2019 Vancouver Titans season
The team continued their regular season dominance by winning an Overwatch League record 19 consecutive games that was not snapped until on June 23, when the Los Angeles Valiant defeated the Titans.
[3] Vancouver found their fourth straight victory in week three, as the team beat Los Angeles Valiant 3–1.
[7] Titans showed a dominant performance in the semifinals, sweeping Dynasty 4–0 to move on to the Finals against San Francisco Shock.
[8] The Stage 1 Finals took place on March 24 with the Titans taking on the sixth-seeded San Francisco Shock.
Despite clutch plays from Grant "Moth" Espe on Lúcio, the Shock could not capture all three points on their attack.
With over four minutes remaining in their time bank, the Titans were able to push the payload further to claim the title of Stage 1 Champions.
[22] The Titans recovered from their first regular season loss in their final match of the stage a week later, as they swept the Los Angeles Gladiators 4–0.
[23] As the second seed in the Stage 3 Playoffs, the Titans first faced the seventh-seeded Houston Outlaws on July 11.
The series opened on Ilios; the Titans consistently won team fights, even when they had a player disadvantage, as they took the first map to go up 1–0.
The second and third maps, Eichenwalde and Volskaya Industries, saw similar results; the Titans put on a stellar defensive performance in both, despite solid Widowmaker play from Outlaws' DPS LiNkzr.
Vancouver's DPS Kim "Haksal" Hyo-jong on Genji dominated throughout the match, as he amassed 27 Dragonblade kills during the match to set an Overwatch League record for most Dragonblade kills per 10 minutes, and the Titans went on to sweep the Mayhem 4–0.
[31] The team's final match of the regular season was against the Atlantic Division Champions New York Excelsior a day later.
Vancouver and New York both took a point in the final map, Lijiang Tower, but the Titans came out on top close out the regular season with a 3–2 match victory.
[32] As the top seed in the season playoffs, the Titans took on the eighth-seeded Seoul Dynasty in the first round on September 5.
[33] Advancing to the first round of the upper bracket, Vancouver next took on the fifth-seeded Los Angeles Gladiators on September 8.
New York sent the match to King's Row next; the Excelsior struck back in map two, completing the map on their attack and holding Vancouver from completing the same feat, due in part to a stellar performance by New York's DPS Kim "Libero" Hye-sung on Doomfist.
With the series tied 1–1 coming out of a match break, Vancouver chose Temple of Anubis for the next map.
Titan's DPS Seo "SeoMinSoo" Min-Soo's stellar Reaper and Doomfist play, along with well-coordinated plays from Vancouver's tank line, propelled the Titans to take maps four and five, while New York struck back to tie up the series by winning map six, Numbani.
As the map moved to the escort potion, the Shock did not lose a team fight as they captured the second point with over four minutes in the time bank.
[38] As the payload was escorted though the final phase of the map, Rascal used Mei's ice walls helping to both protect and elevate Architect's Bastion to give him high ground.
Notably, Architect had managed to get Bastion up onto one of the chandeliers that hung near the end of the map and, subsequently, prevented the Titans from challenging the final capture from this tactical position.
The Titans responded well, and through a lengthy team fight, they were able to capture the first point and began escorting the payload.
On San Francisco's attack, they were held up under the choke point for an extended amount of time, but the team was able to touch the capture area as time ran out to force an overtime timer; a clutch ultimate from Choi "ChoiHyoBin" Hyo-bin on Sigma led to the Shock closing out the map with a win.
[38] On defense, the Titans focused on shutting down sinatraa's Doomfist,[36] and found some success, as they were able to hold of the Shock's first and second attacks.
However, the Shock finally broke through the Titan defense as the timer ran out and captured the first point in overtime.
San Francisco carried that momentum into the second point and won the first team fight to finish the map with 2:12 in their time bank.
[38] Vancouver struggled to push the payload to the first checkpoint on their attack, largely due to a stellar performance by Shock's DPS Rascal on Pharah.
