15 People Who Are Making Crazy Amounts Of Money By Playing Video Games (AMZN)

Amazon announced on Monday that it was buying Twitch, a site devoted solely to video-game-related live-streaming content, for $970 million.

That might seem like a ton of money. But the video games are also a spectator sport, and a lot of people are making serious cash by playing in tournaments and getting lucrative sponsorships from computer parts makers.

They also make money streaming their practice sessions on Twitch.

e-Sports Earnings has ranked the 100 players with the highest overall earnings from competitive gaming. 

There are more than 150 gamers who have earned over $100,000 in prize money.

China's Jiang "YYF" Cen earned most of his cash playing "Dota 2." The largest prize he took home from a single tournament was $200,000 in 2012, as part of a team called Invictus Gaming. He announced this year that he's retiring from gaming (translated). 

The "Dota 2" tournament has its own Twitch channel.

Luo "Ferrari_430" Feichi, also from China, was part of Invictus Gaming, which won the "Dota 2" championship in 2012. That's also the tournament that won him the most cash: $200,000. The team won $1 million for that tournament alone. 

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is one of the "WarCraft III" players featured in the documentary "Beyond the Game." He's also a "StarCraft II" player, and made $12,799.73 from two tournaments before he was even 18 years old. 

You can watch people playing "StarCraft II" on Twitch.

The world's first prominent professional gamer, America's Johnathan Wendel's success playing first-person shooters earned him massive cash prizes and sponsorship deals with major computer hardware companies.

You can check out his Twitch channel here. 

Lee "Flash" Young Ho, a Korean "StarCraft: Brood War" and "StarCraft II" player, earned $269,972.27 before the age of 18.

Last year, he announced that his team would be sponsored by Razer and would be streaming on Twitch.  

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