January 29, 200719 yr I thought this was pretty cool. I remember hearing about this guy ( Dennis "Thresh" Fong)years ago when I first started FPS. 7. Pro Gamers Retire Earlier Than Tennis Players You'd think that playing video and PC games professionally would be a dream come true for many, especially the top pro gamers. Yet a number of them seem to retire at a young age during their so-called "prime." For example, Kristoffer "Tentpole" Nordlund has said he will retire after the CPL World Tour Championship wraps up this year - at the ripe old age of 21. Nordlund is a member of Sweden's top professional team, dubbed Fnatic, and he's pretty damn good at Counter Strike. There's been no word about what Nordlund will do after retirement, but there is life after pro gaming. For example, Sander "Vo0" Kaasjager, 21, who is one of the top Painkiller players in the world and earned more than $230,000 on the 2005 CPL World Tour alone, retired earlier this year to concentrate on his college studies. And Dennis "Thresh" Fong, who was once one of the dominant Quake players in professional gaming during the late 1990s, went on to become a successful entrepreneur, founding the gaming site Gamers.com and Xfire, the communication software maker and social networking provider for online gamers. Xfire was acquired by MTV Networks last spring for more than $100 million, so Fong is doing quite well.
January 29, 200719 yr That is all good to know if my job does not work out i can play games for some BIG money YES YES lots of money and then i woke up lol i will still be working for very little money in the morning
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