"Professional League of Legends players in North America are not just some of the highest paid players in the world; they are some of the highest paid people in the world."
"How can you be a pro player and not believe that you want to be the best?"
"Rare Atom are one of the first teams to bust out Riot's newest agent in the professional scene."
"At the end of the day, if you become the world champion of Chess, you might win less money than if you're a professional player who competes and wins some of these other events."
"Poker players, professional ones, very long ago stopped thinking of poker as gambling and saw it as a strategic game."
"You can make today a better day by focusing on what you can control. And I'm going to be here every day... to push you to remember that."
"Imagine joining your single player Minecraft world and everything seems normal until you realize that you're actually not alone and you're currently being watched."
"Professional casters like Azalea and Flowers are certainly not struggling financially by any means."
"Razon is one of my favorite pro players of all time. The kid won the Mongrel Cup, won the Neymar Cup, won a solo cash cup today, and he also placed top three in FNCS grand finals."
"There is a reason why pro players play the same legend over and over... they become very proficient and excellent."
"Even if you were to get into pro league today, you're still getting in at the ground floor of this game and its potential."
"I play Minecraft almost every single day, you know, that is my living."
"This is why it's pretty much impossible to know how to balance for pro play."
"This in here they say that based on its play against all professionals it was win at a rate of $1,000 an hour consistently right and that's against the best players in the world."
"It's basically professional gaming with those giant tournaments."
"I mean this is a whole new person here he adapted he understood what he needed to do and he made the adjustments like a true Pro bringing us all the way to a game five."
"Only playing for money and not because they just love the game, like what's the [ __ ] point?"
"Part of the reason why we always congratulate and glorify successful lane role swaps like ambition like xiaohu is because it's so risky and difficult."
"The Overwatch League seemed like landing a spot on a professional sports team."
"You pick a game because you like it. You stick with that game, become a pro in it, but it's kind of RNG what game you picked."
"I wouldn't be a pro player if I didn't have the driving need to win."
"Command & Conquer 3 was heavily promoted on the professional scene."
"The vast majority of people in pro play specialize."
"Is Gale Force getting a little more comfortable with Method?"
"We really don't know the age limit of a professional video game player."
"Professional gaming gets taken more seriously each and every year."
"You need the best tools at your disposal to perform."
"Perks turned in one of the most impressive series performances I've ever seen."
"Your dragon's coming good, Rez's coming good, Get Right and Forest, the gods of Counter-Strike."
"It's awesome that it's on here too because a lot of other Pro headsets don't have that feature available."
"I decided I'm playing this, I'm gonna become a pro eSports player in this game."
"He's not interested in the fame or fortune of being so good at League."
"You better be honoring your boy CoreJJ and your boy Tactical, that bottom lane for Team Liquid."
"No one expected gamers could make thousands of dollars, but look at it now."
"Featuring ultrafast wireless connectivity and reliability with performance trusted in competition by esports pros."
"Here's my perspective on hiko and his time in cloud nine because I think he co is been right in nearly all the decisions he's made."
"I think it's a great honor because it's been such a given that the top two in our league for so many years is Jensen and Bjergsen."
"I think it's really special to have faker back at worlds."
"We're the only org in the world where our content creators are professional players."
"Faker has the knowledge to know where there's an opening to go in."
"That's the level you want to be at as a DPS player."
"Welcome back to some of the most professional Starcraft 2 world champion versus world Champion you couldn't ask for much more."
"Arrow definitely came out and kind of put a lot of those to rest. He definitely had a good individual performance as well."
"The truth is that if your job is playing the game you will never understand an average player because they don't play the game as a job, and that's okay."
"It's gonna be funny to watch the haters try and rationalize Bjergsen was the problem but he's still the coach."
"You completely counter the meta and this deck is used at the top of the world by a lot of pro players."
"But there's a reason why pros can dominate versus multiple of a lower rank because they just understand the game at a deeper level."
"eSports being a legitimate career choice for some people."
"This iteration of the Call of Duty pro team is one of the most exciting ones ever."
"MSL is now really trying to get similar infrastructure to what he had when he was at north, and he's really trying to get some mileage out of Rogue."
"Monkey Moon, double major champ, he's the best in RLCS 3v3 right now for a reason."
"This dude, this guy was no joke one game from being the LCS champion last year and now he can't even get one Golden Guardians, what the [ __ ] is this holy sh."
"I was just showing up to every LCS game maybe not showing up."
"This is the type of stuff we need to be playing for the pro tour, this is it."
"By actively learning a few major lessons everyday you'll be able to improve at a faster and faster rate absorbing more and more game knowledge and developing the game sense and instincts of a pro player."
"I think that watching the pros play here... the sticky bombs just seem to do a ton of damage."
"Profit's history in the league has just been extraordinary."
"The R301 has also been being used more and more in the pro scene because it's an absolute laser."
"It's about adapting, you know, to the situation and that's what the best players do."
"There's so many good players in Challengers, but if they can actually sit there and play against Pros all day, they're going to get better."
"Those can be the greatest challenges but if overcome they also make the most inspirational stories."
"It is just business as usual in Counter-Strike."
"Players like Brax, Nico, and NAF are known for their exquisite crosshair placement."
"Liquid do it, knocking out SK gaming of the tournament."
"At the end of 2016, Coldzera was considered one of the greatest players in the world."
"I think we're extraordinarily fortunate to live these rarefied existences where we are literally paid to play video games."
"Short of the glitches, which there's been a few, this meta seems to be one of the most enjoyable I've seen from the pros in a really long time."
"His strategy is good enough to beat the pros."
"It's like you're getting paid to play the games that you're already playing."
"Learning all of its complexities would take hours and hours of studying professional gameplay and that's exactly what I did to teach you how to dominate on Ice."
"It's the reactions, the pros instantly know they've just qualified for grand finals."
"These Pro players are the best of the best they make Radiance look like Mortals and dominate on the world stage against some of the best the game has."
"Many of the game's top professional players have also been known to tear up solo queue. Faker became famous not just because of his achievements at the pro level but also because of his reign of terror in Korean solo queue."
"This guy should be all-star, oh wait, he is."
"His entire adult life is just pro gaming and League of Legends."
"Heimerdinger is the best professional Heimerdinger in the world."
"It was a very long year for us starting from lock-in it started earlier than usual years going to MSI we didn't have like much of breaks right."
"Pros and high level players care about ranked more than anything but they don't let pressure affect their play."
"I now play The Sims for a living, so this is a very close game to my heart."
"The best players in this game don't have to think about what they're doing and why. It's instinctual, it's through experience."
"I should genuinely consider trying to go pro in a shooter. I think my YouTube channel can be my resume too."
"You gotta put the time in, you gotta put that time in, you're just like Ninja always says."
"Congratulations the United congratulations congratulations placer and the rest of the team sipping back-to-back MVP wins placer second rank and four new rings for four new players Thunder thieves of valiant effort."
"With Clay and Crim on your team, you're looking to win championships."
"This is my job and my passion. I've been doing gaming full-time for a living for over four years."
"Top esports players make a million dollars a year."
"That's the most important thing: can you run fun and enjoyable games that people are willing to pay for?"
"That's what you've been waiting for Viego has made it to pro play baby."
"That's an honor jump shot straight off the spawn, showing that he's got a lot of confidence too, veteran or not, KSP is a player who I think is not very nervous at all."
"She's even used semi-frequently on a pro level but not so much in Western tournaments, which I would really like to see eventually."
"How cool is it to be able to play a video game and get paid to do that full-time?"
"It helps both funnel the next generation of pro players."
"Faker hits 79 CS at eight minutes, he's on a roll."
"Chamber sees a lot of goddamn play even in the pro meta."
"I'm glad it shined, that was like the one of the iconic moments nested."
"Pros don't want the game catered to them, they just love it and want to see it in its best state."
"The thing that separates the pros from the amateurs is mechanical ability."
"With that victory, Fly and N0tail lifted their first Valve trophy."
"I mean this kind of happens for a lot of the top players you know what I'm saying like it's it's sometimes it's spoken sometimes it's unspoken but yeah that's that's that's terrible"
"He's a reputable poker player generally, for sure. He's one of the biggest names."
"Win or go home, and home is a place the 24 pros don't want to be."
"I tell people when they ask what my job is that I'm a professional gamer."
"League has packed out stadiums, had televised matches, dedicated sports commentators, professional teams, professional players."
"This lobby is full of the best of the best pros out there."
"They're actually pro athletes that train incredibly hard."
"Another kind of interesting piece of news around this that actually just happened about two weeks ago is that Lee Sedol actually announced his retirement from professional Go."
"I'm literally a professional player, I could win the World Cup if I wanted to."
"You can play against pros around the world."
"What we're trying to bring back to pro league is fun."