Overwatch League is Back + Friday Five

Overwatch League started yesterday with a Pro-Am tournament, so there goes my spare time for the rest of the year. The tournament is this weird thing where OWL teams are competing alongside Tier 2 teams that have qualified. There's a round robin portion in groups and then there's going to be a single elimination tournament. The matches are first to 2 instead of three too, so all in all there's a hurried, sink or swim feel to the whole thing. The first day was pretty good and full of upsets. It's always hard to tell how the season will go from the first few weeks, because teams that look very strong initially can just have had good luck against a week opponent and teams that struggle can find their footing or just have lost to the eventual grand champions. But it's still something of an eyebrow raiser when two contenders teams end up winning their matches against OWL teams. With the Valiant it wasn't too much of surprise. That roster is literally fresh out of T2 anyway. But Shock lost both their matches and while they also have fresh faces Proper and Finn are still there. The copium is that Shock played at like 3AM KR time on ping, which is fair. We'll have to see how things change in the regular season I guess.

But I guess the main takeaway is that I won't be reading much anymore if I have so many games to watch.

I also am already stressing about the big work event that happens in the middle of the year. I checked my posts last year to see when I started stressing and I had managed to keep myself calm until May so this is a bit of a problem. And I have to do taxes still! I'm feeling the pressure, and can't really put things off last minute with so much building up. Gonna deal with it later though.

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A new thefridayfive got posted so here's some random survey questions. They're looking for question contributions so if anyone likes making little questionnaires you should send something in!

1. Forest: Do you spend a lot of time in nature? Do you want to?  I spend almost no time in nature. In the past I would try to drive out to a park and walk a little at least but I've just been a little to much of a mess to make the time recently. I should though because It's relaxing.

2. Cereal: What do you usually eat for breakfast? I usually don't eat any breakfast at all. I'm usually rushing out the door late for work. When I do have breakfast it's usually toast or cereal.

3. Flu: How do you cope with getting a minor illness? I drink a bunch and stay in bed as much as I can. I don't exactly like being sick, but I also kind of like being sick? I donno, outside of congestion and sore throats it's kind of a pleasant experience? This may be nostalgia for when I was a kid, had conjunctivitis all the time, and was given some very strong medicine lol.

4. Worm: What sort of dirty/messy activities do you enjoy? I hate getting messy. I eat ribs with a fork and knife. I'm trying to think of an exception and I can't.

5. Bang: What's the last celebration you went to? A wedding!