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He also attempted to establish a tournament for Counter-Strike players (he says he "unsuccessfully" played that game in the pro scene). He says he "didn't make that much money," but he had enough cash to drop out of high school and pursue a career in writing about video games.
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Nichiporchik was a professional Warcraft 3 player in the early 2000s. TinyBuild partner Luke Burtis (left), Alex Nichiporchik (center) and Extra Credits creator Dan Emmons (right) And he would know - he tried to establish a similar pro-gaming series more than 10 years ago, when he should have been in high school. That's still a big "if." Nichiporchik is optimistic that the SpeedRunners community will help make the European series a success, but these tournaments are extremely complicated to set up. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. If this European tournament does well, tinyBuild promises to expand the idea into more territories. It's free to enter the Series and every week, one winner receives 50 EUR each month after the final match, the top two players split a prize pool of 200 EUR. It's called the "Go4SpeedRunners Series" and it kicks off in December, with weekly tournaments and a monthly final. This week, the studio announced a cash-prize, European SpeedRunners tournament to be held in collaboration with the ESL over the next three months. TinyBuild is in the perfect position to see that interest. "It seems like eSports is about to become the social gaming of 2006 or the mobile gaming of 2008." "There's a ton of interest in the investor scene," says Nichiporchik. "We didn't know what we were doing," he says, but "it took off" anyway.


Professional gaming is new territory for small studios, which means Nichiporchik has made a lot of it up along the way, from hosting low-quality live streams to producing tournaments with the Electronic Sports League. Nichiporchik is the CEO and co-founder of tinyBuild GAMES, the studio behind No Time to Explain and SpeedRunners, and he's leading the indie charge into eSports. And he didn't drop out of college to follow his passion - he dropped out of high school. Except, Alex Nichiporchik isn't from California he's from Latvia. It sounds like a classic Silicon Valley success story: A young, inexperienced entrepreneur drops out of school to pursue his dreams and ends up founding an influential, innovative company.
