It depends. This was a mall tournament where they were playing Madden football. It would be unlikely there were prizes. However, there are professional gamers who have massive Tournaments here and abroad, particularly all over Asia. My brother is a cop at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn and they had a gaming league there a few weeks ago with coaches and jerseys and thousands of fans paying to watch. In that case they were playing a first person shooter game. Set in sort of a fantasy apocalyptic world.
But obviously this person didn't all of a sudden snap after a normal life or whatever....it was a deranged person who probably planned it. I mean becoming Rambo after you lose a video game football match is not a normal reaction.
This gaming stuff is so popular. At the risk of sounding old and crabby we would never had been in doors on a day like this......never.
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