Video Gaga: Meet India’s Videogame Warriors

For the past three years, these young men have spent nearly every waking hour representing the country at, ahem, videogames. Team ATE, which excels at the first-person shooter Counter-Strike, have played for India at the World Cyber Games from 2006 to 2008. The oldest of the group (the boys are between 19 and 22 years of age), Ben Varghese, says, “But all we want to do, really, is represent the country.”

For the past three years, these young men have spent nearly every waking hour representing the country at, ahem, videogames. Team ATE, which excels at the first-person shooter Counter-Strike, have played for India at the World Cyber Games from 2006 to 2008. The oldest of the group (the boys are between 19 and 22 years of age), Ben Varghese, says, “But all we want to do, really, is represent the country.”

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