The franchise began in 2018 as Last Night's Leftovers (LNL), an unsponsored Overwatch Open Division team.
[9] Atlanta went on to roll through the playoffs, dropping only one map throughout its entirety, and defeated Gladiators Legion in the finals to claim their first Contenders title.
[10] Due to their regional title, the team qualified as the top seed in The Gauntlet, an interregional, Contenders tournament.
[11] Bypassing the group stages due to their seed, ATL first fell to Element Mystic, 2–3, in the upper-bracket semifinals of the double-elimination tournament.
[12] The team ran through the lower bracket, sweeping XL2 Academy, Gen.G, and RunAway to make it to the Grand Finals, where they again faced Element Mystic.