Video game league hold draft at Playboy Mansion

	Those who tried out for the Competitve Gaming Series, like Ryan Pham (center), were treated to a day at the Playboy Mansion. CGS
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It's the kind of dream you can only have after playing video games all day long and flipping through the pages of Playboy before you fall asleep on your couch; empty Snack Packs littered on the floor and your mom yelling at you to come down for dinner in the distance.

[Cue clichéd wavy dream sequence]

There you are, wearing a sharp suit and sitting in the Playboy Mansion. Playboy Bunnies mingle around you, offering up drinks and hors d'oeuvres. You brush them aside and tell them to come back later. You're busy at the moment. All those years of sitting on the couch and playing video games are about to pay off. You're projected to be a first-round pick in the first draft of the Championship Gaming Series, a video game league that will pay out more than $5 million in player salaries and televise virtual games in high definition.

You finally hear the commissioner call your name after television analysts have been clamoring that you are the best available player on the board for several picks now. You graciously shake the commissioner's hand, put on your team's hat and hold up your jersey for the cameras. During your press conference, reporters ask if the skills used in the comfort of your room will translate in front of thousands of cheering fans in a sold-out arena. You confidently say they will, after all, you were born to play video games. You finally cut the press conference short. "If you'll excuse me," you say slyly as you undo your tie. "I have a grotto full of Playmates waiting for me outside."

Now as many times as I waved my hands up and down Wayne's World style, I couldn't get out of this crazy dream. How could this be happening? What has the world come to? Why did I listen to my mom and put down my Nintendo controller and do my homework when I was younger? Didn't she know that she was depriving me of a chance to get drafted by the San Francisco Optx or the Chicago Chimra?

There I was watching this all take place right before my very eyes at the first ever CGS Draft held at the Playboy Mansion. At first glance it was a sight as absurd as the very idea of a multi-million dollar video game league with its own draft, combine (220 people showed up for the three-day tryouts) and salary cap.

Within the confines of a large white tent set up beside the Playboy Mansion's pool and a stone's throw from the infamous grotto, 200 prospective draft picks sat looking at the stage and the six general managers of the original franchises (Chicago, Dallas, Carolina, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York), their backs completely turned to the bevy of beautiful bunnies bouncing around the mansion's backyard.