But the world of Magic goes way beyond heated tournaments, packs of cards, and energy drinks.
The ultimate goal of a pro-gamer's life is to win in the white heat of tournament competition, and of the many hopefuls few enough make it.
This is supported by evidence for a carry-over effect on these measures of strain (eg, heart rate, core temperature and RPE) negatively impacting same-day repeated-bout exercise in the heat (eg, tournament play), despite adequate rehydration and core temperature returning to baseline between bouts.
"But you don't really know until you get under tournament heat what your misses are going to be.
When he became ill from the heat during a tournament last year in the Middle East, McIlroy spoke of how Wozniacki, who had accompanied him, nursed him back to health with a lemon-juice concoction.
On Tuesday, a tennis player and a ball boy fainted in the heat during the tournament.
There are fears players will struggle to cope with the heat if the tournament took place in the summer.
Who knows, maybe the Russians' pond-hockey experience will come in handy tomorrow morning, when the tournament heats up some more.
As the Republic's former midfielder Ray Houghton told the BBC last year the heat at that 1994 tournament was dangerously oppressive.
Not only did Harkleroad have to win four matches in scorching heat to win the tournament, she also had to win four qualifying matches in scorching heat because her ranking (198) did not put her in the main draw.
Certainly, the commentator had time to explain to us how the tournament works: heats, quarter-finals, semi-finals, culminating in a final.
