Overwatch League Season 2 Stage 1 Review

I have been watching a lot of the Overwatch League (OWL) recently.  The OWL just finished stage 1 of its second season and man was it really exciting to watch.  I did watch a lot OWL last year too but in season 1, I really didn't have a team that I was cheering for.  For Season 2 however, I knew that it would be much more entertaining to watch since I could now cheer for my favourite team, the Vancouver Titans.  The Vancouver Titans is one of 6 new expansion teams and it is really nice to cheer for my home team.  I managed to buy the All Access pass on Twitch so that I could watch a lot of the Overwatch League and get some good bonuses.  I also bought a couple of Vancouver Titans jerseys.

The Vancouver Titans are owned by the same owners who own the Vancouver Canucks (the Aquilini family).  I was really excited when they first announced this because I have been cheering for the Canucks for a very long time and now they were officially going to compete in the Overwatch League.  Their logo is kind of interesting, they have a yeti as a logo, which kind of fits the Pacific Northwest.  I really like the color scheme they have chosen for the Overwatch team, which is blue and green (the same colours as the Vancouver Canucks).  I also like the nickname "Titans", which is also the same nickname for various football teams (one in particular is the T.C. Williams Titans, who has a movie called "Remember the Titans").  The Vancouver Titans is mostly made up of Team Runaway, which was a South Korean contenders team.  There is a great video about the Runaway Team in this video:

The Vancouver Titans are a very good team.  They started out pretty strong and ended up wining stage 1 of the Overwatch League.  They managed to win all their games so far, but some games were really close.  They sit at the top of league right now, just slightly ahead of the New York Excelsior.  For the regular season, they beat Shanghai, Guangzhou (twice), Paris, Los Angeles Valiant, Chengdu and San Francisco.  In the Stage 1 Playoffs, they managed to beat Boston 3-0 and beat Seoul 4-0.  In the Stage 1 Finals they faced off against San Francisco and won a very close match 4-3.  The Stage 1 Finals was really exciting to watch, both teams played great.  I hope the Vancouver Titans can keep on winning in the next few stages like they did in stage 1.  In the second stage, there are going to be some major changes to the meta and different heroes are going to be used.  In Stage 1, the meta was to run a 3-3 comp (the GOATS comp), which was a comp made up of 3 tanks and 3 support.  In Stage 2, there will probably less 3-3 and maybe more DPS characters being played.  If so, I hope that the Vancouver Titans can adjust well since they were very good at the GOATS comp.  I am going to be cheering for this team all season long and I hope to learn more about their players and coaches as the season runs along.