Hey there! I’m new here so I’ll introduce myself real quick. My name is Bryan Rockwood and I will be joining the Boston Sports Extra team to discuss the Uprising.
I am a software developer by trade, and a video game enthusiast on my time. I went to school in upstate New York with a dream to become a video game developer. A quick 4 years later I realized I wasn’t quite cut out for it. What I did find out though, was that I was quite good at discussing games instead of playing them. After a couple of articles on my personal site, I knew it was time to try something bigger. So here I am now, bringing in some fresh insights into OWL and the Boston Uprising.
As someone who grew up in Massachusetts, Boston sports are near and dear to my heart. When the news came out that Bob Kraft would be pouring money into a Boston OWL team, I couldn’t believe it. There would be a full fledged location-based esports league for a game that I love watching. Every other league that I have watched was named after an organization like TeamSoloMid or Fnatic. But now, I could add another Boston jersey to my collection to sit next to Gronk and Bergeron.
I was lucky enough to go to the Grand Finals last year at the Barclays Center. And let me tell you, that was the defining moment for me to really start investing myself into the Overwatch League. So I started to slowly do just that. I began playing more, started watching more highlights, and kept reading a lot of Reddit threads in hopes to improve as a player. I learned pretty quickly that I just didn’t have it to make it as a competitor. So I swapped to the next best thing and started writing about Overwatch.
I’m still very much a rookie on this front, but this is some of the most fun I have had doing “work” and I can’t wait to start a new journey here at BSE.
I currently live in New Jersey with my girlfriend and our puppy Maisie.
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