Professional Gamers Get Rich And Famous Playing Video Games

If you think your kids are spending too much timeinteresting, unique and famous places including the
playing video games on their Playstation 3,Great Wall Of China and Red Square in Moscow,
Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PC or PSP or Playstationso the idea of holding one in Antarctica some day
Portable consoles then you may have a reason tomay be not be so far fetched.
be concerned, but not worried. Before you tellEverywhere Johnathan goes he is swarmed by
your child to put down the game remote and pickfans who just love the way he plays video
up a text book you should consider one fact andgames. All of his expenses are paid when he
that is that there is a professional video gametravels and he lives like a rock star. With world
circuit out there with professional gamers whochampionships in five different video games,
earn thousands, even millions of dollars.Johnathan is considered by most in his sport to be
South Korea has a genuine passion for playingthe best in the world. No other gamer has even
video games. This is a video game obsessedcome close to matching his accomplishments.
nation. The electronic gaming events in thisIn November of 2006 Johnathan Wendel defeated
country can draw up to 100,000 spectators at ahis biggest nemesis and won the world
single event. Their cyber athletes make hundredschampionship for his fifth video game, PainKiller,
of thousands of dollars playing in tournamentsand in doing so he took home a prize check for
that are televised nationwide. Some of them are$150,000. He defeated the reigning world
so popular they cannot go out in public withoutchampion for that game, a 20 year old man from
body guards to shield them from adoring fans.Holland that goes by the screen name Vo0.
They even date movie stars and get their facesJohnathan is becoming more and more popular
on the covers of newspapers and magazines.every day as he continues to shine as a
Recently there was an electronic gamingSuperstar in the world of professional gamers. He
tournament held in Seoul, South Korea at Jamsilis a force to be reckoned with in the
Indoor Stadium. This event was the equivalent ofCyberathlete Professional League. He has recently
our Superbowl. The game of choice for this eventlaunched a line of Fatal1ty products that include
was StarCraft, which is a web game that issuch things as mouse pads, headsets and
played on PCs. This event was nationally televisedkeyboards that are made specifically for playing
and broadcast on the Internet. The audience ofvideo games. He has a marketing Guru named
1.78 million who viewed it on television and onlineMark Walden working with him and both expect
were glued to their seats as they watched theto make millions of dollars selling these products
daylong event unfold. They came to watch theto gamers worldwide.
most popular gamer in their country strut hisThe video gaming industry is expected to make
stuff.$30 billion dollars this year selling video games and
His name is Lim Yo Hwan, he is 27 years old andconsoles for products like Nintendo Wii, Playstation
he is the Mick Jagger of e-sports in South Korea.3, Xbox 360 and PSP. This is an enormous
This young man has made quite a name foramount of money that is more than twice the
himself playing StarCraft, the only game thatyearly grosses of the NBA, NFL and Major
matters on the video game circuit in this country.League Baseball combined. With this kind of
His fans wanted to see him put on a show, andmoney involved and hundreds of millions of people
he did, winning the event easily with a take homeplaying video games all over the world the sport
prize of $20,000. Lim Yo Hwan has won many ofof professional video gaming is starting to attract
these events in recent years and this has put hismajor advertising sponsors and merchandising
income in the six figure category. Not bad forcompanies.
playing video games.Professional video gamers are no longer just kids
The United States has some Superstar cyberwho are wasting their time spending endless hours
athletes too who make a very good living on theplaying video games. Many of them have
electronic gaming circuit. The brightest star in thismanaged to transform a hobby into a lucrative
country is a 26 year old man named Johnathancareer. There are hundred of thousands, and
Wendel, otherwise known to his fans as Fatal1ty,even millions of dollars being made these days by
which is his screen name. He lives in Kansas City,gamers who travel the world all expenses paid
Missouri but his reputation lives all over the world.and live like rock stars.
Johnathan became a professional gamer at theSo the next time you think your child is spending
age of 19, and in the past seven years he hastoo much time playing Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3,
won 41 major eSports video game tournaments.Xbox 360, PC or PSP games you should not
He has won more electronic gaming competitionsworry too much. If they show more than the
than anyone else in America. Johnathan has alsoaverage amount of interest in the sport of
done very well financially, winning over $450,000electronic gaming, try not to discourage them
in prize money.from playing video games. It is important for you
Johnathan Wendel has traveled all over the worldto realize that they may not just be playing
playing in video game tournaments. To date hegames when they sit down in front of their
has played on every continent except Antarctica.television or computer, they could also be training
These tournaments have been held at some veryto be a world famous cyber athlete millionaire.