A Chinese artist with the nickname 木木 爱 画画 (“Mumu loves to draw”) created a small comic strip based on ONE Esports Singapore Major 2023 for Dota 2. In this work, he portrayed several teams in the form of real people and introduced them to the martial arts academy. The comic strip itself was named “DOTA Academy”. The retelling of his events is in the material.
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The main actors were Team Secret, PSG.LGD, Invictus Gaming, Evil Geniuses, Vici Gaming, Team Aster, Virtus.pro, Thunder Predator, OB Esports x Neon and Team Liquid…
The story of the comic begins with a conversation between four Chinese teams, in which Team Aster gets nervous, and PSG.LGD and Vici Gaming give her advice. The comic consists of competitions between characters, the first being a match between Virtus.pro and PSG.LGD. The Vici Gaming character describes VP as follows:
Isn’t this the strongest CIS team with an incredible will to fight?
IG celebrates the majesty of the team by calling it “huge.” VP is depicted as a huge man in the skin of a bear.
The next match took place between Team Liquid and Vici Gaming. The depicted very nervous character VG, after an unsuccessfully used ability of Team Liquid, becomes more confident and wins. Following them, Team Aster and Thunder Predator enter the ring. The impatient Team Aster rushes into battle, but ultimately loses, and the rest of the Chinese teams draw a parallel between Aster and a real star.
He is now truly a star.
Following the chronology of the major, the artist then depicted the first meeting between IG and EG. The American team arrogantly addresses their opponents:
IG rushes into battle without looking back, which leads to her defeat and EG’s exit to the final of the upper bracket.
Before the match between PSG.LGD and Team Secret, there is a skirmish between the European team and Evil Geniuses. The character EG brags about reaching the final and asks what is the strength of Team Secret, and in response he hears: “Watch and learn.” But the emergence of PSG.LGD chills Secret a little.
You two are always talking about some kind of nonsense.
Team Secret’s meeting with PSG.LGD ends with a victory for the latter. Next, the author depicted the meeting of VG and Neon.
Meanwhile Neon:
And victory for Neon.
Her next opponent is Team Secret. The European team claims that it cannot lose in any way, to which Neon replies that it also does not intend to concede. Neon manages to repel Secret’s attack, which leaves the European squad in disarray:
Team Secret wins and, of course, cannot do without a sarcastic comment about Evil Geniuses:
The author quickly outlines the match between IG and TP, marking the victory of the Chinese team. Next, a meeting should take place between the snide EG and PSG.LGD.
EG claims that he was advised to gain strength before the fight and fight PSG.LGD for life and death. This shocks LGD and brings victory to the American roster. IG knocked out Team Secret and went into battle with PSG.LGD.
During the match between IG and PSG.LGD, the former regrets that this fight should take place, but announces that she intends to move on. To this LGD replies that, despite the previous defeat, she still intends to advance to the final. Both teams are fighting a fierce battle for the exit. Meanwhile EG:
IG wins and an hour later meets EG in the final.
At the start of the match, IG states that it wants to bring victory to the Chinese region, to which EG replies that it will be over as quickly as the first time. IG suffers defeat after defeat, giving confidence to its rival:
And here comes the turning point:
However, at this point, EG is unexpectedly defeated.
After the coup, everything ends with the victory of Invictus Gaming.
Meanwhile, on the plane on the way home, Team Secret:
The events that inspired the artist to create the comic took place during ONE Esports Singapore Major 2023, which took place from March 27 to April 4. The winner was Invictus Gaming… The team earned $ 200,000 and 500 DPC points.