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Tough decision..
 

During my break home in Norway I got a few different offers from a couple of serious teams, some of the teams were willing to pay for my stay in the polish team house ( http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=335167.) I also had a bad ass offer from rox.kis when we were out tearing up the strip clubs to live with them in Russia ( me being drunk off my mind considered taking the train back with them to Russia )

I declined all the offers cause I already had a paid ticket to Australia and I did not want to pause/quit my studies to go pro.

Since I got back to Australia Ive barely been practicing, most of my games have been ******* around on SEA, off racing and 6 pooling with terrible ping (3g net and now dodo adsl) and I still manage to win matches in NASL and get 2nd place at acl pretty ez. I am still motivated as hell to play as much as I can but uni/social life/ shit net and no good practice partners in sea and na forces me to play few serious games a week.

Anyways, for the past couple of days Ive been seriously considering moving to Poland to go pro and Ive already talked with the admins of the house, but I am not sure if this is a good decision for me to pause the studies, leave Australia and try to live off progaming, with mindfreak salary + money I am gonna get for making tutorial vids I can pay the rent.

so lets make a list of pros and cons..

pros:
fun
might be able to make some money from winning tournaments, streaming
cheap to travel to tournaments


cons:
leave Australia
pause studies
probably not sustainable for a long time
got a contract with mindfreak and dont know if they would keep supporting me if i moved

There are some other things to consider as well, I probably have to pay for 1-2 months of rent in Poland without being there ( they wouldnt let me reserve a spot) cause I probably cant move before late july/august due to exams and family coming to Australia in june.

So I ask you fine gentlemen of SEA, give me pros and cons of doing something as stupid as stopping my studies and potentially not making any money

-TargA