School or Gaming Full Time ?

[wraggster]

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School or Counter-Strike? Pick! Quick! Seventeen-year-old Swede Sophie "inzane" Regnér has.

Unable to concentrate on school because she was up late at night, she dropped out to focus on her gaming and join Swedish team Pink Zinic full-time. She's also working as a model "for a friend".

This seems to be a nascent trend of late with a 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professional gaming career via Guitar Hero.

We do wish the both of them the best of luck — wherever their roads take them.

http://kotaku.com/5286713/would-you-quit-school-to-game-full-time

Cant fault her, i wish i could pack in work and do websites full time.

[K1ckass]

School or gaming?
... well I'm currently rushing through a testweek and I've been studying for 10 hours straight now ... so gimme some games already! :D

Muh these energy drinks start to taste funny after a while.. o boy.

[fpcreator2000]

http://cache-foo.kotaku.com/gawker/assets/images/9/2009/06/160x120_counterstrike_pro.jpg

School or Counter-Strike? Pick! Quick! Seventeen-year-old Swede Sophie "inzane" Regnér has.

Unable to concentrate on school because she was up late at night, she dropped out to focus on her gaming and join Swedish team Pink Zinic full-time. She's also working as a model "for a friend".

This seems to be a nascent trend of late with a 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professional gaming career via Guitar Hero.

We do wish the both of them the best of luck — wherever their roads take them.

http://kotaku.com/5286713/would-you-quit-school-to-game-full-time

Cant fault her, i wish i could pack in work and do websites full time.

The problem with such a career choice is that you would have to invest as much energy in gaming as much (if not more than) going to school, unless you're the autistic kid in the movie "The Wizard," which means that you actually have to be a very (emphasis on very) good gamer in order to make that choice. QA Testers play games to death to determine bugs and such to the point that when the game is released, most don't want anything to do with the game as it is the only game they've played 9-5 for a long period of time.

Granted, QA testers are playing looking for bugs, not for fun. But for a professional gamer to be good, they have to train in the specific game, or game genre, to be any good, and they have to do this constantly.