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We’re familiar with the early videogame competitions at our local arcade centers. People played on those machines, trying to put their name initials at the top of their favorite game. The challenging part came when you’d arrive the next day only to see your initials in second, third, or not even in the top 10 highest scores. You wouldn’t leave until you saw your name on that damn list. And then things got serious. Teams were formed. Multiplayer games developed. Technology increased so much in the late 90’s that it paved the way for highly competitive teams to connect and establish regular tournament seasons. Things got very sophisticated and now Esports pro players are considered high-performance athletes. Now, how do these teams look like today?
Esports Team Composition With more than 380 million viewers worldwide and the Esports market valued at 865 million U.S. dollars, teams are under constant pressure to be top-notch. Each video game tournament has teams ranging from 3 to 6 players. As in other team sports, each player has an assigned position, so teams might pick players based on their proficiency for that role. Some of the positions you’ll encounter have names like these:
League of Legends: Top Laner, Mid Laner, Jungler, AD Carry, Support.
Dota 2: Hard Carry, Mid, Offlaner, Position 4 Support, Position 5 Support.
Call of Duty: Objective, Slayer, Support, Anchor
And so on.
Each team has also backup players, like substitutes in a football team. These subs allow for rotations in the team at minor tournaments. These rotations give the main player a break to recover for major events. Moreover, subs increase the competitiveness inside a team, forcing big players to remain at the top of their game. Otherwise, they might lose their position to a sub. They called it a friendly rivalry. Players are between 18 and 25 years old. The average age depends on the video game played. League of Legends has the lowest average (21.2) while Super Smash Bros Melee has the highest (25.2). Overall, pro gamers are significantly younger than their counterparts in other professional sports such as the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
Esports has become a highly competitive discipline with multiple teams battling each other across the world. Teams have tight schedules and rigorous training regimes that not all gamers can handle. That level of performance is difficult to maintain, and it’s no surprise that their careers tend to be brief. Many businesses, sponsors, academics, and now media coverage is getting more implicated in Esports. It’s a young market and we’ll hear a lot more in the upcoming years so we might at least learn something about it for the time being. If all this environment and industry hooks you up, you could end up even taking part in it not only by attending tournaments but also by investing in the Esports world.
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Team Training It might be a kid’s dream come true to play video games all day long, but it’s no easy task to achieve it regularly. It can be exhausting, especially if you have to maintain a high performance all the time. Teams usually practice together for 8 hours a day, including weekends. So roughly they train 50 hours a week. And this is just group practice. Many continue training on their own after that (or wake up earlier). Their schedule tends to start around 10 am or 11 am. They warm up by playing several games with their teammates. They’ll continue playing for a while with occasional brakes in between.
After these team game sessions, they might review their past performances with their coach, or come up with new strategies for the next big tournament. They could also look at their opponent’s methods and establish their strengths and weaknesses. These sessions are held in a separate room designed for this purpose:
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