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In August 2011 a tournament
featuring the popular
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online strategy game Dota 2 was
held in Cologne, Germany.
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It offered the largest prize pool to date
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attracting professional players
from all over the world.
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Yes, it is actually confirmed.
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1.6 million dollar prize pool!
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I'm double-checking to make sure
they haven't changed any details
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since they told us last time.
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1 million in US dollars for First Prize.
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That is for the winner.
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1 million dollars for winning Dota!
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It's going to be huge. Dota2.com
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The tournament tab is up, too.
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Our website will actually change
for the next 24 hours as well...
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The day I transformed into an adult was
the day I started playing Dota.
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It’s times like, when you
go up on the stage,
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you represent your country for something.
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You get the prize.
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It's the amount of satisfaction and achievement
that nothing else can give you.
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It's something I definitely
don't regret ever doing.
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Gaming is simply the proudest
thing in my life.
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It can be called "gamer," but for me,
it's something different.
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One way to forget about pain is to do
something that you will be in completely.
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So…
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computer games.
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For me, it was…
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everything.
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This is my career.
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I've chosen to do it for so long.
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Success in my eyes is always based
on how other people see you.
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In the eyes of the public,
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it's up to them.
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It's important to be doing things
that you love and you really appreciate.
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Because that's your passion, man.
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You should really work for your passions.
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Ok, guys, you have 7 minutes
to set everything up
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and then we go.
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This is the first time I really
wanted to take something seriously
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and do something good for my life.
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FREE TO PLAY
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10 years ago, competitive gaming
wasn't even really a thing.
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You would play for fun
against your friends.
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Maybe you would play for a cup of coffee or
whatever you wanted.
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When I started playing,
we'd been fighting for
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24 bottles of beer as a first place.
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I'm not joking.
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From there, though, online happened.
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And, all of a sudden, you weren't
just trying to be the best on your block.
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Now you're trying to be the best
in the world.
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And that opened up competitive
gaming to a whole new landscape.
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And one of the games really
leading the way is Dota.
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Dota is sort of a combination of football
(or soccer for the Americans)
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and Chess.
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This is probably how I would try
to explain Dota
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to someone who's not familiar with it.
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At least, that's what I did to my parents.
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Dota is a game of momentum.
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You as 5 players
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try and battle against the other
5 players for momentum.
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Every single player controls one unit.
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And the main objective of the game is
to destroy the final enemy building
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which is called the "Ancient."
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Everything else that happens
in the meantime
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is your amazing filler of a game.
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You could play 100 heroes
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in conjunction with 99 other heroes.
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It's just nonstop possibilities
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and it's so much fun.
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And you know, it's like the same
map every single time
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but it literally never gets boring.
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I would say Dota is a way of life.
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When the prizes started coming
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I was like, well we have tournaments
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so obviously some people are going
to come and say,
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"This is a great game. Let's play it.
Like, let's put money in it."
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And it started progressing each year.
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Those at the top level,
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they just do like lots of
calculations in their head.
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Something like "A Beautiful Mind"
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where you see like all kinds of things.
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And using all this information
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make your next move.
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I see it in a lot of ways
similar to basketball.
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Just like a 5 on 5 game
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where you kind of have to work together
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and utilize each other's strengths and
synergizing everything together.
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The teamwork, and the trust,
and the sacrifice
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those are all true for every
single team sport.
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Dota is a game that unites everybody.
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It doesn't matter what country
you're from or race you are.
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It's kind of like a bond that is shared
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and when you're part of this
tight-knit group of people.
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It's like having a second family.
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That's something you never let go.
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Everyone's searching for something.
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Fulfillment.
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Fame.
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Satisfaction.
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It gives you the ability to
become someone else.
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A someone who is powerful.
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Who can take down 5 opponents.
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Express their creativity.
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Break the rules without actually
getting arrested.
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All of these reasons are
in there somewhere.
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The player himself might not even know.
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He might not even understand it himself.
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But it's there.
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Medford, Oregon
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Gaming fulfills my competitive need.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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When it comes to sports,
I consider gaming a sport.
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So I use my competitiveness
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and I fuel it with Dota.
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So it fulfills that side of me completely.
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Fear's one of the best
in America, if not the best.
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He has a lot of experience.
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He's one of the old hogs, basically.
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And he's generally just a calm guy.
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So, in my opinion, that's his strength.
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Really good basketball player.
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I remember my coaches watch him playing
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and just talk about picking him up
the next year when he came in.
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Always had nothing but good things to say,
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but he wasn't picked on the team.
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The reason was, yeah, he just
wasn't tall enough, I guess.
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So, I know that, yeah, he found the game.
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He got really devoted in that and stuff
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and just found something else that worked.
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I was your typical parent.
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"Clinton, you're spending too
much time playing computer games."
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"You need to go to school."
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"You need to go to college."
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and he would tell me,
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"I want to be able to play
games and get paid for it."
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Now he said this at a very young age
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before Dota ever came along.
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And I thought, well, you know,
he's going to grow out of it.
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He's going to get sick and
tired of sitting there
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in front of that computer and playing.
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Never did. Never did.
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Singapore
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In Singapore the families actually
put a lot of stress on us
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in terms of our education.
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I would say it's been tough on me
trying to juggle
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both studies and gaming at the same time.
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My grades have dropped for
two years already.
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And my parents have treated
the gaming as the cause of it.
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I mean there was this phrase that
they used. They said,
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"Gaming will be the death of you one day."
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He's a great player and a great captain.
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I would say he's the top player
in Singapore.
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Easily.
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My parents and my family,
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they don't actually speak much
of my gaming career.
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They don't tell their friends
and my other relatives
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that I'm actually that good at my games.
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All along they have only been
bragging about my studies.
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Because I used to be an "A" student.
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Yeah, they go on and on. And…
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And it seemed like that was the only thing
they could ever be proud of.
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Actually, there has only been one person
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that has always been very
supportive of me gaming.
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And that was my ex-girlfriend, Huayan.
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She's from the female Dota team
in Singapore.
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There are a lot of things
that we share in life.
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So many things.
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In my case, it felt really good,
you know, to have someone
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who truly appreciated what you did best.
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And loved you for it.
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She was aware of what I'm doing
and what I'm passionate about.
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The breakup was her decision
and I respected it.
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We'd been together for close to three years
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and ever since the breakup,
I haven't gotten over it.
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I recall the last time she spoke to me
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she named me as a bastard so…
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Laughter
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We're not in contact anymore,
yeah, but…
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life goes on.
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L'viv, Ukraine
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I'm from Ukraine.
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My nickname is Dendi.
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I finished my university, and
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I'm just playing computer games right now.
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He was doing music.
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He played the piano.
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He was doing dancing.
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At school, he had musical plays in
which he played the main role.
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Audiences were always
impressed by his artistic ability.
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When their kids' group was showing,
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Danil would always stand out.
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When we were growing up
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it wasn't a good time financially
for our family.
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But my grandma helped us
to get our first computer in 1997.
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Early, compared with other kids in Ukraine.
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We got visitors every day.
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The friends of my older brother
used to come to visit us
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and we were playing games.
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And Danil, every time looked at what we do.
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Every time we would try to push him away
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but he would come back and look again.
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It was more prominent with him
than with other kids.
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During all his conscious life
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we were trying to stop him from playing.
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We were hiding our computer cord
everywhere in our apartment
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but he always found it.
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I always wanted to understand him better.
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Including that hobby, I wanted
to understand him better.
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There were certain reasons.
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I'm not going to mention them now.
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I think somewhere deep
inside he's a little bit sad.
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She stopped preventing him
from playing Dota.
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She gave Dendi the freedom to choose
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what is the best for him and his life.
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Tournaments back then were
really low prizes.
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And a lot of prize money didn't
even get to the players.
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There's been a lot of scams with
the managers and stuff like that.
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There were, like, some rumors that
it's going to be $50,000 first place,
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and everyone was going, like,
"Nah, it's not going to be like that."
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August 10, 2011
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Watch the forums go nuts, guys.
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Watch the forums go nuts.
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It is actually confirmed.
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It is off the fricking hook.
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1.6 million dollar prize pool!
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That is for the winner,
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1 million dollars for winning Dota!
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Dota, the game I've played for 5 years now.
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Which I played for fun.
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For some food money or whatever, you know.
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Ok, it's actually getting big.
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It's the largest prize pool of any
gaming competition to date.
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It just felt like the start
of something big.
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Like a revolution.
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You know, we had everything we needed
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for the game to become big and
respected as an E Sport.
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It would kind of like vindicate us.
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We're not just playing
because we're addicted.
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There's a goal, a motive.
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That we can actually reach out and
grab if we are good enough.
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Beijing, China
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Over in Asia, professional gamers
are treated like rock stars.
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It's a viable career opportunity.
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They actually live in gamer houses.
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So it's set up to be a thing all year long.
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I think their approach to practice
is that it's like a day job.
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The fan base is immense.
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It probably is as big as the
whole western audience together.
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Or even more than that.
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So now you really have to play good.
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You really have to try hard.
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It's first place. It's go big or go home.
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The big teams get big money.
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But the 9th to 16th place earn nothing.
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And their salaries are not
worth considering.
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While in sports, you have a salary
that you can live on.
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With pro gaming, I think that's
one of the toughest parts is
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living game to game.
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It's like living paycheck to paycheck.
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Like, I have to win.
If I don't win, I don't get paid.
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That's a tough living for anybody.
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It doesn't matter what you're doing.
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When your child wants
to be a professional gamer
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you don't have any history to look back on
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like other sports.
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I don't know anyone who's
made a living at gaming.
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So it's kind of a scary thing
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when you see your kid putting
their whole life into gaming
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and not college and
not the traditional things.
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What if nothing comes of it?
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Regarding the age
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I think, yes,
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25, 26 years.
It's absolutely maximum for E Sports
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because 27, 28, 29, 30
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your reaction time is lowering
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and you can't click so much, you know,
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as the kids do.
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A lot of financial responsibilities
are laid upon me right now.
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Require me to be successful
in something or have a job.
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So it's pretty critical that
I am successful
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if I want to continue the gaming career.
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He's an "A-Star" student, you know?
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Because of this gaming,
it pulled him right down.
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It's very sad for me.
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So here the bad one is Auntie.
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Auntie is the one that always
comes here and
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nag, nag, nag, nag, nag.
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-Am I right?
-It's tough being a gamer.
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Sorry?
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-Am I right?
-I said, it's tough being a gamer.
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Huh, hy? Multi-millionaire.
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Laughter
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For gaming, huh?
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Sorry, you are not.
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Huh? What is your view?
What is your plan?
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That is more important.
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I mean, we speak ourselves.
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We speak our frank opinion.
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This is your choice now.
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What do you want in life?
That is more important.
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If I'm going to win this tournament
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my first thought would be…
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I will call my ex-girlfriend.
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Things got real bad between us and…
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but right now, for me, if I'm going
to win this tournament,
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my first thought would be,
yeah, I would call her.
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I would tell her about it and…
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I would want to share this moment with her…
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yeah.
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This tournament is going to be
a moment in every gamer's life.
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Everything that you've been
doing has been building up
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and is going to happen over one week.
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And then it's not one week anymore.
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It's one game.
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And then it's not that one game.
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it's that one moment in the game.
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And then that one moment in the
game is where it's going to finish.
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And how's it going to finish?
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Are you going to be holding up a trophy?
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Or are you going to be the most
disappointed that you've ever been?
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Cologne, Germany
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It's Tuesday.
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So one day before the event.
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We already have a lot of setup.
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We have a lot of computer setup right here.
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The whole booth construction
pretty much finished.
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So five players per side.
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They can see each other through the glass.
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They can't hear each other.
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This booth is soundproofed up.
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Plus, the whole setup here
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if you look from above looks
exactly like a Dota map.
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And this is the mid.
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This is where it all happens.
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A few teams have already
arrived this morning.
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We had a lot of teams
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from Singapore.
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We have China.
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We had Malaysia coming in
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and Russia.
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And tomorrow it's finally happening.
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DAY 1 of 5
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TEAMS WITH TWO OR MORE WINS
ADVANCE TO THE WINNERS BRACKET
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We're here live at Gamescom
2011 in beautiful Cologne.
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It's the first day of the event.
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We've got some of the world's
best teams here in Dota.
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And they're handing out a tournament
prize of 1.6 million dollars!
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It is massive here.
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A tournament of 1.6 million dollars.
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That's the future of gaming.
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This is awesome!
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It's the first time we're going to see teams
of this caliber assembled in one location.
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These guys are not just nameless faces.
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They're the best in the world.
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The bunch of teams we have here,
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there's a few teams that have individual
skill that's unbelievable.
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And then there's a big group of other teams
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that have good individual skill,
not top-notch,
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but who win through good
strategy and team play.
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Fear is a great player, for example,
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but he is not comparable
to good players in Asia.
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And that's nothing against Fear,
because he's still an excellent player
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but he's not them.
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Over in Asia, they take gaming
so much more seriously.
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Just to give you an example,
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the Korean soccer team were
playing in the World Cup.
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To motivate the Korean soccer
team to play better,
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they brought in Starcraft Brood War
professional gamers
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into their locker room before they went out
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so that they got to meet
what were their heroes.
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Shanghai, China
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In China, Dota is to the people
there what Starcraft is to Korea.
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It's televised.
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The girls like their boyfriends
to be Dota players.
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After a game, when they're walking around
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you can see fans running up to them
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asking them to sign on their shirts.
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It's like a real sport.
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The third time I was in China,
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I was playing with fans for two days.
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They made a video of me,
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filming me walking in some mountains
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and I had to say some sentences and stuff.
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And I was like, yeah, "In Dota,
there's always a new mountain to climb."
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Stuff like this, you know.
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I walked up and down these stairs
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and started running and
lifting some weights,
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just to compare this with Dota
like some metaphor and stuff.
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Fuzhou, I am coming!
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E Sports in China is already a sport
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that is recognized by the
General Administration of Sport.
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It is the same as tennis, ping pong, chess.
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The only thing is that it is
not an Olympic sport.
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I will say that China teams are all great.
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Every player in the team is strong.
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You don't recognize China
players as a player.
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You just recognize them as a whole team.
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You just fear the whole team.
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The Chinese teams that have
come to this competition
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are scaring the shit out of everyone else.
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We had two of the top
Chinese teams in our group.
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Online Kingdom has not been
regarded as one of the favorites to win it.
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In fact, they were considered bottom four
or just bottom eight for sure.
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This is our first time on LAN together.
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The team together has only been
around for around 4-5 months
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so it's a relatively new team,
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and Pajkatt, our newest addition,
playing Carry for us,
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he's only been on the team for
three weeks now actually.
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We were really nervous going
against a Chinese team
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especially the top Chinese teams.
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There are going to be players that choke
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handling this kind of pressure
at such a young age.
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1437, this is the first time he's
ever been on LAN.
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It's not easy, like, this is a
million dollar tournament.
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First time he's been on LAN.
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LAN (LOCAL AREA NETWORK) A TOURNAMENT WHERE ALL
THE TEAMS COMPETE IN THE SAME LOCATION
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This stage. This prize money.
This prestige.
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This is real competition.
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We tried to keep our cool together
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and we just played our game.
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ONLINE KINGDOM VS VIRUS
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ONLINE KINGDOM 1-0
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ONLINE KINGDOM VS NIRVANA.CN
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ONLINE KINGDOM 2-0
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We were super hyped.
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Everyone was surprised
we were doing so good.
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Even we couldn't believe it.
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Online Kingdom dominating right now.
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ONLINE KINGDOM VS TYLOO
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ONLINE KINGDOM
3-0
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After the match against TyLoo,
everyone was very excited, you know.
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We just beat one of the teams that was
actually favored to win the competition.
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So everyone's spirits were, like,
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"Oh, we may be actually
able to do this, you know."
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Beating the Chinese teams,
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some people just, you know
for fun, they started,
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"Ok, hey, it's OK.Nirvana.Int.
They're the China slayers."
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DAY 2 of 5
DOUBLE-ELIMINATION BEGINS
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A few little bit surprises that
we had yesterday.
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Quite a few upsets.
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OK.Nirvana.International managing
to beat two Chinese teams in a row,
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beating out TyLoo and OK.Nirvana.CN.
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They're currently on a roll now.
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And Chinese teams are not unbeatable.
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But on the other hand,
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EHOME are just proving that they are
the strongest of the four Chinese teams
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having a clean 3-0 record.
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They are the favorites to win
the whole tournament.
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So they come in with the confidence
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that they've won so many
championships already.
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It's always a little bit of
national pride at stake.
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So, of course, they want to prove that
Chinese Dota is still a little bit above the rest.
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EHOME is one of the oldest
Chinese Dota organizations.
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They've always been at the
top of competitive gaming.
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Most memorably at ESWC 2010.
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Before ESWC 2010,
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I thought, like, yeah ok,
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the Chinese, they're probably pretty good,
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but like how good can they be?
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And then we played EHOME who won that
tournament without losing a single match.
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Like, they just crushed every team.
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1st PLACE
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EHOME finished the year as
the best team in the history of Dota.
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They were just like on a
totally different level.
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Like, they had their manager
sitting behind them.
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He was making their calls.
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He was running around with this
little black book.
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And they were the first team
I heard of who did that.
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The EHOME manager copying down
the draft, doing the prep work.
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He was their coach.
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There was a great interview that was done.
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And it lined up all the top European
captains who attended
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and the topic was EHOME.
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If you want to ever play good
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you don't need to invite Chinese teams
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because they are too strong.
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So EHOME won…
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What do you think of the Chinese guys?
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I never felt this outplayed
in my entire life.
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It's unbelievable how good they are.
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Like, their timing, their discipline…
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They're really in control
of the game, the whole game,
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and they keep this control all the time.
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This is really crazy to see, actually.
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It's because when we are at
any international tournament,
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when all of the foreign team managers
and team members see us,
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everyone will all yell out, "EHOME!"
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EHOME! EHOME!
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Do you know how spectacular that is?
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Actually, this is a story. It's a custom.
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Which is when everyone sees EHOME,
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they naturally think the king is entering.
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During this trip to The International,
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it's actually the same period
as my exam periods.
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So I treated it as a sacrifice
that I've made
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for the team and for myself.
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And I find that
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when it comes to pursuing your passions
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it's really up to you to decide
if it's worth the…
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worth the sacrifice.
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SINGAPORE
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When they're having exams,
they don't allow him to leave the school
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So I told him really I said,
"Mind yourself."
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Setting out on a career in gaming
is risky. It's very risky.
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Because the examinations actually
clash with the competition
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and missing the exams without
a proper explanation,
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the school didn't recognize the Dota
competition as a valid reason.
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It's kind of breaking school rules.
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The school is very determined
to stop him from pursuing
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his chance of going for this contest.
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So I think this has created
a big stress for the family.
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Gives his mother very headache, you know?
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It's quite difficult for us
to pull him out right now, I think.
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You know he's so adamant about it.
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So that's why when he told me
he's going in August,
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I said, "Then how about your school exams?"
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"What are you going to do?"
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I think my mother,
she was kind of at her limits,
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telling me about how much gaming
has been weighing me down.
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That was really the talk when I really
opened my heart and I…
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shared with her my passion for the game
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and how much I believed that
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my team actually has the potential to win,
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to be the best in the world.
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So we are stopping at nothing
less than first.
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This is how I tried to put it
across to my mom.
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By giving up so much to come here
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I have absolute confidence
in my team that we will win.
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SCYTHE VS EHOME
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Alright the draft is under way.
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EHOME, they will select up their heroes.
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Scythe will start selecting theirs.
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Looking now at both the teams,
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it looks like EHOME they're fairly relaxed
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while Scythe, you know they're eager.
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They're all gathering around hyhy to pick.
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If you have a losing draft,
you will lose the game.
-
This is what I think of Dota.
-
So it's really a lot on drafting.
-
Drafting is where two captains will
select what they want to play with.
-
What heroes are selected
and what heroes are taken out.
-
You can select five heroes
out of a pool of over a hundred.
-
And can also remove four of those heroes.
-
So four heroes you think
your opponent will want to use,
-
you can remove.
-
Before any game, any match,
-
we will decide our bans and picks
-
according to which team we are fighting.
-
Usually we would come up with
a very impromptu strategy
-
to try and fight their strat (strategy).
-
You really have to spend a lot
of time thinking of the draft.
-
The draft actually decides
a lot of the game itself.
-
EHOME. They're a team
with so much experience.
-
They already know the way
they want to roll this one out.
-
The only thing that's really going to
make it or break it for them
-
is if they can get their execution right.
-
In that particular match-up
-
we felt that we needed something
that could instill the fear in them.
-
And Tiny looks to be the last pickup
here from Scythe.
-
A bit of an interesting pickup
there by Scythe.
-
It's going to start to change around
their lanes completely now.
-
With Tiny, it is good as
a surprise strategy.
-
If another team doesn't realize where
he fits into the whole lineup,
-
then you can really throw
the opposition off balance.
-
He's moving away, but no, hyhy,
-
he'll just turn around and
just pops the Lina.
-
I want to point out right now that EHOME,
-
they are not noobs (new to the game).
-
This is just Scythe playing
an amazing game.
-
When you have such a huge audience and
-
you know that everyone is at home
watching the game…
-
they have their hopes pinned on you and
-
I feel that…
-
there's so much at stake.
-
And they should be able to
clean it up right now.
-
Tiny, he's gonna toss, he's gonna launch
and he definitely gets the kill.
-
We got 357 getting nailed out there.
-
Nature's Prophet going to get
the last hit in as well.
-
It's the entire team down for EHOME.
-
This is GG.
-
This is now a double-rax, at least.
-
And EHOME, they're going to disconnect.
-
We have our first
Winner's Bracket Finalist.
-
Scythe will advance.
-
EHOME will drop down into
the Loser's Bracket,
-
and Scythe will now finish up this game.
-
SCYTHE WINS
-
EHOME CALLS "GG" ("GOOD GAME")
CONCEDING THE MATCH
-
Yeah, the one million is…
-
yeah, one million.
-
That's a lot.
-
It's going to make my time
playing this game all worth it.
-
Didn't think smoking would do me any good.
-
When did you start smoking?
-
Two years back.
-
Two years back.
-
Bad move.
-
That seems to coincide with when you
and your ex-girlfriend broke up.
-
On bad terms…
-
Seems like she's moved on already.
-
Back then when she was playing the game
-
it felt like we had something we shared.
-
Yeah, but right now, it's like…
-
I think she's following this event, but…
-
probably…
-
This event's big.
-
I hope I will get to make that phone call.
-
Finally I'll have something I'm proud of
to tell her about.
-
Finally.
-
DAY 3 of 5
-
When you played the Russians
and the Ukrainians,
-
they were just the unpredictable teams.
-
I had no idea what the Russians
were thinking.
-
That was their best weapon.
-
Well, we're having fun.
-
We're trying to relax.
-
We're trying to scare our opponents.
-
Mind games. Mind games.
-
I turn off my brain in the way
of being scared of someone.
-
One of the things I really
admire about him is how
-
he hasn't really had an easy life
-
but he's always so upbeat.
-
He's always so cheerful.
-
When he first came on the Dota scene,
-
he looked like a 12-year-old boy.
-
Everyone was just, like, "Who is this kid?"
-
There's no way you can
take this guy seriously.
-
And then he would destroy you in games!
-
I saw somewhere on the internet
-
how he works with the keyboard.
-
It really is mesmerizing.
-
I think Danil benefited
from his piano playing
-
because his hands are absolutely amazing.
-
He can make really good moves.
-
His moves, I think are unique,
-
and they might win you the game.
-
But he wants to rely completely on skill.
-
He wants, like, an enemy against him
-
and he wants to kill him through skill,
nothing more.
-
He wants to win the game.
-
His disadvantage is that
he doesn't have patience.
-
He wants to make those moves.
-
He can get a little bit too silly in games.
-
He will try new and different things.
-
He will overextend in team fights
-
because he believes he can get the kill.
-
And his impatience can go too far
-
and he might lose the game for us.
-
INVICTUS GAMING VS NA'VI
-
Oh, Nature's Prophet, he's going to go in.
-
This should be the First Blood.
-
They got the Sprout on Sansheng as well.
-
There's probably going to be a double.
-
Dendi's ulti, it hits!
-
Dendi, Dendi, no, no.
-
He's not…he cannot be.
-
This is Dendi through and through.
-
Starts with the Hex, goes to Cold
Snap, he locks him in place!
-
Weaver really close to death!
-
Manages to Timelapse back out again.
-
Dendi will TP (teleport) back to safety.
-
So GG being called by iG.
-
Na'Vi, they will take the game.
-
NA'VI CLINCHES QUARTERFINALS
-
Our Winners Bracket Finalists are
going to be Na'Vi versus Scythe.
-
Most teams that you see that have
the most fan bases are full nationality.
-
Our team is all spread out
across the world.
-
He does have it a little harder than us
-
because he doesn't really have
this human support
-
that we do.
-
Medford, Oregon
-
The hardest thing that I've had
to really deal with in my life
-
is just trying to convince my family
about my gaming career.
-
It's really, really difficult especially
when you start out slow
-
but you know there's a future for something
-
and you put a lot of time into it,
-
and they keep telling you,
"You should probably get a real job."
-
I was born in the Los Angeles district
in Lancaster, California.
-
I lived there with my dad and my mom.
-
Around 2 years old, my dad left my mom.
-
He didn't really say anything.
He just kind of…
-
He just packed up and left.
-
She's had to raise us both while
going to law school at the same time.
-
It wasn't real easy as far as
just got out of law school,
-
didn't have a job, had huge
student loans to pay back.
-
This job came up and so
we moved here on our own.
-
So I've been raising them by myself
ever since.
-
So this is a photo album
that I made for Clinton.
-
As he was growing up, I put pictures
in it as we went along.
-
My sons were both really active into sports
-
and they wanted to do a lot
-
so I had to limit them.
-
They could choose two per season.
-
That was maximum for me being
able to get them to practice
-
and go watch their games.
-
That was tough.
-
And Clinton sitting on Santa's lap
- his brother Santa.
-
My brother's more angry at my father
for leaving than I am.
-
He thinks about him.
-
He gets upset.
-
Compared to me, I just block him out
and pretend he doesn't exist.
-
Clinton already starting video games here.
-
He was sitting at his house,
you know, playing Dota.
-
Doing it competitively, had a sponsored
team and everything like that.
-
But I think that's when it started
getting on his mom's nerves.
-
I have a crazy sleeping schedule.
-
I'm on a European team so sometimes I
have to stay up pretty ridiculous hours
-
or wake up at ridiculous hours.
-
So the standard day for me is
not so standard.
-
All the nights he'd be up and stuff,
the dog would be up too with him
-
and that would keep her awake
most of the nights
-
and this is kind of where
the tension got pretty high.
-
You know, this went on for years
-
and it came to the point
where I just told him
-
I said, "You know what, you just
need to go somewhere else."
-
So I got kicked out of my house because
of my gaming career, basically.
-
When Clinton first moved in here,
-
he was looking for a desk and
there wasn't anything in the room.
-
And I had a lot of stuff we were
getting ready to take to the dump.
-
And Clinton went out there and he
came back in with this green desk.
-
And he goes, "This is perfect!"
-
So I didn't have a monitor,
so I went to my friend
-
and he had a spare CRT monitor.
-
So I got that, and then, obviously,
I have two books here to hunch that up
-
so I can actually see the monitor.
-
So it's kind of a ghetto setup.
-
Even when I go to competitions, I don't think
I play any differently on the nice setups
-
compared to this one.
-
Clinton's like the Rocky Balboa of Dota.
-
He's definitely one of
the first big US players
-
and honestly, I didn't even know
he was that big.
-
In the North American scene, there weren't many
good American players known back then.
-
Everybody respected Fear.
-
A lot of the people I knew,
they quit the game.
-
They moved on, stuff like that.
-
But I stuck with it so I ended up
being like one of the oldest players.
-
With all his years of experience,
-
and all his constant commitment
to the game,
-
he's really shown that he doesn't give up.
-
Growing up without my father,
-
I think in the end, not having someone
there and teach me the guy side
-
and having a father to help you up,
-
I think that it's actually probably made me
the person I am today.
-
You know, I just make sure everything's
running smoothly on the team.
-
I kind of play, like,
the father figure, I guess.
-
As a captain, I guess he felt
he had that responsibility as well.
-
He was like pretty much my mentor.
-
He did tell me one time,
-
"Hey if you need someone to talk to,"
he would be here.
-
So I kind of see him as a Dota brother.
-
I've never had an ego thinking that
I'm better than anyone else.
-
I'm always there willing to help people
who are new to the scene.
-
And that's always been kind of
my role in the game
-
by just helping players get up
for the most part.
-
Fear actually broke me
into the scene, you know.
-
It's very hard to get yourself out there.
-
I mean, back then, I was kind of
like a fan boy of him.
-
You know, watching his games and what-not.
-
And he gave me a shot to play
at a high level.
-
I wouldn't be here today
if it wasn't for Fear.
-
I can guarantee you that.
-
ONLINE KINGDOM VS MUFC
-
ELIMINATION MATCH
-
Going into the match, we were all thinking,
-
MUFC didn't do so well earlier, but…
-
If we lost that game,
we wouldn't win anything so…
-
it was a high risk game.
-
36 minutes in, almost a 7,000 gold
advantage in favor of MUFC
-
Toward the end of the game,
we made a couple of mistakes
-
that put two heroes on the sideline for us.
-
And they had all five still up and decided that
they were going to go for our Throne (Ancient).
-
They're probably just going
to push for the base.
-
They're going GG!
-
They want to go for the GG!
-
No Fortification anymore!
-
We were really close to losing our Throne.
-
It's below 20 percent HP
-
And Online Kingdom, they are so close to
getting eliminated from this tournament!
-
We just needed to do something.
-
Alright, I'm going to go on them!
I'm going to initiate on them!
-
So I ran in first and then
they all went on me
-
instead of focusing on the Throne,
which is good.
-
Again by Silvercross.
-
Fear, he's trying to retreat.
-
He turns into a pig.
-
How the hell is he still alive?!!
-
Go, go, go! Go, go!
-
They push MUFC back!
-
We made this huge comeback where
we killed all of their heroes.
-
You know, started pushing.
-
Silvercross is down!
-
Morphling! He's out of this!
-
The Top Rax (barracks) will go!
-
There is no way now that
MUFC can come back!
-
But it will be Online Kingdom
eliminating MUFC!
-
Our whole team just went crazy.
-
Fear leading Online Kingdom
to do the impossible.
-
I've never seen anything like that.
-
And stay tuned.
-
We'll be back here with more
exciting gameplay coming up.
-
"ONLINE KINGDOM CELEBRATE MUFC DEFEAT"
-
"SECURE 7th PLACE AT INTERNATIONAL"
-
DAY 4 of 5
-
Scythe.
-
They are the 2008 ESWC winners.
-
One of the best Asian teams
-
but we aren't afraid of them.
-
We're gonna fight them.
-
I don't know about my teammates,
-
but I don't feel scared at all.
-
I feel like I want to crush my enemy.
-
That's how I feel.
-
That's it.
-
NA'VI VS SCYTHE
-
Welcome to the Winners Bracket Final
-
where Scythe goes up against Na'Vi.
-
WINNER ADVANCES TO THE GRAND FINALS
-
The winner gets a slot in the Grand Final.
-
The crowds were all cheering for them.
-
And their draft was very scary.
-
We were, like, caught off by surprise.
-
But, we were like,
we've gotta win this, man.
-
We've gotta win this and
show them who's boss.
-
Scythe has managed to take all
the best players from Singapore
-
and put them in their lineup.
-
One million!
-
Na'Vi, they look cool calm and collected.
-
They know exactly what they gotta do.
-
It all comes down to gameplay right now
-
and I gotta say like, Na'Vi's lineup,
it is not unbeatable.
-
NA'VI GOES AFTER SCYTHE
AGGRESSIVELY IN EARLY GAME
-
Now they're gonna look for the initiation
and possible kill.
-
hy is gonna get caught.
-
Now bottom lane. Held in place.
-
Sven stunned. Sven will go down.
-
LighTofHeaveN, he helped out but
Ancient Apparition gets the last hit.
-
Na'Vi are dominating this final.
-
Now Na'Vi, they're gonna
take the chance here.
-
They're gonna go in for the GG.
-
And GG is the call from hy first.
-
Na'Vi are already off their computers.
-
They're not even sticking around.
-
They've got the GG.
-
Na'Vi are into the Grand Finals and
will play for the one million dollars.
-
NA'VI GOES TO THE FINALS
-
Scythe will go down. They will face
the winner of the Loser's Bracket.
-
ONE MORE LOSS AND SCYTHE IS
ELIMINATED FROM THE TOURNAMENT
-
We had just lost our confidence match
against Na'Vi.
-
It was actually quite a blow to us.
-
The game was really
the turning point for me
-
because I actually learned that in life
you can only trust in yourself, actually…
-
not in the sense that
you can't trust people
-
but, yeah, like I said, the one who will
never let you down is yourself.
-
Medford, Oregon
-
Within the gaming world…
-
You know, it's like I'm following behind
my mother's footsteps basically.
-
She worked really hard to get where she is,
-
and I kind of want to be the same way.
-
I want to work hard for whatever I do.
-
For me, I mean I've never really had a dad.
-
So if I had any questions about anything
-
the person I was most comfortable
talking to was my mom.
-
She definitely had
the most influence on my life.
-
When she comes home from work
-
she's always anxious to bring up
the subject how she won a big case.
-
And I'm always proud of her
when she wins these big cases
-
because I know it means a lot to her.
-
I mean, in the back of my head,
I'm always, like,
-
If I do well and if I win this tournament,
-
I'll finally be able to prove that
I'm getting something out of this.
-
ONLINE KINGDOM IS FACING ELIMINATION
-
And whoever wins this match will be
facing up against EHOME,
-
but whoever will lose it, is going
to be eliminated already.
-
Like, EHOME, they're looking
really strong right now.
-
We had the stronger late-game heroes,
the better team fight.
-
WINNER CLINCHES 6TH PLACE AND $35,000
-
Just all we had to do was just
control the pushes.
-
Now, Online Kingdom, they're split!
-
The stun on Santa! The splash as well.
-
They're gonna claim a Windrunner.
-
Will they? Yes they do!
-
It's 2-0 for Online Kingdom.
-
Moscow 5, not the start they wanted.
-
But Online Kingdom having an amazing start…
-
We were so close to winning until some few
mistakes that occurred in the late game.
-
They might go right now.
-
There's four heroes standing
right next to each other.
-
The timing is wrong!
-
There's communication problems
because we're an international team.
-
So I think full-nationality teams have
an advantage over most teams.
-
Almost there! Big try!
-
Fear's in trouble though.
-
He's shackled and Lacoste is in.
-
He casts his ulti as well.
-
And it just fell apart from there.
-
They just slowly beat us down.
-
Eventually they just broke our base and took
every single one of our raxes (barracks).
-
This is really hurting Online Kingdom.
-
They've lost three.
-
Enigma pops.
-
The team is wiped for Online Kingdom.
-
The base will be taken and Moscow 5 will now
play EHOME and advance in the tournament.
-
Now, Online Kingdom, they are out.
So much promise…
-
It didn't happen in the end for Fear
and the rest of Online Kingdom,
-
ONLINE KINGDOM IS ELIMINATED
TAKING HOME $25,000
-
and it will be Moscow 5 that will advance…
-
I think everybody on the team
was very emotional.
-
I could only imagine how he was feeling.
-
Some people take it more personally
and they give everything to win.
-
It was very satisfying knowing
that we reached that Top 8,
-
but he had better expectations
for our team,
-
and we'd come a long way
and it's all thanks to Fear.
-
If you don't go as far as you
thought you were going to be,
-
I guess you end up in tears or something.
-
All of us are really disappointed, but…
-
I guess that's just how it goes.
-
When I get back home, I need to
make a big decision in my life.
-
Like, just the benefits of
playing Dota professionally,
-
how much I can make from it,
-
and how much time I really need to put
into it to be one hundred percent, so…
-
The only way I would ever do that is if
I move in with my teammates
-
and have like a training house with them
-
so I know for sure that
we're all dedicated.
-
I think things happen for a reason,
-
and when things happen,
you just do your best,
-
and continue going forward with it.
-
I mean, deep down inside, I know this career
is going to work out for me in the end.
-
As for the Chinese teams I hope and know that
they're capable of coming out of the Losers Bracket.
-
The top three teams are likely to be
Na'Vi, Scythe, and a Chinese team…
-
which I personally hope will be EHOME.
-
Emotionally, I would hope
that EHOME would win.
-
Turning him into a pig!
-
They need to get this kill.
-
The stun! The Weaver Wave!
It's a little piglet!
-
And it's dead! Slardar!
-
820, he's almost dead!
-
Burrow Strike! Epicenter!
-
357! It's a double-kill by the Weaver!
-
EHOME, they'll lose FCB as well.
-
Moscow 5, casualties of war.
-
Holy Hell.
-
In China, this game is
a professional career.
-
We are stressed because we have to win.
-
If we don't win or we lose
to foreign teams,
-
Chinese fans will have doubt in us.
-
Now Lion though is going to find him.
Hexes him up.
-
Finger's already started. There's the stun.
-
Maelk in a lot of trouble.
-
Really caught out of position.
-
AA ulti will fly in but hits on nothing.
-
Mania with the SK ultimate…
-
The situation is China against the world.
-
If we win the championship,
it is what we are supposed to do.
-
I tell them, if you are coming here,
you are here for the first place.
-
I will tell them every day, we must
accomplish this. We must achieve this.
-
Our tradition is
-
anything other than the champion trophy
we will not bring home.
-
They will go ahead
and trash it at the airport.
-
Now PLT. Support Teleporting in.
FCB gets the first stun.
-
Misery over-commits on the top lane.
-
GG!
-
I can feel they really want to beat us,
the foreign teams.
-
PLT, he's had enough of this.
-
FCB! What a time for a Frog!
-
Misery will pop!
-
But when they watch us play, they feel…
-
that there is no way to beat us.
-
Singapore
-
This is where my dad works.
-
For as long as I remember,
-
he's doing the logistics
for the company here.
-
So it involves the shipping of the containers
from one place to another.
-
When I was younger, he used to work, like,
15 to 16 hours a day.
-
He's pretty much given up
on everything else in his life.
-
He's always made it clear to me that
I should focus on my life, focus on my studies
-
so as to not follow in his footsteps.
-
He doesn't want me to be slogging
as hard as he is right now.
-
But the chance to be the best
in the world at something…
-
you don't get it much in life.
-
FINAL DAY
-
THREE TEAMS REMAIN
-
I heard my son say
-
he's working at this, what, Dota.
-
He spends a lot of time and he gets nothing.
For me, it's very disappointing.
-
Never goes to school.
He wants to play computer.
-
Then in the morning, sleep. Then computer
until the next day morning. Then he sleeps.
-
The whole day at least 15 hours
at the computer a day.
-
His life, my son's life is like that.
-
For me, I hope for my son to study more.
Not like me. I never studied.
-
When I was young, I was also the same as
Han Yong (hy), always spent a lot of time to play.
-
But now I also regret, why I don't study.
-
But now I'm hoping my son
continues to study
-
to get an education better than me.
-
This is my hope.
-
Having reached the final day
of the tournament,
-
Benedict has missed two exams and
must repeat his last semester of school.
-
His team is one win away
from the Grand Finals.
-
I want to win this badly.
-
Are you ready for EHOME?
-
We'll do whatever we can.
-
For hy, I feel it was a great choice
- a brilliant choice.
-
Because he was considering
that we could have won.
-
It's an opportunity that
you shouldn't miss out.
-
So, get ready, sign in, log in,
play around, test a little bit,
-
and then join the lobby in about 4 minutes.
-
It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance.
-
If you miss it, it might be gone forever.
You might not experience it again.
-
SCYTHE VS EHOME
-
SEMIFINALS
-
And we have a rematch.
-
EHOME versus Scythe.
-
EHOME facing up against the team
that forced them into the lower bracket.
-
WINNER ADVANCES TO THE GRAND FINALS
-
The psychological pressure is immense,
especially upon the drafter.
-
Because he is the one who is in the end
responsible for the team's picks.
-
HYHY GAMBLES AND PICKS "SHADOW FIEND,"
HIS BEST PLAYED HERO
-
No, no, no, no, no.
-
No, no. Don't say no!
-
No, no. Trust me. No.
-
Wait, wait, wait.
-
Tell me this. You really want it?
-
I really think…
-
It's the Antimage and SF (Shadow Fiend).
-
That's what I think.
-
Shadow Fiend? Alrighty then.
It's hyhy as SF.
-
Everyone knows how to
counter a Shadow Fiend.
-
It's a very bold pickup here by Scythe.
-
The fact, if Scythe wins the early game,
they're going to gain so much momentum,
-
but if they don't, then EHOME will basically
roll themselves into the Grand Final.
-
hyhy, BKB (Black King Bar) is going
to wear off pretty soon,
-
Venomancer, great strike!
-
hy's dead!
-
Stay in the trees now!
-
And he wants xy-, he catches up to him.
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And he brings him down.
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Hey! I told you to stay in the trees!
-
Why'd you come out?
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Stay in the trees! I told you.
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What an ulti! He Cogs!
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Chawy, he wants to leap,
but there is just no Mana!
-
I already told you.
-
I told you. Do you understand?
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It's ok. Take it easy.
-
If he can pop off an ulti like that, he doesn't
have to reveal himself to his opponent.
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He can really just initiate.
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Oh, there he goes! hyhy doesn't manage
to pop off an ultimate.
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Nice!
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Nice!
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There are already three gone.
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Make that four.
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It's a double-kill for the Anti-mage.
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And they're headed for the tower right now.
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There is a GG—Good Game called by hyhy.
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Scythe have had enough now.
-
EHOME will advance.
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The Chinese hopes will stay alive
-
as they will go up against Na'Vi
with a one game disadvantage…
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SCYTHE IS NOW ELIMINATED
TAKING HOME $150,000
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The first-placing was very important to me.
-
And to add on to that, my studies were also
at the same time affected by everything.
-
So everything was related.
-
When everything comes falling down
at the same time
-
it's quite hard to handle.
-
Things are all changed.
-
So you gotta plan your life again.
-
All over again.
-
I've learned a lot.
-
You've gotta realize your flaws.
-
That's the toughest part, I feel.
-
I don't do things as well alone.
-
So if you try to do everything by yourself,
-
it's not going to be possible, you know.
-
I'm actually a believer of fate, and
-
I told myself that winning isn't necessary
-
because there are so many
more things in life.
-
How you take care of the people you love.
-
I think that's a very big thing.
That's a very important thing.
-
It's the most important thing ever.
-
Catch these guys.
-
It's not fair.
-
Catch these guys.
-
I just woke up. It's not fair.
-
My haircut…
-
still…
-
crazy.
-
No?
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But I don't care.
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Ok, I have everything with me.
-
Let's go.
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We are now at the final day
-
of The International Dota 2 Championships.
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It is Na'Vi.
-
They have a one game advantage.
-
Sitting very, very sweetly
in the Grand Final.
-
Who will get a shot
at the one million dollars?
-
Na'Vi was running the same strategy
the whole time
-
and no one seemed to be able to counter it.
-
Na'Vi loves pushing from minute 10
-
and trying to end the game at minute 15.
-
Those strategies are very sensitive
-
because if you fail even once
-
it can become a very
difficult game for you.
-
EHOME has been known for how well
they defend their base
-
So if there was a team that could stop
Na'Vi's push it would be EHOME.
-
And let's get this game underway.
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The players will start to
pick up their heroes
-
with one million dollars at stake.
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Na'Vi need to win two.
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EHOME need to win three.
-
Running a very, very old school strategy
with three core heroes.
-
EHOME managed to survive
Na'Vi's onslaught early.
-
It's all on Dendi.
-
PLT TP's himself in.
-
Dendi on the retreat back out to the tower.
-
Will he get himself away?
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X!! Yes, there it is.
-
Last hit, 357, the Venomancer
brings down Dendi in the middle.
-
Every time you see Dendi perform
he's always playing very well
-
and he usually doesn't lose his lanes.
-
So, Dendi, his impatience is that
-
Chinese teams, they are patient.
-
They look out for the fact that
you might cross a line
-
and they will take you and kill you
and win the game through those situations.
-
Trouble in the mid lane again.
There's already the Gush.
-
357, PLT, everyone is right
on top of Dendi.
-
He's in the wrong place.
-
And the way Na'Vi played,
they really gambled basically.
-
Dendi's really been ganked, just shut down.
-
And not a single kill to his name as well.
-
Now Na'Vi going to assault inside the base
-
Watch Artstyle. Tier 3 tower. VS Swap!
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Artstyle's in the wrong place!
-
Doom there as well!
BKB's both popping off!
-
Ravage will pop from LighTofHeaveN
unable to affect EHOME.
-
Pudge will go down.
-
They want to be initiated on.
-
Na'Vi, they need to fall back.
-
They take your little upsets
-
and just win the game
through those mistakes.
-
NA'VI IS FORCED TO CALL "GG"
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"GG" from Na'Vi!
-
EHOME are celebrating right now
inside the booth. Na'Vi cannot believe it!
-
They've dominated this tournament up till now,
and EHOME takes the first match so convincingly.
-
That was the first loss of Na'Vi
during the whole tournament.
-
They went undefeated until the Grand Final.
-
We're going to have a 15-minute break
and be right back here soon.
-
Na'Vi, they need to compose themselves.
-
EHOME, well, they just need to be awesome…
-
What a play by them!
-
Any loss actually makes me pretty sad.
-
Dendi's Home
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L'viv, Ukraine
-
We tried to put family pictures here.
-
This is our mom and dad.
-
And I think that this one
is our favorite actually.
-
My childhood, we lived a poor life
-
and Dad was working for all our lives.
-
But he helped us every time
and every problem.
-
I just ask him and he'll do everything
-
for me, for Katya, for Danil as well.
-
But Danil and Father were like friends.
-
Indeed my husband was
-
simply a fanatical fisherman.
-
Danil was, I would say, his best student.
-
Danil has the same patience
and control as his dad.
-
He could sit for hours and watch the bobber
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that wouldn't even twitch.
-
They could sit with no speaking for hours.
-
And just enjoy each other's company.
-
They understood each other without words.
-
One day I was going fishing, but
-
Dad never showed up.
-
When I came home it was already super late.
-
He was feeling bad.
-
He went to the hospital. He decided to…
-
stay for a few weeks, you know,
so we watch everything, stuff like this.
-
And…
-
cancer.
-
It was a very big shock for me
-
because he was very thin.
-
I cannot understand that this is my father.
-
We were all sure that it must be okay.
-
But it was a very short time.
-
I was really sad and was
-
crying a lot.
-
I was upset about
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I couldn't say to him, many times,
how much I loved him.
-
After his dad passed away,
-
he hasn't gone fishing once.
-
Not even once.
-
For now this is all in the past.
-
Actually I spent more time near
the computer because
-
I could not think about it.
-
It's like a distractor.
-
It was like a start time, actually.
-
The push to play more.
-
And that's maybe one of the reasons
why I'm playing now.
-
Maybe I wouldn't play at all.
-
The relationship of Danil and my mom
grew stronger these days.
-
They support each other.
-
and they are very good friends.
-
I think that this is very important
for Danil.
-
You know, five years ago,
I wouldn't care about many things.
-
Now, I'm thinking about it a lot.
-
Something knocks you down,
-
you need to learn to get up.
-
So I'm trying to research this.
-
To learn to get up.
-
This is the most important moment
in my life
-
because everything I worked on
wasn't useful.
-
And now I have a chance to win
this tournament for my family.
-
So we have currently EHOME and Na'Vi
playing the Grand Finals.
-
Na'Vi just lost one game versus EHOME
-
and it's 1-1.
-
So both teams have to win two matches
in order to win the one million dollars.
-
Because our picks looked completely different,
we were like passive and stuff.
-
People thought we lost the first game,
-
we're going to lose the second game.
-
We were maybe a little bit demoralized.
-
We really needed to change
to a different pick.
-
We were missing something.
-
We picked Enigma just
-
to have a strong teamfight
-
a five versus five combat.
-
It was, like, the last hero left
-
and I never played it before.
-
Then, we're, like, "Dendi, you go!"
-
And he's, like,
"Guys, I've never played it!"
-
"But, I can do it!"
-
So we took the risk of taking him
-
and risking maybe playing him badly.
-
So it looks like down on that bottom lane,
Dendi will be taking the Enigma.
-
It is going to be a very, very rough lane…
-
Na'Vi lost the game.
-
And they're playing something now
that they're not as confident with.
-
EHOME figured out Na'Vi.
Figured out how to play against it.
-
And I'm going to stick to my word
and I'm going to say EHOME will win it.
-
It was incredibly ballsy from Dendi
to do that
-
on the verge of winning the million dollars
for your team.
-
That's very, very stupid. That's suicidal.
-
Dendi really now caught out.
-
He's in trouble.
-
Rockets to fly in.
-
FCB long way in on the tower,
lands the stun.
-
Tinker just lasers him to death.
-
It will cost FCB his life.
-
Then we made some little mistakes.
-
We played a really semi type of, like,
"turtle" strategy.
-
Really passive. Really passive.
-
We don't play like that.
-
Puppey and Dendi just want
to retreat back out.
-
820! What a Fissure!
-
PLT is there!
-
Echo Slam as well!
-
Beautiful play there by EHOME.
-
But I know if I die,
-
I die not for nothing.
-
X!! in the middle lane…
-
Force, Rocket, Laser.
-
It's enough!
-
Dendi goes down in the middle lane.
-
Sometimes it can be like, you dying
-
but your teammates picking up more.
-
EHOME, they still want
to push out that mid…
-
They weren't ready for Dendi Enigma.
-
It was a patient Enigma.
-
That was the most patient
Enigma in the world.
-
Puppey is here.
-
Dendi as well.
-
Going to look for the Hole.
-
BLACK HOLE!!!!
-
Three are going to go down for EHOME
-
Currently, Na'Vi, they have
the advantage now.
-
That really impresses me
how he's able to make that transition.
-
You just have to have the balls, basically.
-
He was scared of losing.
-
That's why he was so patient
and he did everything right.
-
Their strategy is kind of similar
to how EHOME won.
-
Na'Vi defeated them "Late Game."
-
And I think this really shattered
EHOME's confidence.
-
And "GG" is the call from EHOME.
-
Na'Vi, they take the game.
-
And they are only one win short
of taking home one million dollars.
-
We hardly won the second game.
-
Chinese teams generally are feared
for their "Late Game" potential.
-
So we hit the point now.
-
The gloves come off.
-
EHOME, they will master their knowledge,
their experience, their calls
-
up against Na'Vi.
-
And Puck will be the last hero for Na'Vi.
-
The nimble hero there already.
-
Once again a lot of aggressive heroes
for themselves.
-
Na'Vi LighTofHeaveN playing
as the Beastmaster again
-
with Dendi playing as the Puck this time.
-
If Na'Vi wins this,
-
they win the whole tournament.
-
This Clash of the Titans right here
-
is something we will not want to miss.
-
X!! will come in closer.
-
They will be able to get that kill.
-
Doom now on Dendi.
-
Pulled in by X!!
The entire EHOME team turns on him.
-
Lich will go down.
-
FCB is on the run.
-
XBOCT after the chase of him.
-
Might be enough. Needs some more damage.
-
Storm! X!! Long jump in.
-
Dendi Orbing up to the high ground.
-
FCB! Puts on the Rift.
-
Will he be able to get the kill?
He's on the retreat.
-
Yes, it is.
Dendi with the last right click.
-
EHOME now, they're gonna
rotate themselves down.
-
Na'Vi already in the pit.
-
They're trying to bring down Roshan
- all 5.
-
Dendi! He's gonna jump out!
-
He goes for the Dream Coil! He gets them!
-
He gets EHOME!
Holds them in the middle lane.
-
Na'Vi already on their way out of the pit.
-
They're coming in to help out Dendi.
-
Then we just went in and demolished them.
-
Now they're on top of the Tier 3 tower.
-
They're going to bring it down.
Yes, it does go down.
-
EHOME, they're trying desperately to defend
-
but Na'Vi, the onslaught will continue.
-
The mid tower's already being pushed.
-
The Tier 4 tower is going to go down.
-
And running in right now
is the rest of Na'Vi.
-
They are running forward
to one million dollars.
-
And they will get it!
-
The "GG" is the call from EHOME.
-
Na'Vi have just won one million dollars.
-
EHOME do take home $250,000
in second place.
-
But Na'Vi are the champions!
-
There's moments of E Sports
that are landmark,
-
and this is one of them. In Cologne.
-
And Na'Vi, the winners.
-
You guys have just made history.
-
I was jumping on the sofa.
-
And screaming like a crazy girl
-
because I was the happiest
girl in the world.
-
And my brother just won
one million dollars!
-
I think in 10 years time
-
all the gamers which we currently have
showing themselves,
-
they're going to be the guys
we will look back at and say
-
this was the beginning.
-
This is where it all started.
-
These are the guys that worked hard
-
and they took the risk.
-
They proved themselves.
-
And they forwarded the entire industry
to the point where
-
we could have a kick-start.
-
We could show the world what we do.
-
And then who knows how big
we could get at that point.
-
We've come far already.
-
When more and more people support it
-
and it becomes more and more normal,
-
it's going to go from a niche
to becoming accepted in societies.
-
I think in 15 years,
E Sports will be bigger than football.
-
Than basketball. Than everything.
-
That kid who you thought played
too many video games
-
is potentially going to be on a path
-
where he's earning $250,000 a year, salary.
-
He's flying the world.
-
He's going to be endorsed.
-
Gaming's the biggest entertainment
industry in the world.
-
So if you're a star,
-
you are potentially one of
the biggest stars in the world.
-
So, if that, like everything else with computers
grows exponentially or whatever
-
then 5 or 10 years could be
a big step actually.
-
Changing mindsets is never easy.
-
So it's going to take awhile.
-
When the gamers now become parents,
-
we will be supportive of our kids playing,
-
and I think that's really when
everything will boom.
-
"The only thing achieved in life
without effort is failure"
-
After weeks of training,
-
a local man has led his
online gaming team to the top,
-
placing seventh in an international
gaming competition held in Germany.
-
Yeah, she's definitely proud of me.
-
I mean just, she had her camera out…
-
like, "Why are taking a photo
of the television?"
-
I know she's really smart.
She's a lawyer so…
-
But in the end, I think
she'll be more understanding
-
and be willing to support me more
-
so it worked out.
-
Fear now lives in San Francisco, CA
and captains US-based team, Evil Geniuses.He no longer trains alone.
-
And after the tournament,
he bought a new desk.
-
We were disappointed with our loss.
-
And, yeah, it's a mixture of both,
-
we're happy and sad that we got third.
-
Because of all the emotions
-
I felt like she was the one
I wanted to share them with.
-
And it got pretty clear only then
that I had to get her back.
-
After the tournament I actually
went back to look for her,
-
and talk things out,
-
and we have actually begun dating again.
-
And things are actually going great.
-
I love her, you know.
-
She played a huge role, a very huge part
-
in…
-
in the me today.
-
hyhy is pursuing his Masters in Business.
He pays for his university expenses throughtournament winnings.
-
One week ago it was 3,000 followers .
-
I was happy.
-
Then it's boomed. 8,000 followers.
-
It's not about the number.
-
Even if it's one or two, I'm fine.
-
So you don't need to show numbers actually.
-
I think.
-
My father, I think,
-
didn't have time to understand
what Dendi's doing.
-
"Dendi the Dota 2 Millionaire"
-
We lost him too early.
-
And if now he could see Dendi,
-
I'm sure that he's proud of his son.
-
Dendi has become one of the most recognized
professional gamers today.
-
He has more followers on Twitter
than the Ukrainian national soccer team.
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