Professional Gaming what?

Professional gaming? What is it? Professional gaming or e-sports is when people play a game console. Such as xbox, playstation, wii-u, and computers. These gamers are just like athletes. But less exercise of course. They train on the game that they play on and once they think they are ready they go to events. These events have prize pools. For example, for call of duty there is a 1 million dollar tournament held every year. The million dollar is split into the 8 teams that place top 8. First place gets 400,000 and they split that between four people. There is different events held throughout the year, but of course for each game the big event is the one with the most money.

Professional gaming is great career. First, like I explained is the income from the tournaments. A lot of the professional gamers stream on a website called twitch. When you stream on this sight you get money from that. There are ads on there. So you play the ads and you get the money from the ads. Then there is youtube, you can post video on youtube and get money from posting videos. The most popular youtuber got over 2 million dollars in a year! From just posting youtube videos.

Travel and hotel costs for these tournaments can cost a lot. If the people hosting these events fly you out to the tournament. It can cost probably 200 dollars for just a plane. The hotel costs probably cost the same amount as plane tickets but for each night you have to pay that night. Then there are fees that you have to pay to get in. This can probably range from 200-400. It is called a team pass. You have to have team pass in order to get into an event. It’s like a sports team by it is called an e-sports team. Electronic sports. Professional gaming can be a busy and expensive career.

In professional gaming you can get sponsorships. One team for example has a sponsorship by nike. Another team has sponsorship from monster and redbull. Getting these sponsorships are huge. They make get known in the gaming scene. You can also get free stuff from these. Who doesn’t want free stuff? This is how professional gaming works and if you think you want to be a pro gamer here are some of the steps.