-Can I see the trophy?
-Yeah.
-Well, it's a little heavy
if you think you can pick it up.
-Gosh! This is -- Oh, my gosh!
-It's like 40 pounds.
-Is it? That's legit.
-Yeah.
This is the best trophy
I've ever seen in my lifetime.
How cool is that to win this
How did it feel?
-It's crazy.
Before walking on the stage --
literally, 12,000 people -
like, I literally couldn't
feel a thing in my body --
like arms, legs, yeah.
But this is like 12,000 people
came to watch you play.
-Yeah.
-Look at this --
the Wells Fargo Center.
Look at all these people.
And explain to everyone
what "Overwatch" is,
if people don't know
what that is.
-Yeah, so, basically,
in a nutshell,
"Overwatch" is a six-versus-si
team-based action game
by Blizzard Entertainment.
And the main goal of the game is
to get different objective
across various maps, using
a variety of different heroes.
-Yeah, on top of that, like,
Overwatch League
is what we're in,
and it's basically like a --
It's like a franchise sports
league, essentially.
-Yeah.
-It's kind of like the NFL, NBA.
Like, we go traveling to
Asia, like, Europe,
and stuff like that.
We have home games, away games
-Is "Overwatch" big
in other countries?
-Yes, it's huge in China,
and Asia, in general, it's huge.
-Wow.
-Yeah.
-It's just growing.
And how old are you guys,
if you don't mind me asking.
-We're both 19.
-Yeah.
-19. Wow.
And you're professional gamers
Was it hard to convince
your parents
that this is a legit job?
-Yeah. It was very hard.
At first, I waited until
Christmastime, actually,
because I want to -- Yeah.
-You thought that would
make it easier?
-Yeah. I wanted them to be mor
willing, you know?
Because it was a huge step
I would have to move across --
-You waited for the holidays
You're like, "You can't kick m
out of the house now, Mom.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
-Yeah, I mean, for me, like,
the big thing was --
I would always stay up lat
and, you know,
I'd be screaming in the house.
It's like, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m
My parents -- they're coming i
the room on school nights like
"Can you go to bed?
Like, can you stop speaking?
-Yeah.
-But, basically, when I go
my first e-sports contract
my dad had to co-sign it
'cause I was under 18.
And I explained to him, like
what e-sports was.
The first thing he does --
looks up e-sports.
He finds a "Forbes" articl
about, you know,
the growth of e-sports.
And he reads about it
and he lets me do it.
-That helped him, yeah,
because he knew what
"Forbes" was.
He was like, "I don't know
what e-sports is,
but I know what
'Forbes' is," yeah.
And, so, now, do you trave
with the team or what --
-Yeah.
-Like, what is life like?
Like, you wake up in
the morning, and do you train?
-Yeah, currently, we just
wake up and we play like
8 to 12 hours a day.
I mean, like 8 hours as a team
including, like, VOD revie
and stuff like that.
And then we want to work on ou
mechanics, like, individually,
so we're playing, like,
extra time after.
So it's like 12 hours a day.
-Yeah, I think, like,
the easiest way to
explain to people is --
like, you if you compare i
to an NFL team,
they have their team practice,
their scrimmages, their
game tape, stuff they go over,
but then, individually, they do,
like, weight training,
to keep their
physical performance up
and their strength up.
And that's kind of what
the individual performance
is for us.
We, like, we make sure
our movement is still good
and our aim is still good.
-Wow. And then
individually train.
So how many hours, like,
a day are you playing?
-I play, personally, maybe lik
10, 11, 12 hours.
-Holy mackerel.
-Yeah. It's around there, yeah
-Is it fun?
-Uh...yeah.
-Yeah, it's pretty fun.
-It gets kind of tiring, like,
'cause we have to
compete to be the best,
so it gets tiring because
it's, like, intense practice
We're not, like,
playing just casually, you know?
We're playing, like,
to practice ourselves.
-What advice would you
give to anyone out there
that wants to be a pro gamer
-Yeah, I mean, like, I conside
it, like, an extracurricular
Like, most parents wouldn'
let their kids
play football
or baseball in school
if they were failing or,
you know,
doing terrible
in all their classes.
So I just try to say, like, stay
on top your responsibilities
you know,
be a smart person about it
but if this is something tha
you're really into
and you're really
passionate about,
then I would say give it a shot.
-Yeah, but, on top of that
I would also say
you have to grind a lot,
because you're competing wit
millions of players that want to
be pro, that want to be best
So you have to put
a lot of time,
like eight hours a day, whil
balancing your life with it.
So it's pretty hard.
-Congratulations, guys.
I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for coming on.
-Thank you.
-Jay "sinatraa" Won and
Matthew "super" DeLisi.
