Inside the glamorous, disciplined life of a professional gamer


By Aki Ito
  • TECH
  • Friday, 22 Jun 2018

Apr 8, 2018; Miami Beach, FL, USA; Team Liquid during the League of Legends 2018 North America Spring Finals competition against 100 Thieves at The Fillmore Miami Beach. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports

In 2011, Dorothy Schmale dropped off her 14-year-old son at the Port Authority bus terminal in New York City. Until then, Michael’s obsession with videogames had seemed like any other hobby. 

Sure, Schmale worried about the time gaming took away from his homework, but it kept him out of trouble. Now, here she was, sending him off on a 13-plus-hour bus ride to Columbus, Ohio, where he would compete in his first major tournament for Call of Duty. “It was hard for me to let him go,” she says. “But that’s really when I knew this was going to take off.” 

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