Professional Gamers Get Rich And Famous Playing Video Games
If you think your kids spend too much time playing video games on your Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PC or PSP or PlayStation Portable consoles then you may have reason to be concerned but not worried. Before telling your child to end the game away and take a book to take account of a fact that there is a circuit of professional video game out there with professional gamers earn thousands, even millions of dollars. South Korea has a passion for video games. This is a video game obsessed nation. News of electronic games in this country can draw up to 100,000 spectators at an event. A cyber-athletes make hundreds of thousands of dollars playing in tournaments that are televised nationally. Some of them are so popular they can not go out without bodyguards to protect his faithful. Even movie stars and get their face time on the covers of newspapers and magazines. Recently, it was a tournament games held in Seoul, South Korea at Jamsil Indoor Stadium. This event was the equivalent of our Superbowl. The game of choice for this event was StarCraft, which is an online game that is played on a PC. The event was televised and broadcast on the Internet. The audience of 1. 78 million who watched on television and online were glued to their seats when they saw the event will take place all day. They came to see the most popular players in the country strut their stuff. His name is Lim Yo Hwan, who is 27 years and is the Mick Jagger of electronic sports in South Korea. This young man has made quite a name for himself playing StarCraft, the game is important in the circuit of video game in this country. His fans wanted to see a show, and did, easily won the tournament with a prize to take home $ 20,000. Lim Yo Hwan has won many of these events in recent years and this has made its entry into the six categories in double figures. Not bad for playing video games. The United States, some cyber athletes Superstar also make a very good life in the circuit of electronic games. The brightest star in this country is 26 years old named Jonathan Wendel, known to his fans as Fatal1ty, is your screen name. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri, but his reputation lives all over the world. Johnathan became a professional player at the age of 19 years, and during the last seven years has won 41 majors eSports games. He has won competitions games than anyone in America. Johnathan has also done very well financially, earning over $ 450,000 in prizes. Johnathan Wendel has traveled the world playing in video game tournaments. To date, he has played on every continent except Antarctica. These tournaments were held in places very interesting, unique and famous, including the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Moscow, so the idea of holding one in Antarctica, one day may not be as ridiculous. Everywhere Johnathan was invaded by fans who love the way he plays video games. All fees are paid at time of travel and live like a rock star. With the world championships in five different video gaming, Johnathan was regarded by most of their sport to be the best in the world. No other player has even come close to matching their achievements. In November 2006, Johnathan Wendel defeated his biggest rival and won the world championship for their video game session, analgesic, and in doing so, took home a check for $ 150,000 in prizes. He beat world champion for that game, a man of 20 years in Holland, the screen name Vo0. Johnathan is becoming more popular every day as he continues to shine as a superstar in the world of professional players. It is a force to be considered in the Cyberathlete Professional League. He recently introduced a line of Fatal1ty products which include items such as mouse pads, headsets and keyboards that are manufactured specifically for video games. He has a marketing Guru named Mark Walden working with him and both expect to make millions of dollars from the sale of these products to gamers worldwide. The gaming industry is expected to earn 30 billion dollars this year selling video games and consoles like Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PSP. This is a huge amount of money that is more than double the annual gross income of the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball combined. With that kind of money involved and hundreds of millions of people who play sports video games in the world of video game business began to attract major sponsors advertising and marketing companies. Gamers professionals are more children lose their time to spend endless hours playing video. Many of them have managed to turn a hobby into a lucrative career. There are hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars made these days by gamers who travel the world, all expenses paid and live like rock stars. So next time you think your child spends too much time playing Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC or PSP games should not worry too much. If you have more than the average amount of interest in sport computer games, do not try to dissuade them from playing video games. It is important for you to realize that not only can play when they are sitting in front of your TV or computer, but can also be trained to become a cyber-world famous millionaire athlete.
