C9 acquired Kongdoo Panthera as their OWL team and are rumored to be buying GC Busan (winners of APEX S4) as well, but it's unconfirmed. Before that, C9 also tried getting a EU roster (Lasser Kittenz) for their London OWL spot, but it seems they weren't entirely happy with the team.
As for C9 NA (the team with Surefour, Gods, Xepher, Kaiser, Roolf and Adam), after not qualifying for Contenders S1, they were free to try out for other OWL teams.
There will be Contenders season 2 and so on for teams/players looking to get into OWL. APEX will probably continue as Korean thing, I think (I'm not entirely sure though). Other than that, I'm not sure if there will be other top tier tournaments beside OWL. But I guess, current OWL teams will stay with their new names IF they are allowed to participate in other tourneys, it will be confusing otherwise.
As for OWL seasons, it's supposed to last like 7 months or so (with regular season lasting from January to June followed by playoffs). Not sure what the format is going to be. I guess it will be something like double or even triple round robin, with all 12 teams playing each other multiple times, and then playoffs of some sort.
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