{"id":11976,"date":"2018-07-19T19:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T02:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/owl-playoff-semifinals-philadelphia-upsets-new-york-earns-1-0-lead\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:24:02","slug":"owl-playoff-semifinals-philadelphia-upsets-new-york-earns-1-0-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/owl-playoff-semifinals-philadelphia-upsets-new-york-earns-1-0-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"OWL Playoff Semifinals: Philadelphia  upsets New York, Earns 1-0 Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Philadelphia Fusion vs New York Excelsior | Overwatch League Playoffs Semifinals Match 1 Highlights\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4jSnbkMFOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre>                                     Video Credit: Akshon Esports<\/pre>\n<p>Yesterday, in the Overwatch League Playoffs Semifinals, Philadelphia Fusion proved it was one of the world&#8217;s best teams, absolutely crushing favorites New York Excelsior in a 3-0 sweep and earning themselves a 1-0 lead. Given just how dominant New York Excelsior had been in the regular season of the league, this was a huge win for Philadelphia, and for once, New York didn&#8217;t look like the unstoppable force it did before.<\/p>\n<p>Map 1 went poorly for Excelsior, for though they had a decent chance of taking the map, their early game struggles led to a failed final push. Particular standouts for Fusion included support Alberto &#8220;neptuNo&#8221; Gonzalez, who took out New York DPS Kim &#8220;Pine&#8221; Do-hyeon, effectively shutting down New York&#8217;s final offense for the map. Fusion also took initiative to apply pressure on Excelsior, with one of the major factors being Fusion DPS Josh &#8220;Eqo&#8221; Corona, who led all players with a ridiculous 9,401 damage per 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Excelsior fought back the second map,\u00a0as DPS player Park &#8220;Saebyeolbe&#8221; Jong-ryeol wreaked havoc with Tracer, but it wasn&#8217;t enough. The rest of the Excelsior team struggled, and Philadelphia flex player Choi &#8220;HOTBA&#8221; Hong-joon crushed New York&#8217;s chances with a great D.VA self-destruct play, taking out 4 Excelsior players at once.<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason Fusion dominated so heavily was most likely due to their better preparation after the new patch. On Eichenwald, they came into the games with a three-tank and three-support comp, a move to which New York had no answer. As a result, New York was swept for the very first time this season, a result even more shocking considering that Dorado and Oasis (the first two maps) were two of New York&#8217;s strongest maps during the regular season. Up until now, New York hadn&#8217;t lost on Dorado since Stage 1 of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>New York will face off against Philadelphia again this Saturday at 8 PM ET, a game they&#8217;ll have to win if they want to keep their playoff dreams alive. Fusion only needs one more best-of-five series win against Excelsior to move on to the finals, so New York is going to figure out what went wrong Wednesday and come back strong. Don&#8217;t miss out on the action \u2014 you can watch through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/overwatchleague\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch<\/a>, Disney XD, ESPN, and ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Credit: Akshon Esports Yesterday, in the Overwatch League Playoffs Semifinals, Philadelphia Fusion proved it was one of the world&#8217;s best teams, absolutely crushing favorites New York Excelsior in a 3-0 sweep and earning themselves a 1-0 lead. Given just how dominant New York Excelsior had been in the regular season of the league, this&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/owl-playoff-semifinals-philadelphia-upsets-new-york-earns-1-0-lead\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OWL Playoff Semifinals: Philadelphia  upsets New York, Earns 1-0 Lead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}