The sixth season of the Supervision League will be the biggest yet, literally. With surveillance 2 In its first full year and finally in the hands of players around the world, the League is making sweeping changes to keep up with this new state of affairs.
For starters, the Philadelphia Fusion and Paris Eternal are no more. Paris has been “relocated” to Las Vegas to become Vegas Eternal, and the Philadelphia Fusion has undergone a complete rebrand. moving to Seoul to become the Seoul Infernal. The Paris to Las Vegas pipeline had been on the cards (heh) for a while, since the Eternal Obligations The league’s sister team, the Paris Legion, changed their name to the Vegas Legion at the end of the 2022 season.
For Fusion, although the franchise is owned by Comcast Spectacor, most of the day-to-day operations are run by notable South Korean esports organization T1. All of Fusion’s players are Korean, and the team has been based in South Korea since the covid-19 pandemic forced the League to split into East and West regions. While it’s sad that Philadelphia and Paris no longer have their own teams, it makes sense that at least South Korea, being one of SupervisionThe largest markets in , other than China and the US, have more than one team to represent them. Europe also deserves more than one team, and definitely shouldn’t have lost one of their two for the sake of another American team.
However, the new format that the League is proposing could address part of this regional imbalance. Officially starting on March 23, the Supervision League is opening up to allow Contenders teams to compete against Supervision league teams. (In case you forgot or, more likely, never knew because Blizzard has been lousy with their tier 2 promotion, Contenders is like the baseball farm system, but for Supervision electronic sports.)
Starting in February, Contenders teams will play in tournaments to determine who will get the privilege of getting their ass kicked… sorry. — play – against Supervision league teams. Once again, the League will be split into the East and West regions, with both coming together for LAN tournaments in the summer and at the end of the season.
In the West, the League will kick off with a pro/amateur tournament pitting the Contenders teams against the OWL teams. After that tournament, normal play will resume with only the OWL teams. In the East, the League will be expanded to allow Contenders teams to play OWL teams throughout the year. This difference is probably because the four Chinese teams (Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Chengdu) cannot play legally. surveillance 2, or most other Blizzard games in the country, after the completion of an agreement with NetEase to operate.
In an email to the edge, Supervision League boss Sean Miller said of the situation in China: “The league is working directly with the teams to ensure minimal disruption to their preparation for the season.”
What that means is nobody knowsbut if my Dragons don’t play, I will be very upset.
I’m always excited for him Supervision League, doubly so now that Contenders players will get the exposure they’ve needed for a while. Hopefully these Season 6 changes will lead to a more equitable and sustainable League going forward.
Supervision League play begins on March 23.
