The Cinderella Stories Of eSports
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Every competition and sport has its underdogs and heroes, and an eSports champ from Pakistan, Sumail Hassan, represents what makes the game so beloved by its fans.Hassan started playing Dota 2 (Defense of the Ancients 2), a free multiplayer game, at age 7 in Pakistan. After moving to Chicago with his family into a small apartment in 2014 , he was recruited by an agent for the highest earning Dota 2 league in North America, the Evil Geniuses.He earned $200,000 in one month (just shy of his 16th birthday) as a pro gamer with them. And by August 2015, he helped the Evil Geniuses win the International Dota 2 competition, with winnings of $6.6M, becoming a millionaire in the process.Some eSport players may joke that yes, they are the guy in mom's basement playing video games, but make no mistake — they're playing on a whole other level compared to the casual player. That's why the co-founder of video game streaming site Twitch, Emmett Shear, is not surprised that people want to watch pros play video games.“What it comes down to," Shear told the Guardian, "is people enjoy watching anyone doing something at the highest level of skill or with great savoir-faire..." eSports updates daily – Download n2 now on the app store.
