Looking Back At The OWLeague Stage 1 Finals & Pine's Potent Sniping

On February 10, 2018, The London Spitfire and the New York Excelsior entered the finals of Overwatch League Stage 1 and throw down in a stellar match that saw London manage to come back from the edge of defeat to take the match and become champions of OWLeague Stage 1. It was a hard fought victory for both teams filled with highlights and amazing plays. New York almost looked set to sweep the game as they approached a 2-0 lead at one point, and it was because of amazing efforts like that by Excelsior Damage-Per-Second player Do-hyeon "Pine" Kim as you’ll see below.

As London and New York battled around the objective, Pine, playing the mobile sniper Widowmaker, broke off from the crew and pursued a different route. Using Widow’s ultimate to spot her targets through the environment, Pine managed to get behind the entire London Spitfire team as they were focused on the fight ahead of them and outright murder four of their six combatants in an amazing sweep before they knew what hit them. It was a mix of assault rifle fire and some timely sniper shots that took all of London’s DPS and support players out of the occasion. It would lead to Excelsior getting their early and dominant-looking lead over the Spitfire with a second map win of the five games. Although Excelsior’s lead was not meant to be, as London Spitfire would rally for an amazing 3 game sweep following, it wasn’t for lack of effort on the Excelsior’s behalf, making for an overall amazing series between the two competitiors.

Stage Two of Overwatch League begins on February 21, 2018. With defeated opponents looking for revenge and the victors looking to maintain their place in the winner’s circle, we can almost certainly look forward to great showings like Pine’s throughout the contest.