195: Chapter 195 This is what real professional esports looks like!

Guangcheng. In the teaching building of an ordinary university.

It was a university self-study session, and there wasn't even a teacher in the classroom. All the students were quietly playing on their phones.

But interestingly, at this moment, almost all the students had their phones held horizontally, watching the same livestream.

"It's finally started. I hope today's match ends quickly so we can claim our Q-coins early. Watching the Opening Match gets us one hundred Q-coins; when has Tencent ever been this generous?"

After Wei Yingjie's voice rang out, his deskmate expressed an opposing opinion.

"If the dota 2 match is really as exciting as a league of legends match, I'd actually hope it goes the full distance so we can watch a couple more exciting esports games."

"Tencent Esports threw so much money at this, they must be confident in this tournament. The watchability shouldn't be bad," Wei Yingjie added.

"I'm not saying I don't want to see it go the distance; I just mean that while it goes the distance, the time should be shorter."

"You're quite greedy."

As loyal viewers of league of legends tournaments, both of them were indeed interested in this dota 2 tournament that Tencent was promoting with all its might.

Today wasn't just about the rewards. If there were more exciting esports events, even if they didn't play dota 2, it wasn't impossible for them to follow it.

However, after saying this, Wei Yingjie noticed that Lao Wang, the self-proclaimed rich kid sitting in front of him, was also watching the dota 2 livestream.

"Lao Wang, aren't you rich? How come you're here watching the stream to farm freebies too?"

Lao Wang's expression changed slightly, but he didn't turn his head back. "How could I be the same as you guys?"

"I didn't come here to farm freebies; I'm genuinely interested in this esports tournament!"

"You guys know that I've never played league of legends. I'm a hardcore long-time player of dota 2. I've always felt that MOBA games should be like dota 2; all that simplification stuff is boring."

"I've been looking forward to this dota 2 tournament for a long time. Just watch, this tournament will definitely be better to watch than that so-called league of legends tournament you guys keep talking about!"

Having been classmates for so long, Wei Yingjie and the others knew that Lao Wang had played from dota 1 to dota 2. Even with league of legends being so popular now, he had never dropped dota 2. It was only natural that he would be drawn to the dota 2 tournament.

The two didn't ask any more questions. Besides them, most of the students in the class were watching the livestream for Tencent's viewing reward event.

Just like the original Opening Match of league of legends, during this match, some relatively simple questions would pop up to see if the viewers were paying attention to the stream.

At this moment, on everyone's phone screens, both sides had officially entered the laning phase. Because they were somewhat interested in this dota 2 match, Wei Yingjie and his deskmate also became interested.

At this moment, the Radiant Anti-Mage in the lane had been poked down to low health. Just as he encountered the opposing Jungler coming to gank, after maneuvering around a few trees, he not only survived but ran back to kill the opponent's position 5 Support.

This scene, which looked quite ordinary and lacking in skill, gradually became frantic with the commentator's voice.

"Player Panda is surely going to die now. He chooses to kite around the trees to stall for time. The opponents are already on him, he's surrounded! What? A reverse Flash to get stuck in a blind spot behind the trees—can he survive?"

"He doesn't choose to teleport, he goes back out, kills the opponent's Support, and even gets away! What kind of god-tier play is this!"

Listening to the commentator's voice coming from their phones, Wei Yingjie and his deskmate looked at each other, both seeing confusion in the other's eyes. What was this? How was that a "god-tier play"?

At the same time, Lao Wang in front turned back around, his face somewhat excited. "How about it? The dota 2 match is good, right? That play just now was amazing. This positioning, this awareness—it was god-like."

But listening to Lao Wang's words, Wei Yingjie was a bit confused. Compared to a league of legends match, the game visuals of dota 2 weren't direct enough and couldn't let the audience read the information in the game immediately.

This resulted in many brilliant plays that only dota 2 players could understand. "What are you talking about? That was very average. I don't get it; that kind of play doesn't compare at all to the plays in a league of legends match." Wei Yingjie didn't give him any face at all.

Lao Wang's expression stiffened for a moment, but he immediately tried to make up for it. "The team fights in dota 2 are the most exciting part; you'll see in a bit."

Soon, the first team fight of the first match began. The Radiant side's Anti-Mage got a pentakill.

Lao Wang turned his head again with an excited look, talking for a long time about how exciting the team fight just now was. But Wei Yingjie couldn't help but ask slowly.

"Just now, wasn't it just Anti-Mage's teammates finding an opening, coming up to crowd-control all five people for him, casting a few spells, and then him going up to auto-attack, auto-attack, and killing everyone?" "What kind of watchability is that!"

Lao Wang's face instantly flushed red. "You guys don't know jack; you don't understand the game at all. Now that is what you call art!" After saying that, he turned back around.

Wei Yingjie also looked up at the classroom. Originally, at the beginning, the expressions of many people in the class were still somewhat excited, wanting to see if the dota 2 match was good or not. But by now, more than ten minutes had passed, and many people had even started yawning.

Wei Yingjie also felt a bit bored and asked his deskmate, "Is there a league of legends match today?"

"In our region, there are only matches between the bottom-ranked teams; it's not good. But I remember that today in the neighboring region, there seems to be a Demon King Team match."

Hearing this, Wei Yingjie's eyes lit up, and he stood up and walked over to the multimedia equipment at the podium. "What are you doing?" the class monitor asked.

"I'm looking up a league of legends match to watch." "Don't you have your phone?"

"My phone has to stay on the dota 2 stream, or I'll miss the questions and won't get the rewards."

Seeing this, the class monitor didn't say anything else. After all, his phone had the same screen, and he also felt that the most intense part of the dota 2 match seemed to be just the commentator's voice; the rest of the game content really didn't have any watchability.

Soon, the match footage from the South Korea region appeared on the multimedia screen. It immediately attracted quite a few people in the classroom.

Although everyone's energy was mostly focused on the dota 2 match on their phones, fearing that they would miss the questions, their gazes would often look up at the league of legends match.

"Anyway, you're not short on money, why not watch the league of legends match? The matches for this game are much better to watch than the dota 2 match." When he returned to his seat, Wei Yingjie patted Lao Wang on the shoulder.

But Lao Wang snorted coldly. "Trash match, I'm not watching. Even if you made me jump from here and die right here, I wouldn't watch a league of legends match. The dota 2 match is the best to watch!"

Seeing this, Wei Yingjie didn't try to persuade him further. While keeping an eye out not to miss the questions on his phone, his gaze lingered more and more on the multimedia screen.

Soon, the players from the Demon King Team started making plays one by one. Right after the next team fight, "Holy crap, he even dodged that!" "The Unpetrifiable Lee Sang-hyeok!"

Wei Yingjie couldn't help but shout, clearly shocked by a certain scene just now. Lao Wang just clicked his tongue and muttered about it being a charade.

But he subconsciously looked up and discovered that although the league of legends match on the multimedia screen had only been playing for a few minutes, many girls in the class who had never played games before were already attracted, their eyes glued to the livestream on the multimedia screen, their attention completely captured.

Thinking that he had just finished answering a question and the next one would be at least ten minutes away, Lao Wang also quietly raised his head. He also wanted to see if this league of legends match that the people in the class talked about all day was really that good.

A few minutes later... "Holy crap, that's so cool!" "Good, love watching it!"

Lao Wang's subconscious voice spread directly throughout the entire classroom. Even though he had never played league of legends, because the game visuals were simple enough and the watchability was sufficient, Lao Wang was able to read the game information and content almost immediately and could directly judge which plays were brilliant!

For a moment, he even forgot about the new question reminder that had popped up on his phone.

At the same time, although the Opening Match of dota 2 did indeed attract a large number of viewers, as the match officially progressed, many viewers had already discovered that the dota 2 match was just a castle in the air, and its watchability was simply not in the same concept as a league of legends match.

Even without a foundation in the game, it was easy to get into a league of legends match, but the dota 2 match was completely different; non-dota 2 players almost couldn't understand many of the plays.

However, Tencent did not realize this at the moment. After the first game of the dota 2 match ended, one entry after another had already been bought to the top of the trending searches on major social media platforms.

Among them, the entry with the highest level of discussion and popularity was: "Now This Is What You Call True Professional Esports!"