Brazilians watching professional players from the Loud YouTube channel play the mobile game Free Fire, at their house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Loud is a collective of a dozen professional gamers considered as the revelation of the year in 2019. — Photos: AFP
RIO DE JANEIRO: Eyes fixed on her smartphone screen, world champion gamer Barbara "Babi" Passos sits in a Sao Paulo mansion engaged in a fight to the death in the blockbuster Free Fire video game.
Babi is among a dozen professional gamers playing in the Hunger Games-style contest for Brazil's video game channel Loud, which YouTube ranked as the most popular new channel in 2019 after it attracted 3.4 million subscribers in 10 months.
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