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Emily randESPN
On Saturday, the San Francisco Shock were crowned Overwatch League champions, winning the Overwatch League Grand Final 4-2 over the Seoul Dynasty. This is his second consecutive Overwatch League title.
“I still can’t believe it. The entire 2020 Overwatch League season was definitely not easy,” San Francisco Shock coach Park “Crusty” Dae-hee said after the game. “The fact that we were able to defend our championship and win again this year was huge and I’m very happy about that.”
Crusty also coached the Shock to their first Overwatch League title in 2019.
The San Francisco Shock qualified from the group of winners of the North American playoffs with a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Fusion. Philadelphia was the other representative of the North American grand final with the Seoul Dynasty and the Shanghai Dragons of the Asian playoff group. The Shock did not lose a single match in their grand finale, defeating Seoul Dynasty 3-2 in the first round, the Shanghai Dragons 3-2 in the second round and again Dynasty in the grand finale.
Despite groups of heroes and a generally volatile year both in and out of the game, including the departure of 2019 team MVP Jay “sinatraa” Won to VALORANT, the San Francisco Shock remained near or on top of the league. classification throughout the year. By contrast, Seoul’s performances were more meta-dependent, and they entered this grand finale group as underdogs with obvious strengths in the Hong “Gesture” Jae-hee’s Roadhog main tank and Hwang “Marve1” Min-seo’s flex tank. Sigma combination to support DPS Phenomenon Park “Profit” Joon-yeong.
The star of Saturday’s Shock was Finals MVP Kwon “Striker” Nam-joo and his Tracer game, but San Francisco’s main strength is its unprecedented team play. Their players were flexible enough to face Seoul in mirror matches, beating Dynasty in the goal that led them to the grand final, while always making room to allow Striker to get in and out of the enemy baseline.
San Francisco started the game with two wins on the map at Oasis and King’s Row. Seoul then picked Hanamura, favorite of the Shock, and proceeded to beat them at that, as well as Watchpoint: Gibraltar to tie the match at 2-2. After a second close point beat Busan to Shock, Hollywood went almost all over San Francisco, closing the series at 4-2 to secure their second title.
