{"id":2601,"date":"2021-08-24T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/cash-for-kills-why-are-people-paying-for-coaches-to-get-better-at-video-games\/"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T13:37:05","slug":"cash-for-kills-why-are-people-paying-for-coaches-to-get-better-at-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/cash-for-kills-why-are-people-paying-for-coaches-to-get-better-at-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash for kills: why are people paying for coaches to get better at video games?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thriving new industry, matching people with pro gamers who advise and counsel, has exploded during the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen months ago, Fabio Dores was making good money as a drag queen. Performing under the name Felicity Suxwell, he had a club residency and worked hen nights throughout the UK, attracting enough bookings to quit his day job at a lettings agency. Then lockdown came and everything shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Bored at home, he was browsing Facebook and spotted an advertisement for <a href=\"https:\/\/wz.legionfarm.com\/\">LegionFarm<\/a>, an online video-game coaching platform that offered to match pro gamers with clients looking to improve their abilities. As a skilled player of battle royale hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/apex-legends\/about\">Apex Legends<\/a>, he applied to become a coach. Four months later, he\u2019s in the site\u2019s top 20 pros, making $3,500 a month from around 80 hours of coaching to supplement his re-emerging drag career.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/aug\/24\/cash-for-kills-why-are-people-paying-for-coaches-to-get-better-at-video-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0825b1ba914e132a7caf5901bee4ec5aae239d86\/188_0_5640_3384\/master\/5640.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e34bcc55aaef4ef173ff901f540b60d1\" title=\"Cash for kills: why are people paying for coaches to get better at video games?\" \/>A thriving new industry, matching people with pro gamers who advise and counsel, has exploded during the pandemic<br \/>\nEighteen months ago, Fabio Dores was making good money as a drag queen. Performing under the name Felicity Suxwell, he had a club residency and worked hen nights throughout the UK, attracting enough bookings to quit his day job at a lettings agency. Then lockdown came and everything shut down.<br \/>\nBored at home, he was browsing Facebook and spotted an advertisement for LegionFarm, an online video-game coaching platform that offered to match pro gamers with clients looking to improve their abilities. As a skilled player of battle royale hit Apex Legends, he applied to become a coach. Four months later, he\u2019s in the site\u2019s top 20 pros, making $3,500 a month from around 80 hours of coaching to supplement his re-emerging drag career. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thriving new industry, matching people with pro gamers who advise and counsel, has exploded during the pandemic Eighteen months ago, Fabio Dores was making good money as a drag queen. Performing under the name Felicity Suxwell, he had a club residency and worked hen nights throughout the UK, attracting enough bookings to quit his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/24\/cash-for-kills-why-are-people-paying-for-coaches-to-get-better-at-video-games\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cash for kills: why are people paying for coaches to get better at video games?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}