Professional, competitive video game playing—the phenomenon known as esports—has seen double digit growth for much of the past decade. With a massive following, many say it will soon become an official Olympic event. Throughout the U.S., high schools are launching competitive gaming clubs, and even some colleges are offering scholarships to top players.
It’s a dream come true for professional esports players—traveling the world and paid salaries to play video games full time for a living.
But as money continues to pour into the industry, the pressure on these young pros—many still in their teens—is leading to early burnout from high stress, repetitive stress injuries, and grueling practice schedules.
In this episode of CBSN Originals, we follow pro esports players Doublelift (League of Legends) and Space (Overwatch) as they compete for glory, get an inside look at what it takes to be pro, and explore the risks many are taking to stay at the top.
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9:17 for fgc people: remember when punk’s family supported him and showed up at evo 2017? That was amazing.🙏
Losers
Uberstrike please check the game. Discord info via Game Central server given. Its sick cool game.
So funny they all have those pimped out gaming rigs to play LOL when you could probably play that game on max settings with an off the shelf POS.
I AM THE ORIGINAL PRO GAMER!!!! I was making money back in 1997 for testing video games to ensure backwards compatibility with ISA bus during the conversation to the PCI bus. Got any hardware I could buy, the best monitors, the newest games. Successful pro gamers making on ave 60K a year? what a joke!!!! Kids you can make millions trading the stock market, you are just playing the wrong game. How long will be able to sustain the top positions without the same dedication forever? If you want to have a life, play the right game. If you are the best of the best, you can make enough to buy the gaming companies.
i feel bad for them cuz everytime they decide to play games on a non professional basis, they probably get called a hacker and trash by toxic kids xD
Wer can I invest?!
too long "8 hours"
pathetic
bro that was not irvine lmao
Can I use some part of this video for my youtube video?
The new generation parents are so muddafking cool lol so acceptable and supportive to new ideas.
I feel like not enough people are making fun of this
Waiting for yugi-yo real ife cards and monsters !!! 2080 maybe?
KIDS AND CANDYASSES GIRL = I WANT TO GO TO KOREA CAUSE FOR KPOP YEAH BTS BLACKPINK AND OTHER GAY AND LESBIAN KOREAN GROUPS
LEGENDS = I WANT TO GO TO KOREA FOR ESPORTS
Well Bing Bing practice 40 hours a day lol
“Expected to go over 50% of that in 2020…”
2020 – “hold my corona.”
This eSports infrastructure is nowhere near the level of Korea. How's NA supposed to compete with the rest of the world 🤔
Are ya winning son
Nothing new. These guys don't know Football Academies in Europe? Kids really young, live together, play together, most fail because of injuries, burnout, etc. Most end up with nothing. Only few become Cristiano Ronaldo or Leonel Messi. This is the same but with computers.
Bruh this pro players play 8 hours and I play 13 hours a day
If I only have a parents like this and a school like this
1:39 did i hear him right? He plays 67hours a day?
Such a good documentary
Indy needs to do some exercise…lower back pain and arm pain is all stretching and core/back/neck strength
Deal with the problems now. Take care of the players. A union needs to be formed.
Because it's described as "SPORT" aside from them doing for what they have to do, they have to understand the mindset of "SPORT" is very different from gaming, and needed a lot of mentality to go on. Easy comparing, any one can swim but not any one can go into competition as swimmer. You have to practice hours and hours in order to compete in the sport. You have to respect any kind of person who attend in sport competition, same as E-Sport. If you do not have a "passion", "patience", "sportsmanship", and "stable mentality", you could not walk in any sport in any paths.
“I'm not just playing games for fun anymore” feels like loss of true purpose of gaming.
i stopped gaming when i was 16 years old. i was fine at first but i started to have withdrawal systems. I felt giddy at times and even un-content with myself. Felt like i was wasting, had difficulty staying awake even when i slept a full 7-9 hours of sleep. So i turned to drugs, thanks to drugs i am no longer addicted gaming. Thank you drugs for turning my life around
Nice 🙏
playing videos games for money is dumb and whoever invest in this are ridiculous
this is stupid
Dude sounds gay
Useless generation
too long? 8 hours ? this is nothing !
kids selling their souls to a virtual world
U gotta use an iPad
Won a fortnite tournament and got a scholarship, i topped my school for consecutive 6 years, got nothing.
These people play because they want to be the best, not because it is fun for them. They just crave the competition like any sport boomer ok
Pro Player: " I play games Too Long "
Reporter: How Long?
Pro Player: "8 Hours"
Me an intellectual Watching youtube for 16 hours staright
The host looks like a cross between Jackson Marchetti from Sex Education and Franklin from GTA V.
It’s not training it’s playing video games. Don’t call it sports. It’s awkward people doing nerd stuff. That’s just how it is
insanely great video, different perspectives and different parts of esports.
made by boomers, for boomers
Did they seriously put ESL under the teams category?
Do your research please
Nerds .🤣
CBS really went all out on this, the twitch dude, a bunch of gamers, and Steve Cohen!
Gaming profession is good and fun but I hope this guys have another backgrounds other than gaming cause if someone loses its profession having another backup is better than having none or else they go down.
Here in the Philippines Internet cafe is our training ground