In this episode, Homer coaches Bart and his team in a computer game tournament when he learns there is prize money involved.
The Simpson family is peacefully enjoying some board games with Patty and Selma on a rainy day, which they all find strange until they realize it is because Bart is not with them.
The team wins, and when Homer learns they qualified for a tournament with a $500,000 grand prize, he allows Bart to continue playing the game.
Learning that Homer and Bart are going to South Korea, Lisa begs Marge to bring her along to Seoul, seeing an opportunity to fulfill her desire to visit the Jogyesa Temple.
In an interview with The Verge, Riot Games' co-head of e-sports Whalen Rozelle talked about the making of the episode: "As the show is a satirical comedy, we knew they would present their own take.
While we were heavily involved as consultants, we were comfortable giving The Simpsons team full control over how they wanted to present e-sports in the show, given their tradition of excellence."
In the interview, Rob LaZebnik talked about the collaboration: "I remember reading that something like eighty million people viewed the 2017 World Championship play-in stage, which is more than the NBA finals.
Leading up to the episode, the overlapping group of Simpsons fans and avid gamers were publicly assured that the show had enlisted the folks at Riot Games to ensure that Bart's foray into the competitive gaming world didn't creak with old guy jokes about those kids and their blipping and their beeping, and so forth.
VanVolkenburg criticized the used of the M*A*S*H theme music because the television series angered Koreans at the time for showing the country as "poor and war-torn."