The Dallas Fuel Cycle of Misery is broken | May Melee Overwatch League Highlights
Channel: Blackwidow Esports
Date: 2021-06-24

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4 teams. 4 teams that faced hardship during their time in the Overwatch League.

The Dallas Fuel came in to the Overwatch League with great expectations. Their former iteration Team EnVyUs was a very succesful team before the Overwatch League winning MLG Vegas 2016, Overwatch Contenders Season 1 North-America in 2017 and winning Overwatch APEX Season 1. By winning Overwatch APEX Season 1 they became the first Western team to win a major tournament in South Korea.
Unfortunately the Dallas Fuel cracked under the pressure. Main-Tank player 'XQC' was banned by the Overwatch League and eventually released, star-player 'Effect' left the team to recover from mental issues in Korea and the ambience in the team was overall bad.

The Florida Mayhem was perhaps worse off. The former Misfits roster came into the Overwatch League as the best European team despite losing to Team Gigantti in the finals of Overwatch Contenders Season 1 Europe in 2017.
It wasn't meant to be. The players couldn't prevent a 7-33 record and a 11th place finish and the team fell apart.

Only the Shanghai Dragons managed to do worse than the Florida Mayhem. The only Chinese team at the time gave Chinese players a chance on the big stage. They also signed young Korean talent and the only female player 'Geguri' midway through the season.
Eventually the Shanghai Dragons weren't able to win a single match in the first season of the Overwatch League. After a complete rebuilt of the roster, they also lost the 2 matches of the second season and set a negative record of 0-42 before finally winning a match. This record is the longest losing record in professional esports ever.

In the second season of the Overwatch League we also saw the introduction of the Chengdu Hunters. Like the Shanghai Dragons, they focussed on signing Chinese talent. And just like the Shanghai Dragons, most of these players weren't considered the best Chinese players available at the time. Therefore many people considered the Chengdu Hunters the new Shanghai Dragons and they placed them at the bottom of their Power Rankings.

We are now in the fourth season of the Overwatch League and what a turnaround. All four of these teams had many rebuilts but now they all have a team able to compete for prizes. They all managed to qualify for the first tournament of the fourth season of the Overwatch League: the May Melee.
Eventually the Dallas Fuel won the tournament and got their first prize in the organization's history since the rebranding from Team EnVyUs.

The Cycle of Misery is Broken!!!


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Overwatch League: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiAInBL9kUzz1XRxk66v-gw
Dallas Fuel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4XSmDqIhRT4frKzRTMyrA
Teamy Envy: https://www.youtube.com/user/TeamEnVyUs
Chengdu Hunters: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpTnI8okLMyTHtVQeBj0rEQ
Your Overwatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKK0Obp7K4g&t=579s