Overwatch League team loses tournament in embarrassingly hilarious way

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The San Francisco Shock are perhaps the winningest team in the Overwatch League’s short five-year history. They are the only team who can boast back-to-back grand finals victories. And during Stage 2 in 2019, the League had to invent a new classification of excellence when the Shock not only never lost a game, but they never dropped a single map, sweeping all their opponents in what was dubbed the “golden stage.” And even though, last year, they never came close to the kind of dominance they enjoyed in 2019 and 2020, they are still a force to be reckoned with and a perpetual pain in my side the way the Yankees are to regular baseball fans.

Which makes the Shock’s embarrassing loss to the Los Angeles Gladiators over the weekend one of the sweetest things I’ve watched in a while — and definitely my favorite moment of OWL Season 5 so far.

All last week, the League ran its first cross-regional tournament of the year — the Midseason Madness. It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season. Up until this point, Season 5 had been kinda dull with matches that were often total blowouts. But for the Midseason Madness, damn near every match was a close 3-2. Broadcasts that typically clocked in around four to five hours were running eight to nine hours long, lengthened with an additional fourth game over the usual three and the fact that a lot of games went down to the wire. It was a tough slog to watch, especially because my Shanghai Dragons often played the later matches in the day.

The final match in this long week of a tournament was between the Shock and the Gladiators, teams that were the number one and two teams, respectively, in the Western region. For the season so far, the