2 Responses for "5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pro Gamers"

1. cliche

   February 20th, 2006 at 9:48 am

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   $400-500k for the winner, but how much for the hundreds of losers? In pro sports, you get a comfortable salary (over $100k) even if you stay on the bench all the time. In gaming, you’re literally a winner or a loser… and there’re hundreds of losers for every winner.

2. Danny

   February 21st, 2006 at 6:00 am

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   Country like South Korea where it has the most broadband connection population in the world,
   so called ‘E-sport’ is really happening.

   There is an actual game league going on where there are bunch of pro gamers playing against each other and it’s being broadcasted thru dedicated game channel every single day.

   They belong to profesionally game team and get paid regular salary PLUS those game prize money you mentioned.

   They get tons of endorsement from IT companies
   like Samsung electronice and that’s another
   source for HUGE income.

   Because most of audiances for this game league
   and channels are young people who are really
   into these new cutting edge cell phones and stuff, it is very much worth for high-tech company to endorse these professional gamers.

   Top players makes way more than a mil. per
   year.

   The game league are beingn watched by hundreds of thousand people everyday, and important game matches are being held in huge dorm
   where thousands people attand to watch the game, hundreds of cutties cheering for male
   players.(yes, you can be rich and cool for
   playing lots of computer game in this place!)

   :-)