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But how can you go about becoming a professional gamer?We spoke to Eli Gallagher, a professional Overwatch gamer who plays with the Evil
So, I have an aura around me and my team needs to be in that aura to actually get the buffs that I provide
I was playing with the friends I have from school
growing a bit bored of it
hours but I still find new things in it, and really enjoy playing
In my school everyone was really excited about esports, and League of Legends was really cool, so I really just enjoyed the concept of it
traditional sports, so you may be surprised to know that it happens with esports as well
I got approached by a coach, and then going from amateur team to amateur team to amateur team I finally landed on the team Eastwind
And then we had a good tournament performance and we ended with Evil Geniuses, which was really awesome".Evil Geniuses is an esports
organisation based in San Francisco and founded in 1999 as a Counter-Strike team
It has a number of teams specialising in a range of games, including Defense of Ancients (Dota), League of Legends, StarCraft II, Halo and,
In 2015, the Dota team won the largest prize payout in esports history."Usually, the way I practice is I try to get ten hours of serious
a lot when I considered going pro with Overwatch
want it to be something where your drive is coming from the fact that you want to play
When you know all the ins and outs of the characters you like playing, and you know how much damage your counters do, when you can take
fights to the enemy team and stuff like that
So, I actually bought a Steelseries Sensei to use with that
I used that for around four years
Then, just recently when I joined EG and went to their gaming house they sent me home with a Steelseries M800 keyboard
M800."Steelseries is one of the sponsors of Evil Geniuses, which makes it a bit easier for Gallagher to get hold of its kit
However, Steelseries has a number of entries in our best gaming mouse and best gaming keyboard lists, so it must be doing something right.As
a bit choppy to play on, sometimes
But it was interesting to upgrade to a PC, especially when I went to the EG house [where they train]
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