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"Since 2014, over 65 million individual people have played League of Legends, a real-time strategy game by Riot Games, every month. Sixty-five million people. That\u2019s 1 million shy of the population of France. ESPN has even added an \u201CeSports\u201D vertical, and though there\u2019s a healthy mix of titles, League of Legends dominates the coverage. \n\nNow most eSports are geographically popular\u2014Counterstrike, for example, is widely played in North America and not so much on other continents. But League of Legends is a rare title with global appeal, massively popular in North America, Europe, and Asia. There are regional championships in each area, but the best in the world take home a $1 million price and a 70-pound trophy called the Summoner\u2019s Cup. \n\nGunning for that Cup this year is the newest team to join the North American League Championship series, Immortals, a team made up of players culled from other teams that never managed to bring out their full potential. \n\nFacebookPinterestEugene &amp;quot;Pobelter&amp;quot; Park esportspedia\n\nFor context: League of Legends involves two five-player teams, each player leveling up a character in the match, and then attempting to pummel each other. Eugene \u201CPobelter\u201D Park is the mid laner for Immortals, taking a position in the middle of maps. \u201CIt\u2019s the most versatile role,\u201D he says, \u201Cso it requires a lot of experience. My job in the game can range from protecting my other teammates and making sure that they can beat the enemy team, or trying to do damage myself, so it\u2019s a role with a bit of variety.\u201D \n\nLike most professional gamers, Park is college-aged (20) and, like most professional gamers, fitness has never been his primary focus. Immortals performance coach Robert Yip says that keeping the team in shape is uber-important and can counteract the mental dulling that comes from the fatigue of spending eight hours in front of a screen on any given day. \u201CThe big focus is on helping to make behavioral changes and not spoon-feeding them,\u201D says Yip. \u201CThese are your college years. If you ask anyone that age, this would be a dream job and they would jump at the chance, but it\u2019s exceedingly stressful.\u201D\n\nBasic fitness helps to keep concentration strong, but other fine-tuning (like the core or auxiliary muscles like the delts and upper back) also help. The real obstacle though? Most gamers are underweight. \u201CDuring the course of each day they usually eat a calorie deficit, even if they\u2019re having one huge meal a day,\u201D says Yip. \u201CWhen players are hungry or tired or sick, they tend to play worse, and their stress management is a lot more difficult, they get more irritable.\u201D \n\n\n\n\u201CThroughout high school I ran track and field,\u201D says Park, \u201Cand I would say I definitely eat more now and I\u2019m still at a calorie deficit. Honestly, I was pretty miserable and I never knew why, so I just stopped running track and field.\u201D\n\nPark still struggles to eat up to his coach-approved 2,300 calories a day, but the efforts from the coach and team seem to be kicking in. While League of Legends games can last up to an hour, Immortals has already scored two under-20 minute wins, one against last year\u2019s North American League champions, Cloud9. And while Immortals are prepping for big prize money and even bigger numbers of viewers, a few of us\u2014this writer included\u2014are still struggling to learn just how the game works.\n\n\u201CNo worries. That was me [Sunday] watching the Super Bowl,\u201D says Park. \u201CI was saying, \u2018I don\u2019t even know what any of these initials stand for.\u2019\u201D\n\nBreakfast  Eggs, sausage, toast\n\nLunchLemon and garlic chicken and rice\n\nDinner Korean style chicken and rice"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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