After this year, the Overwatch League will no longer create special skins to honor the league’s MVP. Earlier today, the Overwatch League announced the release of two special Ear Watch velle celebrates the San Francisco Shock’s second championship victory and Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim who deserves 2020 MVP award. But the announcement on the Overwatch League website was the small reservation:
Do not miss it, as this is the last time a skin is made for the Overwatch League MVP.
The skins for special players began in 2019 when the league released a special hero cosmetic commemorating the talents of the previous year’s MVP. Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang deserves the first skin, a smooth octopus theme Zenyatta, for his talents as the leagues deadliest support player. In 2020, Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won becomes the league’s second MVP and earns a exotic Zarya look.
Shortly after Won’s skin was released he left the Overwatch League to pursue a career in the profession Brave, but his skin remained. However, after a former girlfriend issued a statement in which he claimed Has sexually and emotionally abused her, the Overwatch League issued its own statement saying it was Won’s Zarya skin and issue credit for anyone who wanted a refund.
Blizzard also made the video announcing the skin private, deleted tweets, and it appears to have removed references to the skin from overwatchleague.com. Won was suspended from both sides Brave team and any future Brave professional matches pending investigation.
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It is currently unknown why the Overwatch League would end the tradition of awarding special skins to its MVPs. This may be because the skins are designed to showcase the personality and distinctive hero of the winning MVP and as such are a kind of enduring representation of it in the game. By eliminating MVP skins, Blizzard may be able to guard against a future in which it may have to distance itself from other problematic MVPs.
Kotaku came out to Blizzard for comment.
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