10 Video Game World Records That Will Never Be Broken

8. Lil Poison - The Youngest Professional Video Gamer

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Lil Poison

A lot of us may have very warm and nostalgic memories of gaming in our childhood. That first taste of electronic entertainment: our first console, our first game and the first time we beat it. The feeling of accomplishment, like you could do anything. And of course, the realisation that we all had to get jobs and couldn’t just play video games for a living.

Victor De Leon III (aka “Lil Poison”) will look back on his childhood a little differently compared to your average gamer.

Picking up a controller at just age two to play NBA 2k for Dreamcast kicked off an incredible story for little Victor. Just a few years later, the four year old gamer had competed in his first Halo tournament and placed in the top three against local teenagers which was pretty damn impressive.

Major League Gaming thought so anyway, and went on to sign the young De Leon as the youngest professional gamer at the age of six. The next year, Lil Poison placed second in a tournament that, at the time, was the largest free-for-all Halo event in the world with only his mentor and uncle surpassing him for the gold - proving that gaming was in the De Leon blood.

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