unknownforce
Smash Lord
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2004
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Hi all,
I wanted to ask what I feel is a valuable question in regards to gaming as a whole: How many professional gamers truly exist?
Before you answer, allow me to clarify. “Pro” is a term frequently tossed around the smash community, usually used to define any top level player. However, this is not the proper definition of a professional gamer. It’s true definition, and the one I’m using now, is (among others) a person participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs. I myself consider anyone able to financially support themselves solely from videogame tournament winnings as a professional gamer, even if they are scraping by with 25,000 a year or so.
So, how many professional gamers do you think there are? How many do we have in the Brawl and Melee communities? For that matter, how many competitive players do you think we have? By competitive, I mean a Melee or Brawl player that attends at least a few tournaments a year. I would ask the same questions to those of you who might have the answer for other gaming communities.
My last question is how much the elite video game players of the world are currently making? Back in my starcraft days, I remember well that SlayersBoxer was making around 450,000 a year, which at the time made him the gamer with the highest income (though I remember USA’s Johnathan Wendel did pretty well too around the same time period, winning 150,000 in a single tournament alone). However, these examples are extremely out of date, and I imagine the newest wealthiest gamers are making even more than these two. Does anyone know the answer to this?
I don’t want to explain my theories or reasons for asking these questions yet as it may collude the type of responses I get, but I do believe the answers to these questions would be extremely valuable to the community as a whole.
My thanks to anyone who is able to contribute an educated response.
I wanted to ask what I feel is a valuable question in regards to gaming as a whole: How many professional gamers truly exist?
Before you answer, allow me to clarify. “Pro” is a term frequently tossed around the smash community, usually used to define any top level player. However, this is not the proper definition of a professional gamer. It’s true definition, and the one I’m using now, is (among others) a person participating for gain or livelihood in an activity or field of endeavor often engaged in by amateurs. I myself consider anyone able to financially support themselves solely from videogame tournament winnings as a professional gamer, even if they are scraping by with 25,000 a year or so.
So, how many professional gamers do you think there are? How many do we have in the Brawl and Melee communities? For that matter, how many competitive players do you think we have? By competitive, I mean a Melee or Brawl player that attends at least a few tournaments a year. I would ask the same questions to those of you who might have the answer for other gaming communities.
My last question is how much the elite video game players of the world are currently making? Back in my starcraft days, I remember well that SlayersBoxer was making around 450,000 a year, which at the time made him the gamer with the highest income (though I remember USA’s Johnathan Wendel did pretty well too around the same time period, winning 150,000 in a single tournament alone). However, these examples are extremely out of date, and I imagine the newest wealthiest gamers are making even more than these two. Does anyone know the answer to this?
I don’t want to explain my theories or reasons for asking these questions yet as it may collude the type of responses I get, but I do believe the answers to these questions would be extremely valuable to the community as a whole.
My thanks to anyone who is able to contribute an educated response.
