Posted on 01/22/2006 4:08:04 PM PST by Texaggie79
CBS) The world's best video game player practices for hours to hone the skills that have earned him more than $450,000 in prize money. But being the best is also a matter of being the fittest, says Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, who credits exercise with being an integral part of his training.
60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft profiles Wendel this Sunday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
ping.
"The world's best video game player practices for hours to hone the skills that have earned him more than $450,000 in prize money."
The best at what game or games, though? That's not very specific.
class of '78 here and you ought to be embarrassed.
Check out reality.
Biggest prize money games at the moment are Counter Strike, Quake 4, Battlefield 2 and Painkiller.
79 is mah birth year g dog.
Not interested in Kinky Friedman???
Awww I like him hehehehe. I don't understand the concept of 'e-sports' though so I'm definately watching this segment.
I have no delusions that I, myself could compete, but I compete on an amateur lvl. Though I know and play with some professionals.
Im also involved with some other players looking into forming a E-sports management company.
There's gonna be more and more money involved. Kid's today who grow up with competitive online gaming will be very interested in watching and keeping up with professional gaming.
Plus the biggest money comes from the sponsors like NVidia and Intel and the like. They want their names on the shirts of the best players in the game, and pay good money for it.
I enjoyed that segment.....
My computer runs an ABIT Fatal1ty Motherboard and ABIT Fatal1ty graphics board. Doom3 & HL2 rock.
How'd you like his parting shot: "Criticize me if you want but don't circumsize me any more".
ROFLMAO!!!!
whatever happened to the guy named Thresh? wasnt he the doom/quake master for a while?
Yeah...that was a good one....the Kinkster cracks me up.
Just thinking how that would make a good tag line!
And I am one Christian who ain't offended by "They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus any more."
I wasnt offended by anything the Kinkster said on tonight's show.
Dennis "Thresh" Fong went legit during the dot.com boom. He started a website, sold it for a good chunk of cash. These days he's writing columns for gaming magazines and websites rather than playing.
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