Preparing your esports team to perform at their best online is one thing. Achieving the same thing for live stage performance is another. You know this, and so do your players. Performing in front of a live crowd is a very real challenge.
How you prepare your team in the months, weeks, days,...
How do you structure your esports practice and scrims coach? You might run your practices as usual. Players come in, you jump into a game, give some pointers, and then you end with a VOD and set goals for the next practice. Although this is commonly practiced, you’re missing out on a lot!...
How amazing would it be if you could teach anything on any level to your players as an esports coach? First, we will dive into the 4 stages of competence so you know on what level your players are, and then we will introduce the 4 stages of teaching anything that will level up your coaching and...
Let's say that during practice, one of your players tends to be very negative. He complains about everything that goes wrong. He's being rude. He sighs into the microphone every time he dies and blames everyone else for losing the match. He's derailing the scrim and throwing his fellow teammates...
Imagine that you're going to meet a newly formed team for the first time in two hours. You'll be their coach for the upcoming season. You know that first impressions are important because you know that the players are thinking thoughts like "I wonder how good this coach is", "is he friendly?...
According to the ActionType Academy of the Netherlands, people with the INTJ personality type, also known as “Masterminds”, are overall known for their strategic minds, imaginative nature, and desire to apply their passion for knowledge in reshaping our world. Masterminds are...
Lately I’ve read posts about esport athletes become burned-out fairly soon in their careers. It feels these messages become, unfortunately, more frequent. It’s an important topic, to discuss burnout among esport players. This not only affects the players themselves, but it also...
To let your understand what I am going to talk about this and other blogs we have to do a quick introduction of esports personalities.
Just like the MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator) or 16personalities-test. There are 16 esports personality profiles. Each of these profiles have different...
Almost a year ago I talked to a League of Legends coach about different personalities in esports. We talked about tendencies of different personalities and how people react in certain situations and also how players and coaches communicate differently. He did a personality assessment back then...
Have you ever played with that one friend that most of the time rushed in, always looking for action, and made a sick fast play or that he rushed in and straight up died. Or that other friend that when you are going in: “where are you when I need you? You are to late!” But sometimes...
