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Jeremy Lin to feature in ELEAGUE | Road To The International Dota 2 Championships

By Matt Rutkowski

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 31: (CHINA OUT) NBA player Jeremy Lin of the Brooklyn Nets attends Dota game event on July 31, 2017 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 31: (CHINA OUT) NBA player Jeremy Lin of the Brooklyn Nets attends Dota game event on July 31, 2017 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) /
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Jeremy Lin will be in tonight’s final episode of ELEAGUE | Road To The International Dota 2 Championships. What can you expect?

Jeremy Lin’s career has taken him from Landry Field’s couch in New York to a $12 million-a-year contract in Brooklyn. What better way to celebrate his status of international folk hero than sitting on your own couch and watching him talk about video games? It’s like poetry if poetry were really bad.

Poetry is overrated anyway. Video games, on the other hand, are awesome. Have you played Mario Kart 64? I have. Probably more than you. Fight me.

No. Please don’t. If you’re into fighty things, you’re probably more into games like Dota 2 anyway. Jeremy Lin is. He’s a player himself, and that’s why he’ll be on your screens tonight while the NBA still wades through its offseason. Lin was in Seattle for The International 2017 to watch the world’s highest level Dota 2 players compete for a $24 million prize. For Lin, that’s almost two years of work.

For those unaware, Dota 2 is kind of like The Sims except the Sim you control has weapons and magic and teams up with four other Sims to level up and destroy another team of five Sims along with their various fortresses and towers inside Dota 2’s incarnation of SimValley. Players have to work together to succeed. Iso scoring is largely ineffective. It’s addictive and not all that dissimilar to basketball as Lin explains in this clip:

For some, it might be a little painful to see a male basketball player back inside Key Arena, but try to get over yourselves.

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The episode will also feature The International’s Main Event of 16 teams competing for their spots in the Grand Finals as well as the winner’s share of the tournament’s prize money. You can watch it on TBS at 10 PM ET/PT on Friday, Aug. 25, or you can stream it live on the Watch TBS app. International viewers can stream it as well, provided you have a provider listed here.

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