The so-called "burning the rope" involves not taking any actions during a game round and only playing the card in the last few seconds of the turn time limit, stretching a game that could finish in ten minutes into a full thirty minutes.
If two players get heated and burn the rope against each other, a single game could even go on for more than an hour.
Such self-defeating behavior is something Xu Qing never engages in, especially now that he was live streaming. When his opponent started burning the rope, he couldn't just sit there dumbly waiting, so he opened Minesweeper and started playing leisurely. Once the opponent's turn ended, he'd play a card and then continue with Minesweeper.
"Sometimes you have to deal with situations like this, so it's best to play Hearthstone on the computer. That way you can watch a movie, Fight the Landlord, play Minesweeper... Basically, multitask and not waste time."
"The streamer seems quite adept at this."
