2018 London Spitfire season
The 2018 London Spitfire season was the first season of the London Spitfire's existence in the Overwatch League. The team finished with a regular season record of 24–16, which was the fifth best in the Overwatch League. London qualified for the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Playoffs. In the stage 1 playoffs, London defeated the Houston Outlaws in the semifinals and New York Excelsior in the finals. The team lost in the Stage 2 semifinals to the Philadelphia Fusion. The team also qualified for the Season Playoffs, in which they won in the Grand Finals against the Philadelphia Fusion. Preceding offseason Cloud9 was awarded the London slot for an OWL franchise on 10 August 2017 and was later named the London Spitfire. Shortly afterwards, they disclosed their 12-player inaugural season roster, the maximum permitted, which would be entirely composed of the following South Korean players: Kim "birdring" Ji-hyeok Park "Profit" Joon-yeong Kim "Rascal" Dong-jun Lee "Hooreg" Dong-eun Hong "Gesture" Jae-hui Baek "Fissure" Chan-hyung Choi "Bdosin" Seung-tae Kim "NUS" Jong-seok Jung "Closer" Won-sik Jo "HaGoPeun" Hyeon-woo Kim "Fury" Jun-ho Seong "WooHyaL" Seung-hyun The roster would mainly be an amalgamation of their current Cloud9 KONGDOO core and OGN's Overwatch APEX Season 4