Dafran Announces Overwatch League Retirement on Twitter

Daniel "Dafran" Francesca is one of the most popular Overwatch players in the world with his being a well-known Twitch streamer and a member of the Atlanta Reign Overwatch League (OWL) team. However, following the conclusion of Stage 1 for Season 2, Dafran and the Atlanta Reign took to Twitter to announce the player's official retirement from the OWL. 

Dafran Overwatch League (OWL) Twitter Retirement Announcement

In a post on its official Twitter account, the Atlanta Reign franchise announced that Dafran would be retiring from the OWL and joining the organization's stream team. According to the announcement from the Atlanta Reign, Dafran had informed the team of his decision to retire from the league a week before the OWL Stage 1 Playoffs for Season 2.

However, in order to not draw attention away from the team and onto himself while they were still playing, Dafran had decided to not publicly announce his retirement from the Atlanta Reign and the Overwatch League until Thursday, March 28th on Twitter. 

Dafran also took to Twitter to announce his OWL retirement and to explain that he had decided that he no longer wanted to compete professionally and that he had made the decision to return to his lifestyle as a streamer on Twitch. The former Overwatch League player went on to state that he will still be streaming Blizzard Entertainment's first-person shooter title as his main form of content on Twitch with a splash of variety thrown in as well. 

Retiring from OWL

Read: https://t.co/egvVGgrBQn

— dafran (@dafran) March 28, 2019

While Atlanta Reign and Overwatch League fans as a whole are likely to be sad to learn that Dafran will no longer be competing in the OWL, they will still be able to enjoy the player's popular personality and skills on his Twitch stream heading into the future. 

(cover photo courtesy of the Overwatch League)