London Spitfire DPS player Kim “birdring” Ji-hyeok will sit out of the Overwatch <\/em>League’s All-Star Weekend due to a wrist injury. Park “Profit” Jun-young, birdring’s London Spitfire DPS partner, will step in as a replacement.<\/p>
“Farewell Profit. We’ll miss you… in Korea, because your favorite Overwatch<\/em> League finals MVP is traveling to Los Angeles for All-Stars,” London Spitfire wrote on Twitter. “As the leading votes-getter, Profit will be taking birdring’s place, allowing the latter to give his wrists some much deserved rest.”<\/p>
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London Spitfire didn’t expand on birdring’s wrist injury, but the South Korean DPS player previously said he didn’t<\/em> hurt his wrist playing Overwatch<\/em>; his wrist injury originated<\/a> from playing Bennett Foddy’s Getting Over It<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> The notoriously frustrating game has players hurling themselves over a mountain, playing as a man with a cauldron for a lower body. Birdring said on stream in August that he hurt his wrist after slamming his wrists on his desk while playing the game.<\/p>
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Dot Esports has reached out to London Spitfire for more information on birdring’s injury.<\/p>
Birdring’s replacement isn’t half bad, though: Profit was named the Overwatch<\/em> League grand finals MVP<\/a> shortly after London Spitfire was named champion of the inaugural season.<\/p>
The Overwatch<\/em> League’s All-Star Weekend<\/a> is scheduled for Aug. 25 and 26 at Blizzard Arena Los Angeles in Burbank, California. The Atlantic and Pacific division teams, voted in by fans and Overwatch<\/em> League staff, will go head-to-head in a series of skill-based challenges, followed by the official All-Star Game on Aug. 26.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
