{"id":62277,"date":"2017-07-12T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/2017\/07\/12\/les-sept-premieres-equipes-de-la-overwatch-league-sont-annoncees\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:04:36","slug":"the-first-seven-overwatch-league-teams-are-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/2017\/07\/12\/the-first-seven-overwatch-league-teams-are-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The first seven Overwatch League teams are announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note: This article is an automated translation. For the original article, click on Fran\u00e7ais in the menu.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eLnl9BaAsps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>USA, Boston:<\/strong> Robert Kraft, CEO of the Kraft Group and the New England Patriots.<br \/>\n<strong>USA, New York City:<\/strong> Jeff Wilpon, Co-founder and Partner at Sterling.VC and COO of the New York Mets.<br \/>\n<strong>USA, San Francisco:<\/strong> Andy Miller, President and Founder of NRG Esports.<br \/>\n<strong>USA, Los Angeles:<\/strong> Noah Whinston, CEO of Immortals.<br \/>\n<strong>USA, Miami:<\/strong> Ben Spoont, CEO and Co-founder of Misfit.<br \/>\n<strong>China, Shanghai:<\/strong> Chinese internet company NetEase.<br \/>\n<strong>South Korea, Seoul:<\/strong> Kevin Chou, Co-founder of Kabam.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D6ZTDCB951SI1499809690211.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember the PowerPoint presentation photo that quickly went viral a few months ago? Were these really examples and was it just a coincidence that 100% of the teams announced were featured in this image, or does this slide actually contain more information about what is happening?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/leonin.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/d78700700e385e53793a3f7de4d59c13.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I believe this coincidence stems mainly from the fact that the slide listed the nine largest cities in the United States and seven major international cities that already host a huge amount of esports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Montreal in all this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As some of you know, I had launched a series of behind-the-scenes actions to raise awareness of Montreal among the people at Blizzard who work with the Overwatch League. The major social movement I initially wanted to create ultimately didn&#8217;t materialize, as a channel of communication is currently open between Blizzard and the FQSE, both with Montreal and Quebec City. We must not give up!<\/p>\n<p>Are you interested in the Overwatch League and would like to bring a team to Montreal or Quebec City, or do you know someone who would be? Send me a message or email if you meet several of these criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be financially capable of paying $3 million to $15 million just to purchase the league&#8217;s location.<\/li>\n<li>Have the working capital necessary to have about fifteen salaried employees, offices, and all the infrastructure necessary to maintain a sports team.<\/li>\n<li>Being an owner or a member of the management team of a traditional national or international sports team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Official Update<span style=\"word-spacing: normal;\">: <\/span><a style=\"word-spacing: normal;\" href=\"https:\/\/overwatchleague.com\/en-us\/news\/20890515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/overwatchleague.com\/en-us\/news\/20890515<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploratory","category-gaming-blog","category-206","category-205","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62279,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277\/revisions\/62279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonin.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}