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in katowice, Poland,

teams will either need to be

on top of a major region

or win one of the four

i.E.M. Qualifying events.

We're in shenzhen, China,

at the anime expo.

This is the first I.E.M.

To kick off season nine.

We're at an anime convention

as well.

You guys can see behind me

that there's, like,

a ga-jillion Chinese people

wearing ridiculous things.

The intel extreme masters

is usually hosted at a comic-con

or a fan expo before the world

championships, that is.

We built this to make sure that

whenever we come to an event

somewhere, the audience

will be at some point so huge

that it will overflow

and we will not have

enough space.

And then next time we do it,

we do it in a stadium.

The starter show is probably

the most nerve-wracking.

I still get nervous.

You always want to do

the very best show you can do.

And a very warm welcome

to a very warm shenzhen.

Our new season

is well under way.

If you want to run a soccer

final,

you go inside the stadium,

you turn the floodlights on,

and you open the gates,

then you're done.

With esports, we have to build

the entire stage from scratch.

We have to lay the network,

set up our streaming devices,

and make sure that we are safe

from outside attacks.

So the level of complexity

is much higher.

This is world elite

up against Edward gaming,

and they're fighting

for a change for a spot

into the intel extreme masters

world championship

coming up next year.

Here's engaged on...

He's so low on health,

he's gonna go down

from this one.

We'll try to hop away.

Actually, look at the shield!

He might survive this one,

and in fact, he will.

I thought he was a goner.

World elite playing like

a top...

Playing like the team

that you kind of expected

to come into this.

It looks like we're gonna have

a slight little bit of a pause

coming into the game.

An average convention

has a major problem

understanding what we do.

They are trying to fix it,

and I think it's already fixed.

A lot of times, you feel sort

of lost and frustrated.

I don't know, to be honest.

They're sorting it.

Yeah, well, it looks like

the pause has been turned off.

We're going back

into the game here, guys.

I want to talk about, again,

not...

I don't know if their game, oh,

okay, the game has stalled out.

We're hearing everyone

disconnecting.

I'm not actually sure

what's going on with that one.

We sent them the plans

of how much power we need,

but with language barrier,

the venue decided

that we don't need that much.

What happened was

that we have power outages,

like, from the beginning,

which basically

cuts off the stream immediately.

They're looking for the fight

on top of the barrier,

and we will see the...

Oh, Donald's gonna come in.

It will connect

with at least one.

Fzzf GONNA GET LOCKED DOWN HERE.

SO LOW ON LIFE.

And for some reason, a pause

comes out during the middle

of that team fight here

at such an instrumental time.

If something goes wrong,

we have thousands

of angry people telling us

immediately

how bad we are at what we do.

It's brutal sometimes.

If we mess up, it's brutal.

I'm not from California.

I moved here from Michigan,

actually.

And I basically left a lot

of my friends.

My girlfriend's over there,

my family's over there.

And I basically

started a new life living

over here in California with

these four teammates of mine.

It's kind of messy, but we're

five college-aged guys.

We're not too concerned about

how clean our room is, I guess.

This is the main living room

that we spend

most of our time in.

As far as the bed over there,

that's just because our teammate

bought a new bed,

and he hasn't put that anywhere,

so now it's just kind

of like a couch.

We don't spend too much time

up here

even though there's a hot tub

chilling there.

I have no idea, actually.

I... was it like that

when we moved in?

When you're building a team,

you want to look for people

that, one, are good at the game,

two, have motivation

to become better at the game,

and three, people

that you just genuinely like.

So for us, we all trust

each other wholeheartedly,

and that translates

into the game as well.

So if I do something

in the game, and,

like, I jump into five people

by myself,

my team will trust me,

and they'll back me up.

They'll jump into the fray with

me, regardless of what it is.

How did that hit?

You're spider-man.

Cloud9 has been together,

like, two years.

Since we've come into the scene,

every other team

has had multiple roster changes

except for us.

And for whatever reason,

we mesh together fairly well.

- Hey, Hai?

- What?

Italian sausage marinara,

right?

Yeah, pasta.

You want hot wings

with hot sauce?

Damn.

Okay.

Back in the day when my wife

and I started dating,

I had to reveal to her,

like, my biggest secret.

"So, I play video games."

She's like, "so?"

And I'm like,

"i play them a lot."

And she said,

"what do you mean, a lot?"

I'm like, "i play, like,

40, 50 hours every week."

And she's like, "what?!"

Said, "i play this game.

It's called 'world of warcraft, '

I run a guild."

Nerd scream! Whoo!

And she's like, "how long

has this been going on?"

Like, "years."

And she's like, "i got to

see this. What is this?"

Would you like

to open the play-doh?

- Yeah.

- Yes.

Wow!

Holly was actually

pregnant with Madison

when I was working for tsm.

Tsm means team solomid.

It's one of the earliest

esports organizations

in "league of legends."

Jack used to be

the general manager of tsm.

LOOK, April 5th,

I'll TELL YOU RIGHT NOW.

Is that the next time you play?

- Yeah.

- All right.

I'm not shaving

until we beat curse.

I found myself in a state

where, like, "hey,

I'd like to do this for myself.

All I needed was a team."

But then Hai come to me,

and he said, "hey,

I want you to make a company

for my team to play under."

I knew Hai's team.

Hai's team was really good.

They'd been beating tsm

90% of the time.

And tsm at the time

was like the number-one team

in north America.

We both lived in San Jose

at the time.

We were like considered

sister teams of cloud9.

You're his left-hand man?

- Oh!

- Whoa!

Originally, team solomid

dominated north America...

Until we showed up.

Now we and team solomid

are constantly competing

to be the best in north America.

We're, I would say,

the primary representation

of the north American region.

There's a perception right now

that north America

is the worst region,

and that the Asian teams

are gonna stomp out

any north American team.

When was the last time

a north American team

won a major trophy in esports...

And it wasn't "halo"?

Uh, major trophy.

Okay, that's a long time.

To see a team

that comes from north America

compete against people

all across the world

and stand out...

That's just a dream.

You know, that's just ideal.

It hasn't happened yet.

Really.

But I have faith.

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