G2 Esports pick up top Team Fortress 2 players for Overwatch roster
One of the best Team Fortress 2 teams in history have signed with a big esportsorganization for Overwatch.
Today G2 Esports announced the acquisition of the most recent Epsilon Team Fortress 2 lineup—a team featuring the six-man roster that won the Challenger’s Cup in October. Four of the players won Insomnia49 in 2013, one of the biggest international competitions in Team Fortress 2 (TF2) history.
For G2 Esports, investing in Overwatch just made sense. Jakub “Lother” Syzgulski, the team’s Chief Gaming Officer, is a big fan of first-person shooters and feels that Overwatch’s combination of shooter and battle arena mechanics will make it a unique esport.
“It was natural for me to search for a skilled and aspiring team which will represent our colors and values,” said Szygulski. “I'm very proud to say that G2 is one of the first clubs that is bringing its own team for Overwatch, which I'm already a huge fan of. We can't wait for the tournaments to come and competition that will appear in the future. Mark my words: G2 will be the best!”
The new G2 Esports lineup features British multigamer Seb “Numlocked” Barton, Michael “Mike” Adams, Jean-Louis “KnOxXx” Boyer, Stefan “schocky” Berends, Théo “Tek” Guillebaud, and Hugo “Flippy” Perhirin. The first four players won i49 together, while Guillebaud and Perhirin competed alongside Adams and Boyer in more recent competitions.
Considering their experience together and talent level, Barton said this roster seemed “best suited” for each other when deciding to compete in Overwatch. He believes they have the right mix of synergy and familiarity, which Barton thinks is incredibly important heading into a new game.
Barton is no stranger to playing multiple titles competitively, playing games likeWorld of Warcraft and League of Legends at a high level. He recently returned home to England from the Turkish Champions League, a League of Legendscompetition similar to the League Championship Series, where he served as top laner for Oyun Hizmetleri most recently. But for him, Overwatch is a bigger opportunity than any other game.
“As much as I enjoyed playing League full-time, I still missed and loved both TF2and my teammates from it. So an opportunity like this is to be jumped at,” Barton explained. “The game's in its earliest stages, and it's already clear from the couple of tournaments there have been that TF2 players have the edge at the moment over others in terms of adapting to this, so with our background in TF2 I'm going into Overwatch confidently.”
The most recent Overwatch tournaments in both North America and Europe were won by teams with a Team Fortress 2 background—Not Enigma in NA and Melty in EU—though certainly teams with a history in other games have some competitive edge. While skills from many shooters, and even games like World of Warcraft and League of Legends, transfer over to the unique way Overwatch is played, Team Fortress 2 offers the most similarities.
“I think if you're instantly jumping from one game into another, TF2 is the most similar and easiest to transition from,” Barton said. “Like sure, traditional FPS [first-person shooter] players might be better with some of the offense heroes, for example, but in terms of teamplay and map types, TF2 comes closest.”
Nic Doucet is a News Editor for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.
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