This documentary was very disappointing. The director of the documentary said, in the live interview after the movie, that he did not really understand the game (League of Legends: LoL) the documentary is about. He only started to investigate eSports a little over a year ago and he does not play any "modern" games himself.
The introduction shows 30 minutes of play of a Starcraft 2 game. Which would have been awesome, if it had anything to do with competitive eSports or with the main event of this documentary (IEM Katowice). But it was a random non-competitive game using a custom game mode. To top it off, the team who won the game said afterwards (during the interview at the end) that they had already won from the start but they purposefully did not try to win in order to make the game last longer.
The rest of the documentary follows a few American League of Legends teams, which are competing to win an international LoL tournament at IEM Katowice. It turned out to not be very interesting for anyone except Americans who play League of Legends themselves, but those people would already have seen the event live, on twitch.TV, a long time ago. Other teams did not get any attention. Other games that were played on IEM Katowice were barely mentioned. And other events were not mentioned at all. eSports is huge nowadays but unfortunately this documentary only shows a single game at a single event and focused purely on a few American teams while ignoring the vast majority of eSports.
The only thing that was actually interesting and entertaining about this documentary was experiencing the arrangement of IEM Katowice through the perspective of the organizer of this event, Michael 'Carmac' Blicharz.
Seeing this documentary was mostly a waste of time and money, so unfortunately i would not recommend it to anyone.
The introduction shows 30 minutes of play of a Starcraft 2 game. Which would have been awesome, if it had anything to do with competitive eSports or with the main event of this documentary (IEM Katowice). But it was a random non-competitive game using a custom game mode. To top it off, the team who won the game said afterwards (during the interview at the end) that they had already won from the start but they purposefully did not try to win in order to make the game last longer.
The rest of the documentary follows a few American League of Legends teams, which are competing to win an international LoL tournament at IEM Katowice. It turned out to not be very interesting for anyone except Americans who play League of Legends themselves, but those people would already have seen the event live, on twitch.TV, a long time ago. Other teams did not get any attention. Other games that were played on IEM Katowice were barely mentioned. And other events were not mentioned at all. eSports is huge nowadays but unfortunately this documentary only shows a single game at a single event and focused purely on a few American teams while ignoring the vast majority of eSports.
The only thing that was actually interesting and entertaining about this documentary was experiencing the arrangement of IEM Katowice through the perspective of the organizer of this event, Michael 'Carmac' Blicharz.
Seeing this documentary was mostly a waste of time and money, so unfortunately i would not recommend it to anyone.