Survivor: Peih-Gee Law, Ken Hoang play League of Legends for charity
In support of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Survivor players Peih-Gee Law and esports pro Liquid Ken (Hoang) played League to raise some money.
As mentioned recently with Stephen Fishbach’s attempt at making a former player Dungeons & Dragons podcast, there is a surprising overlap of those who played Survivor and those who enjoy gaming. The most famous example of that overlap came with Ken Hoang, who is notably one of the Super Smash Bros. Melee kings and is arguably more infamous for gaming than Survivor.
He and Peih-Gee Law, both Survivor alum, have taken their video gaming interests and applied it for charitable causes on Friday evening. Both played on a League of Legends team on the Superleague Twitch channel, competing in charity exhibition matches to help raise money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Donations can be made here.
We won both games, AND raised $1700 for mental health awareness. Their goal was $1000 so it was amazing to see us almost double it! Thank you to @Missyeru @LiquidKen Superleague, and everyone who donated!
— Peih-Gee Law (@PEIHGEE) June 1, 2019
As Peih-Gee mentioned on Twitter, it turns out that having a professional video game athlete on your team (as well as playing the support role heroes to perfection) makes it easier to win exhibition matches, as Ken and Peih-Gee’s “No Brakes” team (with three other players) beat Team M E O W in two straight games to achieve victory.
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Over the course of the night, not only did the Survivor online showcase that they can outwit, outlast and outplay the competition, they helped raise more than $2,000 for mental health awareness; that’s double the goal the stream first set out to accomplish!
Watch Charity Exhibitions from superleague on www.twitch.tv
If you are watching the video above have barely the faintest of ideas of what multiplayer online battle arena games like League of Legends are about, you are not alone. Most games are as obtuse to describe as the fictional game Bamboozled from the TV show Friends, but essentially League is a tower defense game with players controlling heroes that take out points of interest on the other team’s map. Taking out the Nexus wins the game.
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You can check out the VoD (video on demand) at this link as well as the embed above. At this point, it would be cool for former Survivor players to get together and play some games as a group on Twitch since it looked like so much fun tonight.