Episode 24 - Hanzo 2.0
Thu, Apr 26, 2018
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How much can your world change in just one week? Dallas has fired their head coach, Hanzo's scatter arrow is no more (at least on the PTR), Ben Brode has left Blizzard, and it turns out that Canadian bowling is nothing like it is in the states!
How much can your world change in just one week? Dallas has fired their head coach, Hanzo’s scatter arrow is no more (at least on the PTR), Ben Brode has left Blizzard, and it turns out that Canadian bowling is nothing like it is in the states!
In this episode, we discuss all of these massive revelations and more, like the whole slew of hero nerfs that just hit the PTR and the surprising league standings for not only stage 3, but the entire first OWL season.
Guess we really do have to see the world for what it could be, huh?
This episode was produced by Eric Saupe and Ashton Herrmann, and audio editing and mixing was performed by Ashton. You can find us at mekacast.com for show notes, blog posts, and links to our social media channels and Discord.
Show Notes
Introduction
News
- Not OW news, but Ben Brode has left Blizzard - Twitter
- Dallas releases head coach and Rascal - Twitter
- Effect apparently isn’t happy - Twitter
- MonteCristo says, If you want to attract good coaches, you can’t announce they have full control, see improving results, and then fire them a few weeks later
- Former Dallas Fuel Head Coach Kyky is in talks with the Houston Outlaws to join the team in an assistant coaching role, sources said. - Twitter
- xQc wants to start a pre-OWL talkshow - Twitter
- Overwatch Players Figure Out How To Play As Villains From New PVE Mode - Kotaku
- Uh, apparently Korean OWL casters won’t say OGE’s name - Compete
Patch Notes and Balance Changes
- PTR Patch Notes, April 18 - Blizzard
- New Escort Map: Rialto
- Nerfs: Brigitte, Genji, Junkrat, Tracer (apparently she was the last “vanilla”, Lucio,
- Buffs: Lucio
- Reworks: Hanzo
- Lunar Colony gets some major “unintended” changes - YouTube, Battle.net
- Last week’s Hanzo “buff” - Blizzard
Feature
- Stage 3, Week 2 reactions
- Ashton’s highlights
- Eric’s highlights
- Standings - Stage 3
- Uprising, Valiant, NYXL, Shock!
- Uprising are now ranked second for the season!
Concluding Remarks