Players and esports organizations in China are showing a remarkable effort in helping fight the Coronavirus pandemic.
Pandemic Coronavirus continues to have extremely complicated developments in China. And in the context where the doctors here are struggling to fight the disease, they also receive tremendous encouragement from the Chinese people, and especially the Esports community.
Recently, the FunPlus Phoenix team has announced the donation of 2 million RMB to purchase medical equipment such as goggles, masks, protective clothing, medicine to help for the work of preventing the spread of an epidemic.
Up to now, this is the largest amount of money that a Chinese esports organization has spent on disease prevention, and before that, there were many other individuals and teams of Chinese League of Legends. There are also similar moves, especially Uzi – The player is also from Hubei – Regional epidemic centre and is currently in high isolation.
On the side of Uzi, this player also spent hundreds of thousands of RMB to order a series of medical supplies and equipment. Since the outbreak, Uzi and his girlfriend, with the help of the fan community, have donated more than 40,000 medical masks, 597 protective clothing, and Fanclub of Uzi also raised enough money to buy 160 air sterilizers.
Thanks to these noble acts, Uzi has received a letter of thanks from the leadership Yichang City, Hubei Province, which is also his home town. The hospital director said that the medical staff was extremely grateful to the positive and generous of Uzi, and even more surprised to learn that the identity of the sender of medical equipment is a player. professional electronic sports.
According to shared on Weibo, during this Corona pandemic, the Chinese Esports community was the first to support the health sector in preventing disease. Part of the reason is that esports activities in particular and cultural sports, in general, are seriously affected by the epidemic, but largely because of the LPL players that have a lot of people living in Hubei. , and this is the time when they want to use their money to contribute to the homeland.
Besides Uzi and the FPX team, eStar – the team that won the right to play in the LPL Spring 2020 also donated cash of 500,000 yuan, 60,000 medical masks and 10,000 pairs of medical gloves to reinforce for disease area.
It can be said that, besides the actions of the Chinese government, practical actions from the esports community of the billion-people country are also bringing positive signals to prevent the spread of the pandemic Corona flu.
Currently, while the LPL and LDL are being suspended due to the epidemic, there are still many players and other esports organizations that have donated cash and medical supplies to try to prevent this dangerous disease the fastest way.