Esports: Gamers are totally misunderstood
Here it goes, many people queuing up outside in a stadium then shouting and cheering for their teams, many people would think that it is a tournament for soccer, basketball or tennis but it is eSports were the athletes are wearing headsets, seating and facing a computer.
As of today, eSports is a massive industry and growing, moreover, many have said that why should an electronic game can be a sport. Well, eSport as of now is considered as a sports and even the professional player’s visa is labelled as an “athlete” and these athletes are paid not for cents but for thousands. This pro players are paid thousands monthly and gaining more thousands in prize pool of each tournament and they got sponsors just like NIKE, COKE, INTEL and NISSAN big brands though, these are just some of the brands that is taking advantage in the eSports.
Our parents might said in the past that might there is nothing we can from playing computer games, gamers can never have the money which a professional athlete in basketball can have, oh well gamers are totally misunderstood, Here are the top 5 richest gamers of the world and with their earnings so far in their profession.
5th. Jang Min Chul
AKA: MC
Total Earnings: $453,926
Mc is a veteran player at age of 24 and one of the most traveled player around the world, frequently in Europe tournaments and stuffing 79 contest under his belt in the process.
4th. Jonathan Wendel
AKA: Fatal1ty
Total earnings: $454,919
Unlike from the other professional gamers, Wendel plays a variety of games and also considered to be the first and best, electronic player ever. This guys is also a FPS lord, ripped people to shreds in FPS games, like Quake, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Doom 3, Counter Strike,and Alien Versus Predator.
In 2010, this guys was held as a Hall of Famer at the International Video Game Hall of Fame and holds a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for most kills in 60 minutes.
3rd. Danil Ishutin
AKA: Dendi
Total earnings: $452,841
Right now, many have said that he is the greatest DOTA player in the world, Not have know much about Danil but to say something about him, here is the list of things he could buy with his $450,000 in earnings since he went pro in 2009:
– A luxury South African villa, with pool
– An unfeasibly small apartment in London
– Several college degrees
– A round trip to Mars with SpaceX
– A Lamborghini Aventador
– A BGM-109 Tomahawk missile
– 900 Xbox Ones. Not that he’d be caught dead playing a console.
– 450,000 hammers from the dollar store
this info is from the writter Ciaran Utting.
2nd. Lee Jae Dong
AKA: Jaedong
Total earnings: $519,086
With nicknames including “The Tyrant” and “The Legend Killer,” Jaedong is a South Korean is heavyweight video gamer, and what game? well, its STARCRAFT.
1st. The Team Newbee
AKA: Zhang Pan (Mu), Chen Zhihao (Hao), Zhang Ning (xiao8), Wang Jiao (Banana), Wang Zhaohui (SanSheng)
Total earnings: $1,005,661 each
Why this five?, well this guys just become millionaires by winning Valve’s The International 4 championship. The Valve’s The International was a widely popular tournament and even featured in the ESPN, The International 4 first prize was $5,028,308 and this guys from newbee won. As of now, not including the winners of The International 5 which has also a million prize pool and not just million but millions, This five guys from the team Newbee are the richest in the list.
To be a professional gamer is of course not that easy because they rigorously train for hours a day.
Reference: http://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/top-7-richest-pro-gamers-world/
http://fortune.com/2014/07/24/esports-sponsors/
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