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[Movie] Free to Play
If you were wondering what kind of movie this would be like, the closest example would be like The Social Network movie or, probably like National Geographic or something. Haha, what do you think it would be like? Its a documentary movie, not some re-boot re-enacted Hollywood movie.
The story revolves around three pro gamer from 3 different country. Hyhy from Singapore, Dendi from Ukraine, and Fear from the United States. The cast is the real person, this is more like a peek into the life of a gamer who turn their hobby into a career. In fact, I'm pretty sure what this movie intended to do, to expose and to raise awareness on the existence of e-sports. No, no, not the ESPN. That would be the Entertainment and Sport Programming Network.
The e-sports is also known as the electronic sports. A term coined for the organized video-game competition, which actually not a new thing in the video game culture. But usually, such activities are hosted in your friends house where the loser would need to pay for pizzas and beers. Fortunately for us gamer, the world have moved forward, in the name of globalization ,and more and more people could join in a dedicated hosted games, making it feasible for video games to be organised at international level. And the winner, will get more than just some cash to pay for pizzas and beer kegs.
There is a lot of e-sports tournament in the recent years. There are World Cyber Games, Evolution Championship Series, Intel Extreme Masters, and many more in the arena internationally and possibly locally as well. I don't know you guys, if you a gamer then you might want to check you neighborhood for such competitions. You might want the opportunity to further expand on you 'career', professionally. I'm just saying.
For this movie, Free to Play, it revolves around The International DOTA 2 Championships, hosted annually and first began its prestigious event on 2011. The same year when this documentary was made. It means that by now, there are 2 more of this tournament that been hosted, in 2012 and 2013 respectively. In 2014, they are rumored to be hosted in mid-July in a place that have yet to be revealed. Story has it, that they are looking for a bigger place. Hmmm..
Why is that?
