While we may be lacking for recent hardware in a few of the major sports, last weekend should serve as a strong reminder that Berkeley is still home to champions, as a group of six UC Berkeley students emerged victorious in the TESPA Collegiate League: Overwatch Finals.
By beating Rutgers in the semis, and the University of Toronto in the championship round, they took away a good chunk of the $100,000 prize pool, too.
As CGB’s head Overwatch enthusiast – I am a low-mid Diamond tier support player with a couple hundred hours clocked in the game -- I thought it only right to do what I do best: go into way, way too much depth on something that really only interests me and maybe a small segment of readers, but write the hell out of it all the same.