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Would You Quit School To Game Full Time?

By Brian Ashcraft on June 11, 2009 at 8:00 PM

School or Counter-Strike? Pick! Quick! Seventeen-year-old Swede Sophie “inzane” Regnér has.

Unable to concentrate on school because she was up late at night, she dropped out to focus on her gaming and join Swedish team Pink Zinic full-time. She’s also working as a model “for a friend”.

This seems to be a nascent trend of late with a 16-year-old in Raleigh, N.C., whose parents have let him drop out of school so that he can focus on a professional gaming career via Guitar Hero.

We do wish the both of them the best of luck — wherever their roads take them.

17 year-old Zinic.inzane: "I quit school for CS" [SK Gaming Thanks, Lawrence!]

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  • Brian Henson
    June 14, 2009 at 9:18 AM

    Of course I’d quit school to game full-time. If, you know, it actually PAID. Do these people really think they are going to get enough money to live on just from playing games? Do they have any idea how good you have to be at games before you even see chump change? These kids are doomed to a life of failure, I pity them.

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