It was an impressive run for the Hunters. From highly doubted underdogs to perhaps the league s scariest, most versatile threats Chengdu got all the way to the Grand Finals and even carved out a 1-0 lead.
But Shanghai is the final boss of creative team compositions and playmaking, and that was proved throughout the Summer Showdown. During the Dragons Winners Bracket matchup against the Hunters, it was Fleta who showed that JinMu isn t the lone Pharah specialist around with a nasty, Nano-boosted Barrage.
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Mayhem moving on to Checkmate at main tank
Field Level Media
01 Jul 2021, 08:55 GMT+10
On a five-game losing streak and looking to fix a floundering run of play, according to team general manager Albert Yeh, the Florida Mayhem moved Seung-hun Checkmate Baek to a main tank role.
The rookie Checkmate previously had operated as the Mayhem s DPS, but as the team has struggled with Min-seok OGE Son as the main tank, the team elected to make a change for the remainder of the Overwatch League Summer Showdown.
Yeh criticized his team s recent play in a social media post, to justify a change in roles.
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Overwatch: fate of the dragons
An analysis of the Overwatch June tournament finals
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Over the course of a year spent in homes and online, the popularity of competitive video games and esports have skyrocketed. Saturday, June 12 featured the grand finals of the June Joust tournament in one of the major esports,
Overwatch. The final was played between two teams who have spent the season so far forging a potentially historic rivalry: the Dallas Fuel and the Shanghai Dragons. Entering the finals, Dallas was a top ranked team and the winner of the previous tournament, the May Melee, where they secured a 4-2 victory against the very Dragons that they faced once again in the June finals. Shanghai followed a rather treacherous path to the finals and were the clear underdogs coming into Saturday’s match, but through an intense display of heart and a key strategic change, Shanghai emerged the victors in an incredible comeback.
The 2021 Overwatch League June Joust wrapped up Saturday with one of the wildest series in recent Overwatch history as the Shanghai Dragons completed an epic co