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08/09/2006

Gamer Takes Home $100,000 Check

Micah Ernst, 23, battled it out at the Verizon FiOS Grand Tournament (6000 participants) on Monday and took home the $100,000 grand prize -- playing Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. He plans to "pay off his student loans, buy a big-ass TV and make a trip to New Zealand" with his winnings.
"We congratulate Micah on his impressive win," said Brian Angiolet, director of Marketing for Verizon. "It was exciting to see him and the other finalists compete live against each other, using a 30 Megabit-per-second FiOS Internet connection delivered over our new, all-fiber network"
[via Kotaku]

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Posted at 08/10/2006 05:57am by Keith
Well done, Micah! That was an awsome huge sum of prize money. Cool..... just, by playing Half-Life 2.
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Posted at 08/10/2006 07:45am by EJ
Holy shi* that's a lot of money... just by playing games!
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Posted at 08/10/2006 11:13am by Phil
is there a video of his play of something?
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Posted at 08/10/2006 3:56pm by C
What a sad world it is when someone can make money for playing a game.
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Posted at 08/10/2006 4:36pm by GT
Gaming is more than $7Billion for the software alone, and people think it's a sad world? Wake and smell the roses, since the X games used to be thought of as ridiculous, what makes computer gaming any less significant? A sad world is for those who don't have an open mind to the possibilities that anything can happen.
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Posted at 08/10/2006 4:50pm by Kraw
"What a sad world it is when someone can make money for playing a game." You mean like football or baseball?
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Posted at 08/10/2006 7:38pm by Ranger
looks like good promotion for Verizon's new internet access, even when considering that HL2:DM isn't exactly popular amongst hardcore gamers.
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Posted at 08/10/2006 7:38pm by Ranger
looks like good promotion for Verizon's new internet access, even when considering that HL2:DM isn't exactly popular amongst hardcore gamers.
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Posted at 08/11/2006 06:41am by Gaming News » Gamer Takes Home $100,000 Check
[...] Micah Ernst, 23, battled it out at the Verizon FiOS Grand Tournament (6000 participants) on Monday and took home the $100,000 grand prize � playing Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.read more | digg story [...]
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Posted at 08/11/2006 1:50pm by Bob
Your right, It's a sad day when someone can make money playing a game. We should shut down soccer, football, baseball, hockey, and any other sports GAME.
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Posted at 08/12/2006 11:40am by PM Connors
It's sad that someone, or anyone thinks that is sad. I have the privilege of every once in while shooting it out with one of the finalists from that tourney. As much as I do like field sports and played them, I think there is a place for PC gamers and others to earn some cash. There is a considerable consumption of time and concentration involved. Oh! and I beleive that "hardcore" gamers do appreciate HL2.
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Posted at 08/12/2006 7:05pm by Nemutai Inu
Ok, first off, you wanna try playing like a guy that could win a tournament like that? I'm an experienced Counterstrike: Source and HLDM2 player and I can say from experience that those games take A LOT more skill than most people here are giving them credit for, so, before you run your mouth, go buy the game, go online, get owned and then come back and post. Thanks.
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[...] Micah Ernst, 23, battled it out at the Verizon FiOS Grand Tournament (6000 participants) on Monday and took home the $100,000 grand prize � playing Half-Life 2: Deathmatch.read more | digg story [...]
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