General E In Purdue Exponent Again

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Eric "General E" Earley has been featured in his local College newspaper again, the Purdue Exponent. Kaye Maloney, feature writer, talks about Eric's successful weekend and even scores an interview with his teammate, Joe "Phantom" Tackett. Eric is currently a senior at Purdue in the College of Technology.

Excerpt From: Purdue student named champion gamer

Eric Earley has a one-year-old son and a fiancee, and has played video games for fun since high school. His habit of playing video games earned him $30,000 this summer and a reputation for being a fierce competitor in the gaming world. Earley, a senior in the College of Technology, spent two months in Los Angeles with his team to dominate the Championship Gaming Series. The team won the North American Finals and earned silver in the World Finals. The series comprises six leagues from the United States, whose team members are drafted after winning qualifying games on XBOX Live. Each team consists of 10 players; two are racers for the game "Forza Motorsport 2." It is not uncommon for the team members to not know each other beforehand. "I never knew him, except from his XBOX tag name," said Joe Tackett, Earley's racing partner. "Eric is notorious in the gaming world." Tackett, of North Carolina, said he knew Earley for a few years before participating in the league from playing against Earley online, which allowed the two gamers to learn each other's strategies and become the No. 1 racing team. "We had a good shot, but it wasn't guaranteed," Tackett said. Although it was not certain Earley and Tackett would finish with the best record in the league, Earley said at the end of the regular season it did not seem his team would be successful in the playoffs. Despite the odds against them, Earley's team worked through the playoffs to win the North American Finals and qualified for the World Finals.

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