I set an alarm specifically to catch the Round 31 regular season game between Guangdong Southern Tigers and Beijing Ducks last week, since matchups between these two teams are always eventful. But when I opened the Migu live stream page, the loading spinner spun for almost 20 seconds before the picture showed up. Just as Yi Jianlian was about to dunk in the first quarter, the stream froze into a slideshow: the audio was running ahead, while the picture was stuck on his takeoff. When it finally loaded, the basket had already been scored for 5 seconds, and half the screen was already filled with comments.
I asked a few fellow fans studying in Helsinki, and everyone encountered similar issues: either they couldn't get into the live room for the first 10 minutes, or the stream buffered every time there was a critical transition between offense and defense. Even dropping the resolution to 720P didn't help, and some people even got a \
