{"id":59562,"date":"2013-10-23T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T09:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=59562"},"modified":"2013-10-23T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T09:43:08","slug":"pro-gamer-rakes-in-r9-3-million-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/59562-pro-gamer-rakes-in-r9-3-million-per-year","title":{"rendered":"Pro gamer rakes in R9.3-million per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The occupation of playing games professionally has become a viable career choice these days, however, raking in around R9.3 million a year makes it a pretty desirable dream.<\/p>\n<p>This is the case with 23-year old Spanish League of Legends pro Carlos \u201cOcelote\u201d Rodriguez, who has said that he makes around $1 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the amount is made up of a combination of tournament winnings, merchandising income, salary, live streaming games, and personal sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez isn\u2019t a huge spender though, and insists \u201cnow is the time to save and help the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What would you do with over R9 million? Let us know in the comments below and on the MyGaming forums.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DailyDot<\/a>\u00a0via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><b>More gaming news:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/59498-xbox-one-headset-adapter-arriving-in-2014.html\">Xbox One headset adapter arriving in 2014<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/59539-ps-plus-free-games-revealed-for-november.html\">PS Plus free games revealed for November<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/59536-batman-arkham-origins-17-minutes-of-gameplay-released.html\">Batman: Arkham Origins \u2013 17-minutes of gameplay released<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/59534-battlefield-4-new-multiplayer-trailer-revealed.html\">Battlefield 4: new multiplayer trailer revealed<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro  gamer pulls in the big money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":59564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11566,21,631,473,11567,10610,10700],"class_list":["post-59562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-carlos-rodriguez","tag-headline","tag-league-of-legends","tag-lol","tag-ocelote","tag-pro-gamer","tag-pro-gamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}