Jay “Sinatraa” Won is not The escape A league player. After a game in 2019 when his team, the San Francisco Shock, took home engineering gold, he was named league MVP. This means that developers of the game at Blizzard will scrape the skin of the game to remember his corruption. Yesterday, in the middle of season three, Won announced his retirement The escape.
In statement on Twitter, Won said that he has yet to hear the game.
“(I) I just lost my enthusiasm for the game,” he wrote. "I don't know what the real killer was to me, but maybe it was a 2-2-2 (role) lock, maybe it could have closed (the hero)." Those were references to new mechanics that forced players to fulfill predetermined roles and constantly block heroes. “I'm not sure,” he added. “I just know that it was hard for me to play, and I didn't enjoy writing / calculating yet. I did not take this decision one day. It has taken a full month of constant thoughts and sleepless nights to be overwhelmed by stress. It sucks, but ultimately I wanted to do what was right for me. ”
Won it is advancing to lush green pastures Allowed, A Riot tactical scanner still trying to have no official part of esports yet – or given Riot's tracking record as well Allowed
But he leaves behind a game that has fallen through difficult times, at least until it reaches its professional level. The year began with The escape League striving to close large donors and low-balling on-air talent, resulting a pop-up of people who comment a lot. Finally from Twitch to YouTubeIn the meantime, the result was the removal of the audience's ability to earn money to unlock the skin by watching games as well total visual reduction. This would also be the first season of the league with teams operating in their cities instead of all playing in the same stadium in Los Angeles. Teams were playing home and away games, resulting anxiety of excess athlete fatigue and retirement of big names like Former Houston Outlaws player Jake “JAKE” Lyon. In the end, we never saw how that would all end, because covid-19 forced the league to cancel games in February and March and hold an add-on to convert it into an audience- and travel-only format online.
This broadcast has been made fun views differently in some cases, but also leave the league in its present form, open to technical issues and dead air. Property sales, personal appearances, and other essential elements of efforts to get teams out the window. The roar of the crowd – a once-in-a-lifetime mess of OWL broadcasts – feels as though they are not, a long rumor from the past. The OWL are investing a lot in trying to regain their popularity with traditional city-based games, but they are blowing everything up the road. This would be a make-or-break time for that model. Now everyone is playing (and watching) from their bedrooms.
It's not a good sign if one of the world's best players comes from mid-season, at the height of his power, to take another game with a big idea behind it.
Blizzard did a fantastic job of trying to bend the mark, but it also didn't make things easy. We took the dubious decision last year to use two tank, two DPS, two-phase locks in the middle of the season, company changed The escapeCompetition status after the first season of the first month, we introduce "hero pools" which prohibit the selection of four heroes indiscriminately While this is the case it meant keeping the meta “liquid” and spice up the competition, producing even more uneven performance from teams and leading fans to wonder why Blizzard didn't go with the traditional gameplay / closing game plan. In addition, the company decided change how the pools of heroes work
It's clear that Blizzard wants to regain interest in a game that has lost a lot of light due to unpleasant drawing decisions, Suddenly as people wait Overwatch 2, as well as the harsh reality of the origin of the game over several years. However, so far, its efforts seem to pay off in the most marginal ways, and covid-19 has ruined even the best company systems. With all of that in mind, it's not a good sign when one of the world's best players goes from mid-season to the height of his power, to take another fantasy game behind it (lie but maybe some of those hype).
Personality in and around The escape The league sees this as the beginning of a great process. They also see reasons why people can jump on him Allowed, a firing shoot at the vein of Be proud and that includes The escape-like a war hero and supported by Riot, all but guaranteeing at least some esports success.
“Sadly, it won't be the only OWL player to do that. Allowed promising, ”said Dallas Fuel DPS player Dylan“ aKm ”Bignet on Twitter.
"I have no clue here without my experiences and thoughts, but I will continue to stand up for myself and say that players may feel that it is more difficult to play any champion when they are banned and every week," said Houston Outlaws GM GM "Flame" Rodriguez on Twitter. He also noted that AllowedFocus-oriented mechanics can be very attractive to these players. However, he is not sure that most players will follow Won's example in the short-term. This makes sense, too, AllowedThe scene is softll very nascent.
The escapeMinor league, Contestants, it can generate new stars to replace emerging words such as Won, but it has its own big problems. Months ago, many groups are discarded, many of them academy rosters associated with them The escape League teams. This suggests a relentless stream of new talent on the scene, at least in the near future.
Besides all this, The escape League nowhere near done. There is so much money riding on it that it can suddenly appear. However, repairs can be as difficult as rebuilding from rubble when large buildings are damaged, too The escape The league will pick up a lot of holes in the coming months. Won's exit is not, as some have suggested, a first stop to the inevitable edge, but it is another sign that Blizzard needs to work immediately before leaving the pieces.
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