'Best job in the world': How an Aussie went from sleeping on the floor to video game star
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Scott ‘Custa’ Kennedy quit university in Adelaide in 2015 and moved to Canada to try and make it as a professional video game player.
Kennedy had dreamt of doing so since he began watching competitive, professional video gaming — known as esports — from the age of 16.
“I was doing a civil construction and engineering degree,” Kennedy, 24, said on Saturday from the Melbourne Esports Open (MEO) at Rod Laver Arena, where he was checking out the Australian competition.
“I had a friend in Vancouver and I crashed in his living room, put down a mattress on the floor, set up a desk and started practising,” he said.
More than three years later, after climbing the ranks from amateur to professional, Kennedy is the only Australian playing first-person shooter game Overwatch in one of the world’s biggest esports competitions, the Overwatch League.
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