The Overwatch League 2019 Grand Finals have officially come to an end with a battle between the San Francisco Shock and the Vancouver Titans at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
The Vancouver Titans are managed by Luminosity Gaming Inc, the primary eSports division of Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. [stock_market_widget type="inline" template="generic" color="default" assets="EGLX.V" markup="(TSXV: {symbol} {currency_symbol}{price} ({change_pct}))" api="yf"] [stock_market_widget type="inline" template="generic" color="default" assets="2AV" markup="(FSE: {symbol} {currency_symbol}{price} ({change_pct}))" api="yf"], and the team finished the Overwatch Grand Finals with a season total win streak of 25 – 3.
While ranked #1 overall in the league for the season, the Titans finally met defeat at the hands of San Francisco Shock this weekend. That tournament featured a prize pool of $3.5 million and saw the Shock win in a surprise upset 4 – 0 match.
The Titans entered the 2019 League as underdogs in one of eight expansion teams, snapping up several members of the South Korean Overwatch Contenders team RunAway.
Discussing the Titan’s record breaking debut season in the Overwatch League running up to the recent defeat in the Finals, Luminosity Gaming President Steve Maida commented:
With the Grand Finals now over, Overwatch League teams are beginning the process of negotiating player contracts for the upcoming 2020 season, with all teams required to have at least 8 players under contract for the coming year by Nov. 15.
In other Enthusiast Gaming news, the company’s network of triple-digit gaming websites, 50 players and influencers, and nearly 1,000 YouTube channels was recently named the largest online gaming information network in the United States by Comscore.
Comscore’s breakdown of gaming site viewership showed that Enthusiast had at least 10% more digital content viewed than the next leading entities in the category, including such names as GameSpot and IGN.
Finalizing a series of acquisitions to spur on additional growth, Enthusiast also recently completed its acquisition of Sims resource and mod destination site The Sims Resource and closed a merger with J55 Capital Corp.
