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       MAJOR LEAGUE GAMING
February 2009 Champion MLG was started in 2002 by Mike Sepso and Sundance DiGiovanni and took on a lofty goal: to form a league, and enough buzz to actually turn video game addicts into professional athletes. Fast forward 7 years and its clearly mission accomplished. They have a television show on ESPN, prizes as large as $100K, tournaments all over the country, and have enabled hundreds of gamers to go professional. In 2008 they signed a deal with Dr. Pepper to put pictures of professional Halo players on 175 million bottles. Think about that for a second, that's not Michael Jordan on a soda bottle, its Tsquared, a guy who plays Halo for a living. Did anyone notice? PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS PHOTOGRAPHED WITH AN MLG BOTTLE ON INAGURATION DAY. Vote for MLG because you know you had promise when you were 16, your parents didn't see it, but you damn well knew you were the greatest Double Dragon player on the planet. There just wasn't a future in doing that for a living... back then.
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Major League Gaming was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Afros  The Krull Glaive  Ghost Riding da Whip  Mock Apple Pie  Don King  Velcro Shoes  Enclose by Bea Camacho  The Hamburger Bed  Wingsuit Base Jumping  Mr. Snuffleupagus  ANTS  Batmobile Batmobile  Blue Whale  Underoos!  Bob Ross  Big Wheel Racing  Saber Toothed Deer  Aurora Borealis Aurora Borealis  Corndog Pizza  Easy Cheese  Julie Moss at the 1982 Ironman  Leeroy Jenkins!  Flying Spaghetti Monster  Dramatic Chipmunk  Badass Mountain Men Badass Mountain Men  Journey's Arnel Pineda  Plight of the Snowman Major League Gaming was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Shrunken Heads  Toodle Shooting Grandma
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   JOURNEY'S ARNEL PINEDA
I don't know if you call this the 'American Dream' or the new dream that Youtube has created. Arnel Pineda, once the lead singer for The Zoo (primarly a cover band in Manila) has hit the jackpot. In February of 2007, a friend of his started posting performances of his on You Tube singing a variety of 70's and 80's rock songs to apparently empty bar rooms. By June the videos had attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers, including one very important viewer: Neal Schon, the lead guitarist of Journey. Long story short, Schon found Pineda, Pineda auditioned and became the next lead singer of Journey, and the next show he played was a Brazillian simulcast to 25 million people. The collaboration has since recorded a platinum album and their tour was the eighth grossing concert in 2008. Pineda not only sounds like the original Journey frontman, Steve Perry, he might even be a better singer. He has gone from completely obscurity to worldwide fame in 2 years, and has resurrected one of the best acts the 70s ever produced.
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Mock Apple Pie Velcro Shoes Easy Cheese Leeroy Jenkins! Dramatic Chipmunk Plight of the Snowman Journey's Arnel Pineda was voted LESS AWESOME than: Afros Wingsuit Base Jumping Mr. Snuffleupagus ANTS Blue Whale Underoos! Bob Ross Big Wheel Racing Saber Toothed Deer Aurora Borealis Corndog Pizza Julie Moss at the 1982 Ironman Flying Spaghetti Monster Badass Mountain Men  Major League Gaming
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how would the other selection even come close we are getting people on dr. pepper bottles umm yea that says enough
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MLG FTW
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MLG FTW
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Well lets give Roy and the plant a BR each. Let them fight it out.
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nah man give wlashy 2 maulers carbon was on fire
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As well as he was playing at Dallas I'd give him two green guns, and he'd still end up on top. Granted he's fighting a plant, but still.
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I LOVE MLG!!!!!!!!
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Is your caps lock broken?
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MLG
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MLG top 1
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MLG NUMBER fkn 1
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MLG RAYPES FACES!
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And that is why Arnel Pineda is more awesome...
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Let's see...some FC singing BK music or ML- motherf***ing G....and btw broskie MLG is winning so that makes you a nub and me awesome. MLG top 1 imo.
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Your a Big Bag of Crazy... but i Concur ..........i think
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