After playing as a professional Defense player of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2) in the US for just one Month, 16 year old Pakistani Sumail Hassan has earned $200, 000. In 2014, Sumail moved from Karachi to Chicago along his family. This proved a very good decision as he was able to play Dota 2 more comfortably in USA as the internet connection there is quite fast with less interruption in the game which he had to face in Pakistan.
After performing extremely well in the North American in-house gaming league, Sumail achieved lot of fame. At that point, Evil Genius saw the talent of Sumail which is one of the biggest international e-sports teams. Team’s manager Charlie Yang hired him for his team while Charlie was himself a former Dota 2 player. Earlier this year in February, Sumail went along with his team which won the Dota 2 Asian championship in China.
There are two teams of five ‘Heroes’ in the Dota 2 game who try to take over the base of the other team during a battle. The final objective is to prevent your own Ancient and acquire the Ancient of the other team. It seems to be a very simple game but exclusive characters, spells and weapons in the game makes this game very complex. With Dota 2 game, a player of 3-sports can make more money than any other game of this type. Those who perform superbly are given chance to participate in the higher professional tournaments where the teams fight to achieve prize money worth millions of dollars.
As a professional player, the earning of Sumail has reached $200,000 just in a month which was just before his 16th birthday. If he continues earning at this rate, he could be a millionaire in just few days as he will soon be playing the International Dota 2 world championships with his teammates in Key Arena of Seattle where they can win the grand prize of over $6 million.
Team Secret is the highest ranking team of the tournament while Sumail’s Evil Geniuses is just behind them at 2nd rank. Both are rivals teams and one reason for their rivalry is the star player of team Secret, Artour Arteezy Babaev, who just joined the team while he was playing for Evil Geniuses till last December.
The interesting point is that Sumail has now filled the place of Arteezy. Now the time will tell that Sumail is smart enough to perform better than Artezy in the upcoming tournament. There is no doubt that the match between these two teams will be seen with great interest by the Dota fans present around the globe.