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Interesting Article on Professional Gaming

The article is titled, "Virtual Leagues Fold, Forcing Gamers to Find Actual Jobs", with a slightly (probably implicitly) mean first picture and description: Excerpt from article: (For the entire article, check out this link.) Until recently, Emmanuel Rodriguez worked on a stage, under bright lights, amid intense competition and before cheering fans. He was a professional video-game player, and a world champion. Now he works at the customer service desk of a Sam’s Club in Dallas. Rodriguez, a brash 23-year-old whose nickname in the gaming community is Master, dominated an international field in July in Dead or Alive 4, a popular fighting game, on the Microsoft Xbox 360. He picked up $5,000 and a trophy for the victory. The competition, held in Los Angeles, was part of the world individual finals of the Championship Gaming Series, a league started two years earlier by News Corporation and DirecTV. And Rodriguez, given his success and his swagger, was a star. As a designated fra...