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 specials Overwatch skins celebrating the second victory of the San Francisco Shock Championship and Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim winning the 2020 MVP Award. But included in the ad on the Overwatch League website was this little warning:
Don’t miss it, as this is the last time a skin will be made for the Overwatch League MVP.
The skins of special players began in 2019, when the League launched a special hero cosmetic commemorating the talents of the previous year’s MVP. Sung-hyeon “JJoNak” Bang won the first such skin, a of slippery-looking octopus Zenyatta, for his talent as a League deadliest support player. In 2020 Jay “Sinatraa” Won became the second MVP in the League, earning a Zarya’s alien-themed look.
Shortly afterwards Won’s skin was released left the Overwatch League to pursue a professional career Valuing, but his skin remained. However, after an ex-girlfriend issued a statement stating He gained sexual and emotional abuse, the Overwatch League released its own statement saying it would remove Zarya de Won’s skin issue credit for anyone who wants a refund.
Blizzard has also made private the video announcing the skin deleted tweets, and appear to have removed skin references from overwatchleague.com. Won was suspended from both Valuing equipment and any future Valuing 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 their MVPs. The skins may be designed to show the personality and heroine characteristic of the winning MVP and, as such, are a kind of lasting representation of them in the game. By removing MVP skins, Blizzard could be protecting itself from a future in which it may have to distance itself from other troubled MVPs.
Kotaku has contacted Blizzard to comment.
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