How Does Billy Worth Going Pro?
Billy, a passionate League of Legends player, has a lot of experience with the game. He thinks that he is skilled enough to go pro because he is Diamond 1 ranking, which is a pretty good ranking. Billy believes that some professional teams League of Legends might want him to play for them. So he did some research and found out how he could possibly make his way onto a professional team. With this new knowledge, Billy is really convinced that he could become a professional eSports player. These following paragraphs will sum up what Billy has learned from his research, and how one could make it onto a professional team.
First of all, is it worth going pro in eSports, and why would someone want to go pro in the first place? Why not just …show more content…
If someone asked me, I would say that it is worth going pro. First of all, an eSports player would be making money playing video games. If I got that chance, I would take it. Now, people might be wondering how much eSports players actually make. Billy learned that an average eSports player makes more than an Olympian athlete. Pretend Billy went pro in DOTA. Let’s say his team won Internationals.The DOTA Internationals prize pool is 20 million dollars. If Billy’s team wins, they take home 10 million dollars, split between the five or six of them, depending on if they have a coach. Even if his team placed last, Billy’s team would still take home approximately $100,000. Even the USA, which has the most Olympic medals, only gives athletes $25,000 for a gold medal. Faker, who is widely considered the best League of Legends player ever, has made at least $1 million from tournaments, and rumours are he has a contract of $2.5 million a year for resigning with SKT T1. There are also other benefits of playing video games, which anyone can benefit from even if they aren’t a pro. For surgeons, it can drastically improve their performance in a …show more content…
EVER. Let’s take a look at how he made his way onto the roster of SKT T1, shall we? Faker had a pretty humble beginning; he didn’t play a lot of computer games. Sometimes, he played games like Tekken and Street Fighter at the arcade with his friends, but supposedly, he wasn’t too good. Later on, he started playing PC games, like Maplestory and Warcraft 3. A lot of professional LOL players actually have a background in Warcraft 3, which is a game that started DOTA. DOTA and League of Legends are both examples of MOBA games (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). Faker liked to play a custom mode of Warcraft 3 called Chaos, which is apparently similar to LOL. He claimed that he was “extremely good” at Chaos, which was probably true, considering how good he is at League. Faker began playing LOL in December 2011, when he accidentally found the game while browsing the web. Playing on the Korean server under the username GoJeonPa, he rose to rank #1 on the ladder. People wondered who he was, and some people thought he was a foreign pro on the Korean server. In late 2012, he got an offer from SKT T1 to join their team, and after some thought, he accepted. After he joined, SKT T1 basically built a new team around him, and they called it SKT T1 #2. Now that we have seen how pros have made it to the big leagues, let’s take a look at how Billy can do the same, and possibly find himself on the
First of all, is it worth going pro in eSports, and why would someone want to go pro in the first place? Why not just …show more content…
If someone asked me, I would say that it is worth going pro. First of all, an eSports player would be making money playing video games. If I got that chance, I would take it. Now, people might be wondering how much eSports players actually make. Billy learned that an average eSports player makes more than an Olympian athlete. Pretend Billy went pro in DOTA. Let’s say his team won Internationals.The DOTA Internationals prize pool is 20 million dollars. If Billy’s team wins, they take home 10 million dollars, split between the five or six of them, depending on if they have a coach. Even if his team placed last, Billy’s team would still take home approximately $100,000. Even the USA, which has the most Olympic medals, only gives athletes $25,000 for a gold medal. Faker, who is widely considered the best League of Legends player ever, has made at least $1 million from tournaments, and rumours are he has a contract of $2.5 million a year for resigning with SKT T1. There are also other benefits of playing video games, which anyone can benefit from even if they aren’t a pro. For surgeons, it can drastically improve their performance in a …show more content…
EVER. Let’s take a look at how he made his way onto the roster of SKT T1, shall we? Faker had a pretty humble beginning; he didn’t play a lot of computer games. Sometimes, he played games like Tekken and Street Fighter at the arcade with his friends, but supposedly, he wasn’t too good. Later on, he started playing PC games, like Maplestory and Warcraft 3. A lot of professional LOL players actually have a background in Warcraft 3, which is a game that started DOTA. DOTA and League of Legends are both examples of MOBA games (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena). Faker liked to play a custom mode of Warcraft 3 called Chaos, which is apparently similar to LOL. He claimed that he was “extremely good” at Chaos, which was probably true, considering how good he is at League. Faker began playing LOL in December 2011, when he accidentally found the game while browsing the web. Playing on the Korean server under the username GoJeonPa, he rose to rank #1 on the ladder. People wondered who he was, and some people thought he was a foreign pro on the Korean server. In late 2012, he got an offer from SKT T1 to join their team, and after some thought, he accepted. After he joined, SKT T1 basically built a new team around him, and they called it SKT T1 #2. Now that we have seen how pros have made it to the big leagues, let’s take a look at how Billy can do the same, and possibly find himself on the