A Liverpool teenager has become one of Britain’s first full-time professional computer game players.
Adam Brown of Formby is now being paid £15,000 a year to enjoy his favourite pastime.
The 19-year-old former pupil of Merchant Taylors’ school in Crosby was head-hunted for this dream job, which will take him all over the world.
Fellow Merseysider David Kelly, 18, from Maghull, is joining him in a new game-playing squad to take on opposition from different countries.
Both play for a team called Birmingham Salvo and compete in the Championship Gaming Series.
League organisers are trying to increase the profile of gaming so the public will regard it as sport with the same popularity as football or rugby.
Adam today said being a professional game player was his first proper job.
He said: “I didn’t think when I was at school that I’d end up doing this for a living.
“It’s probably something I’d be doing anyway so it’s pretty good to be paid to do it.”
Adam is paid to play the “shoot ‘em up” Counter strike.
He has been playing the PC game for nearly seven years and practices for at least four hours a day. Adam, who lives with his mother in Church Road, said: “She’s always been a bit weird about it and doesn’t understand it really, but I don’t think she minds.
thing I’ve always enjoyed.”
The Championship Gaming Series, launched this year, is the only worldwide professional video gaming league.
To get in the Birmingham Salvo team UK gamers had to attend a four day interview and compete in tournaments.
Some of the players will feature in a televised show on Sky 1 due to be aired some time before Christmas.
Source: Liverpool Echo
