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Professional Gaming Athletes

November 7, 2005 by Bruce Carroll

Here’s something I didn’t know was going on out there….. this guy is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to be a professional video game player.

Game Boy – BusinessWeek

Unbeknownst to almost everyone over 30, professional game playing is becoming a very big deal. There are worldwide tours with stops from Rio de Janeiro to Istanbul. Celebrity players are hounded for autographs and compete for high-stakes prizes. At the CPL World Tour Grand Finals in New York in November, players will compete for a total of $500,000 in cash.

I’m wondering if there might be a future of moneymaking in being a professional blogging athlete? Wishful thinking.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Filed Under: Post 9-11 America

Comments

  1. V the K says

    November 7, 2005 at 8:06 am - November 7, 2005

    Anyone else notice one of the Marines in Halo 2 is really, really nelly?

  2. MarkP says

    November 7, 2005 at 8:27 am - November 7, 2005

    Bought HALO but didn’t like the game play! (I’m an AVID FPS game player forever!) So, didn’t notice the nelly Marine.

    However———
    The new game out from Sierra called F.E.A.R. has some REALLY HOT lifelike Marines running around! The eye candy is worth the $50.00.

    Oh, and GP————- Get out of your blogusphere bubble. I’ve known about the professional gamers for years! LOL

  3. ThatGayConservative says

    November 7, 2005 at 8:45 am - November 7, 2005

    Bought HALO but didn’t like the game play!

    Blaspheme.

  4. V the K says

    November 7, 2005 at 8:47 am - November 7, 2005

    The new game out from Sierra called F.E.A.R. has some REALLY HOT lifelike Marines running around! The eye candy is worth the $50.00.

    You have no idea how sad that statement is, do you?

  5. MarkP says

    November 7, 2005 at 9:12 am - November 7, 2005

    #3
    LMAO!!!! SORRY! It’s ALL subjective. I know HALO is/was a very popular game. It was just to clunky for me.

    #4
    😛

  6. anon says

    November 7, 2005 at 1:41 pm - November 7, 2005

    GP: “I’m wondering if there might be a future of moneymaking in being a professional blogging athlete?”

    Don’t know about that. But there’s money to made in political blogging. Thune paid Gannon $35,000. You and GPW should look into it. Could prove lucrative.

  7. Michigan-Matt says

    November 7, 2005 at 2:58 pm - November 7, 2005

    Anon, was that Thune payment to Gannon before or after HowieDean’s wife paid him $275,000 to leave her alone? And how about MichaelMoore’s $178,000 payment to CindyZeroSheehan? Gannon still gets the GayLeft fired up? Wow, that’s pathetic.

  8. V the K says

    November 11, 2005 at 8:11 am - November 11, 2005

    Yes, it is pathetic. The left-wing has lost Howell Raines, Jason Blair, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, Eason Jordan … all titans of the left-wing MSM. All exposed as frauds by the right wing. Who did the left manage to take down… a stringer for a third-rate news service. Bwah hah ha hah ha….

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