If you’re looking for elite academics, anyone in China can point you to the top schools: Peking University, Tsinghua, Fudan, etc. But if you’re looking for elite gamer skills, apparently, the country’s top talent lies elsewhere. On Sunday, a nationwide college League of Legends competition concluded with a championship battle between the country’s two remaining teams: Hunan University and the Fujian Minjiang Institute. And they must be teaching LoL skills down there in Fujian, because the Minjiang team (pictured above) won the championship 2-0 and took home the 100,000 RMB ($16,000) prize.
The event also featured famous announced Xiao Cang (pictured below) and the well known Chinese pro team OMG, which was on hand to sign autographs (second picture below) and sell some of their branded gamer gear.
And, of course, there was also a little bit of cosplay:
League of Legends is China’s most popular PC game, and it is especially popular with the college crowd.
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