16 Things an eSport Team Coach Aims to Grow in His Players and Team | eSports


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"My job is to make the best environment for the players to compete." --Michael O'Dell, Managing Director, Team Dignitas

As the stakes get higher and higher for leading eSports games, tournaments, with larger prize pools, and increasingly more competition, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the role of the eSports coach becomes all the more crucial to the success of eSports teams.

Especially in leading team games like League of Legends, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, success doesn't mean putting the five best players together, but rather, putting together a team that knows how to work together as a well-oiled team.

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Here are 16 ways coaches aim to achieve this in today's eSports world:

  1. Instills the team with discipline
  2. Instills the team with a commitment to healthy living
  3. Gives the team the time and leeway to cultivate fans
  4. Helps the team develop good relationships among its teammates
  5. Keeps the players working as a team and builds a strong culture of collaboration, especially when the individual players themselves have a powerful incentive to build up their own personal brands
  6. Keeps records of how players interact in-game and outside the game
  7. Keeps records analyzing player habits in-game
  8. Analyzes competing teams' and players' strategies
  9. Reinforces team and player strengths
  10. Works to strengthen or workaround team and player weaknesses
  11. Arranges "strategic practice," e.g. directed practice sessions of specific techniques and strategies, e.g. work on all-out assaults, sneak attacks, etc.
  12. Focuses on optimizing the quality of training, and not just having players train for long periods of time
  13. Works to master specific plays
  14. Goal-oriented practice - raising the question in the players "What are you trying to improve?" whenever they practice
  15. Creates a place for listening to player suggestions on how to improve overall team performance
  16. Keeps players' expectations in line, i.e. so that players aren't focused only on winning tournaments, but that they're focused on finding reward in the work itself, i.e. that they improve as a player, as a team, and as a person, from one day to the next

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