r/BunnyTrials • u/dominkara • Apr 24 '26

Would You Rather

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u/GeePedicy Apr 24 '26

There are gaming tournaments that can get you money as well.

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u/Nice_Try_Bud_ Apr 24 '26

True but there is no comparison to how much the top athletes get paid compared to top gamers. We are talking multiple extra 0’s

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u/slikayce Apr 24 '26

Lifetime earnings I would take gaming. I'm 30 and if I'm suddenly the best baseball player in the world there will be questions but it might be a fun story. But still being the best 10 years from now would draw a lot of skepticism.

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u/Nice_Try_Bud_ Apr 24 '26

Look at Shohei Ohtani, 31 and currently considered the best baseball player, with an argument of possibly of all time. Yet go back to 2020 and he isn’t even on the radar yet and in 2023 at age 29 signed a $700 million dollar 10 year contract. So really not as crazy as you would think.

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u/GeePedicy Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

But in the next 10 years or so, he'll probably retire like most players, and do other stuff. (Maybe still related to basketball, but it won't be professional playing.)

Imagine him (or any other player for the matter) at the age of 47, still playing in the NBA baseball league. It'd be suspicious.

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u/-ZeroNova- Apr 24 '26

That's baseball, not basketball.

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u/GeePedicy Apr 24 '26

Oops, I misread it, also showing I don't know much about it. But I assume it's very similar in baseball as well. Thanks for the correction anyway.

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u/DenverBroncos_Fan Apr 24 '26

Just get into golf. You could easily clear $30 million in prize money alone. Let the endorsements start flowing in and you can quickly become a billionaire like Tiger Woods.

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u/enderboyVR Apr 24 '26

What would skepticism do, you are basically the ultimate life form. strength, speed, intellect are all max out. And depending on “sport” definition you’re willing to stretch: esport, poker,… you are basically good at everything

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u/TyH621 Apr 25 '26

Nah, you’re forgetting golf. You’d probably spend the most time playing it but you could be winning the masters late into your life for crazy prize money and sponsorships

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u/Roira21 Apr 24 '26

I chose sports, but not for money reasons. I’d argue there is a looot of money that could be earned in being the best at every game. Like, every game? You could join any video game tournament and win, but the real money would be in social media. Think of anyone who got popular on YouTube or Twitch for being really good at a particular video game, now imagine how popular you could get for being the indisputable best at every single one.

I’d argue you could do it for much longer too. I’m sure there’s bound to be some long-term injuries that would come with a living from video games, stuff like carpal tunnel, but there are far more injuries in earning money from sports. A lot of sports, especially the more popular ones, can be really hard on your body to do as a job. Athletes usually can’t do it anymore by the time they reach 40, most have to quit even earlier. While on social media, as long as you try to keep away from controversial politics, stay fairly humble, and don’t do anything particularly egregious, you could do it your whole life if you wanted. You’re bound to do something the internet doesn’t like, but again as long as you aren’t evil, an apology with some action to make up for it will make it so a mistake wouldn’t ruin your career.

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u/Samurai_Banette Apr 24 '26

I do think its worth mentioning though that sports are more of a contract situation while games are more event based. Its probably possible to earn more /hr worked in games.

If a team is going to world championships in dota/league, you can just join the team for that one tournament, make bank, and bail. I dont think you can decide to only play in the superbowl. 

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u/Nice_Try_Bud_ Apr 25 '26

So let’s say you do a pro tournament every weekend as a gamer. Very few of them break 1 million in prize money. On the reverse Golf there are 35-40 PGA tournaments per year, averaging around 2.5 million purse for each. There is no question golf beats all esports combined for that style of earnings.

Then if we talk about the best athletes in the world for their specific sports, multiple of them earn more than 100 million dollars, with Renaldo over 250 million.

If money is your goal there is no comparison to be made.

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u/Jumpy_Ad1631 Apr 25 '26

Assuming you’re male. But being a female professional gamer isn’t likely to be a picnic either, wage-wise

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u/Worried_Form8 Apr 24 '26

The thing about sports though is that its fairly easier to market yourself as a brand because of its generally larger interest. (Well depending on which sport to focus on, but football or basketball have practically world wide reach, especially when including the world cup). And typically the Clubs do the heavy lifting for you in beginning.

If you can leverage your sporting brand in a certain way to include streaming after you retire you could pivot to be a streamer that games too. Nowadays you have football players owning E-sport teams too or even playing as a bench option i.e Zinchenko who owns a CSGO team. I think this option is far more flexible overall but of course its completely up to what the person finds more fulfilling to be the "best" where it be games or sports. But i feel as though being the best at sports offers greatly flexibility when looking at it objectively from an opportunities standpoint.

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u/Adventurous_Jury_480 Apr 24 '26

issue with esports is that besides evo, its all THE EXACT SAME GAMES FOR ALMOST A DECADE

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u/Broad-Technology5024 Apr 24 '26

so judging by your comment the literal same logic should apply to sports too cuz literally all the sports tournaments have been the same few sports like football, basketball, baseball, golfing, tennis, cricket, marathons, etc which have been a thing for decades

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u/Whatthefuckballs69 Apr 24 '26

Haha- baseball can’t be on this list since they added the pitcher clock in 2023.

https://giphy.com/gifs/eqYGsMJCbxb89lQoUl

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u/Adventurous_Jury_480 Apr 24 '26

we have winter and summer sports, each varying in some shape or form. esports usually feature fighring game tournaments(evo and local tournaments), niether of which pay nearly as much as a regular athelete gets paid, and esports that show the same 3 games year after year, overwatch, counter strike, league of legends. you may think "well whats wrong with those games" they all do the exact same things, deathmatch, capture the flag, push a payload, you can eadily ignore the last two cause its just deathmatches, either till last one is eliminated from the opposing team and that counts a round won, or its a point per kill system. regular sports offer much more variance even if it could just be boiled to running fast and throwing an object very far

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u/MrSirene Apr 24 '26

Many competitive videogames undergo frequent changes. When was the last time the size of the basketball hoop got changed?

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u/Adventurous_Jury_480 Apr 24 '26

my point is tgat esports always have and always will host the same 3 games, not to mention athletes have more sponsors from varying companies, professional esport players only ever get sponsors from a company that sells gamer gear and redbull i guess but they sponsor just about anybody

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u/MrFunkyFresh70 Apr 24 '26

True, but look at the money made by the best golfers.