"That won't be necessary. I'll sign," Leon replied directly.
Then he turned to his parents and said seriously, "Give me one year. If I can't make a name for myself, I'll go back and focus on my studies."
"Excellent. A pleasure doing business with you."
The professional gamer path Grace laid out was truly professional. She even provided Leon with someone specifically responsible for handling all his affairs.
It was a role similar to an agent.
He then took a leave of absence from school; he needed to commit full-time.
The biggest difference between competitive gaming and other sports is that gaming requires a much higher volume of training than traditional athletics.
In other words, traditional athletes couldn't sustain the high training volume that gaming demanded.
For professional gamers, training for over ten hours a day was common.
If a traditional athlete trained that long in a single day, they'd be half-dead.
