DEEP IN THE HEART OF, TX: The Houston Outlaws are preparing for Stage Three of the Overwatch League season already, after being eliminated from Stage Two Playoffs contention.

Outlaws General Manager Flame spoke to us about how the team is planing to prepare for the next stage. “A lot of people have criticised our roster, saying we haven’t changed enough or picked up enough new players. They say our roster substitutions between maps are too obvious and disruptive to the team.”

“We’ve decided to stick to our guns and instead of hiring more players, we’re just going to give our players more experience in sitting up and down quickly, in the hope that it gets them more accustomed to moving on and off stage and mixing things up on the fly.”

In order to get the Outlaws accustomed to sudden substitutions and new roster combinations with existing players, Flame is taking a different approach. “We’re going to spend the month-long break playing musical chairs.”

“I’ve actually taken over from Coach Tairong on this one. Musical chairs is my specialty. We feel that the experience of quickly running to a chair and sitting down will help the players get used to the random variations of the roster Tairong and I might play on stage.”

The Outlaws will practice using the state of art Herman Miller desk chairs that are used on stage at the Blizzard Arena. “Given they have wheels and can role around, things can get a little messy when the music stops, but I think we have the right roster to deal with that problem.”

Flame also said that practice like this could have helped in the past, and it’s a shame they didn’t start earlier. “You remember when, somehow, we accidentally subbed players like Bani in unintentionally, through an administration error? See, if we had been practicing musical chairs, we would have been prepared for that kind of situation.”

Stay tuned for more updates on other party games the Outlaws will be using to prepare for the rest of the Overwatch League season.

Photo of Jake Lyon by Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment.

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