Launched in January 2018, the Overwatch League (OWL) is the first
large-scale concerted effort to build a competitive, global
framework for an eSport that can rival the largest pro sports
leagues. $3.5 million in prize money, a broadcasting deal with
ESPN, and the purchase of OWL teams by celebrity owners including
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, and Stan Kroenke,
owner of the Los Angeles Rams, set the stakes for the launch. The
first season ended in a tense round of playoffs that climaxed in a
suspenseful championship series in a sold-out Barclay's Center.
Austin Moorhead, a gamer who found himself fascinated by the
emerging world of pro players, embedded himself during OWL's debut
season with multiple teams, including the London Spitfire, which
would go on to become Overwatch's first world champion. In Young
Guns, he takes readers behind the scenes of the wild first season
of a competition that just might become as ingrained in our culture
as Sunday football, revealing a high-stakes, pressure-cooker world
of profane teenagers who earn six-figure salaries, TV executives
and traditional sports owners struggling to understand and conquer
youth culture, and a game whose innovation progresses so fast that
fans watch their favourite gamers practice for hours just to keep
up with it. Told with perspective on the subculture and unrivalled
access into how both the OWL and the teams that compose it have
built themselves to succeed, Young Guns is a fascinating look at
the ascendance of competitive gaming and the future of sports.
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