"Good players can make a reasonable living from salaries, sponsorship and prize money, and the very best can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year"

:(

Saw it in marks & spencer other day, had a quick glance, saw too much starcraft at a glance and some french guy in the top ranks so it did not hold my attention, but I guess it was a good few pages so should not grumble.

And the gaming feature was on the front page too, at least enough for me to notice it.

If that's the full version I'll give it a read some time.

"And when it emerged that the Korean StarCraft pro Lee Jung-Hoon (a.k.a. “MarineKing”), a favourite with the fans, would not be able to get to Orlando, a donation drive raised the $3,500 needed to fly him there for the weekend."

:o

what? quake2 did the same with purri for qcon, no?

really? that is pretty awesome :)

the funny thing is that, according to sc2earnings.com, he is #7 $105,980. makes you wonder why he does not pay it on his own

with crazy fans, its a hard life for a lan dodger

:P

Many of them give a lot of it to their family.

How is it that you know that?

They have said so in interviews and such. (not marineking specifically, but a lot of Korean pro gamers)