'Overwatch' Esports is Ready for Its Close Up

A few short months ago, the notion that Blizzard's Overwatch would succeed as an esport was anything but a sure thing. It's the first all-new property that the studio that spawned WarCraft has introduced since 1998, and the world wasn't exactly asking for a new team-based first-person shooter. But today,

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