LW Blue\u00a0<\/strong>could be the team that secures the New York City spot in the upcoming Overwatch League<\/strong>, according to an article<\/a> released by\u00a0ESPN<\/strong> earlier today.<\/span><\/p>\n
The man who will oversee the team is claimed to be\u00a0Scott Tester<\/strong>, who left his role<\/a> as an Esports Coordinator at Blizzard Entertainment to sign on with the New York OWL franchise. It seems that franchise will have the LW Blue roster at their disposal. The organisation withdrew from OGN Overwatch APEX tournament on Monday, and South Korean news website FOMOS reported<\/a> that they would be competing for an unspecified OWL city.<\/span><\/p>\n
Sterling.VC purchased an Overwatch League spot for $20 million (\u00a315.6m)\u00a0earlier this year<\/a>\u00a0alongside\u00a0Farzam Kamel and Jeff Wilpon. Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets, owns Sterling.VC’s parent company, Sterling Equities.<\/span><\/p>\n
Earlier this month, it was confirmed<\/a> that the London spot for the Overwatch League was designated to North American organisation Cloud9.<\/span><\/p>\n
LW Blue\u00a0could be the team that secures the New York City spot in the upcoming Overwatch League, according to an article released by\u00a0ESPN earlier today. Sterling.VC, which owns the slot for New York (and sister company of local baseball squad the New York Mets) is currently finalizing a deal which will see them acquire the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","esi_template":"default","excluded":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,106,237,240,59],"tags":[40,632,245,910,1853,2606],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esports-titles","category-latest-news","category-news-by-region","category-north-america","category-overwatch","tag-esports","tag-new-york","tag-overwatch","tag-overwatch-league","tag-owl","tag-sterling-vc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n