That’s phenomenal to read through. The more I can learn and understand the impact of this area that better. I play all kinds of fighting games and deeply respect that xiaohai has managed to stay on top of the game for such an incredibly long time. Truly an all time legend that will be hard to match. Curious what the Chinese think of him today and what his reputation in the community is as a person. The language barrier kept him fairly mute on the international stage for a long time.

As someone that has spent a lot of time in China and with Chinese people, I’ve only heard some of this. One of the things though that I would really like to get a spotlight is how king of Fighters grew to be a religious level experience. I assume that will be deeply dived into during the arcade section and I think it’s also interesting that Xiao hai might be the world’s first big esports Star in terms of raw numbers of people aware of him. I often meet Chinese people that recognize him partially from that popular WeiXin ad.

The FGC invented esports in the way we know it today and having China’s part of that story expanded in detail would be fascinating.