Talking about E-Sports

What is E-Sports? E-Sports is electronic sports, which can be interpreted as video games. Playing video games competitively, compete with other players, to win not only for the sake of fun, also for pride and money and many other more.

Recently, Orange Neolution E-Sports from Malaysia, got third place in The International 3, and prize of 287,000 USD.

Mushi, the captain of Orange, getting respect from the opponent, Dendi, after their defeat at The International 3.

By playing video game, this team which consists of 5 players, won 287,000 USD, nearly 1 million Ringgit Malaysia. If they get to divide equally this prize to each of them, one will get around RM200,000.

The five who almost entered the Grand Final of The International 3.

It is true that only very damn rare that you can earn money from playing video games. Like the case of Orange in Malaysia, who else play Dota 2 and win huge money? Out of thousands of Dota 2 players in Malaysia, only 5 make it. Some others may have won local tournaments but those are so little when compared to this RM200,000 per person, and hardly enough for living.

I always compare e-sports with football today. Playing football for many people is a hobby. But the selected ones can play football as their occupation, and earn money more than a lot of professionals. In a normal family, the parents will tell the children that playing football will not have bright future, important thing is to study properly. But some will still be football legends in the future.

Just the same for e-sports actually. For normal people, video games are just hobby. They will not promise you a bright future. But look at these Orange guys, they not only have this 287,000 USD prize, they have also earned respects from Dota 2 fans from the whole world. In certain countries, like China, USA, and a few more (sorry I don't know which country else), they really take e-sports seriously and have professional players who play video games and earn monthly stable salary. A Malaysian also move to China to play for a team from China, which was the Champion of The International 2. Just like these professional football players, who earn weekly stable salary. But of course the amount of salary still cannot be compared.

So Orange got 3rd place in the tournament, what about the winners?

Alliance from Sweden won the tournament, with 1.4 million USD. NaVi, a Ukranian based team, won 600,000 USD. 

The prize pool of The International 3.

How can a normal person earn nearly 300,000 USD, like those Alliance guys do? Even working for 5 years also damn hard to earn so much of money. But they have done it.

The Alliance not only lifted the Aegis, they also won 1.4 million USD.

This is an interview with mother of Dendi from team Navi, the first runner up from the tournament. Like normal parents, she did not agree with his video games. But what happened? Dendi has one first place, and 2 first runner up from this The International series, and a lot more prizes from other tournaments.

E-Sports is growing, and I really think E-Sports can grow to the size of football today.

That is my timetable for my clinical rotation, and finally I have finished everything except the last department, OBSGIN, or in full obstetric and gynecology. This means that I am supposed to be able to do everything a doctor can do besides those obsgyn related stuff. But, really? I doubt myself.

Life as a doctor who is not a doctor yet is actually quite good. I dont really have to be responsible on anything that happen, for example a patient has any complication, the real doctor will be the one responsible to handle that. Unless, I am so stupid to take a knife and stab the patient, then I am responsible for that. 

Jiwa, mata, bedah, THT (EnT), IKM (public health), anak, forensik, anestesiologi, interna, saraf, kulit. Often people ask, which one do I prefer to specialise in. And to most of the people, either layman or those who still not yet go through bedah, especially boys, would say "bedah is interesting". Maybe, but not for me. Although some of the operations are really interesting, I feel it is only interesting to watch how the operations go. This is only my opinion though, because I dont really like to cut living human flesh or burn it.

Some departments have interesting knowledge, but crazy scary life. Some have nice relax life, but confusing knowledge behind it. Worst stuff is, crazy scary life with confusing crazy knowledge. For example, forensic is actually damn interesting, learning how a person die and so on. But in reality, when the corpse comes at midnight with the letter from police, I have to go and touch and cut and examine the dead body, sometimes with maggots crawling all over the body, with the crazy smell. Dermatology (skin) has simple relax life, but it is so damn confusing, that one disease can be given different diagnosis by different specialists. And then there is internal medicine, where your life is not easy and the knowledge is like damn a lot.

There are a few interesting cases I have during this more than one year time. And from these I learned that medicine is actually more than just medicine, it is medicine as the base, plus social, economy, logical thinking, and a lot more. But of course, interesting in medicine most likely will end up a sad ending.