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Our First Time Watching the Philadelphia Fusion
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The Philadelphia Fusion lost this past weekend. They will not be Overwatch League champions. They didn’t play particularly well. Maybe the moment was too big for them or maybe the underdog story just ran its course. For whatever reason, they didn’t have it.
But they gave it a good go. And from what I watched on Friday night, they seem like a scrappy, blue collar, lunch-pail carrying Philadelphia team, just like any other squad in town. I think we can all safely say we’re now “five for five” instead of “four for four.”
Friday night was the first time most of us at Crossing Broad have watched eSports, at least intensely, so we thought it would be fun and/or mildly entertaining to share the log of our Slack chat from series one of the finals. Most of it is us just sort of fumbling over the rules and trying to figure out what’s going on. I’ve been a lifelong gamer but don’t know too much about Overwatch or the Fusion in general. Other guys really had no clue what has happening, and eventually started talking about the proper way to grill a steak.
Here ya go:
Anyway, yeah, it kind of devolved into a grilling discussion, but I enjoyed watching the Fusion on TV. It was hard to follow the action at times and I preferred the overhead view, but whatever.
Good effort boys. Let’s go back to my man Hung Tran for the final word:
At halftime @eqo said “We’re Philly. We’ve been down before but no matter what we fight. No fear.” Philly you should be proud of this team. They embodied the city’s spirit all year
— Hung Tran (@Tran) July 28, 2018
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com