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#31, no, college/uni students are old enough to make their own decisions, not school-going kids. Besides, when you go to college or uni and you flunk, you always have the option to resitting, or changing a course, or re-taking the whole semester. Making it so far also means that you have the monetary capability of doing so - if you flunk it's your parents' money so who gives a shit! But when you're in school, no money can buy you your SPM cert.

BTW, when you do anything "professionally", it becomes a living. What I mean is, to play games professionally (or to become a pro-gamer) means all you do is play games, and make enough money doing so to support your livelihood, and nothing else. Pro sportsmen get their income from tournament winnings, sponsorship, product endorsement and advertisements. So a successful model pro-gamer would be someone like Fatality who's good enough to guarantee him a top 5 placing in EVERY tournament, winning him enough money to compensate for not having a stable 9-5 job. He also has a sponsor that provides him all the equipment he needs and flies him all over the world to participate in events. People like Sujoy also endorse products like the Boomslang, making money simply for lending their faces/prestige to an advertising slant.

One can safely say none of the current batch of Malaysian gamers can currently be considered pro-gamers, since there aren't enough tournaments that pay enough money to support any of the inconsistent big winners enough to make a reasonable margin of profit.

In Korea, that's a different story.