With the recent closing of the Championship Gaming Series you might have thought that people would stop pouring money into pro gaming, but another person of "Fatality" and "Walshy" talents has risen up from the dust cloud of CGS and claimed a 250K deal with Major League Gaming, a league that hosts teams that actually give out salaries for being pr0.
"TSquared" or Tom Taylor (two T's get it?!) gets 83.3k for 3 years of cappin foo's, and his face will be branded on every Dr. Pepper bottle starting '09. How'd he do that you ask? By playing 15 hours of Halo 3 every day with his team "Str8Rippin" and telling his mom to stafoo when she calls for him. If you got skills with Halo 3 or CoD 4 (console) then you might have what it takes to play in the amateur rounds during the tournaments that are hosted by MLG.
Although I probably think that most pro gamers are ego centric asphalt-holes, I can't say that I don't find the matches interesting to watch. When I had TV, I'd tune in sometimes to watch just how good these teams were which was kinda entertaining, but I wish they would have a wider selection of games than just Halo 3 and Starcraft. Anyways, I guess money being poured into games is helping us all out in the end (better hardware for playing games, better games being made for multiplayer, so-on) so in my eyes it's a win-win. Now if they would just play a real man's game like BF2!
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