❘ Printed: 2023-03-22T22:15:00
❘ Up to date: 2023-03-22T22:22:43
The Los Angeles Valiant have discreetly finalized their roster for the brand new Overwatch League season forward of Professional-Am event.
The Valiant have picked tank Domenic ‘Krawi’ Akrawi, harm sellers Alex ‘Seeker’ Taylor and Brandon ‘NOS’ Zepeda, and helps Nolan ‘Paintbrush’ Edwards, Christopher ‘Cjay’ Smith and William ‘Lyar’ Ohlstein for the 2023 season, as revealed by Liquipedia, which had cited “a trusted inside supply.”
Within the absence of an official announcement by the Valiant, the gamers introduced the information on March 21 by updating their Twitter banner with a hand-drawn Valiant emblem subsequent to their nickname. The total roster has since been confirmed by the Overwatch League.
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The group, in the meantime, has remained silent on the matter, regardless of the workforce enjoying its first match of the yr in lower than 24 hours.
The Valiant’s Twitter account has posted solely two updates for the reason that finish of the 2022 season – one to announce that the franchise would relocate to the West area in 2023, the opposite to unveil the official package for the brand new season.
The Los Angeles Valiant ended 2022 with a 7-17 common season document within the East Area. Earlier than the top of the yr, the group parted methods with all the roster in an announcement made solely on Chinese language social media platform Weibo.
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The return to the West Area comes simply two years after the franchise moved to China and was positioned within the palms of LinGan e-Sports activities (LGE). Regardless of a disastrous first yr wherein the Valiant went winless over the course of the 2021 season, owners Immortals Gaming Club renewed the partnership for 2022.
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In September 2022, Overwatch reporter Arran ‘Halo’ Spake tweeted that LGE had missed “multiple salary payments” to players and staff. When parting methods with the Valiant, coach Wang ‘NoHil’ Fuxing stated that he was put into debt whereas taking cost of the workforce.
The Overwatch esports neighborhood continues to attend for the Valiant to make an announcement in regards to the new roster, with the workforce slated to tackle Saints on March 23 of their first match within the Overwatch League 2023 Professional-Am event.
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Los Angeles Valiant’s OWL 2023 roster:
- Alex ‘Seeker’ Taylor
- Brandon ‘NOS’ Zepeda
- Domenic ‘Krawi’ Akrawi
- Nolan ‘Paintbrush’ Edwards
- Christopher ‘Cjay’ Smith
- William ‘Lyar’ Ohlstein
Hold updated with all of the switch exercise within the Overwatch scene with our low season roster tracker.