Why Paris Ever Found Out of New Jersey This Season

After two seasons in Burbank, California, the The escape The League has finally achieved its goal of spreading teams around the world in their various home cities. Yes, very much. Paris Eternal, in a sense, operates outside New Jersey. New Jersey, in case you came from a non-Earth planet, is not in France.

Just a few weeks before the OWL season opener for the third season, which started in New York and Dallas this past weekend, and The Washington Post reported that Paris Eternal will set up shop in New Jersey instead of Paris. Over the weekend, Blizzard and Paris Eternal confirmed this Kotaku

, through OWL president Jon Spector, said the team "will practice and be based in New Jersey this year." Paris Eternal Hee-won trainer "Rush" Yun explained that the decision was mainly born of worries related to the practice.

"Living in New Jersey is great because we have to get used to a lot of North American groups," he told Yun Kotaku during a post-match interview at the first three-round draft event in New York. "When we return to Paris, there are many limitations to the groups we may face due to ping problems."

The escape League teams are always teasing each other, and Paris can quickly turn around if they are separated on their own because of connection speed problems. This also alleviates problems associated with jet lag encounters from comparison games with other groups, many of which are based in North America. However, the team will know still playing its home games in Paris.

"From a league standpoint, our focus is on these events and the ability to mobilize thousands of fans to entertain their favorite players and teams in those cities," Spector said. "Back in the Paris example, they are planning three events this year. Three wonderful weekends in Paris for thousands of fans."

Eternal Paris is interested in putting these events in the city responsible for their administration, if not their residences. The escape League teams have a few valuable ways to make a profit. While traditional sports teams have taken huge strides from state-sponsored radio and sporting organizations, OWL teams have done far less than in the past and have, until now, never achieved anything successfully to the last. This season, for example, many teams rent places as needed, rather than playing in their own stadiums. In the meantime, The escape

League teams can look at retail sales and timber products only, both of which make very little sense without the assurance of local events and the base of dedicated local fans (even if they are, those kinds of business models stay in doubt in the broader context of esports). Paris Eternal, then, has great motivation to create some kind of presence in Paris, even if it is not supported there yet.

The question is whether this will harm the party in the long run. With The escape The game is finally in full swing, the teams want to get the team back multi-million dollar investment

by building kings in their cities. Teams such as the New York Excelsior, who hosted the weekend event, headed straight for not just playing games, but also set up pop-up shops and appearances and other New York sports teams, a NYXL affiliate. It seems to have worked, at least to some extent; at the weekend, NYXL vendors sold like well-written hotcakes, and audiences were full of fans who knew the team enough to name the players individually for the big moments. However either Can the club continue to sort this season's enthusiasm, which lasts until mid-August? That is still to be seen, especially after the second season, when online viewing numbers fell sharply after the first few months (even if others suggest that the OWL has heard us from numerical viewpoints) However, with the players of Paris Forever separated from France by the thousands of miles of sea, the team's ability to find all the important non-game opportunities will be limited.

Will Eternal Paris be left outside of Paris? Currently, the group has no concrete plans for next year. When asked if the group would move to Paris ahead of the fourth season in 2021, Yun said, "We're not sure yet."