In professional gaming tournaments like Major League Gaming, only highly skilled players stand a chance of winning.
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Technical glitches are nothing new in the medium, as any professional gaming event reliant on technology is bound to have a few hiccups.
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De Leon is also the subject of a full-length documentary about professional gaming that is scheduled to appear in the Sundance Film Festival in 2011.
In terms of professional gaming, its viewership now outpaces that of legendary strategy title Starcraft, unseating the decade-old powerhouse in just a few years as the most watch pro-played game.
When Geoff Keighley is sitting on set as the fourth pillar of a Mountain Dew, Doritos and Halo 4 advertisement, it seems justified for gamers to decry the image as everything wrong with professional gaming coverage.
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This show will follow top-ranked pro gamers as they traverse the globe to compete in a world class professional gaming tournament complete with cash prizes, screaming fans and all the trappings of a nationally televised sporting event.
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Throughout 2013, the best players on the planet will compete in the League of Legends Championship Series, a professional gaming league with teams from North America and Europe, featuring multiple regular season matches each week, and HD streaming broadcasts available globally for free.
The rise of stream watching as a past time can be directly correlated with the recent surge of interest in eSports, aka professional video gaming.
Creative's latest set, Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII, don't really have much to offer in the flash category and certainly aren't excessively sized, but for serious gamers they seem to be a solid option and just the thing to keep your mom from interrupting your session.
Professional computer-gaming in the West has been around for several years, with outfits like the Electronic Sports League in Europe and Major League Gaming in America.
Matthew Bromberg, chief executive of Major League Gaming, a professional videogame league in the U.S., also thinks competitive gaming taps into something innately social in people.
Now, five years on, the DeathAdder is used by more professional gamers than any other gaming mouse, a testament to its prowess in securing them legendary status in the history of competitive gaming.
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Moreover, every top professional Starcraft player lives in a dedicated gaming house where they practice ten or more hours a day.
The NBA stands apart from other professional sports leagues because of the popularity of gaming with its athletes.
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The optional BoomPro professional-grade boom mic is made for gaming and Skype while the CoilPro locking extended coiled cable allows DJs and musicians to reach further.
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Victor De Leon III, aka "Lil Poison, " takes the Guinness World Record for being the youngest professional gamer ever when he signed on with Major League Gaming at the age of six.
Pro gaming competitions are experiencing record growth this year, especially in the U.S. Thanks to new streaming capabilities, game fans can check out live coverage of major gaming events and even tune in to watch professional players practice from their homes or at special LAN events.
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On hand in Verizon's room were a quintet from the "PMS Crew, " an all-girl (or is it grrrrl?) team of professional video-gamers showing off the company's Fios-fueled on-demand gaming and Arcade services.
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