OWL winners show off championship ring with a cheeky engraving
The Florida Mayhem celebrates its victory with a championship ring that honours its entire competitive history in the Overwatch League, including its shenanigans.
07th Dec 2023 14:05
Image via Florida Mayhem
OWL winners show off championship ring with a cheeky engraving
The Florida Mayhem celebrates its victory with a championship ring that honours its entire competitive history in the Overwatch League, including its shenanigans.
07th Dec 2023 14:05
Image via Florida Mayhem
The Florida Mayhem have chosen their design for their Championship ring, coming after the team won the last Overwatch League Grand Finals in Toronto in early October.
With a design that honours its history throughout all of Overwatch League, they also snuck one cheeky message into the bottom of the band that captured its full spirit and paid homage when the franchise pulled a fast one on the League.
A hashtag for the ages
Before the start of the 2022 season, Overwatch League teams chose to register new hashtags with the social media platform X, then known as Twitter. Registered hashtags come with the benefit of also displaying a small icon when used.
The Overwatch League, as well as its franchises, kept on top of the trend, updating them regularly. Moving on from the hashtag #LightItUp, the team somehow snuck the hashtag #brickedup past both the Overwatch League as well as the official Twitter account.
After a brief period, the dedicated hashtag changed to #BringTheMayhem, which is still active. Immortalising the moment when they pulled this heist off, its design also includes the phrase, strategically placed on the bottom of the band, as recent VALORANT Game Changers winner Ava "florescent" Eugene pointed out.
Classic championship ring design with a rich history
The Mayhem's ring design incorporates artefacts from its entire competitive history. The stones chosen are held in Mayhem's colour theme it switched to in 2020, leaving the red and yellow behind for the pink and blue, leaning on the Miami vaporwave colour scheme.
Around the ring, the Mayhem chose a design that names the home countries of all of the players the team had brought onto its roster since the start of the Overwatch League in 2018. Moreover, it kept to the name the respective countries call themselves by and even used their writing systems.
Signifying a job well done, the side of the ring displays the trophy and the message "brought the Mayhem," choosing the simple past from its hashtag catchphrase. Once more, it's referring to its shenanigans, showing a bricked wall behind the trophy, framed with typical palm trees associated with the state's capital.
The players and staff are both mentioned on the other side of the ring for each individual and once again listed on the inside of the ring, showing all seven players of the championship-winning squad and four staff members.
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Sascha Heinisch
Sascha "Yiska" Heinisch is a Senior Esports Journalist at GGRecon. He's been creating content in esports for over 10 years, starting with Warcraft 3.
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