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China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported police arrested three people for organizing a video game viewing party with over 2,000 attendees in the city of Wuhan, in the midst of China’s worst coronavirus outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. The “crazy esports fans,” as the Global Times dubbed them, were not even playing video games. They packed a square on one of Wuhan’s main roads to watch a Chinese team play against a South Korean team in the online game League of Legends (LOL). League of Legends is a tremendously popular esports game, in which two teams of...
