NRG Shock Wheats: "We're like rockstars, they'll do whatever for us."

Wheats is one of the winningest North American Overwatch coaches, leading the American Tornado and Redbird Esports dynasties. Now, he coaches NRG Shock in the Overwatch Champions Series, and Winthrop University in the Overwatch Collegiate Championship and NACE Superconference.

We discuss some of the revamped rosters in North America (including TSM and Citrus Nation), why NRG was smoked in Grand Finals by Toronto Defiant, the differences between Winthrop and Illinois State, and why UltraViolet is the only American Tornado player still competing at a high level.

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00:00 Intro
00:24 New Challengers in NA
02:29 Upper Bracket Final and Grand Finals against Defiant
03:29 Substitution Strategies
05:08 UltraViolet: last American Tornado player standing
06:29 NRG’s midyear signings
08:20 Coaching Korean players
10:19 OWCS vs. Collegiate
12:07: Winthrop vs. Illinois State
13:38 A question from MrZeddus
14:56 Is Toronto locked in for Stage 4?
16:27 NRG Shock vs. NTMR
17:40 Juno meta in North America
18:27 Skipping the Swiss stage
19:00 Outro