GOATS

A historical comp name deriving from Team GOATS in 2018 (the team that established the 3 tank + 3 support composition). Running no DPS, it combined Lucio's speed buff, Brigitte's armor packs, and Moira's area healing so that everyone shared space at close range and crushed through — the peak of brawl — and it dominated OWL. In September 2019, 2-2-2 Role Queue was introduced to OW1 and made a 3-tank composition impossible to field, which directly ended the GOATS meta (Role Queue itself is generally held to have been a GOATS counter). OW2's move to 5v5 then cut the tank slot to one, making it structurally impossible to reproduce as well. Even so, the idea of "area buffs x durability x close-range pressure" is rooted in the design of current brawl comps, and it is still referenced as the baseline for understanding why Role Queue and 5v5 were introduced. It is shared language for coaches and viewers discussing comp history, and it marks the ceiling for how far current brawl can be pushed in that direction.

Use it as a reference point in comp-history and meta-shift discussion. When explaining the ceiling on current brawl comps — why they can only go so far — contrast why GOATS worked (6v6, pre-Role Queue, stacked buffs) with how it ended (Role Queue in OW1 in 2019 ended it directly, then OW2's 5v5 made it structurally impossible to reproduce).