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That's the future of gaming.

This is awesome!

It's the first time we're going to see teams

of this caliber assembled in one location.

These guys are not just nameless faces.

They're the best in the world.

The bunch of teams we have here,

there's a few teams that have individual

skill that's unbelievable.

And then there's a big group of other teams

that have good individual skill,

not top-notch,

but who win through good

strategy and team play.

Fear is a great player, for example,

but he is not comparable

to good players in Asia.

And that's nothing against Fear,

because he's still an excellent player

but he's not them.

Over in Asia, they take gaming

so much more seriously.

Just to give you an example,

the Korean soccer team were

playing in the World Cup.

To motivate the Korean soccer

team to play better,

they brought in Starcraft Brood War

professional gamers

into their locker room before they went out

so that they got to meet

what were their heroes.

Shanghai, China

In China, Dota is to the people

there what Starcraft is to Korea.

It's televised.

The girls like their boyfriends

to be Dota players.

After a game, when they're walking around

you can see fans running up to them

asking them to sign on their shirts.

It's like a real sport.

The third time I was in China,

I was playing with fans for two days.

They made a video of me,

filming me walking in some mountains

and I had to say some sentences and stuff.

And I was like, yeah, "In Dota,

there's always a new mountain to climb."

Stuff like this, you know.

I walked up and down these stairs

and started running and

lifting some weights,

just to compare this with Dota

like some metaphor and stuff.

Fuzhou, I am coming!

E Sports in China is already a sport

that is recognized by the

General Administration of Sport.

It is the same as tennis, ping pong, chess.

The only thing is that it is

not an Olympic sport.

I will say that China teams are all great.

Every player in the team is strong.

You don't recognize China

players as a player.

You just recognize them as a whole team.

You just fear the whole team.

The Chinese teams that have

come to this competition

are scaring the sh*t out of everyone else.

We had two of the top

Chinese teams in our group.

Online Kingdom has not been

regarded as one of the favorites to win it.

In fact, they were considered bottom four

or just bottom eight for sure.

This is our first time on LAN together.

The team together has only been

around for around 4-5 months

so it's a relatively new team,

and Pajkatt, our newest addition,

playing Carry for us,

he's only been on the team for

three weeks now actually.

We were really nervous going

against a Chinese team

especially the top Chinese teams.

There are going to be players that choke

handling this kind of pressure

at such a young age.

1437, this is the first time he's

ever been on LAN.

It's not easy, like, this is a

million dollar tournament.

First time he's been on LAN.

LAN (LOCAL AREA NETWORK) A TOURNAMENT WHERE ALL

THE TEAMS COMPETE IN THE SAME LOCATION

This stage. This prize money.

This prestige.

This is real competition.

We tried to keep our cool together

and we just played our game.

ONLINE KINGDOM VS VIRUS

ONLINE KINGDOM 1-0

ONLINE KINGDOM VS NIRVANA.CN

ONLINE KINGDOM 2-0

We were super hyped.

Everyone was surprised

we were doing so good.

Even we couldn't believe it.

Online Kingdom dominating right now.

ONLINE KINGDOM VS TYLOO

ONLINE KINGDOM:

3-0

After the match against TyLoo,

everyone was very excited, you know.

We just beat one of the teams that was

actually favored to win the competition.

So everyone's spirits were, like,

"Oh, we may be actually

able to do this, you know."

Beating the Chinese teams,

some people just, you know

for fun, they started,

"Ok, hey, it's OK.Nirvana.Int.

They're the China slayers."

DAY 2 of 5

DOUBLE-ELIMINATION BEGINS

A few little bit surprises that

we had yesterday.

Quite a few upsets.

OK.Nirvana.International managing

to beat two Chinese teams in a row,

beating out TyLoo and OK.Nirvana.CN.

They're currently on a roll now.

And Chinese teams are not unbeatable.

But on the other hand,

EHOME are just proving that they are

the strongest of the four Chinese teams

having a clean 3-0 record.

They are the favorites to win

the whole tournament.

So they come in with the confidence

that they've won so many

championships already.

It's always a little bit of

national pride at stake.

So, of course, they want to prove that

Chinese Dota is still a little bit above the rest.

EHOME is one of the oldest

Chinese Dota organizations.

They've always been at the

top of competitive gaming.

Most memorably at ESWC 2010.

Before ESWC 2010,

I thought, like, yeah ok,

the Chinese, they're probably pretty good,

but like how good can they be?

And then we played EHOME who won that

tournament without losing a single match.

Like, they just crushed every team.

1st PLACE

EHOME finished the year as

the best team in the history of Dota.

They were just like on a

totally different level.

Like, they had their manager

sitting behind them.

He was making their calls.

He was running around with this

little black book.

And they were the first team

I heard of who did that.

The EHOME manager copying down

the draft, doing the prep work.

He was their coach.

There was a great interview that was done.

And it lined up all the top European

captains who attended

and the topic was EHOME.

If you want to ever play good

you don't need to invite Chinese teams

because they are too strong.

So EHOME won

What do you think of the Chinese guys?

I never felt this outplayed

in my entire life.

It's unbelievable how good they are.

Like, their timing, their discipline

They're really in control

of the game, the whole game,

and they keep this control all the time.

This is really crazy to see, actually.

It's because when we are at

any international tournament,

when all of the foreign team managers

and team members see us,

everyone will all yell out, "EHOME!"

EHOME! EHOME!

Do you know how spectacular that is?

Actually, this is a story. It's a custom.

Which is when everyone sees EHOME,

they naturally think the king is entering.

During this trip to The International,

it's actually the same period

as my exam periods.

So I treated it as a sacrifice

that I've made

for the team and for myself.

And I find that

when it comes to pursuing your passions

it's really up to you to decide

if it's worth the

worth the sacrifice.

SINGAPORE:

When they're having exams,

they don't allow him to leave the school

So I told him really I said,

"Mind yourself."

Setting out on a career in gaming

is risky. It's very risky.

Because the examinations actually

clash with the competition

and missing the exams without

a proper explanation,

the school didn't recognize the Dota

competition as a valid reason.

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