They were standing, joyfully booing, booting and boozing. It turns out that New York esports fans don’t vary a lot from their traditional sports fans.
The Overwatch League’s hypothesis has been confirmed by these sponsored fans, who filled an almost 2,000-seater arena across the road from Madison Square Garden.
Jon Spector, vice president of the professional video gaming network, said: “This is all we could have hoped for.”
The OWL opened their third season in February with franchising matches in New York and Dallas, and it seemed like a payoff from the shows of the resurrected players that could be driven to the top of a thriving market by a multinational town-based system.