Senior age leagues for fps-gaming?
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20 Aug 2015, 10:09
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As I'm getting older (like we all are) and consider myself senior when it comes to computer gaming, I started to wonder wether there should be leagues in esports for senior aged players like in traditional sports. :) Leagues where you can win smt without praccing mad hours since at this age there are things like work that take a lot of your time. In Finland football and ice hockey has senior leagues where you can play if you are 35+. Maybe in esports 30 would be good? I tried to do some research how old are the oldest CS:GO players and I found out that there are not that many players (on any rank/level) that are even 30. That led into a question, how old is the oldest global elite player and wondered if I could be the one (haha), any idea? :)
prac hard go pro
EU>NA tho
and he signed for 2 years so bet he plays atleast another one unless they want to kick him which is unlikely
gratz for global =)
Would such a league require passport proof? Or a birth certificate of your firstborn child?!
In the fighting game community there are a lot of pro's in their 30's and the inactive old skoolers could easily compete with the best with a bit of practice if they wanted to. As mentioned above some of the best Quake players are 30 ish as well and that's because Quake3 has been around for such a long time at a high competitive level.
If more competitive games had a long lifespan(10+years) I think a lot of players(with several years of experience) could be able to compete at a top level well into their mid to late 30's if they wanted to. Unfortunately most games die before that time and it's not worth it for people to pick up another game at a high level and they pursue other things in life. That would be the same thing like Michael Jordan deciding he wanted to play professional baseball at age 30 I mean yeah you could be semi-decent but it just isn't worth it.
In ET I played(2003-2010) quite extensively with about 5-6 guys who were all in their late 30's or 40's. Two of them were still playing on public servers every so often last time I checked. Also generally speaking a lot of professional gamers are quite intelligent and are able to use their talents elsewhere (poker for example) in addition to having other obligations in life especially when they have families.