| Video Gamer wins $50,000 at Beaches | | Print | |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 09:27 | |||
 Did you ever wish you could earn money playing video games? For Phil Lee Green, 20, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this dream became reality this week at the Beaches Resort on Grace Bay. Green competed in the EA SPORTS Madden Challenge World Championship Finals during which twenty-four of the best EA SPORTS Madden NFL video game players in the world descended on the resort to battle it out on the gaming field for the coveted number one spot. The Madden Challenge Tour is the US's largest video game tournament. Green, walked away with the title as the seventh Madden Challenge champion and a $25,000 check and a $25,000 gift card from consumer electronic store Best Buy . "I play Madden five days a week, 10 hours a day, and it's paid off," said Green, who made it to the finals of last season's "Madden Nation" show. It has also paid off for Eric Wright from West Covina, California who earned $180,000 in cash and prizes playing Madden last year and made it to the finals again for the fourth year. Five years ago, the Madden Challenge spawned "Madden Nation," a reality television series that airs every year on ESPN and awards the best Madden gamer an additional $100,000 prize. Last year, the Madden Challenge Finals in Hawaii became a one-hour special on ESPN 2 that aired on Super Bowl Sunday. The ratings did so well that this year's Madden Challenge Finals will become another one-hour special to air on ESPN2 this February 2 during Super Bowl Sunday. For the second year running Walt Disney Co's ESPN2 TV network is airing a one-hour special on the Madden Challenge Finals during Super Bowl Sunday on February 1 while ESPN continues its popular "Madden Nation" reality series for a fifth season this fall where elite football gamers battle for $100,000. Video game competitions have become a world wide phenomenon, in many circles it is even refered to as a sport. There are leagues and television channels in the US and Korea showing live video game matches, a new channel in the UK started in 2008. It is estimated that there are about 50 full-time video game professionals in the western world, who each earn about $200,000 a year in prizes.
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