For Season 2 of eight game designers, researchers, journalists, and curators met up in Shanghai to try and watch every match of the International Dota 2 Championship! Find us on the @IdleThumbs Network where we'll be releasing episodes every Friday!

No episode of this week!. We're taking a bit of a holiday break (while working on translating an hour long Chinese interview for Episode 208!). The final episodes of our story will air in the new year!🎄🧧❄️.

We're back with 207!. From cheers and jeers during PSG.LGD vs OG inside the stadium 🙊 to bartering for blind boxes and swag bags outside the stadium 🙈, in this episode @ybika helps us make sense of some serious monkey business 🙉.

RT @alt254: In three hours at 8PM EST / 5PM PST / 9AM HKT @chouxsalad and I will be keynoting Chinese DiGRA 2021! #ChineseDiGRA21 🇨🇳🕹. If y….

And if you ARE caught up with Season 2. in the previous season we went to Kuala Lumpur to try and play every escape room!. 1️⃣ SEASON 1 1️⃣.

Hi everyone! No episode this week but we'll be back to our regularly scheduled program on December 3!. In the meantime if you're not all caught up. 2️⃣ SEASON 2 2️⃣.

We are not messing around with these references

There's a new episode of where we ask the perennial question: is #Dota an ⚔️ARTS⚔️ or an 🎨art🎨?. Outside The International #TI9, we encounter esports as art and art as esports at the UN Art Center and How Art Museum in Shanghai!.

🎙NEW �. The whole cast is back in one room to talk about how we each played at #TI9—from arenas and arcades to malls and night cafes!. AND in the back half, @Kipspul joins us to talk about her work as a #Dota2 analyst and coach!.

RT @alt254: As one of our experts on escape rooms, it's a real treat to hear how @LeeShangLun navigates something like #Dota2 for the first….

@LeeShangLun @dchameleon @TrentPax @SirActionSlacks @IceFrog This. is a wild one 🍕👖

It's time for 🎙Shang Lun's Late Game🎙, the episode of where @LeeShangLun finds his way onto a #Dota2 talkshow at #TI9 and interviews a slew of cast and crew—from @dchameleon and @TrentPax to @SirActionSlacks and @IceFrog???.

@GhostTownGoldie @MrChad And I love this moment where @william_partin and @UpperCaveMan000 are almost "Hoodwinked" by @LeeShangLun's ad hoc escape room puzzle!

Still get a good laugh every time I watch @GhostTownGoldie muse about "Dark Pattern" (to @MrChad's chagrin)!