San Francisco Shock have beaten Paris Eternal 3-0 at the start of the Overwatch League 2023.

"I already felt a bit of pressure. But I focused on playing the way I always do on a normal day," Shocks rookie Dong-Hyun "Proper" Kim said in an interview with analyst Danny Lim after the game.

Despite close interim results, the Canadian emir "Kaan" Okumus and his team could not beat the favorites from San Francisco. London Spitfire with the German player Hadi Daniel "hadi" Bleinagel has the chance for a European revenge on the same matchday.

The Los Angeles Gladiators also won against New York Excelsior (3:1) and Atlanta Reign against the Florida team (3:1).

The start of the tournament did not go smoothly. League chief Sean Miller had to apologize for the problems in the quality of the broadcast. The highlight of the matchday will be the match between the Dallas Fuel and the Houston Outlaws, which will take place for the first time since the beginning of the corona pandemic on Saturday in front of its own audience.