New York Excelsior and Seoul Dynasty's rematch showed where OWL's future lies

        

What happens when you take the Overwatch League's top two teams and make them face off in a rematch? Ask New York Excelsior and Seoul Dynasty fans, who just witnessed one of the most intense series that stage two has to offer yet.

Seoul and New York went up against each other on Wednesday night, and before the game started fans generally believed that the league's top teams would face a close match. But just like Dynasty and Excelsior's match-up during stage one, the night ended with a tiebreaker win for New York, a hard-fought victory achieved only after dozens of intense back-and-forth teamfights throughout the night.

The series began with a six-round fight on Hanamura as New York and Seoul went back and forth cutting down each other's time banks without accomplishing much else. The first game only ended after New York's Hye-sung "Libero" Kim and Jong-yeol "Saebyeolbe" pulled out a cheese tactic: Playing as Genji and Tracer, the two hid behind the enemy's frontline and flanked Seoul before the attacking team advanced toward the first capture point. This sowed confusion in Dynasty and gave New York just enough time to prevent Seoul from coordinating a push to the point.

New York and Seoul didn't win maps by pulling out cheese, of course, and the game was marked by incredible teamwork that pushed both sides to play at their best. Seoul crushed New York on Hollywood, preventing the American team from scoring its first payload capture thanks to intense pressure from both Byung-sun "Fleta" Kim and Sang-beom "Munchkin" Byeon as Widowmaker and Tracer, respectively. Meanwhile, Excelsior's Saebyeolbe, Libero, and Tae-hong "MekO" Kim held their own on Watchpoint: Gibraltar against Seoul Dynasty on the map's second round, pushing Seoul back to its spawn when Dynasty was mere meters away from winning the entire series.