Meet PindaPanda, Who Probably Plays Video Games Better Than You

Born and raised in Bhutan, Pinda Rika Dorji is an eSports aficionado and personality on Astro eGG (the first 24/7 e-sport channel in Southeast Asia), having graduated with a degree in Construction Management at Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur.

Image: Stadium Astro

Pinda started playing DOTA 2 back in 2013 and has been streaming and following the game ever since. She started a YouTube channel, along with a Facebook page with over 130,000 followers, to stream her live games and produce updates as well as reviews on big competitions.

Her channel also features short song covers and dance renditions as well as tutorial for fans who are new to DOTA 2.

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A video posted by pindarikadorji (@pindapanda3) on Jan 2, 2017 at 8:54pm PST

As a gaming personality, Pinda makes videos of the games she plays on YouTube and Facebook. Hailing from the land of the ‘Thunder Dragons’, she used to play using only 3G connection and suffered from low internet availability.

She started young by playing Super Mario with her grandmother and that’s how she got hooked to video games.

Image: YouTube

Pinda chose eSports over her civil engineering job and she was recently working at a construction firm, having to quit that job to work at Astro.

I saw the camera and I told myself "Look natural look NATURAL you noob" Photo Courtesy - @swityen
A photo posted by pindarikadorji (@pindapanda3) on Jan 9, 2017 at 10:26pm PST

She is known as a nerd, gaming addict, or even by her close friends as the “girl who likes dry jokes”.

We caught up with her recently for a round of Random Questions With...