{"id":1304,"date":"2025-07-24T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2025-08-07T14:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:45:20","slug":"blockchain-company-sign-enters-overwatch-2-through-ntmr-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/blockchain-company-sign-enters-overwatch-2-through-ntmr-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain company Sign enters Overwatch 2 through NTMR joint venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"602\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Sign Esports Club logo for Overwatch 2 team in OWCS 2025, featuring Ramattra, Lucio, and Cassidy\" class=\"wp-image-197909 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NTMR-Sign-Esports-Club-OWCS-team-large.png\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credit: Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff4e391\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>Blockchain company <strong>Sign <\/strong>has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethsign\/status\/1948382926367760812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">officially announced <\/a>that it has entered a \u2018strategic partnership\u2019 with esports club <strong>NTMR <\/strong>to launch the <strong>Sign Esports Club<\/strong> for Overwatch 2.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff4ea1c\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>NTMR\u2019s team for the hero shooter will now compete under Sign in the upcoming <strong>Overwatch Champions Series<\/strong> (OWCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/owcs-2025-midseason-championship-preview-crazy-raccoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mid-Season Championship<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"keep-reading \" id=\"kr-6894bbff4f860\">\n<div class=\"heading section__title \"><span>Keep Reading<\/span><\/div>\n<ul class=\"d-flex flex-column\">\n<li id=\"post-197620\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/overwatch-2-season-17-midseason-update-wuyang-trial-flashpoint\">Overwatch 2 Season 17 midseason update: Wuyang hero trial date, Flashpoint map rework<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-197444\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/owcs-launches-new-team-packs-ahead-of-midseason-championship\">OWCS launches new Team Packs ahead of Midseason Championship<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"post-197046\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/blizzard-reveals-how-overwatch-2-matchmaking-works\">Blizzard reveals how Overwatch 2 matchmaking works<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff506ae\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sign_Esports\/status\/1948382502604931188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Further details<\/a> shared by Sign Esports reveal that the Overwatch 2 team will be competing in new Sign orange jerseys and will officially play as Sign Esports in the <strong>Esports World Cup<\/strong> (EWC) at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff50d09\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NTMRgg\/status\/1945906369686561125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NTMR\u2019s announcement online<\/a> that it will be loaning its Overwatch 2 team to Sign, which will then return the roster to the organisation once <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/which-teams-have-qualified-for-owcs-stage-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OWCS Stage 3<\/a> begins. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff51374\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fl4kDrift\/status\/1945911398367699117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response on X<\/a>, <strong>Jack \u2018Fl4k\u2019 Ketchum, General Manager and CEO of NTMR<\/strong>, said: \u201cI am really sorry to the NTMR supporters. Had to do what was best for the team, their performance at EWC, and their future as pros. I will be continuing to support them during this loan. I hope they have a great time practising in Korea and kill it at the event!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff519c8\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>He also clarified in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fl4kDrift\/status\/1946012865762079216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comment <\/a>that the Overwatch 2 roster will be travelling to Korea for a bootcamp to practice ahead of the EWC tournament.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff51fae\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>What will happen to Sign Esports after the international competition was not revealed in the post. However, Sign Esports stated that this was \u2018the beginning of a new frontier,\u2019 and that it was looking to achieve \u2018ambitious objectives in multiple areas.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff525db\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>Whether the organisation will continue to compete in esports post OWCS Mid-Season, or expand to other competitive games, remains to be seen. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"esi-paragraph-6894bbff52c03\" class=\"esi-paragraph \">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/owcs-stage-2-midseason-format-schedule-teams-and-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OWCS Mid-Season Championship<\/a> is scheduled to take place during EWC from July 31st to August 3rd, 2025. The top teams that qualified from Stage 2 will go head-to-head for the lion\u2019s share of a $1m (~\u00a3739,000) prize pool and earn the champion title. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/sign-ntmr-overwatch-2-joint-venture\">Blockchain company Sign enters Overwatch 2 through NTMR joint venture<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\">Esports Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Sign Blockchain company Sign has officially announced that it has entered a \u2018strategic partnership\u2019 with esports club NTMR to launch the Sign Esports Club for Overwatch 2. NTMR\u2019s team for the hero shooter will now compete under Sign in the upcoming Overwatch Champions Series (OWCS) Mid-Season Championship this year. Keep Reading Overwatch 2&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}