{"id":60227,"date":"2019-02-15T03:09:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-the-overwatch-leagues-newest-teams-built-their-rosters-from-scratch\/"},"modified":"2019-02-15T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T10:09:03","slug":"how-the-overwatch-leagues-newest-teams-built-their-rosters-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/how-the-overwatch-leagues-newest-teams-built-their-rosters-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Overwatch League\u2019s newest teams built their rosters from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Overwatch<\/em> League expansion team Toronto Defiant played its first exhibition matches during a bootcamp in Korea, it didn\u2019t go so well. The team, which included a mix of OWL veterans and up-and-coming players, struggled in early scrimmages, with few positives to draw from the performances. \u201cIt was a lot rougher than I had expected,\u201d says Defiant head coach Beom-joon \u201cBishop\u201d Lee. But there was still hope for the young squad. While the matches weren\u2019t going well, the group still showed a positive attitude, particularly during the video review sessions after each round of practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically with most teams, when you\u2019re sitting down and talking about the game you just played for six hours, most of them are just going to be half-asleep,…<\/p>\n

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When Overwatch League expansion team Toronto Defiant played its first exhibition matches during a bootcamp in Korea, it didn\u2019t go so well. The team, which included a mix of OWL veterans and up-and-coming players, struggled in early scrimmages, with few positives to draw from the performances. \u201cIt was a lot rougher than I had expected,\u201d… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t