Watching Blizzard: It's a red alert

Well, if not red, at least yellow. Let's jump right into the news.

Alert! Alert!

• A new round of Battle for Azeroth alpha invites has gone out, so check your inboxes and your launchers.

The drama doesn't stop for the Dallas Fuel

• Remember xQc? The Dallas Fuel player who spent most of his Overwatch League career being suspended? Well, now his replacement, OGE, has been suspended, too. Fortunately — if there is anything fortunate about this — OGE has only been suspended for account boosting, so there's still some hope that Dallas can shake its reputation for toxic gaming behavior.

And the drama doesn't stop for the Shanghai Dragons, either

• Though Diya and Undead are both gone, three of Shanghai's new players have arrived in LA: Ado, Fearless, and now Geguri. Ado and Fearless made their debuts in a losing match against the Houston Outlaws this week, but who knows if we'll see any of the team's newcomers in their last match of this Stage. The Dragons face down the Spitfire at 10 p.m. CDT tonight. It will be a real miracle if they pull out a win, but I'll be watching anyway.

Apparently, there's Overwatch beyond Overwatch League!

• Michael Chu took the time to answer some fan questions about Brigitte's origins, but we have to say... the results of the Q&A were a little lackluster. Come on, Michael! We have so many questions that still need answers.
• Coming soon: Mei and Reaper buffs. We still don't know what or when, but definitely soon™. 

Rachelle wrote a really insightful post about Discipline Priests in the alpha

• Unfortunately, her masterful work of analysis was only online for about five hours before Blizzard pushed a new alpha build that changed Discipline's Mastery and invalidated most of it. Sorry, Rachelle. These things happen to the best of us.

First Aid is leaving, but bandages are staying

• First Aid is no more in Battle for Azeroth, but Tailors will be making some pretty sweet bandages.

I'm just here for the dinosaurs

• And, good news, there are a lot of dinosaurs in the expansion. If we were to pre-judge expansions based on the apparent number of dinosaurs, this would rank at the very top. We'll be fighting dinosaurs, shapeshifting into dinosaurs, and now, riding dinosaurs. (All I know is that I will do any amount of farming to get that Brutosaur.)

That's all for now my fellow night owls (or, perhaps, extremely early birds). I'll be back tomorrow with another roundup of the day's news (for the opportunity to needle Mitch if nothing else), so I'll see you then. This is Liz, signing out to go have some amazing dreams a out having my own giant dinosaur friend.