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arrived this morning.

We had a lot of teams

from Singapore.

We have China.

We had Malaysia coming in

and Russia.

And tomorrow it's finally happening.

DAY 1 of 5

TEAMS WITH TWO OR MORE WINS

ADVANCE TO THE WINNERS BRACKE We're here live at Gamescom

2011 in beautiful Cologne.

It's the first day of the event.

We've got some of the world's

best teams here in Dota.

And they're handing out a tournament

prize of 1.6 million dollars!

It is massive here.

A tournament of 1.6 million dollars.

That's the future of gaming.

This is awesome!

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

of this caliber assembled in one location.

These guys are not just nameless faces.

They're the best in the world.

The bunch of teams we have here,

there's a few teams that have individual

skill that's unbelievable.

And then there's a big group of other teams

that have good individual skill,

not top-notch,

but who win through good

strategy and team play.

Fear is a great player, for example,

but he is not comparable

to good players in Asia.

And that's nothing against Fear,

because he's still an excellent player

but he's not them.

Over in Asia, they take gaming

so much more seriously.

Just to give you an example,

the Korean soccer team were

playing in the World Cup.

To motivate the Korean soccer

team to play better,

they brought in Starcraft Brood War

professional gamers

into their locker room before they went out

so that they got to meet

what were their heroes.

Shanghai, China

In China, Dota is to the people

there what Starcraft is to Korea.

It's televised.

The girls like their boyfriends

to be Dota players.

After a game, when they're walking around

you can see fans running up to them

asking them to sign on their shirts.

It's like a real sport.

The third time I was in China,

I was playing with fans for two days.

They made a video of me,

filming me walking in some mountains

and I had to say some sentences and stuff.

And I was like, yeah, "In Dota,

there's always a new mountain to climb."

Stuff like this, you know.

I walked up and down these stairs

and started running and

lifting some weights,

just to compare this with Dota

like some metaphor and stuff.

Fuzhou, I am coming!

E Sports in China is already a sport

that is recognized by the

General Administration of Sport.

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

The only thing is that it is

not an Olympic sport.

I will say that China teams are all great.

Every player in the team is strong.

You don't recognize China

players as a player.

You just recognize them as a whole team.

You just fear the whole team.

The Chinese teams that have

come to this competition

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