roster announced. [MT] xavier [OT] iCy [DPS] Peebimitsu [DPS] Aether [Support] Mac [Support] PunkyYager https://twitter.com/FlowOW_/status/986992205960134657 News 2 Grizzlys lose three, Blam(Flex Support), Dahun(Main Support) and Sword one of their coaches https://twitter.com/GrizzlysGG/status/988513323791548416 News 3 Contenders Finals Details Announced (May 12th& 13th), Poland (in some sick space dome things) https://overwatchleague.com/en-gb/news/21702091/overwatch-contenders-europe-and-north-america-finals-live-in-poland News 4 After 1 week of Open Division 4 teams have already dropped out of the tournament. News 5 Babybay and LegitRC hosting grudge match between Kungarna and GOATS (ex Fractal) this Saturday and Sunday. (% of donos go to to winner) https://twitter.com/KING_BABYBAY/status/988930242625486848

Description (with news links now): Quarterfinals are over for NA Contenders but not without some surprises. Kyle and Thornrayne cover the matches, review EU quarterfinals and present the Community Intel question of the week: Using only players from Contenders who would you pick to build an expansion teams 6 man starting line up? Submit your responce via Twitter, the HNP Discord or email to [email protected] News Links: News 1 No Clout has announced its new roster https://twitter.com/NoCloutgg/status/985315357551398913 News 2 EU Playoffs start Sunday April 22nd at 10 am EST and Monday the 23rd at 12 pm EST https://www.over.gg/event/215/overwatch-contenders-2018-season-1-europe News 3 Toronto Esports power goes out 2hrs before their match, played from internet cafe https://twitter.com/Renanthera/status/985690477268627456?s=19 News 4 Kang “Vol’Jin” Min-Gyu of Meta Gaming has signed with the Dallas Fuel as an assistant coach. https://fuel.overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/dallas-fuel-coaching-staff-and-roster-changes News 5 Broadcast.gg will be casting Open Division matches for the upcoming season, team signups are open now to have your matches covered. https://twitter.com/BroadcastDotGG/status/984873639186067457 News 5 Open Division matches for round 1 and 2 (Sat 4/21 and Sun 4/22) have been released, we start the season off with 665 teams giving us 332 matches a day with 1 team getting a bye. https://battlefy.com/overwatch-open-division-north-america/2018-overwatch-open-division-season-2-north-america/5ab2ee031241030350c7cb1e/stage/5ad6ccf1b7d0b303657d5f93/bracket/2 News 6 Mayhem Academy loses its analyst Third, he left on good terms do to personal reasons and scheduling issues https://twitter.com/ThirdOW/status/985695115892219904

This week on the Blackwatch Report, Kyle and Thornrayne report on the last week of Contenders group stages, who made it to playoffs and who gets kicked down to Trials and break down our NA playoffs brackets.

In episode 9, Kyle and Thornrayne explore the latest roster moves, this past week's contenders matchups, rank the best duos and make predictions for the final week of matches. Note: there was an issue with Thornrayne being muted so there are some skips in this episode over the gaps in silence. Our apologies, we're going to make sure it doesn't happen in the future

This last week was Flow3r's first Contenders game and things didn't go so well, find out why that happened as well as the latest player transfers and game breakdowns on the latest Blackwatch Report

We get a big announcement for XL2, Bye Week's roster is a liquid entity and Thornrayne is less wrong than Kyle this week on The Blackwatch Report.