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    Xbox 360 Guy Quits Job to be an Xbox Pro

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    An Ulster Xbox fan who quit his job and sold his belongings to play in a major TV tournament has won a $30,000 contract and become one of the UK's first full-time professional gamers.

    Jason Holmes, from Seaforde, Co Down, took the dramatic step in order to "make his dream come true" and travel to the Championship Gaming Series in Birmingham.
    After a nerve-wracking final in London, Jason - who is known by the alias Neo Jake - was selected as one of the top 20 gamers and asked to join the Birmingham Salvo team.
    He has now won a $30,000 contract to play professionally around the world.

    In November, Jason will travel to Los Angeles to compete at the World Final.
    "I am going there to win. I am really looking forward to competing against other world-class gamers," he said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by belfasttelegraph View Post
    An Ulster Xbox fan who quit his job and sold his belongings to play in a major TV tournament has won a $30,000 contract and become one of the UK's first full-time professional gamers.
    Balls, an asian stockbroker city boy did it years ago, I think he was on the Big Breakfast with Johnnie Yawn.

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    Default Re: Guy Quits Job to be an Xbox Pro

    my lady quit her job to be a pro

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOYYAKKA View Post
    my lady quit her job to be a pro

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chubbs View Post
    Balls, an asian stockbroker city boy did it years ago, I think he was on the Big Breakfast with Johnnie Yawn.
    thats why it says "one of the first..." and not "the first..."

    and $30,000 is only £15,000! Which in reality is fuck all! Now if it was £30,000 it wouldn't be so bad!

    Oh, and just a bit of info...the worlds highest paid gamer (a Korean) gets paid £250,000 a year! Now THAT would be cool!

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    Default Re: Guy Quits Job to be an Xbox Pro

    theyl pay him $30,000 but then if he wins tournements he'l get prize money, theres a halo compitition in las vegas soon where the prize is $240,000
    he'l be paid his $30,000 a year to enter stuff like that and represent whome ever, he'l probly be wearing sponsors for various things and his gamertag will probly be linked with some sort of advertisement
    he'l also get to goto gaming events and do walk-through demo's infront of crowds of people.
    i was watching something the other day and ibm sponsor teams to play in things like quake tournements ect..they get to take their own pc's (ibm shite) they wear ibm t shirts and their team name is something ibm.there are thousands of people that make a living from this, there's guys who get paid to play pro evo, how mint wud that be, pizzaman would be worth a fortune,lol

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    i read that on the telegraph this morning


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