Professional Players Get Rich and Famous Playing Video Games

If you think your kids spend too much time playing video games on their Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360
, PC or PSP or PlayStation Portable console, then you may have reason to be concerned but not worried. Before telling your child to put the game away and take a textbook, you should consider a fact and that he is a professional video game circuit out there with professional gamers who earn thousands or 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 in a single event. Their cyber-athletes make hundreds of thousands of dollars to play in tournaments that are televised address to the nation. Some of them are so popular that they can not go out in public without bodyguards to protect them from adoring fans. Also date movie stars and get their faces on the covers of newspapers and magazines.

Recently, it was a tournament of 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 broadcast on television and the Internet. The audience of 1.78 million people who watched on television and online were glued to their seats when they saw the one-event days unfold. They came to see the most popular players in their country strut his business.

His name is Lim Yo Hwan, who was 27 years and is the Mick Jagger of e-sports in South Korea. This young man has done a good name for himself playing StarCraft, the only game that counts on the circuit of video game in this country. His fans wanted to see put on a show, and did win the tournament easily with a price to take home $ 20,000. Lim Yo Hwan has won many of the events of recent years and this has put his income in the six-digit category. Not bad for playing video games.

The United States, some cyber Superstar athletes who live too well on the circuit of electronic games. The brightest star in this country is a 26 year old man named Johnathan Wendel, otherwise known to his fans as Fatal1ty, is his name on the screen. 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 over the past seven years, won 41 major tournaments eSports games. Won competitions electronic game more than anyone else in America. Johnathan has also done very well financially, earning more than 450,000 $ in prizes.

Johnathan Wendel has traveled all over the world playing in tournaments games. To date, he has played on every continent except Antarctica. These tournaments were held in very interesting, unique and famous, including the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Moscow, so the idea of holding one in Antarctica ever be a day not so crazy.

Johnathan everywhere you go is invaded by fans who love the way he plays video games. All expenses are paid when he travels and lives like a rock star. With the world championships in five different games, Johnathan was considered by most of his sport, as the best in the world. No other player has also approached to matching his achievements.

In November 2006, Johnathan Wendel defeated his greatest enemy and won the world championship for his fifth game, Painkiller, and so he took home a prize check for $ 150,000. He beat the world champion for that game, a man of 20 years, who goes by the name of Holland Vo0 screen.

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 reckoned with in the Cyberathlete Professional League. Recently introduced a line of Fatal1ty products that 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 to sell these products to gamers around the world.

The video game industry is expected to make 30 billion this year selling video games and consoles for products like the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PSP. This is a huge amount of money that is more than double the annual big NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball combined. With that type of game and hundreds of millions of people playing video games around the world of professional sports games is starting to attract major advertising sponsors and merchandising companies.

Professional video gamers are not just kids who waste their time to spend endless hours playing video. Many of them have managed to turn a hobby into a profitable career. There are hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars in those days by players who travels the world, all expenses paid and live like rock stars.

So the next time you think your child spends too much time playing Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC or PSP games, you should not worry too much. If they show more than the average amount of interest in the sport of computer game, try not to discourage them from playing video games. It is important for you to understand that they can not just play when you sit in front of their television or computer, which could also be trained to be a millionaire World Cyber famous athlete.