Watching Blizzard: We’re all about Overwatch League (again) (Patreon)

If you've been reading these silly things for long, you know how much I like to wax poetic about my favorite underdog Overwatch League team, the Shanghai Dragons. Since the regular season — and the Dragons' matches — came to a close, I haven't had much to say about OWL. But the grand finals just kicked off and all I can say is... what a game. The first match between Fusion and London was a nail-biter that was absolutely great to watch. (If you're an Overwatch fan of any level, you'll want to watch it yourself.) So that's the first match of the Grand Finals down... and we can look forward to the next one Saturday at 4 p.m. eastern, so soon we'll see who the best team in the League really is.

So the news?

London wins the first match of the Overwatch League Grand Finals

• Yeah, that's about it. Tune in Saturday for the thrilling conclusion.

Where do we go from here?

• In the latest Know Your Lore, Rossi wonders where exactly the story could take us next.

High Inquisitor Whitemane is here (and not a Death Knight)

• We now know this new hero's kit, and but she's more of a Disc Priest than a Death Knight.

WoW leveling has gotten slower... again

• The introduction of level scaling slowed down the leveling process, and patch 8.0.1 has slowed it down again. Unfortunately, the developers aren't really sure why and so they haven't fixed it yet. Still, a fix is in the works... as soon as they figure it out.

And just one more bit of news for you Blizzard Watch watchers. We have three new writers who will be joining us over the next week, as well as two streamers. We had a lot of amazing applicants, so please don't feel bad if you applied and weren't picked — it was a really tough decision (and we'll be revisiting the applications when we next decide we need more writers). So look for new voices on the site soon. Are you excited? I'm pretty excited.

With that, the day is done. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend, but for now this is Liz, signing out.