Florida Mayhem is already famous for their entrances in Stage 1 of Overwatch League. The six-man roster might be the smallest roster but was definitely the most entertaining roster off-stage.

The team is owned by Ben Spoont, CEO & co-founder of Misfits. The roster announcement by Florida Mayhem always seemed incomplete, partially because they only announced six members. While other teams were adding more players to their roster, with some teams even having more than ten players on the team. Florida Mayhem unsurprisingly was not able to substitute any players and this might have had an impact on their performance.

Florida Mayhem is only better than Shanghai Dragons, which is not a comforting statistic at all. They need to improve their performance and adding new players is the first step in that direction.

The article series covers the three teams at the bottom of the table: Shanghai Dragons, Dallas Fuel and Florida Mayhem.

The New Players

The Mayhem has added two new players as of now to their roster. Sayaplayer and aWesomeguy are the two new Korean players added to the team.

Ha “Sayaplayer” Jung Woo

Sayaplayer made a name for himself when he led the relatively young Meta Athena team deep into the Apex tournaments. The team which was an unknown entity by far made an undefeated run through the challenger series. In the main tournament, they were stopped at the semifinals by the eventual champions Lunatic Hai.

Sayaplayer is known for his consistent hitscan plays. His insane aim and flashy plays constantly make him an observer’s delight. The player will be a welcome change to the Florida Mayhem DPS lineup which has been struggling lately.

Sayaplayer : I’m really happy and excited to go to the Florida Mayhem. I can assure you that this challenge will raise my skills and my team will improve along with me. I’m thankful to have this opportunity and I promise to give my all.

Logix is a very high skilled DPS but he had to play different roles to suit the team composition based on the current meta. The addition of Sayaplayer provides a lot of flexibility to the team on the front lines. He has constantly been praised as the best hitscan players in the World for some time now. The team has the option of switching players after spending weeks with a 6 man fixed roster.

Kim “aWesomeGuy” Sung Hoon

Another player from Meta Athena, Awesomeguy is the new tank player joining Florida. Kim “aWesomeGuy” Sung Hoon rose to success with the former Luxury Watch Red team. The team included superstar DPS players such as Fl0wer and current NYXL player Pine.

AWesomeGuy : I am looking forward to playing for the Mayhem and will do everything in my power to show the fans my best form.

Post LW Red, he did not find much success in the competitive scene. He joined Meta Athena in late 2017 and has only played in one online cup so far. Awesomeguy has a lot of skill but will need a good support staff and team in order to shine. His time on LW red was highlight by the amount of space he could create for his DPS players. Pine and Fl0wer made proper use of this and LW Red had a great run at the time.

Joonas “zappis” Alakurtti

Announced midway through Stage 1, Zappis will be joining Florida Mayhem as a Flex Tank player. He was a part of the former NIP squad, which was notorious for their domination during the tank meta. Zappis was one of the tanks and had a significant impact on the gameplay.

Cwoosh has already welcomed the move, stating he would love the addition of a new tank to the roster. Zappis has a name playing Zarya and will be extremely useful in Stage 2 of the Overwatch League.

The Coaching Staff

Florida Mayhem may have solved their roster issues, but really there is another issue that they should deal with right now. The Florida Mayhem team places a lot of workload on Tviq from flexing for the team to helping out with other factors not within the game. While he is a good player and a champion for the team, he needs to concentrate on his own gameplay.

Having an Overwatch League team basically should ensure that the roster has a support staff, a coaching staff who can relieve a lot of the pressure from the players. Stage 1 definitely saw Florida lacking in several of these aspects, but now they have also added r2der. R2der was the coach for Meta Athena and has a great synergy with the two new players for Mayhem.

Less Dance more Performance

Florida Mayhem definitely has a much-improved roster both in terms of a tank as well as DPS. The addition of r2der definitely adds a new angle to the coaching staff. The Korean players will be able to adjust better to the new environment and hopefully start performing soon.

Florida Mayhem definitely needs more results to be decent on the leaderboard. It is going to be difficult for the team as they are just one win ahead of Shanghai Dragons.

Quotes from Overwatchleague.com

Overwatch League Stage 2 Focus: Dallas Fuel

Overwatch League will see diverse gameplay post the Mercy meta.