The 2020 Boston Uprising season is the third season of Boston Uprising's existence in the Overwatch League and their first under head coach Vytis "Mineral" Lasaitis. The team will look to improve upon their 8–20 record from 2019. Boston will host two homestand weekends in the 2020 season at currently undetermined locations.[1]
Preceding offseason
Organizational changes
In September 2018, Boston announced that former Florida Mayhem head coach Vytis "Mineral" Lasaitis would be the fill the team's head coach vacancy, which had been empty for over a year.[2] A month later, the Uprising released assistant coaches Jordan "Gunba" Graham and Jackson "Shake" Kaplan; the team signed Ilias "iLka" Kaskanetas, who had most recently been the head coach of European Overwatch Contenders team Angry Titans, as an assistant coach.[3]
Roster changes
Free agents and team options
Role
Player
Contract status
Date signed
2020 team
Handle
Name
Support
Aimgod
Min-Seok Kwon
Free agent
–
–
Support
Alemao
Renan Moretto
Team option
–
–
Support
Kellex
Kristian Keller
Free agent
–
–
Support
Persia
Zion Yang
Team option
–
–
Tank
RCK
Richard Kanerva
Team option
–
–
Damage
Stellar
Do-Hyung Lee
Team option
–
–
Legend
Re-signed/Retained by the Uprising.
Departed from the Uprising.
The Uprising enter the new season with two free agents, four players which they have the option to retain for another year, and four players under contract.[4] The OWL's deadline to exercise a team option is November 11, after which any players not retained will become a free agent. Free agency officially began on October 7.[5]
Acquisitions
Boston made their first offseason acquisitions on October 28, when they signed support Seo "Myunbong" Sang-min and DPS Min "Jerry" Tae-hui from Korean Contenders teams from O2 Blast and Meta Athena, respectively.[6]
Departures
The Uprising announced on October 21 that they would not elect to retain all four of their players with a team option – support Yang "Persia" Zion, support Renan "alemao" Moretto, off-tank Richard "rCk" Kanerva, and DPS Lee "Stellar" Do-hyung. Additionally, they also announced the same day that they would not re-sign either of their free agents – Kwon "AimGod" Min-seok and Kristian "Kellex" Keller.[7] The following day, the team transferred DPS Jeffrey "blasé" Tsang to the Houston Outlaws.[8]
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