In case you missed it, the Overwatch League has a development league akin to baseball's Triple-A and basketball's G-League. It's called "Overwatch Contenders" and the Boston Uprising's team, the Uprising Academy, are having one of their best season's to date.
This past weekend showcased some truly incredible Overwatch play. Sadly for us, none of that came from Boston. Against Guangzhou, Boston looked like an academy team trying to figure out how to simply keep up. Then against Chengdu, Boston got sucked into the chaos where the Hunters thrive.
Sadly Stage 3 was pretty awful for the Uprising. Games weren't close at the start of the stage and everything looked uncharacteristic of Boston. Thankfully this nightmare is over, and we can look back and use this experience as a learning opportunity. Just like any good math class, you need some numbers in order to learn!
Stage 4 is finally here and Boston has a small, but very real chance of sneaking into the season playoffs. Boston is one of 6 teams that are 8-13 or 9-12 sitting on that 12th place bubble. Then there are teams like Dallas, Philly, and Shanghai that are comfortable now but must have a successful Stage 4 to ensure their playoff birth.
If there’s one constant with Boston Sports throughout the years, it’s that you can never count out the Bean Town boys. The Red Sox did it in 2004 when they came back from an 0-3 deficit to win the ALCS. In 2011 the Bruins roared back after going down 2 games to 0, by scoring 8 goals and winning at home. Then there’s my personal favorite, the Patriots coming back from a 28-3 deficit against the Falcons in 2017.
This week we look at Philly's Sado, and how Boston can use his aggressive Rein play against himself.
Welcome back to Team Fight Tuesdays here at BSE. What a weekend for the Uprising huh? Sure they got smacked by San Francisco but who really had the Uprising winning that match anyway?
Welcome back to Team Fight Tuesday! Even though the weekend as a whole was devastating for Boston, we finally got some winning team fights to discuss! For this week, we are going to talk about the Uprising's use of the new-hotness going around both OWL and contenders - the comp known as "Hackfist".
For this weeks player preview, I originally wanted to discuss Philadelphia Fusion’s star DPS Carpe. I wanted to talk about how the transition from a DPS meta to the GOATS meta has drastically affected Carpe’s play making ability. But then Houston beat San Francisco so I threw all that nonsense out to discuss Danteh and his Sombra.
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