The professional distinction is pretty irrelevant as well. I know it's in there because this supposedly legitimizes an individual's status within a competitive field in which few can be paid to play a game, but this only speaks for the level of relative skill involved.
Very few consider video gaming to be a sport. Even saying "Video games are sports" sounds ridiculous to anyone not trying to legitimize their hobby/habit by placing it in the same category as an almost universally socially accepted activity like sports.
There are children with athletic skills who play various sports at a high enough level that they are athletes, regardless of the fact that they don't play for money or probably have little or no aspirations to play their sport professionally in the future.
It would be a hard sell for anyone to say that their young kid or nephew, or the child down the block is quite an athlete because he is on various nationally ranked boards for Call of Duty, Street Fighter, or any video game for that matter. The statement is ridiculous.
Because someone is good enough to be playing for purse money in a competition or land sponsorships doesn't magically elevate them to athlete status.
Professional gamer. What's wrong with that? It doesn't carry the same status as professional athlete; so what? Because of that we have a small minority who want to start calling themselves athletes with respect to their gaming?
Put it in perspective.
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