Pro gamers watch out, 9 year old phenomenon on the scene

Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t take an insane amount of experience to become a professional player. The last we heard of Victor M. De Leon III (known as Lil’ Poison by Halo gamers in the know) was last year, and now he has product endorsements, 1UP as his sponsor, support from gaming magazines and websites – and he’s 9 years old.

According to his father, this child prodigy started playing since he was 2 years old. Victor mimicked his old man’s style, and sometimes finished games for him (finding glitches along the way). Before they knew it, the kid surpassed his dad’s skills. “He kind of passed me when he was 4. I just couldn’t keep up with him. I became sort of a coach, but every time I told him something, he’d say, ‘I know, Daddy.'”

If that’s not amazing enough, Victor with his dad and two uncles joined forces to take fourth place in New York Halo Competition. A year later, when he turned 5, Victor got in the top 64 internationally in Major League Games. At 7, he bested around 550 contestants, coming only second to his uncle Gabriel in Chicago.

His dad claims that Victor plays Xbox just around two hours a day – not enough to neglect his studies and daily life. It should be pretty interesting to hear out what people who quit school just to turn pro would say about this.

Lil’ Poison’s dad has him covered thanks to parental controls. Excessive gore and offensive languages are filtered as they’re a “very old fashioned” family. “You can’t jump off a building and come back to life, or reach out and stop a truck,” Victor was told.

Despite earning a lot of dough, being a pro gamer can only take you so far. As a person grows old, his senses get slower and the competition becomes overwhelming. Unfortunately, little Victor doesn’t have future plans for now. But hey, he’s 9 years old. Like normal kids, his interest is in Star Wars toys, fried chicken, jujitsu, guitar music, basketball, his hamster, and his dog, Rocky.

Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t take an insane amount of experience to become a professional player. The last we heard of Victor M. De Leon III (known as Lil’ Poison by Halo gamers in the know) was last year, and now he has product endorsements, 1UP as his sponsor, support from gaming magazines and websites – and he’s 9 years old.

According to his father, this child prodigy started playing since he was 2 years old. Victor mimicked his old man’s style, and sometimes finished games for him (finding glitches along the way). Before they knew it, the kid surpassed his dad’s skills. “He kind of passed me when he was 4. I just couldn’t keep up with him. I became sort of a coach, but every time I told him something, he’d say, ‘I know, Daddy.'”

If that’s not amazing enough, Victor with his dad and two uncles joined forces to take fourth place in New York Halo Competition. A year later, when he turned 5, Victor got in the top 64 internationally in Major League Games. At 7, he bested around 550 contestants, coming only second to his uncle Gabriel in Chicago.

His dad claims that Victor plays Xbox just around two hours a day – not enough to neglect his studies and daily life. It should be pretty interesting to hear out what people who quit school just to turn pro would say about this.

Lil’ Poison’s dad has him covered thanks to parental controls. Excessive gore and offensive languages are filtered as they’re a “very old fashioned” family. “You can’t jump off a building and come back to life, or reach out and stop a truck,” Victor was told.

Despite earning a lot of dough, being a pro gamer can only take you so far. As a person grows old, his senses get slower and the competition becomes overwhelming. Unfortunately, little Victor doesn’t have future plans for now. But hey, he’s 9 years old. Like normal kids, his interest is in Star Wars toys, fried chicken, jujitsu, guitar music, basketball, his hamster, and his dog, Rocky.