Before entering the real workforce, some of us hide away at Universities for longer than we need to; some of us back pack around Europe; some of us go and teach English in Asia; and just a very few of us end up in an eSports training facility honing PC gaming skills for the professional league. But is this more than just a post-teen diversion? How long can someone, a female someone, live the life of the corporate sponsored professional gamer - and what is that lifestyle like. With these questions in mind I emailed the four girlz from the Home of CHROME training house in Sweden. Just before QuakeCon in 2005, VIA signed up to be a major corporate sponsor of the girlz of destruction all girl gaming clan. It was good timing. QuakeCon is one of the largest LAN parties in Northern America, held annually in Texas and heavily sponsored by id software. The 2006 festivities included a female-only Ms QuakeCon tournament, with a total prize pool of 30 thousand US dollars. The whole lot was swept up by three of the girlz of destruction. You would think that such close competition would make them arch rivals, sure to emanate vibes of distrust and bad wishes to one another. Instead the three young woman, with other members of the clan, share a comradery and love for gaming that may have even earned them a place in the history books ? the first professional eSports training center, occupied by chicks only.

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