These players are taking this sport seriously https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/are-esports-sports-overwatch-players-sure-act-the-part/2018/07/28/cd08ba9a-92a8-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?utm_term=.c8c1a9eb210b
During all the hours he spends playing video games, though, the 21-year-old from South Korea certainly acts it.
“We’re not here to have fun,” he said through a translator.
Choi — better known to his fans as Bdosin — and his teammates with the London Spitfire like to think they’re making a statement on a major stage this weekend: esports might not be the same as football or basketball, but the competition is as real and the lifestyle as intense as it is for any traditional sports star.
The Spitfire won the Overwatch League’s inaugural championship Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Choi had spent years chasing a career in the 6-on-6, first-person shooter, and now he’s splitting a $1 million top prize with his Korean teammates.
London swept the Philadelphia Fusion, a club featuring players from nine countries, in two matches at the end of a seventh-month season.
“It’s like a job,” Fusion player Gael “Poko” Gouzerch said. “We’re not doing this for fun. It’s not like how you go on your sofa and play your PS4 and just do it for fun. It’s more than that.”
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