$1 Million Contract for a Halo 2 Team
June 22nd, 2006
Via esreality:
Major League Gaming (MLG), today announced that it has signed the nation’s leading four-man Halo 2 team, Final Boss, to a $1 million dollar contract, and Tsquared, one of the top individual pros in the world, to a $250,000 deal. These are by far the largest signings ever for professional video gamers, and the multi-year deals provide for these players to commit exclusively to MLG.
Halo is a joke - but people who have never played anything but the Xbox they got for Christmas a few years ago love it. Everyone else knows that it sucks, and people who play it suck even more. A few years ago, Microsoft ran some big Halo PC World Cup tournament and one of Ireland’s top gamers, Melachi, was lured by the hefty prize money and said he’d give it a bash. He wasn’t a Halo player, but based mainly on his aim and experience in Quake, he waltzed through the Irish qualifiers. He got flown out to California where he finished eighth in the world despite not playing well, and was amazed to see that most of these guys were console gamers (what we in the industry like to call “n00bs”) and had he made a proper go of it, he would easily have finished in the top 3.
A couple of years on, the n00bs are running the asylum, and now the Halo 2 team “Final Boss” - kings in the land of blind midgets - are getting $1 million to sit on the couch shooting aliens on their TV screen. Additionally, this other guy gets $250,000:
“Like any professional athlete I want to be the best at what I do, and getting this contract shows the dedication I’ve put forth,â€? said Tom “Tsquaredâ€? Taylor.
I’ll leave it up to the reader to decide whether or not Tsquared and his 10-year-old pal Killer_Donkey666 really are athletes.
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