First league championship Overwatch won by London Spitfire

The first season of the Overwatch League ended this weekend with the London Spitfire dominating the Philadelphia Fusion in two sets to win the league's first league. This concluded an impressive run for the new esport that managed to capture the public's attention and even aired on ESPN.

If you activated ESPN during the weekend, you were just as likely to see Overwatch League as usual assortment of baseball, football and golf. Indeed, in addition to the usual streaming options, the large television network broadcast the first end-of-season tournament for the league, which seems to have been a great success.

Over Polygon, they have exhausted the final showdown between the freshly crowned London Spitfire championship and the Philadelphia Fusion. The first managed to overtake the last 3-1 in the first series of matches before taking full control in the second day, passing 3-0. Three days of competition are scheduled in the event of a second round match but, of course, it was not necessary. In addition to a championship trophy and an MVP award for Spitfire's Jun-Young "Profit" Park, the team has won a $ 1 million prize. Players will see a lot of these gains, giving young people around the world plenty of ammo to use against parents who think that video games "will not get you anywhere in life."

While esports have been around for many years, they have never known the kind of mainstream hit gained during the first season of Overwatch League. The league was still meeting in the fall of 2017, with a dozen teams around the world in time to participate in the 2018 inaugural season. The result was a professional production that included well-paid athletes, High quality shows and crowded arenas of screaming fans. Heck, the league even managed its first major controversies, acting quickly and fairly to establish precedence and prevent negative behavior from crippling any OWL before it could be fully operational.

The final tournament was just as action packed as many classic sports, with lots of twists, turns, and unexpected results. While the Shanghai Dragons underwent an impressive 0-40 series in the first season, seven of the current twelve teams in the league ended the race with just five points in advance. In other words, the number two Los Angeles Valiant finished at 27-13 while the number eight Seoul Dynasty finished the season at 22-18. This shows that there was a fairly balanced competition, the New York Excelsior proving to be a dominant force with its final position 34-6

As for the Spitfire, they finished the regular season in fifth position but managed We expect the competition to become more interesting next season, as other teams appear to be forming in time for the 2019 race.