Over-The-Hill Video Game Champ Grooms Next Generation

Monday, 30 September 2013 | by Pat's Picks

There aren’t too many careers where you’d be considered past your prime at age 28. But Patrik Sättermon, a former world champion in the game Counter Strike, says the reflexes you need for gaming peak at around 18 or 19. So he’s training the next generation. The Wall Street Journal says Sättermon’s Fnatic Academy accepts just six teens a year who are being groomed not only to be professional gamers, but to become stars in the gaming world.

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal