of people play League of Legends.

These are five of those players.

Cairo, Egypt

Amin

São Paulo, Brazil

Mariana

Mariana, how is the performance coming?

You should ask your other daughter.

Why her?

Because she will perform too

and she didn't practice last night.

Yeah, I got the feeling.

Seoul, South Korea

Can I have the scissors?

-Scissors? -Thank you.

Yong-Seung

I think lots of people will come today.

So be prepared.

Los Angeles, USA

-Welcome to Summoner's Rift.

-Braeden

Stykkishólmur, Iceland

Eyjó

My name is Eyjólfur Fannar Scheving Jónsson and I'm a fisherman.

-Nothing to do? -No.

I started fishing in 2005 because I was 18 years old and I needed a job.

So I was just forced out to sea.

I like my job. I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't like it.

But my dream is to work in game design.

We usually fish for two to three weeks and then we are off for like four days.

And we're off at the moment.

Today I'm going with my dad, it will be 45 minutes sail.

Reykjavik, Reykjavik. 60 04 out from Stykkishólmur.

And it's just blue everywhere.

Just the sky and the sea.

I came over to the States to really get into a house,

go over strategies and train.

First game of the day is always a bit sloppy.

This is where I either die or I make it big.

Alright, I made it big.

When I was growing up, I played sports a lot.

I loved going to these tournaments, these high pressure situations.

That was kind of my goal for life after that, was to just win stuff.

T8 right now it's like a family.

-We're just here for the same goal

-Linden, Braeden's Twin Brother

so that we can eventually make a job out of gaming.

I'm going to head topside.

Whenever I told people about it, they were very skeptical.

Wait, I'm going to ping this bush.

Playing video games is not a job, right?

I have to show them videos of the World Championships.

Then they kind of start realizing how big it is.

League of Legends is becoming the true sport.

Our team is getting ready for the promotional series.

If you win, you get a salary, you get exposure.

You are able to make a job out of gaming.

This is pretty much everything we've been working for

and it's going to happen in two hours.

I've never done cosplay for such a large group.

I don't know if I'm nervous.

I guess I'm more anxious.

Cosplay is about transforming into your favorite character

and interpreting what they do and

that's it.

I've gotten all kinds of orders for weapons, hats, etc.

I don't have another job. This is it.

Deciding to take part in this contest today

is taking it to another level.

People don't get that I'm doing this

because I have to do it for myself.

I really want to keep on doing this for the rest of my life.

Should we be going this way?

Where are you trying to go?

To the event.

-Do you need to unload? -Yes, we do.

Making robots turned my life around 180 degrees.

My name is Yong-seung, Kim.

My hobby is to make League of Legends characters into robots.

My latest project is the new Baron Nashor robot.

He's an extremely powerful neutral monster.

I'm looking forward to showing it. I think people will respond well.

Let's stop here and unload.

Here's your hat, sweetie.

Most people are creative

but they don't bother to act on it.

That's why I show my projects to people.

We're on the most recognizable bridge in all of Egypt. It's called Qasr al-Nil.

This is the main entryway to get to Tahrir Square.

So when the major demonstrations happened

on the 25th of January 'til the 11th of February,

this is how people would get in.

In 2011, Egypt erupted in revolution.

More than 800 people were killed in clashes with police.

Amin was 19 years old.

That was the first time I ever got shot at like by a real gun

like someone trying to actually kill me.

My name is Amin Abu Hashem and we're in Cairo, Egypt, District of Giza.

Actually I'm just going to stop. Bunch of tanks right there.

There's an APC behind me.

That is anti-terror, anti-riot police.

It's a lot of stress just like piling and piling and piling up on top of you.

League of Legends for some reason calms me down.

League of Legends, for those who don't know,

is an online game.

How can I start?

I started and I hated the game. I actually hated it.

I was so bad I lost the tutorial.

To be totally honest, I didn't like League of Legends.

I just didn't get the game.

And then I kind of realized what the game was about.

Five players vs five other players.

It's like five-men chess when everybody's moving at once.

You're trying to get to their base and destroy it.

And they're trying to do the same exact thing to you.

There's a lot of strategy because you have to be a cohesive unit.

You win the game by destroying an enemy building.

The objective is to destroy their Nexus, which is their central point.

You need to destroy this to win the game.

Hello and welcome back to the 2015 Spring Promotion Tournament.

I'm Max "Atlus" Anderson along with Jake "Spawn" Tiberi

and we'll be your hosts for this all important best of five series

between compLexity and Team 8.

Right now it looks like 56% of you

think that compLexity will earn the right to keep their spot.

...Robert is four into one each...

We walk in the LCS Studio and we see compLexity and we're like,

"Oh boy. These are the guys we're going to have to beat."

Even though compLexity at LCS...

They look like Gods.

And it really looks like...

I think everyone's thinking, "I hope we're ready for this."

Can you guys hear me alright?

Uh, I hear you.

When you're on stage there is a lot of distractions.

There's the crowd. There's the signs. There's the lights.

Even the camera that's watching your face.

But you have to forget it all somehow.

Game's going to start.

We are onto the rift everyone.

A spot in an LCS is on the line in this best of five series

between compLexity and Team 8.

You have so much adrenaline in your body.

You're so close to getting into the LCS. It's one match.

Yeah, I'm going to come top early. Lee's going to be bottom side.

... is doing a good job of being outside of these minion waves

so it's not giving birth.

And we can see that the first gank is towards the topside.

Porpoisepops coming in for another gank.

The head's up is going to be a real...

There is the twisted advance onto Westrice.

Doesn't have the ultimate yet. Only level four.

That's a brilliant pulverize blast. Is it going to be enough to triumph?

Porpoisepops picks up the kill.

Woah, woah, woah. Who's this Katarina?

He doesn't let up!

Ahmed you're taking so much harassment.

So much, you can't dodge his Q?

Lag, lag.

DC'd, DC'd.

Hey, is chat disconnected for everyone?

Cairo's a harsh environment

if you're never been in any Middle Eastern culture.

For me to game, I need to accept that there are things beyond my control.

By the way, the power went out.

We're working off the generator.

The server is down?

The Middle East doesn't have a server,

so everyone either plays in EU Nordic/East,

EU West or North America.

The first time I logged into a European Server,

there was an overload of information.

I go on and I say, "Guys, I'm new. What do I do?"

And I remember the first thing someone said was Russian. It was pure Russian.

And I was like, "Uhh."

And someone like responded in Polish.

And I discovered that Poles

have like a weird like squiggly thing coming out of some of their letters.

I was like, "Oh, that's Polish."

The Danish have a slash through their Os.

It was interesting.

And I met people from all over the world.

I played with people who were like in refugee camps in Jordan,

metal heads in Sweden.

It's cool. It's cool to meet people from different backgrounds

and learn about their life.

My father owns 150 islands in Breiðarfjörður.

We go there together and hunt minks and foxes.

We take a little boat to the beach.

Tie the boat there to a rock and then we walk to the house.

Part of my family's living is collecting eiderdown.

This is eiderdown.

It's like the feathers of the eider bird.

Mink, fox and seagulls, they all threaten this duck.

If there's a fox, we have to go deal with it.

It's a very clever, clever animal.

Most of the time it's a big chase.

This is the fox. This is the dog.

Since I was a little kid, I've always been into hunting.

I guess it's the competition, man and animal, you know.

That's why I like the jungling in League of Legends.

Welcome to Summoner's Rift.

It's kind of like the hunt.

You come there and surprise your prey

and it's so satisfying when you get the kill, you're like, "Fuck, yeah."

Anyone can exhibit handmade pieces at the Maker Faire.

People bring in everything from knit pieces to leather craft.

Some people bring in robots.

I'm putting together my Baron and Kog'Maw robots.

I think I have seen this before.

This is the character from League of Legends.

This is a revised character that will be released in upcoming patches.

This is the new Baron.

Did you make it?

Yes, it took me two months.

-Is that Baron? -Yes, the new one.

It would be cool if there were Fiora.

What made you make it?

Why did I make it?

I'm a very imaginative person.

I made several USB gadgets.

I was good at building machinery. So I thought, "I can create a robot."

I was really into playing LoL

and decided to transform a LoL character into a robot.

So I made a Kog'Maw robot.

Then I thought I should build the characters

and have them fight against each other.

I built almost everything on the Baron robot by hand.

The process is difficult, but it feels great once I finish.

Anime Friends started two days ago.

It's a huge cosplay event.

Every day there are lots of different things...

They have bands from all over,

various cosplay presentations.

My sister and I will compete in the Free Play category.

Free Play is all about making the crowd laugh

not presenting a traditional version of the character.

We rehearsed a lot

and tried hard to make it funny.

I never used to get along with my sister

but a few years ago she started getting into cosplay.

Look, it's a little wolf!

Now we are inseparable.

She's my partner.

I have whiskers at home, we could put it here, right?