Get paid to sit on your ass playing Soccer Video Games

It has been the subject of many a late night stoned dorm room conversation. Dude 1: Dude, what are we going to do after college? Dude 2: Dude, it will never be the same. We’ll never be able to sit around for 10 hours a day playing video games. Dude 1: If only we could get someone to pay us to play. That would be rad. Dude 2: Yeah dud. Hey, pass the Doritos.

What was once a fantasy can now, in fact, be a career.

The Championship Gaming Series debuted last week in the United States and has franchises around the world that pay top players base salaries of $30,000 US plus bonuses. Organizers hope to attract an audience of the same young gamers who pushed computer and video game software sales to $7.4 billion in 2006, a six per cent increase from 2005, according to the Entertainment Software Association.

The two-hour video game matches are staged twice a week on a movie sound stage in Manhattan Beach.

A studio audience of about 200 people cheers on cue while players face off in front of video screens. Team managers crouch nearby to offer encouragement.

Most games played in the league, such as Dead or Alive 4 or the soccer game FIFA 07, are one-on-one matches. Others, like Counter-Strike Source involve five-person teams squaring off in multiple rounds.

This gives hope to English majors everywhere. You might want to start lining up now so that you can be the first person to buy FIFA 2008. It will be an investment in your future, after all.

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