THE SQUAD

dafran (Daniel Francesca)

Nationality: Denmark

Role: DPS

Teams Streamer for NRG Esports Selfless Gaming

Popular streamer and Torbjörn player

Intentionally threw games in Competitive Season 5 to get out of professional play

Erster (Joon Jeong)

Nationality: South Korea

Role: DPS

Teams Lucky Future Zenith Ardeont

Consistent and high-performing on the best Chinese Contenders team

NLaaeR (Ilya Koppalov)

Nationality: Russia

Role: DPS

Teams Last Night’s Leftovers Owly Six

Former CS:GO player

DACO (Dong-hyeong Seo)

Nationality: South Korea

Role: Flex

Teams Element Mystic

Reign will be his second professional team

Gator (Blake Scott)

Nationality: USA

Role: Tank

Teams Atlanta Academy GOATS*

Main tank of the famous GOATS team that brought the current meta to fruition

In a two-way contract with Reign and its Academy team

Pokpo (Hyun-jun Park)

Nationality: South Korea

Role: Tank

Teams Element Mystic

Only in Contenders for two seasons

Barely old enough for OWL

Kodak (Steven Rosenberger)

Nationality: Germany

Role: Support

Teams Team Germany 2018 6nakes



Masaa (Petja Kantanen)

Nationality: Finland

Role: Support

Teams Team Gigantti NYYRIKKI Esports



Atlanta Reign's Potential

For the time being, dafran is the only Reign player with weight behind his name. Not to doubt the skills of his teammates, but it is very likely dafran will be spearheading the team’s popularity, ability, and overall attention. Lucky for Reign’s marketing team, dafran is a popular streamer on Twitch, known for trolling and not taking the game as seriously as his peers. Unfortunately for the Reign, he has a controversy due to that funny “toxic gameplay.” In June 2017, dafran was suspended from all Blizzard events and banned for throwing games in ranked for Competitive Season 5. This caused him to be benched from the starting roster of pre-OWL superstar team Selfless Gaming. After all that, dafran quit playing professionally and claimed that competing and scrimmaging had “made [him] very depressed and bored.”

Every member of the eight-man squad has several seasons of Contenders and LAN experience. However, like most of the Expansion Teams, none of their roster has played in the Overwatch League. Due to their lack of experience, it may be difficult for the Atlanta Reign to make a name for themselves in their inaugural Overwatch League Season.

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