Hello everyone,

Recently we witnessed the finale to the inaugural season of the Overwatch League and it was a spectacular event! I’m sure we all enjoyed it and we all love the sprays that came along with it. However, I imagine that there are many people passionate about the event who had busy schedules and just planned to tune into the vods after they missed a broadcast because of work or another obligation. I was one of these people and was disappointed to find out that I missed out on two OWL sprays because I was busy with a work and family obligation. It seems odd that two sprays designed to support the OWL would be so exclusive when they are designed to show support for the league. It just feels bad to know that I will forever have these unattainable sprays in my sprays tab just staring me in the face because I had other things I had to do and didn’t cheat* by leaving the stream on while I was not watching. I wanted to use this post to potentially construct some ideas to allow people to get these sprays on their account if they missed out but still want to support the OWL and collect everything regarding it.

One example that I though of was just having a time watched tracker on the vods so that people who missed the live stream could still watch the games and get the sprays for doing so. It isn’t like it is outside the realm of possibilities that you could still have some sort of viewing party or gathering to watch the games but outside of the time period that it is live. Also not everyone is lucky enough to live in a time zone where it is viable to watch the games live and they could miss out on the sprays too just because they didn’t stay up until 3:00 am or leave their computer running all night while they slept. I feel bad that I, and many others, cannot get these sprays ever again just because we were busy. Even if we did take the time to watch the vod we don’t get the rewards others did because we couldn’t rack up the 1.5 and 3 hours of live watch time. I’m sure there is something that can be done and that’s why I am making this post and hope that it gets some attention.

Let me know what other ideas you guys have as responses to this and share it so that maybe it will gain some traction and we can all get the OWL rewards we missed out on.

-Arouthor

*I don’t think it is actually cheating as much as I find it strange that an AFK computer can get the sprays and rewards over someone who actually watches the matches but on a vod afterwords.