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Neil Robertson says video game addiction damaged snooker career

The Guardian

Australia's former world snooker champion Neil Robertson says an addiction to video games across his career has harmed both his professional and personal life. The 35-year-old Melburnian says longstanding obsessions with the Fifa football games, World of Warcraft and League of Legends deprived him of sleep and adversely affected his performances. "If you are a single guy and work in a normal job you can get around it," Robertson told Eurosport. "But you can't win professional snooker matches when you are tired." "The years I had the 100 centuries, I should probably have had around 120 because I got addicted like hell to Fifa 14," Robertson said. "That really affected the second half of my season.