More (video) Gamers

Sunday's Writing On (and off) the Wall column in The Daily News focused on the creation of the Competive Gaming Series, a pro video-gamers league based in El Segundo that is having its draft Tuesday at the Playboy Mansion in an effort to establish teams and a world champion after all it said and toggled.
Add to that news generated the last few days by a New York-based group called Major League Gaming, which has been around since 2002.
MLG, which we gotta admit has a nice looking logo, announced today it has signed 18-year-old Michael “Strongside” Cavanaugh to a three-year, $250,000 deal -- the 13th deal of this kind that the league has signed with a pro player (last year the top three teams were signed to $1 million contracts).
The MLG also announced it "has smashed all of its previous records in attendance and prize money at a regular season event." The second stop of MLG’s Pro Circuit last weekend at the Meadowlands had 55,000 fans watch the competition that had $90,000 in prize money.
“This weekend’s competition was a perfect example of what MLG is all about—pros showing why they’re the best in the world, amazing new amateurs coming up and joining their ranks, and thousands of excited fans,” said Matthew Bromberg, CEO of Major League Gaming.