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I first played Starcraft when I was about 14 years old

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Jørgen is ranked as one of the best StarCraft players in Europe

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Think about it: If you keep your attention in one place for ten seconds,

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then you're doing something wrong

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At any given time you have to defend, attack, build units, and explore enemy territory

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The best StarCraft players have a clicking and typing rate at about 500 times a minute

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It's called APM - actions per minute

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5, 6, 7 key presses or mouse clicks a second

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That's the point when you start to feel slightly warm after a game of StarCraft

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The first edition of StarCraft was released in 1998

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The game is just as popular today, 12 years later

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11 million copies of the game have been made

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Half of those have been sold in South Korea

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It is like a national sport in South Korea

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Often, the match is held outdoors at a huge venue

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a bit like a big concert, really

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thousands of people

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they're like crazy!

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the atmosphere is great

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Teenage girls are the most devoted fans

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it is crazy if you think about it

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in Europe, girls hardly know what a computer game is

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in Korea it's the other way around: there are hundreds of screaming girls in the audience

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You have 12 sponsored teams

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each team has 15-20 players

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coaches, chefs -they all live in a house together

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the only thing they do is to eat and play StarCraft

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The best Korean players play between 8 and 16 hours a day

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Jørgen has been a professional CounterStrike player with several world titles

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I enjoy competition

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I enjoy winning

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One would think it's necessary to sit in front of the computer all the time in order to become a good player

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But a day consists of 24 hours, eight of them are for sleeping

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that leaves 16 hours, and it's hardly necessary to play 16 hours a day

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Prime time for a player is from the age of 16 to 25

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I don't really know why, it's about reflexes and interests

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what you want to make out of your life

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it becomes a bit tedious to sit in front of the computer all the time

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I think it is different today, as people play all day long from the age of 12. It's not healthy.

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StarCraft has the biggest online gaming community: 12 million active users

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Gaming will become huge in the rest of the world, too

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We're becoming more and more digitalised This is the future of entertainment