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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
To be good enough at a video game to be professional level, you simply have to be playing a ridiculous amount of hours per day.
A lot of the top players have been quoted saying they play 12-15 hours/day.
To suggest these players are living otherwise normal lives, with normal human interaction (not in game) is actually impossible.
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What a revelation!!!! To be good at ANYTHING you must train/practice/adjust your daily routine to allow yourself the best chance to succeed. You don't say?
This is grossly exaggerated *12-15 hours/day* is not required, I'd be curious to see where you've found said quotes, I'm sure there are some top players who claim to play this much but I can attest this is not the NORM.
Its no different than training for a marathon, training as a pro athlete or even making yourself a workout plan to lose weight. The more you do it and the more accurately you follow the plan the better results you will get.
Remember this is a job to these kids so its no different than you or I going to work for 8-10 hours a day, they get up like we do, they hit the gym first thing and then practice on and off during the day. Yes they get outside, Yes they interact with the general public and large groups of friends, yes they get out and do normal things like you or I during their off time. It really isn't even close to what some of you think it is.
There's dozens of youtube videos you can watch and see what a regular day is for a number of pro's playing a number of games "professionally" the only difference is their workplace is behind a computer screen/TV screen playing a game VS's downtown office slaving away for the man crunching numbers etc.
To think these kids do nothing but stay inside with each other and play games all day long, get up and repeat is absolutely insane, and couldn't be further from the actual truth.